Improvements in Thimbles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th July, 1892
Complete Specification Lelt, 13th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Thimbles.
ROSINA MARGERY DURHAM Glemham Lodge Station Road New Barnet do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a means for adjusting the size of sewing
thimbles so as to suit any ordinary sized finger and to accomplish this I make i
number of slots in the larger end of the thimble to allow of its expanding to suit a
large finger or by means of a ring working in a thread on the outside to be
contracted to suit a small finger or I may use a spring or springs for varying the
size of the thimble so as to fit various sized fingers.
Dated this 25th day of July 1892.
ROSINA MARGERY DURHAM.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in Thimbles.
I, ROSINA MARGERY DURHAM, (Hemham Lodge, Station Road, New Barnet,
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 relates to a construction of a thimble in such a manner that it can
readily be made to fit fingers of different sizes, as I shall describe referring to the
accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference denote corresponding
parts.
Fig. 1. is an external elevation, and Fig. 2. is a longitudinal section of a thimble
according to my invention, both these figures being drawn to an enlarged scale.
The head portion of the thimble A is of the usual construction, but the part B
between the head and the lip C has a screw thread cut on it, and this part as well
as the lip C is split by a number of cuts, D-preferably not less than six. An
internally threaded ring E is passed over the head A. and screwed on the threaded
part B, and in order to prevent the ring from being lost several prominences F are
struck up by a tool punching them from inside after the ring has been screwed on.
As the part B is taper, this part of the thimble is the more contracted to fit a
smaller finger the farther the ring E is screwed towards the lip C.
When the thimble is intended to fit fingers within a limited range of variation
the ring E, the screwing of the part B and the prominences F may be dispensed
with, and the thimble being made of elastic material and of such size as to fit a
certain finger, will fit fingers somewhat larger by the spring of the metal between
the splits D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1 claim is :-
1. A thimble having its lip and the taper part between the lip and the head
portion split by a number of cuts allowing the metal between them to yield so as to
fit fingers of various sizes, substantially as described.
2. In combination with a thimble having its lip and the taper part between the
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page_text: lip and the head portion split by a number of cuts, and having the said taper part
screw threaded, an internally threaded ring screwed thereon so as more or less to
contract it. causing it to fit fingers of various sizes, substantially as described.
Dated this 13th day of December 1892.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.