Improvements in Needles for Sewing and like Machines.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Needles for Sewing and like Machines.
We JAMES WILLIAM BENNETT of 41 Eastcheap, Gentleman, and HENRY
IVAN GOULD of 115 Falmouth Road Engineer both of the County of London do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows: -
Our invention relates to certain improvements in needles for sewing and like
machines, and has for its object the provision of a means for readily threading said
needle without passing the end of the thread through the eye as hitherto, and
constructing the needles to admit of said modification without impairing their
efficiency, nor adaptation to any type of machine.
In carrying our invention into practice we form the needle with a point and eye
as generally used, but split said needle from the eye upwards, leaving the shank
clear, and turning one of the tongues thus formed, away from the shank which
forms the other tongue and is placed in the needle holder of the machine and fixed
in the usual manner. In threading a needle formed in this manner, the thread is
simply placed over the turned tongue, between it and the shank, and pressed
downwards until it enters the eye, where it is retained by the inherent elasticity of
the two tongues lying in the same plane and connected only at the point, beyond
the eye. The elasticity may be partly overcome by pressing the finger on the
turned part, so as to relieve the tension upon the thread in passing it downwards
toward the eye.
In constructing needles according to our invention we may bend a piece of steel
wire of semicircular cross section, so that it returns upon itself, and the flat surfaces
coincide, turning one end outward for the threading tongue, and leaving the other
for the shank, or holding portion, the eye being formed by punching, and the point
welded up to secure homogeneity. Or in other cases a solidly formed needle may be
split by any of the well known processes for that purpose, and one tongue turned
outward as described. We do not, however, confine ourselves to the manner of
constructing said needles, the essential feature of our invention being that the
substance of said needle is split from the eye to below the shank, one tongue being
turned outwards therefrom as before described.
Dated this 13th day of December 1892.
J. W. BENNETT.
H. I. GOULD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Needles for Sewing and like Machines.
We, JAMES WILLIAM BENNETT of 41 Eastcheap, Gentleman, and HENRY
IVAN GOULD, of 115 Falmouth Road, Engineer, both of the County of London 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 :-
Our invention relates to certain improvements in needles for ordinary domestic
sewing and boot, sail, and other sewing machines and has for its object the provision
of means for readily threading said needle without passing the end of the thread
through the eye as hitherto, and constructing the needles to admit of said
modification without impairing their efficiency nor adaptation to any type of
machine.
In order that our said invention may be clearly understood, we have appended
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page_text: the accompanying sheet of drawings, shewing a needle in elevation, drawn to an
enlarged scale.
In carrying our invention into practice, we form the needle with a point a,
referring to the drawing, and eye b'as. generally used, but we split said needle at d
from the eye upwards centrally or otherwise leaving the shank e clear, and turning
one of the tongues thus formed away from the shank e at c, said shank e forming
the other tongue, and is adapted to the needle holder of the machine, and fixed in
the usual manner. In threading a needle formed in this manner, the thread is
simply placed over the turned tougue c and passed downwards through the split d
until it enters the eye where it is retained by the inherent elasticity of the two
tongues lying in the same plane, and connected only at the point a. In threading,
the elasticity may be partly overcome by pressing the finger on the turned part c,
so as to relieve the tension upon the thread in passing down the split d towards
the eye b.
In constructing needles according to our invention, we may bend a piece of steel
wire of semicircular cross section, so that it returns upon itself, and the flat
surfaces coincide, turning one outward for the threading tongue c, and leaving the
other for the shank, or holding portion, the eye being formed by punching, and the
point welded up to secure homogeneity. Or in other cases a solidly formed needle
may be split by any of the well-known processes for that purpose, and one tongue
turned outward as described. We do not however confine ourselves to the manner
of our invention being that the
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-ongue
substance of said needle is split from the eye to just
being turned outwards therefrom at c as hereinbefore described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is,
First. In a needle for sewing or like machines, the construction and use of a
split d, with a turned tongue c in combination with a point a eye b and shank e
substantially as herein described with reference to the drawings.
Second. In a needle for sewing or like machines, the construction thereof of wire
bent to return upon itself, with a welded point, substantially as herein described
with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 12th day of September 1893