A NEW OR IMPROVED THREADING APPARATUS POR SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Felix Robert Gaspary, of Berlin, in the Kingdom
of Prussia, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED THREADING
APPARATUS POR SEWING MACHINES."
Sealed the 15th November 1872, and dated the 21st May 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Felix Robert Gaspary
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st May 1872.
I, FELIX ROBERT GASPARY, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
THREADING APPARATUS FOR SEWING MACHINES," to be as follows:-
The nature of my improved apparatus for threading the needles of
sewing machines will be best understood by reference to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, upon which A, A, indicate a spring of about
1% to 1% inches in length, by about 1 of an inch in width; at a right
angle to the broadside of this spring is a very thin needle about 1 of

page_text: an inch long B, the point of which is turned upwards and back towards
the spring, so that the small hook thereby produced can easily pass
through the smallest needle eye. About / of an inch above the hook B
the spring carries a little piece in two parts C, an incision or groove in
which can hold the needle in such a manner that the small hook is
placed opposite to the eye. As far above this piece C as is required by
the kind of sewing machine in use, the spring will be fixed to the needle
or to any other support, but so that it can move, and that while the
needle is held in the piece C a pressure may be produced which will pass
the small hook through the eye. The length and bend of the spring will
be in proportion to the parts of the sewing machine. Further, the
spring shown can be replaced by a spiral spring at the back of the sinall
hook and a moveable bar; the entire apparatus might also be formed of
a piece of sheet steel.
Directions for use:-Press the spring until the small hook B is passed
through the eye of the needle, lay the thread on the hook, then release
the spring, and the hook carries the thread through the eye.
Advantage of the apparatus:-The advantage of this little apparatus
(which it will be evident is very simple and easily made) is apparent in
the above simple directions for its use, and its action is so sure that even
blind people can execute the hitherto tiresome operation of threading
with the greatest facility.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Felix Robert Gaspary in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th November 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FELIX
ROBERT GASPARY, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Felix Robert Gaspary, Her special
licence that I, the said Felix Robert Gaspary, my executors, adminis-

page_text: trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Felix Robert Gaspary,
my executors, administrators, and 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 "A NEW OR
IMPROVED THREADING APPARATUS FOR SEWING MACHINES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Felix Robert Gaspary, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, 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 Felix Robert Gaspary, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
The nature of my improved apparatus for threading the needles of
sewing machines will be best understood by reference to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawing, upon which A, A, indicate a spring of about
1 to 1 inches in length, by about 1, of an inch in width; at a right
angle to the broadside of this spring is a very thin needle B about 1 of
an inch long, the point of which is turned upwards and back towards
the spring, so that the small hook thereby produced can easily pass
through the smallest needle eye. About ¾ of an inch above the hook B
the spring carries a little piece in two parts C, an incision or groove in
which can hold the needle (see Fig. 1) in such a manner that the small
hook is placed opposite to the eye. As far above this piece C as is
required by the kind of sewing machine in use the spring will be fixed
to the needle or any other support, so that it can move, and that while
the needle is held in the piece C a pressure may be produced which will
pass the small hook through the eye. The length and bend of the spring
will be in proportion to the parts of the sewing machine. Further, the
spring shown can be replaced by a spiral spring at the back of the small
hook and a movable bar; the entire apparatus might also be formed of a
piece of sheet steel.

page_text: Secondly. The use of the combination of spring A or an equivalent
with guard D, and of both with a sewing needle or its supports,
substantially as and for the purposes herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Felix Robert Gaspary, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
FELIX ROBERT GASPARY. (L.S.)