Improvements in Needles to Facilitate Threading.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 7th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 7th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Needles to Facilitate Threading.
We, THOMAS WILLIAM FLETCHER, of Première Works, Redditch, in the
County of Worcester, Surgeons' Needle Manufacturer, and THOMAS FLETCHER,
of Mount Pleasant, Redditch, in the County of Warwick, Needle Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Instead of making our needles with a groove or bevil below the eye on each side,
we make a single long & deep groove below & tapering into the bottom of the eye
on one side of the needle only at the junction of the inner part of the groove with
the bottom of the eye the groove is so deep as to go almost through the needle.
The actual eye through which the thread passes can be made of any suitable shape
or size & the head of the needle is guttered in the usual way for the thread
to lie in.
T. W. FLETCHER.
THOS. FLETCHER..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Needles to Facilitate Threading.
We, THOMAS WILLIAM FLETCHER, of Première Works, Redditch, in the
County of Worcester, Surgical Needle Manufacturer, and THOMAS FLETCHER,
of Mount Pleasant, Redditch, in the County of Warwick, Needle Manufacturer,
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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in needles to facilitate threading, which
consists of a long and deep groove formed on one side of the needle below
the cyc
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Instead of making our needles with a groove or bevil below the eye on each side;
we make a single long and deep groove below and tapering into the bottom of the
eye, on one side of the needle only. At the junction of the inner part of the groove
with the bottom of the eye the groove is so deep as to go almost through the
needle.
The actual eye through which the thread passes can be made of :
any suitable
shape or size and the head of the needle is guttered in the usual way for the thread
to lie in.
And in order that our invention may be thoroughly understood, we now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Figure 1 represents the front elevation of the needle with the tapering groove or
gutter.
Figure 2 is a section of the head of the needle, drawn to an enlarged scale and
broken off.
Figure 3 is the back elevation of Fig. 1.
Our invention is constructed of any suitable material shaped in such a manner
so as to form the needle d. At the part below the eye on one side only we make a
groove or gutter c of any suitable shape, the said groove being long and deep and
tapering into the bottom of the eye a.
The object of our invention is to permit the needle to be easily threaded by the
[Price 6d.1

page_text: action of the end of the cotton, thread or the like, passing along the groove c, into
the eye a of the head h.
We are aware that needles with a groove on each side of the eye have been made
before, and is not new and therefore we do not claim the same as any part of our
invention; but we are not aware that a needle with a long, deep_and_tapering
groove or gutter on one side only has ever been manufactured before our
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. In a needle the combination of a groove or gutter on one side of the needle
eye only, with the eye and the needle, substantially as herein described and accord-
ing to the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of the single long and deep groove below and tapering into
the bottom of the eye, of any shape; on one side of the needle head or eye, and
the eye of any shape; substantially as herein described and for the purpose set
forth.
Dated this 7th day of February 1901
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicants.