An Improvement in Thimbles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 20th May. 1892-Accented. 25th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by JOSEPH BARNETT, of No. 42, Constitution Street,
Cape Town, Boot Maker.]
An Improvement in Thimbles.
I, OLIVER IMRAY of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane in the
County of London, Chartered Patent Agent do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
According to this invention, there is fixed on the side of a thimble a short tube
so shaped as to admit the head part of a needle in such an attitude that, when the
needle is inserted, its eye coincides with two opposite transverse openings into the
tube, each of these openings presenting outside a trumpet mouth.
The needle being in position, the end of a thread can be introduced through
either of these transverse openings and passed through the eye of the needle which
can then be withdrawn from the tube threaded. The lower end of the tube
terminates in a small curved knife having its edge towards the body of the thimble.
When it is desired to cut a thread, the thread is simply drawn in under this knife
blade which severs it.
Dated this 29th day of April 1892.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Thimbles.
I, OLIVER IMRAY of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane in the
County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, 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 :-
According to this invention, there is fixed on the side of a thimble a short tube
so shaped as to admit the head part of a needle in such an attitude that, when the
needle is inserted, its eye coincides with two opposite transverse openings into the
tube, each of these openings presenting outside a trumpet mouth. The needle being
in position, the end of a thread can be introduced through either of these transverse
openings and passed through the eye of the needle which can then be withdrawn
from the tube threaded. The lower end of the tube terminates in a small curved
knife having its edge towards the body of the thimble. When it is desired to cut
a thread, the thread is simply drawn in under this knife blade which severs it.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a section of the thimble with the
appliance for needle threading, and for cutting the thread fixed on its side.
Figs. 2 and 3 are longitudinal sections to an enlarged scale of the appliance, on
planes at right angles to each other.
A tube A with a trumpet mouth C and a closed bottom B is fixed on the side of
the thimble D. Above the bottom B in a position coinciding with the eye of a
needle, when it is thrust head downwards into the tube, these are trumpet mouthed
lateral openings E into the tube. When a needle is inserted in the tube, the end
of the thread can be introduced through either of the holes E so as to pass through
the eye of the needle which can then be withdrawn threaded. As a convenient,
but not essential addition to threading apparatus a curved blade F having its inner
edge sharp is attached to the lower end of the tube A, there being between the
side of the thimble and the point of the blude F a gap by which a loop of thread
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page_text: can be introduced, so that, by drawing the loop against the edge, the thread can be
severed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In combination with a thimble, a needle threading appliance substantially as
herein described.
2. In combination with a thimble a needle threading and thread cutting appliance,
substantially as herein described.
DL: 00th dow of Mar 1892.
ABEL & IMKAY,
Agents for the Applicant.