An Improved Needle or Pin Cushion and Thimble Carrier.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1893—Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Needle or Pin Cushion and Thimble Carrier.
I, SAMUEL HENRY CROCKER of 172 Fleet Street, London, E.C. Eugineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a needle or pin cushion formed so as to enable a thimble
to cover over the same as a cap, and the whole is intended as an attachment to a
bobbin of thread.
I form my improved attachment with a head shaped as a truncated cone, the
lower diameter of which is slightly greater than the opening of the largest size
thimble, and the upper diameter is slightly smaller than the opening of the smallest
sized thimbles. The object of this shaped head is that it may take all sized
thimbles. A centrally extending leg is formed from the bottom of the cone shaped
head of sufficient length and size to fit into the hole found in all wooden bobbins,
upon which sewing thread is reeled. This leg is slightly conical in shape at its
upper part near the head to ensure its fitting into all bobbins.
The whole device is now bored with a central hole which at the top is as wide as
the top of the truncated coned head will allow, and this hole extends downwards
through the leg before referred to in a tapering manner sufficiently deep to take
nearly the full length of an ordinary needle. The top of this hole is then fitted
with a small piece of textile, or other material forming a needle or pin cushion.
After a seamstress has finished sewing, she can place her needle in the cushion,
and cover over the same with her thimble, which will bind tightly down on the
head and thus the whole device enables needles or pins to be carried safely in the
pocket, in combination with a reel of thread and a thimble.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1893.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Needle or Pin Cushion and Thimble Carrier.
I SAMUEL HENRY CROCKER of 172 Fleet Street, London, E.C. Engineer,
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 :-
My invention consists of a needle or pin cushion formed so as to enable a thimble
to cover over the same as a cap, and the whole is intended as an attachment to a
bobbin of thread.
I form my improved attachment with a head shaped as a truncated cone, the
lower diameter of which is slightly greater than the opening of the largest size.
thimble, and the upper diameter is slightly smaller than the opening of the smallest
sized thimbles. The object of this shaped head is that it may take all sized
thimbles. A centrally extending leg is formed from the bottom of the cone shaped
head of sufficient length and size to fit into the hole found in all wooden bobbins,
upon which sewing thread is reeled. This leg is slightly conical in shape at its
upper part near the head to ensure its fitting into all bobbins.
The whole device is now bored with a central hole which at the top is as wide
as the top of the truncated coned head will allow, and this hole extends downward
through the leg before referred to in a tapering manner sufficiently deep to take
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page_text: nearly the full length of an ordinary needle. The top of this hole is then fitted
with a small piece of textile, or other material, forming a needle or pin cushion.
After a seamstress has finished sewing, she can place her needle in the cushion,
and cover over the same with her thimble, which will bind tightly down on the
head and thus the whole device enables needles or pins to be carried safely in the
pocket, in combination with a reel of thread and a thimble.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood reference is had to
the accompanying drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a section of the device applied to a bobbin, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation
of the same.
A is the bobbin turned with the usual central hole a in which my device is fitted.
The head B is of conical or tapering form externally so that the tapering thimble C
can fit on it, and is formed with a leg b also slightly tapering but towards the lower
end. This leg is pushed into the hole a of the bobbin when the device is attached,
the taper form of the leg allowing for variations in the size of the hole. The
device is turned with a central hole D the upper part d of which, situated in the
head is made conical widening towards the top and forming a cavity. In this
cavity is placed the pad E of wool or any other suitable material forming a pin or
needle cushion through which the pins or needles can be pushed projecting into the
hole D in the leg b as shown in Fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) A device for holding or carrying a thimble and needles or pins, consisting
of a conical head on which the thimble can be placed, a shank on top of which the
head is formed, a central hole, enlarged at the top or head part, and a pad of
suitable material in the enlarged part forming a pin or needle cushion the device
being used in connection with a bobbin, substantially as described.
(2.) The improved device forming a thimble carrier and needle or pin cushion
fitted in the central hole of a bobbin, substantially as described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 8th day of November 1893.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.