Improvements in Sewing Machine Needles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Communicated from abroad by GEORGE HENRY WILLIAMSON, of 26, Union
Square, New York City, United States of America, Jeweller.]
Improvements in Sewing Machine Needles.
I, AMBROSE MYALL, of 21 Cockspur Street, Pall Mall, in the County of
Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
The invention relates to the class of sewing machine needles, in which two.
parralel members proceed vertically from the eye of the needle and its object is to.
provide a needle of simple construction, in which the threading of the eye is.
instantly accomplished with but a single action, and also in which one of the
members acts not only as a guide to direct the thread in its course to the eye, but.
also serves as a guard and retainer for the thread after the latter has reached.
the eye.
The invention consists in the novel construction and arrangements of parts, as
hereinafter described and claimed.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
Specification, in which similar reference numerals denote corresponding parts in the
several views.
Figure is a front elevation of the needle embodying my invention.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the needle showing the same in position to be
threaded.
Figure 4 is a side elevation of the needle with the thread in the position shown in
Figure 3, and
Figure 5 is a side elevation of the needle showing the thread inserted in
the eye.
The main member of the needle may have any necessary contour at its upper
end 10 dependent upon the character of the sewing machine to which it is to be
applied and may be of any requisite length. At the base of the part 10, the body
of the needle is tapered as at 10" and merges into the reduced portion 10" which is
pointed in the usual manner at its lower end.
Integral with the portion 10% of the needle and proceeding upward parallel there-
with, is the member 11, which member has a spring action and the eye 12 of the
needle is formed in part in each of the members of the needle near their point of
junction. To prevent lateral movement of the spring member 11, when the needle
is in use, the upper end of the said spring member 11, is split and forked to form
arms 13, as shown best in Figures 1 and 3 of the drawings, the arms thus formed
diverging at each side of the upper part of the main member of the needle, as shown
at 10ª, these parts or arms 13, practically embracing the main stem of said needle..
Said arms 13, are bent outward and upward from the member 11, and thence
curved inward in direction of the main member of the needle and their
0 extremes are curved slightly downward and project slightly beyond the main
member.
These arms when the member 11, is in normal position, as shown in Figures 1
and 2, besides having the function of preventing any lateral movement of the
member 11, act as a guard and retainer for the thread 14 when the needle is in use.
5 A further function of the arms 13 is that they guide the thread into the slot
intervening between the two members of the needle and leading to the eye 12, and
in this service they act instantly as will presently appear and without necessitating
the manipulation of any device supplementary to the needle.

page_text: The operation of threading the needle is as follows.
The operator takes the thread 14 in both hands, presses it firmly against the
main member of the needle above the forked arms and lowers or slides the thread
downward to the said arms which arms gently move backward and thus permit the
thread to pass between the two members of the needle to the eye near the base, the
action of the spring member restoring it to its normal position when the thread
has passed the arms, and again when the said thread enters the eye of the needle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is :-
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A sewing machine needle consisting of a main stationary member and a parallel
spring member integral with the stationary member, the upper end of the spring
member having diverging arms, which arms are bent upward and outward and thence
curved inward and downward and embracing the main member near its upper end,
substantially as shown and described and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 6th day of February 1893.
AMBROSE MYALL.