US1134001A - Sewing-needle. - Google Patents

Description

J. W. OLNEY.

SEWING NEEDLE.

APPLICATION FILED APB.28, 1914.

1 134:,0O1 Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH W. OLNEY, 0F LATAI-I, WASHINGTON, ASSIG-NOR OF ONE-THIRD TO JOHN S. MCDONALD, OF LATAH, WASHINGTON.

SEWING-NEEDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

Application filed April 28, 1914. Serial No. 835,005.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. OLNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Latah, in the county of Spokane and State of Washington, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sewing- Needles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sewing needles, particularly to needles for use in sewing grain sacks, which must be of the quickthreading type.

In sewing sacks of grain, as the sacks are delivered from the threshing machine in the field, the operator or sewer has to work with great rapidity, as he is required to remove each field sack as it is delivered from its support on the machine, sew the mouth of the sack in a secure manner, and carry the sack to the delivery pile some distance away from the machine while a succeeding sack is being filled and delivered by the machine.

In order to carry on this work with the necessary expedition, the sewer carries the spool of thread suspended from his waist belt or an outer garment, and, after cutting the needle loose from the sewn sack, holds the needle in his mouth while he is delivering the sack to the pile and threads the needle for the succeeding operation on his passage back from the delivery pile to the thresher. This requires the needle to be threaded on the run, an especially diflicult matter when the work is carried on early in the morning or at night, as a result of which the threading of the needle must be quickly done in all kinds of light.

The purpose of my invention is to provide a needle which may be easily, quickly and conveniently threaded, without the necessity of the operator using any material care or holding the needle and thread before the eye, and also without the necessity of the operator positioning the needle with any great degree of care or accuracy between his thumb and fore finger for the reception of the thread.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating my invention :--Figure 1 is a side view of a sack sewing needle embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section on an enlarged scale. Fig. 4: is a transverse section.

Referring to the drawing 1 designates the P0111? and 2 the shank of the needle, which may 1n general be of the construction commonly employed. The shank 2, however, is preferably made of oblong rectangular form 111 cross section and at a point between its center and outer rear end is excised longitudmally between its center and side edges to provide counterpart longitudinal slots 3 and an intermediate web 4.

The slots 3 provide elongated eyes on each side of the longitudinal center of the needle shank for the reception of the sewing thread, and the outer wall of each of said slots is divided at a point adjacent its inner or forward end to provide a spring tongue 5, guard 6 and entrance throat or passage 7, the adjacent ends of the tongue and guard being beveled to admit the thread at an angle and reduce liability of its disconnection. It will thus be evident that the needle may be threaded from either side of the shank, and that the thread when inserted through either eye will be retained securely in position.

In the use of the present needle, it is handled in the same manner as the needle of ordinary construction in common use, but, as the ordinary needle has but a single eye, it is necessary for the operator to adjust it by rotation of the needle to dispose the eye in proper position for threading. This occasions inconvenience and annoyance, and frequently loss of a short period of time, which however is important, in inspecting the needle or turning it around to the proper point for threading. In the use of my improved needle, however, one or the other of the eyes will almost invariably be found in position for threading, allowing the operator to simply slide the thread along the exposed side of the needle and slip it within the eye without loss of time for the need of any particular care or attention. By this means the operator is enabled to thread the needle with great expedition and without the necessity of stopping on his way from the delivery pile to the thresher.

I claim As a new and improved article of manufacture, a bag sewing needle including a shank having elongated longitudinal slots on opposite sides of its medial line and betongues in rear of said throats or passages tween its transverse center and butt end, and cooperating with said guards; 10 and terminating at a distance from the lat- In testimony whereof I aflix'my signature ter, said slots being separated by an interin presence of tWo Witnesses.

mediate longitudinal Web, the side Walls of JOSEPH OLNEY.

the slots being divided at points adjacent Witnesses:

their forward ends to provide throats or WM. A. MOEAOHERN,

passages, and guards therefor and spring 7 NELLIE D. CRoFooT.

coielee of this patent may" be obtained for me cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G."

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