Improvements relating to the Sewing or Stitching of Paper and other Materials.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Jan., 1887.
Specification Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by ALLISON MORRIS STICKNEY, of Medford,
Massachusetts, United States of America.]
Improvements relating to the Sewing or Stitching of Paper and
other Materials.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 relates to the sewing of paper and other materials and it comprises
an improved method of forming the stitches as hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a part of a pamphlet to be stitched.
Figure 2 is an edge view of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is an edge view showing the needle, or thread carrier passed through at
bight of the needle thread and through the pamphlet, with one end of the needle
thread drawn through a loop thrown out from the side of the needle.
Figure 4 is a section illustrating the complete stitch.
Figures 5 and 6 illustrate the knot.
In the drawing I have shown the pamphlet A, or other article to be stitched, with
three holes a, a, a² that being the usual number of needle holes in stitching
pamphlets.
The novelty of my invention consists in forming a full turn in the needle thread B
on the needle side of the material to be stitched, through which turn the needle D
passes, carrying the needle thread through the said full-turn and through the material.
The usual loop is then thrown out from the side of the needle and a thread B' is
carried through that loop, so that, when the needle is withdrawn, the loop & pulls the
thread B and forms a bight in the said thread B¹, which is securely tied by a pull
upon the outer part of the needle thread B. The knot 13 may be tied close to either

page_text: side of material A, or within the material, depending upon the relative tension of the
threads B and B. The finished knot is the familiar weaver's knot; but I am the first,
so far as I know, to form a stitch by forcing the needle down through a bight in the
needle thread, and then pulling up an under thread passed through a loop in the upper
thread as explained.
In pamphlet stitching, the under thread B' should be the free end of the needle
thread, as shown in the drawing; but in case my stitch be used for continuous sewing,
the thread 13 must obviously be a shutile thread.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, 1 declare that what I claim is.
The method of making a stitch which consists in forming a full-turn & in the needle
thread B carrying a part of the needle thread down through that turn b, and
through the material, in the form of a loop, then carrying the under thread B
through loop, and then tightening the stitch to form a weaver's knot, as set forth.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Applicant.