Improvements in Bodkins for Threading or Inserting Ribbons, Tapes, and other Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bodkins for Threading or Inserting Ribbons,
Tapes, and other Textile Fabrics.
I ROSALIE PETTER, of 20 Palace Grove, Bromley, in the County of Kent,
wife of Herbert Petter, of the aforesaid 20 Palace Grove, Bromley, in the County
of Kent, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My present invention relates to bodkins and consists of a bodkin made of metal,
ivory, bone, wood or other suitable material and pointed with the usual knob but
having a widened eye end, so that the bodkin resembles a parabolic shape and
having a transverse slit or eye nearly from edge to edge at right angles to the
longitudinal centre of, and near the base of the aforesaid parabolic shape, instead of
the usual longitudinal eye in the common round bodkin.
This bodkin may be made in various widths, so as to receive and thread or insert
various widths of ribbons, tapes and other textile fabrics without crease or injury
to the aforesaid ribbons, tapes, and other textile fabrics.
The cross or transverse section of this bodkin may be round, oval, oblong or other
suitable shape.
The main point of my present invention is so making a bodkin with a widened
eye end that it may have a transverse slit or eye instead of the usual longitudinal
eye in the common round bodkin.
Dated this 23rd day of January 1895
ROSALIE PETTER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bodkins for Threading or Inserting Ribbons,
Tapes, and other Textile Fabrics.
I ROSALIE PETTER of 10 Bessborough Gardens, South Belgravia, London in
the County of Middlesex wife of Herbert Petter of the aforesaid 10 Bessborough
Gardens, Gentleman, 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 has for its object the threading or inserting of ribbons, tapes or
other textile fabrics, without crease or injury to the said ribbons, tapes or other
textile fabrics.
For this purpose my said invention consists of the following arrangement and
construction, which I will proceed to fully describe with reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings. Figures 1. and 4. of which, show front views or
elevations of the bodkin in solid and skeleton forms respectively. Figures 2. and 5.
show sectional side elevations of such bodkins in solid and skeleton forms respect-
ively. Figure 3 is a sectional view of Figure 1. on line B. C., and Figure 6 is a
sectional view of Figure 4 on line N. O.
This bodkin may be made in metal, ivory, bone, wood or other suitable material
solid or in skeleton form.
The usual knob point is formed by the sinking 'a.' or by a hole pierced through
the bodkin, or when made in skeleton form the end 'g' acts as the knob point.
The eye-end of the bodkin is widened so that the bodkin resembles a parabolic
shape or shapes similar to Figures 1. and 4.
In the widened eye-end one or more transverse eyes d, e, f, p, i, l, are formed
nearly from edge to edge, instead of the usual longitudinal eye in the common
round bodkin.

page_text: The transverse bars k. and h. which form the extra eyes i. and p. may be omitted
or more similar bars may be added between h. and g.
This bodkin may be made in various widths so that the eyes d, e, f, p, i, l, may
receive and thread or insert various widths of ribbons, tapes or other textile fabrics
without crease or injury to the said ribbons, tapes or other textile fabrics.
The cross or transverse section of this bodkin may be round or oval as Fig. 3. or
in skeleton as Fig. 6., or oblong or other suitable shape.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1. The improved method of threading or inserting ribbons, tapes and other textile
fabrics substantially as herein before set forth.
2. The combination of a bodkin with a widened eye-end having one or more
transverse slits or eyes d, e, f, p, i, l, substantially in the manner and for the purposes
hereinbefore described, and illustrated in the drawings annexed hereunto.
Dated this 24th day of October 1892.
ROSALIE PETTER.