IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NEEDLES KNOWN AS LATCH NEEDLES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert Tatham, of the Firm of Amos Tatham
and Son, of Belper Street Works, Ilkeston, in the County of Derby,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NEEDLES
KNOWN AS LATCH NEEDLES,"
Scaled the 9th December 1875, and dated the 26th August 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert Tatham at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents; with his Petition, on the
26th August 1875.
I, HERBERT TATHAM, of the Firm of Amos Tatham and Son, of,
Belper Street Works, Ilkeston, in the County of Derby, do hereby:
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF NEEDLES KNOWN AS LATCH NEEDLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention applies to what are known as latch needles, employed
in the hosiery and lace trades, and for other purposes, and consists in
forming the eye of the needle in the usual way with two holes therein,"
through which a rivet was passed, which also passed through a hole in
the latch or tumbler forming an axle for the same to turn upon.

page_text: Now instead of employing a rivet to unite the two I form a pro-
jection upon each side of the latch or tumbler, and close the sides of
the eye upon the said projections, thus dispensing with a hole in the
latch, and no rivet being required a superior needle is produced, the
defect heretofore being the giving way of the rivet.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Herbert Tatham in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 26th February 1876.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HERBERT
TATHAM, of the Firm of Amos Tatham and Son, of Belper Street Works,
Ilkeston, in the County of Derby, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Herbert Tatham, Her special licence,
that I, the said Herbert Tatham, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Herbert Tatham, 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 “ ImprOVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF NEEDLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Herbert Tatham, 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Herbert Tatham, 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 following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawing forming a part of this Specification.

page_text: This Invention applies to what are known as latch needles, employed
in the hosiery and lace trades and for other purposes, and consists in
forming the eye of the needle in the usual way with two holes therein,
through which a rivet was passed, which also passed through a hole in
the latch or tumbler forming an axle for the same to turn upon.
Now instead of employing a rivet to unite the two I form a projection
upon each side of the latch or tumbler, and close the sides of the eye
upon the said projections, thus dispensing with a hole in the latch; and
no rivet being required a superior needle is produced, the defect hereto-
fore being the giving way of the rivet.
My Invention applies to what are known as latch needles, employed
in the hosiery and lace trades and also for other purposes, and consists
in forming the eye or eyes of the needle in the usual way, each eye
having two holes therein, shewn respectively in plan and side view at
Figures 1 and 2. Heretofore through these holes a rivet has been passed,
the said rivet also passing through a hole in the latch or tumbler, so as
to form an axle for the same to turn upon.
Now instead of employing a rivet to unite the two I form a pro-
jection upon
each side of the latch or tumbler, as shewn in plan at
Figure 3, and after placing such latch or tumbler within the eye of the
needle I close the sides of the eye upon the said projections by means
of a fly press or equivalent means; such needle is shewn in plan at
Figure 4. By so securing the latch or tumbler I am enabled to dispense
with a hole in the latch or tumbler, and no rivet being required a
superior needle is produced, and the defect heretofore encountered of the
giving way of the rivet is obviated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert Tatham, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
Witness,
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Nottingham.
HERBERT TATHAM. (L.S.)