AN IMPROVE- MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN PAPERS, ENVELOPES, OR CASES FOR HOLDING NEEDLES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Smith Bartleet, of Redditch, in the County
of Worcester, Needle Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVE-
MENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN PAPERS, ENVELOPES, OR CASES FOR HOLDING
NEEDLES."
Sealed the 25th June 1858, and dated the 6th March 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Smith Bartleet
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th March 1858.
I, ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester,
Needle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN PAPERS, ENVELOPES, OR CASES FOR
HOLDING NEEDLES," to be as follows:-
My said Invention consists of the following method or methods of con-
structing the papers, envelopes, or cases for holding needles. I take a
rectangular piece of paper of the size usually employed for holding needles,
and I make a semicircular slit or incision in that part of the paper in which
the heads of the needles will be situated, when the paper is folded, as herein-
after described; I fold the paper in the manner in which a needle paper is
ordinarily folded, and I prefer to paste together the overlapping edges of the
said folded paper. There is thus formed a case, having a small semicircular

page_text: flap or tongue, in which case the needles are inserted; the upper and lower
pasted portions of the paper constituting a flap and tuck, which when folded
down over the case engage with one another.
Although I prefer to paste the paper as described, yet I sometimes leave
the folded paper unpasted. And although I prefer to make the incision which
formis the small flap or tongue of the case and the opening through which the
needles are taken from the case of a semicircular figure, yet the said flap or
tongue and opening may be made of other forms, with the same or nearly the
same effect
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Smith Bartleet in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 16th August 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT-
SMITH BARTLEET, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Needle Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eighthundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself; Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Robert Smith Bartleet, Her special licence that I, the said Robert Smith
Bartleet, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Robert Smith Bartleet, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IM-
PROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN PAPERS, ENVELOPES, OR CASES FOR HOLDING
NEEDLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Smith
Bartleet, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Smith Bartleet, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:―
My Invention consists of the method or methods of constructing papers,
envelopes, or cases for holding needles, herein-after particularly described and*
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In carrying my Invention into effect, I take a rectangular piece of paper of
the form represented.in. Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing, and I make
a semicircular slit or incision marked a in that part of the paper at which
the heads of the needles will be situated when the said paper, Figure 1, is
folded in the manner herein explained. After making the incision a, I fold
the outer portions b, c, of the paper, Figure 1, upon the back of the central
portion d of the said paper at the dotted lines e, f, and paste the overlapping
edges of the said parts b, c, together, or the said edges may be left unpasted.
The partially formed case or envelope thus assumes the form represented in
Figure 2. I next fold the paper or envelope, Figure 2, at the transverse
dotted lines g and h, and thereby form a flap and tuck to the case, as re-
presented in Figure 3. There is thus formed a case having a small semi-
circular flap or tongue i, the opening formed by the raising of the said flap or
tongue giving ready means of access to the case for the withdrawal of the
needles from the said case as illustrated in Figure 4, in which said Figure 4
the opening through which the needles k are withdrawn is marked l.
The needle case or envelope, Figure 4, is closed by folding the flap m, and
inserting in the end of the said flap the tuck n. Figure 5 represents the case,
Figures 3 and 4, folded up previous to the insertion of the tuck n in the flap m.
I sometimes make the tuck n of the form represented in Figures 6 and 7.
The dotted lines in Figure 7 show the position of the tuck n when it has been
inserted in the flap m. By making the tuck n of the form represented in
Figures 6 and 7, the said tuck can be more readily introduced into the flap of
the case.
The said tuck n may, however, be made of other forms than those
represented in the Drawing. Although I prefer to make the incision which
forms the small flap or tongue i and the opening 1, through which the needles
are withdrawn from the case of a semicircular figure, as described and
represented, yet the said flap and opening may be made of other forms with
the same or nearly the same effect, and the edges of the said flap and opening
may, if thought desirable, be ornamented in any suitable manner.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my
Invention the improvement or improvements in papers, envelopes, or cases for
holding needles, herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
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page_text: Drawing, that is to say, forming papers, envelopes, or cases for holding needles
by making an incision or cut at that part of the paper or blank at which the
heads of the needles will be situated when the said paper or blank is folded,
the said incision forming an opening through which the needles may be with-
drawn from the case as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Smith Bartleet, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
DAVID BALL,
Commercial Clerk,
Redditch.
ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET. (L.S.)