AN IMPROVED NEEDLE ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR SURGICAL PURPOSES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Oppenheimer, of Watling Street, in the
City of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
NEEDLE ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR SURGICAL PURPOSES."-A communi-
cation from abroad by Harry M. Jenkins, of New York, in the
H
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Oppenheimer a
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd December 1874.
I, DAVID OPPENHEIMER, of Watling Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "An
IMPROVED NEEDLE ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR SURGICAL PURPOSES," communi-
cated to me from abroad by Harry M. Jenkins, of New York, in the
United States of America, to be as follows:-
This improved needle has its head end split to form jaws, having their
cnds bevilled and their inner sides grooved or recessed longitudinally,

page_text: and they are provided with a downwardly inclined pin or stud extending
from the inner side of one jaw to or nearly to the other jaw. The ends of
the jaws being bevilled form a notch into which the thread is pressed,
thus extending the jaws,' and allowing the thread to pass down between
them and below the pin. The two ends of the thread are then drawn 5
upward, and the pin or stud prevents it from coming out, the two ends
lying in the grooves of the jaws, and passing out through the ond of the
needle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said David Oppenheimer in the Great Seal Patent Office 1
on the 23rd June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
OPPENHEIMER, of Watling Street, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 1
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of December, in tho
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said David Oppenheimer, Her special licenco
that I, the said David Oppenheimer, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said David Oppenheimer, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during thic 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 ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR SURGICAL PURPOSES," communicated to mo
from abroad by Harry M. Jenkins, of New York, in the United States of
America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said David
Oppenheimer, my exccutors 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE that I, the said David Oppenheimer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon as communicated
to me, that is to say :-
This improved needle has its head end split to form jaws; these jaws
have their ends bevilled and their inner sides grooved or recessed longi-
tudinally, and they are provided with a pin or stud inclined in a
downward direction, and extending from the inner side of one jaw to or
nearly to the other jaw. The ends of the jaws being bevilled form a
notch into which the thread is pressed, thus extending the jaws, and
allowing the thread to pass down between them and below the pin. The
two ends of the thread are then drawn upward, and the pin or stud pre-
vents it from coming out, the two ends lying in the grooves of the jaws,
and passing out through the end of the needle.
The accompanying Drawings exemplify the mode in which the
Invention may be best carried into practical effect.
Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of a needle constructed
) according to this Invention; Figure 2 is a front elevation partly in
section of the same.
In the Drawings the needle shewn is adapted for surgical purposes,
but it is obvious that the Invention may be applied in like manner to
needles used for other purposes.
A is the needle. The head, blunţ end, or thread eye end of the needle
is split, slotted, or divided longitudinally for a. short and suitable
distance. Thus a pair of jaws is formed. These jaws are marked in the
Drawings a, a*. The jaws are bevilled at their outer or open ends, as
shewn, so that they form a notch at the end of the needle. The inner
O sides of the jaws a, a*, are grooved, channelled, or hollowed to form a
longitudinal aperture, recess, or notch D at this end of the needle. ¿ is
a pin or stud projecting from one end of the jaws a*. It extends across
the aperture D to or nearly to the inner side of the opposite jaw a in a
downward direction, as shewn in Figure 1. In threading the needle,
5 thread is pressed into the notch b. This action spreads or extends the
jaws a, a*, allowing the thread to pass down between them until it passes

page_text: down below the pin i. The two ends of the thread are then pulled or drawn
in an upward direction. The pin or stud i prevents the thread from
coming out or escaping. The two ends of the thread lio in the grooves or
recesses in the jaws, and they pass out through the end of the needle.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim, a needle
having its head, blunt end, or threaded ond split or divided so as to form
jaws, such jaws being grooved, channelled, or recessed, and being
bevilled towards their extremities, and being provided or fitted with an
inclined pin or stud, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set
forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Oppenheimer, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in the year One
Witness,
E. DE PASS,
Patent Office,
68, Fleet Street,
London.
DAVID OPPENHEIMER. (L.S.)