Improvements in Needles for Leather Sewing Laces.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Needles for Leather Sewing Laces.
We, HUGO SCHEIB and JULIUS DIECK, both of Barmen, Schwarzbachstrasse,
No. 18, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, and both Merchants, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in needles used with leather sewing
and binding laces such as they are used for sewing leather belting together and
in other strong and heavy saddlery goods.
Hitherto these leather sewing laces are mostly used without a needle; the end
being pointed, is then stuck through the hole pierced into the leather as well
at is may go, a short thin end generally going right through. This is especially
the case with leather belting where in most cases even four thicknesses of leather
(double belting) have to be pierced and passed through by the pointed sewing
lace. In consequence of the elasticity of the leather the hole generally closes
immediately after the withdrawal of the piercing instrument and therefore only
a short and thin end can be passed right through the hole and it often happens,
that when holding this thin end fast, in order to pull the lace right through it
breaks.
To avoid this drawback is the object of our invention. This consists of a
peculiarly shaped needle composed of two thin steel bars A connected together
to form a pointed end, whilst the two other ends are open. A thin piece of steel B
may be placed between the two bars at the closed pointed end, to set them a little
appart from each other in order to be able to insert the sewing lace the better
between them. Tongues or spikes C are punched or stamped inwardly out of
the metal of the bars A looking with their pointed ends towards the closed end of
the needle, so that when a leather sewing lace D is inserted between the two bars
and these are pressed together a little, the tongues or teeth will bite into the
leather, and in pulling the needle then through the sewing hole of the two pieces
of leather, the ends of a belt for instance, to be sewn together, said teeth will
hold the lace firmly, so that it can be conveniently and readily be pulled through
the belt.
Dated this 8th day of Santambar 1900
HUGO SCHEIB,
JULIUS DIECK,
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.

page_text: Improvements in Needles for Leather Sewing Laces.
We, HUGO SCHEIB and JULIUS DIECK, both of Barmen, Schwarzbachstrasse,
No. 18, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, and both Merchants, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in needles used with leather sewing
and binding laces such as they are used for sewing leather belting together and
in other strong and heavy saddlery goods.
Hitherto these leather sewing laces are mostly used without a needle; the end
being pointed, is then stuck through the hole pierced into the leather as well
as it may go, a short thin end generally going right through. This is especially
the case with leather belting where in most cases even four thicknesses of leather
(double belting) have to be pierced and passed through by the pointed sewing
lace. In consequence of the elasticity of the leather the hole generally closes
immediately after the withdrawal of the piercing instrument and therefore only
a short and thin end can be passed right through the hole and it often happens
that when holding this thin end fast in order to pull the lace right through it
breaks.
To avoid this drawback is the object of our invention which we show on the
accompanying drawing and of which the following is a description.
Figure 1 is a side view of the needle;
2 is a longitudinal section of the same;
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3 is a cross section;
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3,
4 is a side view of a modified construction;
5 is a longitudinal section of Fig. 4.
The new needle consists of two thin steel bars A rivetted together at one end
with a distance piece B between them; all three forming a sharp pointed end C.
At the open forked part of the needle the bars are by preference made hollow
of partly circular shape and spikes or tongues ]) are stamped into them with their
pointed ends looking towards the closed end of the needle and towards the inside
of the bars and so that they do not stand exactly opposite to each other. In order
to fix a lace into the needle all what is required to do is to push it between the
forked part far enough that it will be caught by at least two spikes and then pull
it a little backwards when the spikes will bite into the leather and hold it fast
so that it can not be pulled out.
The needle shown by Figs. 4 and 5 differs from the one just described and
shown in Figs. 1-3 only by this that the distance piece B is dispensed with and
that in the forked end only one spike is stamped into each bar; in every other
respect it corresponds with the other needle.
It is not absolutely necessary that the bars at the forked end are made hollow,
they may be quite flat and straight.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
A sewing needle for leather sewing laces used for sewing leather goods, belts
and the like, consisting of two small steel bars A connected together at one end
so as to form a sharp pointed edge, said bars being open at the other ends and
having teeth or spikes I punched into them with their pointed ends directed

page_text: inwardly and towards the closed end of the needle, the whole as illustrated and
described and for the purpose set forth.
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1000
HUGO SCHEIB,
JULIUS DIECK,
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.