AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS TT on onnmity DESCRIPTIONS OR NEEDLES. IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CREMAIN DECODIPTIONS OR NEEDLES.
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Cottrill, of Studley, in the County of Warwick,
Needle Maker, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS
TT on onnmity DESCRIPTIONS OR NEEDLES.
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CREMAIN DECODIPTIONS OR NEEDLES.
ITT
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Cottrill at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th
September 1861.
I, JAMES COTTRILL, of Studley, in the County of Warwick, Needle Maker,.
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF NEEDLES,"
to be as follows, that is to say:-
My Invention has reference to the manufacture of certain kinds of needles,
such as are used for sail making, sack making, glove making, and other
similar purposes, and it consists in making such needles square, or four-sided
in section, or with five or more sides and angles, except at the head, which will
be of the usual form.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Cottrill in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st
March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
COTTRILL, of Studley,. in the County of Warwick, Needle Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said James Cottrill, Her special license that I, the said James
Cottrill, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said James Cottrill, 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 IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF NEEDLES,"
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Cottrill, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, 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.
upon
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Cottrill, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say): :-
My Invention has reference to the manufacture of certain kinds of needles,
such as are used for sail making, sack making, glove making, and other
similar purposes, and it consists in making such needles square, or four-sided
in section, or with five or more sides and angles, except at the head, which
will be of the usual form.
And in carrying out my improvements in the manufacture of the description
of needles above named, more particularly in making sail needles, I prefer to
make them of square wire, so that the needle when finished has four equal
sides, except at the eye, where the angles are worked off, so as to make it of
the ordinary form at that part. The eye is pierced in a diagonal-direction,

page_text: that is to say, in a line with the angles, and not with the sides; the advantages
of this shape are, that a much smaller hole is made in the material which is
being worked, the thread follows the needle easily, and the flat sides of the
needle admit of its being held by the fingers of the workman with perfect
freedom from inconvenience.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim the improvement or improve-
ments in the manufacturo of the above-named descriptions of needles by
making such needles square, or four-sided in section, or with more than four
sides and angles, except at the head, as herein more fully set forth and
specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Cottrill, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
JAMES COTTRILL. (L.S.)