IMPROVEMENTS IN NEEDLES
Year: 1885

page_text: I WILLIAM BENJAMIN CLARKE of Mount Pleasant Mill Redditch in the County
of Worcester Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN NEEDLES" to be as follows that is to say :-
My Invention has for its object improvements in needles which greatly facilitates
the attachment of cotton or other material thereto during the operation of sewing.
There is often great difficulty experienced in passing the cotton, thread, or other
material through the eye and my invention is intended to entirely do away with
this difficulty.
Needles made according to my invention have a conical or tapered slot cut above
the eye of the needle the opening being wide at the top and narrower as it unites
or enters the eye. Immediately on each side of the slot or at the top of the eye
are shoulders against which the cotton or thread would rest when the needle
is being worked which almost entirely does away with any tendency for the cotton
to pass back through the slot. The threading operation is thus dispensed with as
the cotton may be laid in the conical opening and at once pressed through the
narrow part or neck which slightly compresses it as it passes through but imme-
diately it is through it assumes its original shape in the eye or in the enlargement
at the bottom of the slot. In working such needles there is of course two points at
the back against which the thimble could rest in forcing the needle through the
material.
GEORGE BARKER,
Agent for Applicant,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham..

page_text: Improvements in Needles.
I, WILLIAM BENJAMIN CLARKE of Mount Pleasant Mills Redditch in the County
of Worcester Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN NEEDLES," and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
that is to say:-
My invention has for its object improvements in needles which greatly facilitates
the attachment of cotton or other material through during the operation of sewing
There is often great difficulty experienced in passing the cotton thread or other
material through the eye and my invention is intended to entirely do away with
this difficulty.
Needles made according to my invention have a conical or tapered slot cut above
the eye of the needle the opening being wide at the top and narrower as it unites
or enters the eye. Immediately on each side of the slot or at the top of the eye
are shoulders against which the cotton or thread would rest when the needle is
being worked which almost entirely does away with any tendency for the cotton.
to pass back through the slot. The threading operation is thus dispensed with as
the cotton may be laid in the conical opening and at once pressed through the
narrower part or neck which slightly compresses it as it passes through but imme-
diately it is through it assumes its original shape in the eye or in the enlargement
at the bottom of the slot In working such needles there is of course two points at
the back against which the thimble could rest in forcing the needle through the
material.
In order that my invention may he clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which I have
shown three elevations of needles made according to my invention and which I will
now proceed to more fully describe.
Figure 1 is an elevation of a needle made with the slot a passing downwards
and finishing with the two shoulders b and b¹ at each side of the narrow or lower
part of the slot a. The cotton in entering would easily find the rounded mouth
entrance and would as it passes downwards be slightly and gradually compressed
as it passes the extreme points c and c'. When the cotton is once in the eye e
there would be scarcely any tendency for it to return as it would always be either
against the shoulder 6 or 6¹ the points c and c¹ assisting to prevent the cotton from
re-entering the slot at the narrow part.
Figure 2 illustrates a slight modification of form which may be made where the
shoulders and f¹ are hollowed back thus forming recesses into which the cotton
may be.
Figure 3 is another modification of the same needle with the shoulders m and m¹
bevelled backwards which produces substantially the same effect.
The formation of other parts of the eye may be varied to suit the shoulders as
well as the two outer ends of the sides of the slot. By rounding the edges of the
slot a.

page_text: Having therefor now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the
said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed what I claim is
The improvements in needles having a slot in the back of the edge of the
shoulders 6 and 6' or the modifications shown by f and f¹ or m and m¹ for the
5 purpose of giving a bearing for the cotton and of preventing any liability of
the cotton returning substantially as herein set forth and illustrated.
Dated this 7th day of Cantombo- 100%
GEORGE BARKER,
Agent for the Applicant,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.