An Improvement in Hand-used Needles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Hand-used Needles.
I, RICHARD RIDEOUT BEARD, Managing Director of Kirby, Beard and Co.
Limited, of Ravenhurst Works, Bradford Street, Birmingham, in the County, of
Warwick, Pin and Needle Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in flattening and thereby diminishing the thickness of the
part of the needle in which the eye is made so that the bulk or diameter of the
head of the threaded needle together with the thread on each side of the eye does
not exceed or exceeds but little the diameter of the body of the needle. The
advantage of this construction is that the drag or catch which occurs when the
threaded eye of the needle reaches the fabric or material being sewn is wholly or
in great part prevented and sewing is effected with greater ease than when ordinary
needles are used.
In making a hand used needle according to my invention I operate upon the head
of the needle by dies and percussion so as to flatten the part in which the eye is
afterwards formed and thereby reduce the thickness of the metal at that part to
about one half the diameter of the body of the needle. The eye is afterwards
formed in the said flattened part in the ordinary way.
Dated this a 1..
1004
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
An Improvement in Hand-used Needles.
I, RICHARD RIDEOUT BEARD, Managing Director of Kirby, Beard & Co.
Limited, of Ravenhurst Works, Bradford Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Pin and Needle Manufacturers, 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 :-
My invention consists in flattening and thereby diminishing the thickness of the
part of the needle in which the eye is made so that the bulk or thickness of the
head of the threaded needle together with that of the thread on each side of
the eye does not exceed or exceeds but little the diameter of the body of the
needle. The advantage of this construction is that the drag or catch which occurs
when the threaded eye of the needle reaches the fabric or material being sewn is
wholly or in great part prevented and sewing is effected with greater ease than when
ordinary needles are used.
.
In making a hand used needle according to my invention I operate upon the
head of the needle by dies and percussion so as to flatten the part in which the eye
is afterwards formed and thereby reduce the thickness of the metal at that part to
about one half the diameter of the body of the needle. The eye is afterwards
formed in the said flattened part in the ordinary way.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in front elevation a portion of
a needle the head or eye end of which is constructed according to my invention
and Figure 2 represents the same in side elevation.
The same letters indicate the same parts in both figures.

page_text: a is the shank or body of the needle and is the flattened head through which
the eye c is pierced. The head is of about one half the thickness of the shank
or body part a of the needle so that when the needle is threaded, as represented in
Figure 2, the combined thickness of the said head and the thread d (Figure 2) on
each side of the head does not exceed or exceeds but little the diameter of the
shank or body a of the needle. Consequently the drag on the eye of the needle
passing through the material being sewn is wholly or in great part prevented and
the sewing is effected with greater ease than when ordinary needles are used as
herein before described..
The flattening tools by which the flattened head is made are of the kind
commonly used for similar processes and constitute no part of my invention and
the formation of the eye in the said flattened part or head 6 is effected in the
ordinary way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that I claim
as my invention :-
.
The improvement in hand used needles hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing; that is to say, flattening or reducing the thickness
of the head or eye end of the needle so that when the needle is threaded the combined
thickness of the head of the needle and the thread on each side of it does not exceed
or exceeds but little the diameter of the shank or body part of the needle for the
purpose and substantially as herein before described and illustrated.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1894.
RICHARD RIDEOUT BEARD.