Improvements in or connected with Needle Cases, Ladies' Hussifs, Work Cases or Companions, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Needle Cases, Ladies' Hussifs,
Work Cases or Companions, and the like.
BARON ISAAC KEYZOR, 4 Jewin Street, City, London and Howard Case
Works Eyre Street Sheffield representative of the Firm Dewsnap & Compy.
Dressing Case Manufacturers 1 do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
A mode of attaching various materials such as silks, threads, cottons &c. in cases
of needles, ladies' companions, hussifs and the like, by means of clips, wire, elastic
or leather bands or other fastenings and having a cover or flap that can be opened
or raised for inserting fresh supplies so as to be able to get at these silks &c. for
purposes of readjustment or replenishment.
1000
Improvements in or connected with Needle Cases, Ladies' Hussifs,
Work Cases or Companions, and the like.
I BARON ISAAC KEYZOR 48 late 4 Jewin Street City of London and Howard.
Case Works, Eyre Street Sheffield representative of the Firm of Dewsnap &
Company, Dressing Case Manufacturers, 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 needle cases, ladies' hussifs, workcases or companions
and similar articles for holding silks, threads and the like and the implements for
working therewith, and has for its object to improve upon the construction and
arrangement of such articles so as to facilitate the insertion and removal of the
silks or threads therein and therefrom.
As usually constructed, a broad band of leather or other material is secured by
stitching across the inner face of these cases, said band being provided with loops
or pockets for the working implements such as scissors, needles and the like, and
the silks or threads have to be laboriously inserted by a bodkin or like implement
between such leather band and the case, spaces being left in the stitching which
connects the band and case for the passage of the silks or threads.
According to my invention I pass each group of threads through two or more
narrow loops provided on the case and I connect to the side or sides of the latter,
in such manner that it may be folded over the threads or turned back therefrom,
a flap (or flaps) of leather or other suitable material, said flap (or flaps) having
convenient loops or pockets for the reception of the scissors, needles or other
implements. Or the said flap (or flaps) may be made integral with the case.

page_text: The case thus carries both the silks or threads and working implements as here-
tofore, but the latter, being carried by a flap (or flaps) which can readily be turned
back from the threads when required, can with ease be threaded by the fingers
through the narrow loops provided for their reception.
The accompanying drawing represents a workcase or companion constructed
-according to my invention.
a is the folding case and b b represent narrow strips of material secured across
the inner face thereof by stitching so as to form loops for the reception of the
silks or threads c. d d are folding flaps connected at their ends by stitching or
otherwise with the side edge of the cover a and provided with suitable loops or
pockets for the working implements, such as scissors, needles and the like. One of
the flaps d is here shewn as folded down upon the threads, and the other as turned
.back therefrom.
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 lady's hussif or companion or like article comprising a folding case, loops
secured to the inner face thereof for holding silks or threads, and a flap (or flaps),
adapted for carrying the working implements or other articles, secured to or
extending from the side of the case so that it may be folded over the silks or
threads or turned back therefrom as desired, substantially as and for the purpose
-described.
2. A lady's hussif or companion or like article constructed and arranged
substantially as illustrated in the drawing annexed.
Dated this 18th day of February 1897.
E. P. ALEXANDER & SON,
Chartered Patent Agents,
19, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.