IMPROVE- MENTS IN NEEDLE CASES OR WRAPPERS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Mary Emma Baylis, trading under the Style or
Firm of A. G. Baylis and Sons, of Redditch, in the County of
Worcester, Needle Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN NEEDLE CASES OR WRAPPERS."
Scaled the 15th April 1871, and dated the 14th January 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Mary Emma Baylis
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on
the 14th January 1871.
I, MARY EMMA BAYLIS, trading under the Style or Firm of A. G.
Baylis and Sons, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Needle
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN NEEDLE CASES OR WRAPPERS," to be as follows:-
In making a needle case or wrapper according to my Invention I take
a blank or piece of paper, and fold it, and paste its overlapping edges, so
as to make it into a flat tube, the said tube having the width of the
case or wrapper to be made, and being somewhat longer than twice the
length of the said case. From one side of the said flat tube portions are

page_text: cut
away at its middle and at its ends. When the said tube is folded in
its middle (the cut away side being inwards) and the ends are turned
down, it constitutes a double wrapper, in each of the flaps or sides of
which twenty-five or other number of needles stuck on fabric in the
ordinary way may be introduced. The cut away parts of the case or
wrapper exhibit both the heads and points of the needles. Before closing
the two sides or flaps of the case or wrapper the ends are turned down,
so as to cover the tops of the needles. The case or wrapper may be
inserted in a sheeth of the ordinary kind.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Mary Emma Baylis in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARY
EMMA BAYLIS, trading under the Style or Firm of A. G. Baylis and Sons,
of Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Needle Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Mary Emma Baylis, Her special
licence that I, the said Mary Emma Baylis, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Mary Emma Baylis,
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
NEEDLE CASES OR WRAPPERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Mary Emma Baylis, 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

page_text: Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Mary Emma Baylis, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :—
In making a needle case or wrapper according to my Invention I take
a blank or piece of paper or other flexible material, and fold it, and
paste or otherwise fasten its overlapping edges so as to make it into a
flat tube, the said tube having the width of the case or wrapper to be
made and being somewhat longer than twice the length of the said case.
From one side of the said flat tube portions are cut away at its middle
and at its ends, the said cut away portions being formed in the blank
from which the flat tube is made.. When the said tube is folded at its
middle (the cut away side being inwards) and the ends are turned down
it constitutes a double wrapper, in each of the flaps or sides of which
twenty-five or other number of needles stuck on fabric in the ordinary
way may be introduced. The cut away parts of the case or wrapper
exhibit both the heads and points of the needles. Before closing the
two sides or flaps of the case or wrapper the ends are turned down so, as
to cover the tops of the needles. The case or wrapper may be inserted
in a sheath of the ordinary kind, or the ends or flaps engaged with the
case or wrapper.
Having explained the nature of my Invention I will proceed to
describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the manner. in
which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents the blank or piece of paper or otlier flexible.
material from which I make my improved needle case or wrapper. The
said blank or piece of paper is of a length greater than twice that of
the case or wrapper to be made, and is divided by the longitudinal
creases a, b, into three parts marked respectively c, d, d², cach part
having the width of the finished case or wrapper. From the central
part of the blank portions marked e, f, g, are cut away. By folding
the outer parts c, d, of the blank, Figure 1, upon the perforated or cut
away middle part d the blank is converted into a flat tube, as illustrated
in front and edge view and section in Figure 2 of the Drawing, the
overlapping parts c, d, being pasted or otherwise fastened together.

page_text: The flat tube, Figure 2, so made is next folded at its middle on the
transverse crcase h, the cut away side being inwards, as represented in
edge view (open and closed) and side view in Figure 4. A double case
or wrapper is thereby made in each of the flaps or sides d, d, of which
25 or other number of needles stuck upon fabric in the usual way may
be introduced.
Figure 3 represents in front elevation and longitudinal section the
two flaps or sides d, d, of the case or wrapper filled with needles, the
cut away parts e, f, g, of the case exhibiting both the heads and points
of the needles. Before closing the two sides or flaps d, d, of the case
or wrapper the ends d³, d³, are turned down so as to cover the tops of
the needles.
Figure 5 represents a smaller case or wrapper made according to
my Invention in which one only of the sides or flaps is filled with
needles. In this single case or wrapper the end of the case below the
cut away part g is removed as. represented, and the opening left forms.
a tuck in which the end d³ of the case is inserted, thereby forming a
complete packet.
The double case or wrapper, Figure 4, may be inserted in a sheath
as represented in Figure 6. For convenience in removing the case or
wrapper from the sheath the top of the case or wrapper is provided with
tabs i, i, by gripping which between the finger and thumb the case or
Or instead of
wrapper may be readily withdrawn from the sheath.
placing the folded case or complete packet of needles in a sheath as in
Figure 6, or engaging its end with a tuck inside the case, as described-
with respect to Figure 5, a tuck or incision may be made outside the
case into which the top of the case is engaged to complete it. This
arrangement is represented in Figure 7, where the tuck or incision at the
outer side of the case is marked k, and the end of the case to be engaged
in the said tuck is marked d³. I vary the width or dimensions of the
casc or wrapper according to the size and number of the needles the
flaps or sides d, d, of the case or wrapper are required to hold.
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 do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illus-
trated, as the same may be varied without departing from the nature
of my Invention; but I claim as my Invention the improvements in

page_text: or
needle cases or wrappers, herein-before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing, that is to say, making the needle case
wrapper of a flat tube of paper or other flexible material folded at its
middle, so as to form a double wrapper, in one or both of the flaps or
sides of which double wrapper the needles are introduced, the inner side
of the flat tube being cut away at its middle and at its ends, so as
to exhibit both the heads and points of the needles, substantially, as
described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Mary Emma Baylis, have here-
uuto set my hand and scal, this Third day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
CHAS. MILES,
Redditch.
MARY EMMA BAYLIS. (L.S.)