IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING CROCHET NEEDLES TO CERTAIN KINDS OF CROCHET NEEDLE HANDLES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edgar Robert Smith Bartleet, of Redditch, in the County
of Worcester, Commercial Clerk, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ATTACHING CROCHET NEEDLES TO CERTAIN KINDS OF CROCHET NEEDLE
HANDLES."
Sealed the 9th April 1878, and dated the 18th October 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edgar Robert Smith
Bartleet at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th October
1877.
EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester,
Commercial Clerk. "IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING CROCHET NEEDLES TO CERTAIN
KINDS OF CROCHET NEEDLE HANDLES."
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in attaching
crochet needles to crochet needle handles made of glass or enamel.
The glass or enamel crochet needle handles may either be coloured or colourless,
and either cylindrical in figure or of different diameters at different parts, and may
either be hollow or tubular throughout the whole of their length, or through part
only of their length.
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I will describe my Invention as applied to a glass or enamel handle, hollow or
tubular throughout its whole length.
I make the stems of the needles of sufficient length to pass completely through
the hollow or tubular handles, and I fix, by means of the flame of a blow pipe, to
the base of the needle stem a knob or head of glass or enamel. The needle stem
provided with a glass or enamel head or knob is passed from the open base of the
handle through the said handle until the glass or enamel head or knob on its base is
in contact with the open base of the glass or enamel handle. By means of the flame
of a blow pipe the glass or enamel head or knob on the needle, and the base of the
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page_text: glass or enamel handle are melted, and thereby joined together. The glass or
enamel knob or head on the needle is thereby made to complete the base of the
handle and to form an integral part of it, and the said needle is at the same time
very securely connected to the handle. The needle end of the glass or enamel handle
is made taper, the said taper end of the handle being completed by fixing upon it
by means of cement, a metal cap of the ordinary kind.
Although I prefer the use of a knob of glass or enamel on the base of the needle
for the purpose of effecting the connection of the needle with the handle, yet the
said knob may be dispensed with, and the base of the needle being introduced into
the base of the handle the latter may be fused on the former by means of the flame
of a blow pipe, and thereby securely fixed thereto. Or the tubular handle may be
fused and contracted upon the stem of the needle at or about the middle of the
handle, or at any other part. Or the handle may be tubular or hollow only at and
near the end in which the needle is inserted, the other part being solid. The needle
is inserted in the tubular part and fixed therein by the fusion of the glass or enamel
at that part upon it.
The length of the stem of the needle must be varied to suit the different modifi-
cations of my Invention described. I prefer, however, the use of the first-described
method of carrying my Invention into effect.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edgar Robert Smith Bartleet in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 12th April 1878.
EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester,
Commercial Clerk. "IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING CROCHET NEEDLES TO CERTAIN
KINDS OF CROCHET NEEDLE HANDLES."
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in attaching
crochet needles to crochet needle handles made of glass or enamel.
The glass or enamel crochet needle handles may either be coloured or colourless,
and either cylindrical in figure or of different diameters at different parts, and may
either be hollow or tubular throughout the whole of their length, or through part
only of their length.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a glass or enamel handle, hollow or
tubular throughout its whole length.
I make the stems of the needles of sufficient length to pass completely through
the hollow or tubular handles, and I fix by means of the flame of a blow pipe to the
base of the needle stem a knob or head of glass or enamel. The needle stem provided
with a glass or enamel head or knob is passed from the open base of the handle through
the said handle until the glass or enamel head or knob on its base is in contact with the
open base of the glass or enamel handle. By means of the flame of a blow pipe the
glass or enamel head or knob on the needle, and the base of the glass or enamel handle
are melted, and thereby joined together. The glass or enamel knob or head on the
needle is thereby made to complete the base of the handle and to form an integral
part of it, and the said needle is at the same time very securely connected to the
handle. The needle end of the glass or enamel handle is made taper, the said taper
end of the handle being completed by fixing upon it by means of shellac or other
cement, a metal cap of a shape to fit the said end.
Although I prefer the use of a knob of glass or enamel on the base of the needle
for the purpose of effecting the connection of the needle with the handle, yet the
said knob may be dispensed with, and the base of the needle being introduced into
the base of the handle, the latter may be fused on the former by means of the flame
of a blow pipe, and thereby securely fixed thereto. Or the tubular handle may be
fused and contracted upon the stem of the needle at or about the middle of the
handle, or at any other part. Or the handle may be tubular or hollow only at and
near the end in which the needle is inserted, the other part being solid. The needle
is inserted in the tubular part and fixed therein by the fusion of the glass or enamel
at that part upon it.
