A NEW SHEATH OR PROTECTOR FOR CROCHET NEEDLES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Mariana Fanny Jenkins, of Victoria Terrace,
St. Leonard's Park, Exeter, in the County of Devon, for the Inven-
tion of "A NEW SHEATH OR PROTECTOR FOR CROCHET NEEDLES."
Sealed the 1st October 1872, and dated the 13th April 1872.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Mariana Fanny Jenkins
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition
and Declaration, on the 13th April 1872, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARIANA
FANNY JENKINS, of Victoria Terrace, St. Leonard's Park, Exeter, in the
County of Devon, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "A NEW SHEATH
OR PROTECTOR FOR CROCHET NEEDLES," and have petitioned Her Majesty to
grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal
Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration that I
am the true and first Inventor thereof..

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Mariana Fanny Jenkins, do
hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand
and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following
statement:-
The object of this Invention is to make a sheath or protector for pre-
venting innumerable accidents that are constantly taking place from the
barbed hook of the crochet needle.
The protector is made in the form of a sheath or case as shewn in
Drawing, Fig. 1, and is adapted for the "Penelope" needle, and which
can be made of silver or any other suitable material with a ring under
the lid, to which is attached a small chain with a bar at the end to
fasten through the ring at the top, enabling the worker to wear it.
The sheath or case shewn on Drawing, Fig. 2, can be made of leather
to suit the penny needles so much used by children. The front of this
case, Fig. 2, is a little lower than the back, so that the needle can be
easily drawn out by the ring a at the end of these needles, the end of the
case to be neatly rounded and lined with a little bit of wood. A chain
similar to Fig. 1 can be attached to the ring in the centre of one side
of the case, this is optional.
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The handle of the case, Fig. 3, can be made of silver, ivory, tortoise-
shell, pearl, steel, wood, indeed of various materials. This case pro-
jects two needles of a fine and coarse size by a slide on either side of
the case. The needles are in little grooves, and when not in use by
drawing back the slides the hooks are protected, which ensures safety to a
the worker. At the end of this case is a ring and chain, as in Fig. 1.
b, b, shows the slides when drawn back; c, c, the same when projected,
Fig. 4. This handle can also be made of silver, ivory, or other suitable
material, as Fig. 3. There is a slit down one side of this handle to
receive the needle, which is fastened at the top by a small pivot, enabling a
the needle to be moved in or out casily. This case is made round or
flat, there is a ring and chain at the end of this handle as in the others.
Two needles can be contained in this handle if desired. The chain
attached to the case shewn in Fig. 2 can be made of any material to
suit the taste of the wearer.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, I
declare that what I claim and desire to be secured to me by Letters

page_text: Patent is, the new sheath protector for crochet needles as before described
and shewn on Drawings, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Mariana Fanny Jenkins, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of April, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
MARIANA FANNY JENKINS. (L.s.)