IMPROVEMENTS IN WRAPPERS OR ENVELOPES FOR NEEDLES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Clarke, of Redditch, in the County of
Worcester, Needle Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WRAPPERS OR ENVELOPES FOR NEEDLES."
Sealed the 12th June 1868, and dated the 27th December 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Clarke at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th December
1867.
I, JOHN CLARKE, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Needle
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN WRAPPERS OR ENVELOPES FOR NEEDLES," to be as follows, that
is to say:-
My Invention consists in making wrappers or envelopes for needles in such
manner that a sheath or needle case is so connected at its one end to an
envelope or outer wrapper or case as to form a sort of hinged part upon such
envelope or wrapper, so that when the outer wrapper is opened and the ends
of the needles exposed the opening outwards and consequent pressure of the
bottom part of the outer wrapper and lower end of the sheath or needle case
will cause such sheath to spring forward into a vertical position, enabling the
needles to be selected and extracted therefrom with great facility. The outer
wrapper consists of two closing or folding side wings, a bottom or tail piece

page_text: for folding up and upon the needle sheath, and a top flap piece, the end of
which passes into the free end of the bottom or tail piece upon the closing of
the wrapper and secures it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Clarke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th
June 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Joun
CLARKE, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Needle Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said John Clarke, Her special license that I, the said John
Clarke, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Clarke, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WRAPPERS OR ENVELOPES FOR NEEDLES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said John Clarke, by an instrument in writing under ny hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Clarke, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in making wrappers or envelopes for needles in such
manner that a sheath or needle case is so connected at its one end to an
envelope or outer wrapper or case as to form a sort of binged part upon such
envelope or outer wrapper, so that when the outer wrapper is opened and the
ends of the needles exposed, the opening outwards and consequent pressure of

page_text: the bottom part of the outer wrapper and lower end of the sheath or needle
case will cause such sheath to spring forward into a vertical position enabling
the needles to be selected and extracted therefrom with great facility.
The object and nature of this Invention will be better understood by
reference to the Drawings hereunto attached.
Figure 1 shews a wrapper or envelope for needles formed as already
specified, with the parts thrown open to shew the outline of the same.
(a) is the sheath or needle case connected at its one end (a¹) to an envelope
or outer wrapper (6) so as to form a sort of hinged part upon the envelope or
outer wrapper (6). The outer wrapper (6) consists of two closing or folding
side wings (1, 2,) which fold one upon the other, and the needle sheath (a),
as seen at Figure 2; the outer wrapper (b) also consists of a bottom or tail
piece (3) for folding up and upon the side pieces (1, 2,) and the needle
sheath (a) and a top flap piece (4), the end of which passes into the free end
or bottom of the tail piece (3) upon the closing of the wrapper and secures
it, Figure 3 shewing the wrapper so closed. When the outer wrapper (b) is
opened and the ends of the needles exposed, the opening outwards and con-
sequent pressure of the bottom part (3) and the lower end of the sheath or
needle case (a) will cause such sheath (a) to spring forward into a vertical
position, as shewn at Figure 4, enabling the needles to be selected therefrom
with great facility.
Figure 5 shews the envelope or needle case in perspective when opened and
in position for use.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I claim, without
confining myself to the precise details herein described and shewn, the
improvements in the formation of wrappers or envelopes for needles, as herein
more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Clarke, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JOHN CLARKE.
(L.S.)