The length of the stem of the needle must be varied to suit the different modifi-
cations of my Invention described. I prefer, however, the use of the first-described
method of carrying my Invention into effect.
I will now describe, with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the manner in
which my Invention may be performed.
Figure 1 represents in elevation, and Figure 2 in section a crochet needle attached
to a handle made of glass or enamel, according to one of the arrangements of my
Invention.
Figure 3 represents the needle before the knob or head of glass or enamel is fixed
to its stem.
Figure 4 represents the needle after the knob or head of glass or enamel has been.
fixed to its stem.
Figure 5 represents in elevation and section the glass or enamel handle
separately.
And Figure 6 represents in section the handle and needle arranged in their proper
relative positions for fixing them together.

page_text: a is the crochet needle, the stem of which is of a sufficient length to pass
completely through the hollow or tubular handle b made of glass or enamel.
The glass or enamel head or knob fixed on the base of the needle stem a is marked c,
the said head or knob c being formed by joining on the end of the needle stem
a piece of glass or enamel by means of the flame of a blow pipe.
In order the more effectually to secure the glass or enamel head or knob c
upon the needle stem a, the base of the said needle stem is grooved or notched at a³,
Figure 3.
On melting the glass or enamel to form the head or knob c, a portion thereof
runs into the grooves or notches at a³, and thereby prevents the removal of the glass
or enamel head from the stem. The hollow or tubular handle is open at its base b*,
as well as at its front or forward end b³.
In fixing the crochet needle a, having a glass or enamel head or knob c fixed
upon it, to the handle b, the stem of the needle is passed from the open base b² of
the handle b, through the said handle until the glass or enamel head or knob c is in
contact with the open base 62 of the glass or enamel handle, as illustrated in
Figure 6. The base 6 of the glass or enamel handle b, and the glass or enamel
head or knob c of the needle are now melted by means of the flame of a blow pipe,
and the said base 62 and head c thereby joined together, and the needle securely
connected to the handle, and the base of the handle completed, as illustrated in
Figures 1 and 2. By now fixing, by means of cement or otherwise, a metal
to the front or needle end of the handle, the crochet needle is ready for use.
Figures 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 represent other arrangements of my Invention for
connecting the needle to the glass or enamel handle. In these arrangements the
glass or enamel head or knob on the end of the needle stem is dispensed with.
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In Figures 7 and 8 the end of the needle stem a is fixed to the glass or enamel
handle b by melting the base part 6 of the said handle around or upon the bottom
a² of the needle stem a, Figure 7 representing the parts before the base of the handle
is melted upon the stem of the needle, and Figure 8 the same after the base of the
handle has been melted upon the stem of the needle, and the said needle fixed to
the said handle.
Figure 9 represents the method of attachment, in which the tubular handle b is
fused and contracted upon the stem of the needle near the front end of the said
handle, the part which is fused and contracted upon the stem of the needle being
marked 65.
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I do not limit myself to the position represented in Figure 9 of the part of the
handle b, which is fused and contracted upon the needle to fix it to the handle as
the middle or other part of the handle may be fused upon the needle in a similar
manner.
Figures 10 and 11 represent my Invention applied to a nearly solid handle of
glass or enamel, Figure 10 representing the handle separately, and Figure 11 the
handle and needle connected together. In this arrangement the glass or enamel
handle fis solid, excepting at its front or needle end, which end is tubular, or is pro-
vided with an axial recess at få for receiving the needle stem a. After the end of the
short stem of the needle has been placed in the recess or tubular part f2 of the
handle f, the part f" of the handle is fused, by means of the flame of a blow pipe, upon
the end of the needle stem, and the latter is thereby securely fixed to the handle.
The handle is completed by means of the metal cap g, as usual.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Inven-
tion, the improvements in attaching crochet needles to handles made of glass
or enamel, herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing,
that is to say, fixing to the base of the crochet needle a knob or head of glass or
enamel, and joining the said knob or head to the base of the glass or enamel bandle
by melting the said parts together by means of the flame of a blow pipe, substan-
'tially as described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, or dispensing with

page_text: the knob or head of glass or enamel on the end of the needle stem, and melting or
melting and contracting a portion of the glass or enamel handle upon the needle stem,
substantially as described, and illustrated in Figures 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edgar Robert Smith Bartleet, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
Vitness,
HAROLD S. BARTLEET,
The Shrubbery,
Redditch.
EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET. (L.S.)