US1170278A - Needle-threader. - Google Patents

Description

M. GEKNECHTEL.

NEEDLE THREADER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28, I914.

1,170,278. Patented Feb. 1, 1916.

/9 f 7 imoeulioz y F /22/ Mfiffiwa/zie kg arm/" MARY GASKELL KNECHTEL, or HANOVER, ONTARIO, CANADA.

NEEDLE-THREADER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Feb. 1, 191e,

Application filed November 28, 1914. Serial No. 874,444.

To all ichom it may concern: Be it known that I, MARY GAsKELL KNncn'rEL, a citizen of Canada, residing at.

Hanover, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Needle-Threaders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to needle threaders, and it has particular reference to an improved device for threading sewing machine needles.

One object of the invention is to combine in a single utensil a plurality of threading blades of various dimensions adapted to be used in connection with fine and coarse needles.

A further object of the invention is to produce a device combining a handle, a pluralitv of threading blades pivotally connected therewith and a casing within which the blades may be folded, said casing being so constructed as to adapt it for operation conjointlv with any one of the blades.

lVith these and other ends in view which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the claim may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a'perspective view showing the improved device arranged in operative position in relation to a sewing machine needle. Fig. 2 is a perspective detail view of the handle and a plurality of blades pivotally connected therewith. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the casing which cooperates with one of the blades in the act of threading a needle. Fig. 4' is a plan view partly in section, showing the device with one of the threading blades projected through the eye of the needle inthread-engaging position. Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the blade retracted through the needle eye through which the thread has been passed. Fig. 6 is a side view, enlarged, of a portion of one of the threading blades.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of refer- A handle is provided which may be formed in a simple and inexpensive manner of a piece of spring wire, the same being bent to form a loop 16 and limbs 17, the latter being terminally flattened and connected together by a pivot member 18 on which a plurality of threading blades 19 are pivoted, each of said blades consisting of, a

thin flat blade of steel terminally providedwith a sharp point 20 and having in the edge thereof near said point a notch 21 forming a thread-engaging hook 22. These blades are of various degrees of fineness so that they will be adapted for fine and coarse needles. The blades may be folded so as to lie between the limbs 17 when the device is not in use.

23 designates a sheath or casing made preferably of sheet metal and of elongated tapering shape, to accommodate the limbs of the handle portion 15, together with the blades lying between the limbs. The handle portion maybe inserted into the sheath lengthwise from the upper end thereof. The length of the sheath exceeds the length of the limbs 17, and said sheath is provided at its lower end with an aperture 24: and with a projecting lip 25 having a notch 26.

It will be seen from the foregoing that when the blades 19 are foldcd between the limbs of the handle member and the latter is inserted into the sheath, the blades will be completely protected. When it is desired to thread a needle the handle is withdrawn from the sheath. and the proper blade having been selected, said blade is folded outward from the handle and inserted into the sheath, where said blade may now be pro .jected through the aperture 24. The blade,

however, 1s not immediately projected through the aperture, but the sheath is placed in juxtaposition to the needle, the

latter being shown at B, said needle being engaged by the notch 26 in the lip 25. This enables the sheath to be guided upon the needle until the needle eye is encountered by the point of the threading blade, which latter is lightlv rojected through the aper-- ture 24:, permitting the thread to be engaged with the hook 22. The blade is now retracted through the needle eye, carrying the thread through the eye, and thus com- 10 ing a thread-engaging hook, and a handle with which said blade is pivotally connected and whereby it may be projected through the aperture in the sheath.

Intestimonv whereof I afliX-Iny signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARY GASKELL KNECHTEL.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM ELLIOTT VVILsoN, W'I'LLIAM RUTTLE.

Copies of this vpatent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the ",Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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