AN IMPROVED NEEDLE
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leonard Bennett, of the City of Worcester, for t
Invention of "AN IMPROVED NEEDLE."
Sealed the 24th April 1866, and dated the 26th October 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leonard Bennett at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th
October 1865.
I, LEONARD BENNETT, of the City of Worcester, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED NEEDLE," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in forming what I term double-pointed needles,
that is to say, the needle is made to taper both to the point proper and to the
opposite end in which the eye is made. Among other advantages this needle
leaves the work freely and easily, and is not liable to catch or hold fast as is
frequently the case with the ordinary needle.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Leonard Bennett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th April 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEONARD
BENNETT, of the City of Worcester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Leonard Bennett, Her special licence that I, the said
Leonard Bennett, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Leonard Bennett, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED NEEDLE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Leonard Bennett, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Leonard Bennett, do. hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in forming what I term double-pointed needles,
that is to say, the needle is made to taper both to the point proper and to the
opposite end in which the eye is made. Among other advantages this needle
leaves the work freely and easily, and is not liable to catch or hold fast as is
frequently the case with the ordinary needle.
The accompanying Drawing represents one of my improved needles, the
Figure is drawn to a greatly enlarged scale in order to show more clearly
the nature of the improvement. From the point proper A to about the
centre B, the needle is made of the ordinary thickness, but from the part B
the needle is tapered towards the head at C, as shewn in the Figure, in place of

page_text: being of the same diameter as the central part as in ordinary needles.. The
metal at the head is, however, made sufficiently thick to allow of the eye
being formed. This improved needle obviates entirely any strain on the
fingers of the worker produced by drawing the needle through the fabric,
as owing to the taper from the middle to the head of the needle the drawing
is effected with much greater facility, and as an easy passage is ensured all
cutting of the thread is avoided.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim forming needles
made to taper both to the point proper and to the opposite end in which the
eye is made, substantially as herein-before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leonard Bennett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 23rd day of April, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six.
LEONARD BENNETT. (L.s.)