An Improved Case or Pocket to contain Sewing Machine Needles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 12th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 1st Mar., 1892-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Case or Pocket to contain Sewing Machine Needles.
I EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET of St. Leonards Cottage, Beoley,
Redditch Worcestershire Manager of Needle Works do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in cases or pockets to contain sewing
machine needles and consists in constructing the said case or pocket so that the
various sizes of needles can be kept separate and apart in the said case or pocket.
For this purpose I construct a case or pocket of paper or of other suitable
material or combination of materials.
The bottom part of the said case or pocket I divide either by stitched seams or
by wire clips or any other suitable. contrivance as are required for the various sizes
of needles for use in any particular system of machine. Thus when a needle of
any particular size is required the worker or sewer has only to lift up the flap of
the said case or pocket and withdraw from its division the particular size of needle
she has need of.
EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Case or Pocket to contain Sewing Machine Needles.
EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET of St. Leonards Cottage Beoley in the
County of Worcester Manager of Needle Manufactory 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 consists in the improved pocket for holding sewing machine needles
herein described so that by means of divisions in the said pocket the various sizes
of needles for use with any particular system of machine may be kept apart. The
pocket itself is made in the usual manner for sewing needles, that is by folding up
a piece of paper and bending and connecting the ends together. I then subdivide
the said pocket by means of a stitched seam of thread or wire into as many divisions
as are required for the various sizes of needles used in any particular system of
sewing machine. Upon each division I print or impress the number or size of the
needle contained in the said division thus when a needle of any particular size is
required it can be readily withdrawn from out of the division in which it is
contained and replaced in its division when out of use.
A¹ A²
The accompanying drawing represents a general view of a pocket constructed
according to my invention, the said pocket being represented open.
and A refer to the pocket commonly in use for sewing needles and B the usual
flap to the same open. C1 C2 C3 C* C* C* C* C* refer to the divisions with the
sizes printed or impressed thereon, the number of which are variable at pleasure
according to the number of sizes used in any particular system of sewing
machines. E' E E E E E E' refer to the stitched seam of thread or wire.
F F F F F F F F refer to the needles in the various divisions the points
of which project outside the tops of the divisions. The flap B covers and protects
the oid needles

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is
The improved pocket for holding sewing machine needles herein before described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing that is to say a pocket subdivided by
stitched seams of thread or wire by which the various sizes of sewing machine
needles may be kept apart.
Dated this Twenty-ninth day of February 1892.
EDGAR ROBERT SMITH BARTLEET.