Bodkin with Safety Eye.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1893-Accepted, 27th May, 1893
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Bodkin with Safety Eye.
I, BRUNO GOTTSCHALG of 94 Alexandrinenstr., Berlin in the Kingdom of
Prussia and German Empire, Jeweller, 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 :-
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The bodkins used up to date are very imperfect, for example they easily
unthread, also damage frequently the hems through which they are passed of
freshly washed linen, and above all it is difficult to make them force their way in
starched articles etc.
By my invention these defects are abolished.
In the accompanying drawing may be seen, that the principal improvements of
my invention consist in a safety eye in combination with a holding device in the
head of the bodkin.
In the fig. a view is given of the new bodkin. It may be made of steel, as usual
or of any other suitable metal. In shape it is comparatively very broad, and its
transverse cut is slightly curved; it becomes gradually finer towards the point,
which is blunted, whilst the eye, which for example is here heart-shaped, is
remarkably wide.
The characteristic feature of the eye consists, apart from the already mentioned
width, in the arrangement of one or more sharp little spikes at the top of eye with
the points downwards. The number of these spikes is in accordance to the size of
the bodkin and with the ribbon or the like, which is to be threaded. In the head
of the bodkin are placed one or more similar spikes, which are protected by pro-
longed edges, the same being slightly curved, in order to prevent injury to the
person using the bodkin, and to prevent the threaded ribbon from unthreading.
Considerable advantage is gained by using the new bodkin, as on account of its
width, and gradual narrowing towards the blunt point, the introduction of the
ribbons and the like is greatly facilitated-and the same remain perfectly smooth
and faultless. Threading and holding fast the ribbon and the like, has never been
done in such a rational manner as in the case of my new bodkin.
Of course the peculiar arrangements in the head of the bodkin and its eye, may
also be applied to other needles of the same kind, as packing-needles for instance,
and all the needles may be made of any suitable material and be of all sizes-great
importance is principally attached to the characteristic features before mentioned,
in the first place the combination of both the arrangement in the eye, and in the
head of the bodkin. Some needles, serving for the same purpose as my bodkin,
may dispense with the arrangement in the head of it, when the ribbon to be
threaded is made of very soft material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A new bodkin with a safety eye, characterised by great comparative width, in
combination with peculiar form of the eye and the head, the eye being very large,
and both provided with one or more spikes; the spikes at the head being protected
by the prolonged curved edges-all for the purpose of securing the threaded ribbon
or the like, as here described and shewn in the drawing.
2. A new bodkin with a safety eye characterised as in Claim 1 but dispensing

page_text: with the arrangement in the head of the needle, all for the purpose of securing the
threaded ribbon or the like as here described and shewn in the drawing.
Dated this 21st day of April 1893.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.