A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF PAPERING NEEDLES, OR MAKING UP NEEDLES FOR SALE
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Bennett, of Redditch, in the County of
Worcester, Needle Finisher, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
METHOD OF PAPERING NEEDLES, OR MAKING UP NEEDLES FOR SALE."
Sealed the 2nd October 1857, and dated the 7th May 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION, left by the said. Richard Bennett at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th
May 1857.
I, RICHARD BENNETT, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Needle
Finisher, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "A. NEW OR
IMPROVED METHOD OF PAPERING NEEDLES, OR MAKING UP NEEDLES FOR SALE," to
be as follows:-
My said Invention consists of the method herein-after described of paper-
ing needles or making up the same for sale, that is to say, of enclosing in a
convenient case or wrapper a small number of the said needles, so that the
same shall be easily accessible. In the ordinary methods of papering needles,
the needles are sometimes secured to a strip of cloth or fabric by being passed
through the same, and the said needles. thus held together are folded in a paper
wrapper. In papering needles according to my Invention, I attach a piece of
cloth or fabric to the paper wrapper by gum or other adhesive matter, the
said piece of cloth or fabric being attached to the paper by its ends. The
middle part of the cloth or fabric being loose or unattached to the paper.
The needles are passed through the loose part of the cloth or fabric, and

page_text: the ends of the paper are turned down upon the needles. The packet thus
formed may be enclosed if thought desirable in a second paper. I prefer to
complete the making up of the needles by inserting the packet into a case or
sheath of the same form, and open at one or both ends. The said sheath has
a perforation at its middle, by which the packet introduced can be so far
removed from the sheath that it can readily be taken hold of and wholly
withdrawn.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Bennett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
November 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BENNETT, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Needle Finisher, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Bennett, Her special licence that I, the said Richard Bennett,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Richard Bennett, 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
METHOD OF PAPERING NEEDLES, OR MAKING UP NEEDLES FOR SALE," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Bennett, 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 Richard Bennett, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-

page_text: My said, Invention consists of the method, herein-after particularly described
and illustrated by the accompanying Drawing, of papering needles, or making
up needles for sale, that is to say, of enclosing in a convenient case or wrapper
a small number of needles, so that the same shall be easily accessible.
In papering needles according to my Invention, I attach a piece of cloth
to the paper wrapper by gum or other adhesive matter, the said piece of cloth
or fabric being attached to the paper by its ends, the middle part of the cloth
or fabric being loose or unattached to the paper.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation, and
Figure 2 in side elevation, a piece of paper to be used in papering needles
according to my Invention. On the piece of paper a is affixed by gum or.
other adhesive matter a piece of cloth or fabric b, c, d, the parts b, d, being '
fastened to the paper a, while the middle part c is loose. The needles are
passed through the loose part of the cloth or fabric c, as shewn in front
elevation in Figure 3, and in side elevation in Figure 4, in which said Figures
3 and 4, the needles are marked e, and the loose portion of the cloth or fabric
through which the needles are passed is marked c.
The ends of the paper a
are turned down upon the needles as represented in front and side elevations
in Figures 5 and 6 respectively. The packet thus formed may be enclosed if
thought desirable in a case or wrapper, as represented in front and side
elevations in Figures 7 and 8 respectively, I prefer to complete the making
up of the needles for sale by inserting the packet, Figures 7 and 8, into a
case or sheath represented in front elevation in Figure 9, and in section in
Figure 10. Figure 11 represents the case, Figure 9, with one of the packets,
Figures 7 and 8, inserted therein. The sheath, Figures 9, 10, and 11, has an
elliptical perforation in its middle marked f, by which the paeket g, Figure 11,
can be so far raised from the sheath as shown in Figure 12, that it can
readily be taken hold of and wholly withdrawn. I sometimes make up the.
packets of needles for sale by means of a compound case or sheath repre-
sented in Figure 13, in which four or other number of the sheaths, Figures 9,.
10, 11, and 12, are combined together. I vary the form of the paper a,.
Figures 1 and 2, in a great variety of ways. Figures 14 and 15 show papers
differently formed from the paper Figures 1 and 2. The loose portion of
the cloth or fabric through which the needles are passed is marked c, in the
said Figures 14 and 15. I do not think it necessary to describe or represent
the various forms which may be given to the paper in which the needles are
first folded, and to which the fabric is attached through which the needles
are passed, as the form of the said papers may be varied to suit the various
methods of making up packets of needles which are or may be practised.

page_text: And although I prefer making up the needles for sale by enclosing the packets
in the sheaths or cases, Figures 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 of the accompanying
Drawing, yet I do not limit myself thereto, as the packets of needles may be
enclosed in sheaths or cases of other forms, or the packets may be sold with-
out being enclosed in an outer case or sheath.
The essence of my Invention consists in papering needles or making up
needles for sale, by passing the said needles through a fabric attached to
paper, that portion of the fabric through which the needles are passed being
loose or unattached to the paper as herein-before described with reference to
Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Drawing.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood, that I do not limit
myself to the precise details described and represented, as the same may be
varied without departing from the nature of my Invention; but I claim as
my Invention- the new or improved method of papering needles, or making
up needles for sale herein-before described and represented in the accompany-
ing Drawing, that is to say, passing the said needles through a fabric, which
said fabric is attached by its ends to the paper, in which the needles are
afterwards enclosed or partly enclosed, the said fabric being loose or uncon-
nected with the paper at its middle, or the part through which the needles
are passed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Bennett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of November in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw.
RICHARD BENNETT. (L.S.)