Improvements in sewing IMVIES,
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 11th Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1899-Accepted, 10th June, 1899
Improvements in sewing IMVIES,
We, WILLIAM COWPER ROBISON, Sheep Farmer, CHARLES LLOYD GARDINER,
Gentleman, and THOMAS HENRY REGINALD GARDINER, Sheep Farmer, all of
54, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
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This invention relates to thimbles worn to protect the finger when sewing with a
needle and cotton or the like and the object of the invention is to provide a thimble
with means to prevent the needle, when it has slipped upon the same from
penetrating the operator's hand, and with means for cutting the cotton and thereby
dispensing with scissors for that purpose.
Around the outside of the open end of the thimble we form a channel in place of
the usual bead, so that a needle slipping upon the roughened surface of the thimble
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will be caught by the channel and prevented from entering the operator's hand.
convenient position upon the thimble we provide a cutter or cutters secured and
sunk into the thimble so that its point or their points does or do not project
inconveniently above the surrounding parts. The point or points is or are blunt
and preferably thickened to avoid liability of its catching the material being
The cotton or the like is passed below the edge or between the edges of the
cutter and readily cut.
sewn.
Our improvements may be applied to thimbles other than those referred to herein,
such as the annular thimbles used by tailors.
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page_text: 54, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand, 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 thimbles worn to protect the finger when sewing with a
needle and cotton or the like, and it has for its objects the provision of such thimbles
with a means whereby in the event of the needle slipping over the surface of the
thimble it shall be prevented from entering the hand of the person using same, and
further the provision of a means for cutting the cotton whereby scissors or other
accessory cutting means may be dispensed with.
In order that the invention may be the better understood, drawings are appended
in which :-
Fig. 1 is a side elevational view to an enlarged scale of a thimble to which the
hereinbefore stated improvements have been applied.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the top of the same.
Referring to the drawings, A indicates the body of the thimble which may be of
any suitable construction and form, and has formed in it at any convenient point, but
preferably in its top edge, a recess or indentation a in which is located a cutter B
provided with an inner cutting edge or edges C. The shape of the cutter is such
that the outer edge thereof shall conform to the line of the contour of the thimble
so that the point thereof does not project beyond the surface, and catch in the
material being sewn or damage the hand of the person sewing. The cutter is pre-
ferably thickened at the point as shown at D. Instead of the usual bead formed
upon the outside of the thimble at its base, we may form a channel E so that in the
event of the needle slipping over the surface of the thimble it will be caught in
the said channel and thereby prevented from damaging the hand of the person using
same. The improvements herein set forth may also be applied to thimbles other
than those referred to, such as the annular thimble used by tailors.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. In a thimble the provision of a cutting means located within a suitable recess
formed in the thimble and arranged in such a manner as to prevent damage either
to the material being sewn or to the hand of the person sewing, substantially as
herein described and shown by the appended drawings.
2. In a thimble the provision of a means for preventing injury to the hand of the
person using same in the event of the needle slipping over the surface thereof,
substantially as herein set forth and shewn by the appended drawings.
Dated the 3rd day of May 1800

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