US678896A

US678896A - Thimble.

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Publication number: US678896A
Application number: US5387301A
Authority: US
Inventors: Thomas M Mcintosh
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1901-04-01
Filing date: 1901-04-01
Publication date: 1901-07-23
Anticipated expiration: 1918-07-23

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT Fines.

THOMAS M. MOINTOSH, OF PONTIAC, ILLINOIS.

THIMBLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,896, dated July 23, 1901.

Application filed April 1, 1901. Serial No. 53,873. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, THOMAS M. MOINTOSH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pontiac, in the county of Livingston and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Thimbles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in thimbles and the object in view is to provide simple and effective cutting means in the closed end of the same and have such means peripherally surround said end and be exposed at many points for conveniently severing thread, but shielded sufficiently to prevent injury to the hands or fingers of the user.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a thimble embodying the features of the invention and shown on an enlarged scale. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical, section of the improved thimble on a larger scale.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the views.

The numeral 1 designates the usual frustoconical thimble-body, adapted to slip over the finger of the user and having surface indentations or rough devices 2 for catching the needle-head for obvious reasons and also provided with a lower bead 3. The upper or reduced end of the body 1 is formed with a series of inverted-V-shaped notches 4 to provide securing-prongs 5, and fitted in and secured to the said prongs is a dome-shaped cap 6, also having its exterior surface roughened or indented, and over which the terminals of the prongs are partially bent. Within the thimble and conforming in contour to the upper portion of the latter is a tubular cutter 7, having its upper edge sharpened, as shown, and closely engaging the bent portions of the prongs and exposed through the openings formed by the notches 4. By arranging the cutter in this manner many outting-points are presented at the closed end of the thimble and over which the thread may be thrown and severed without arranging the thimble in any particular position to attain this result. The prongs 5 shield the sharpened edge of the cutter at intervals and prevent the hands or fingers of the user from coming into contact therewith with injurious result, and it will be seen that the said prongs provide a thickness of metal above the plane of the sharpened edge of the cutter, and the opposing edges form guards to retain the thread in place on the portion of the cutter the severance is desired to be made and positively insure separation of the same without slipping.

The several parts can be easily assembled, and any preferred means of securement will be utilized. In view of the simplicity of the improvement the cost of the thimble to which it is applied will not be materially increased, particularly when comparatively considered in relation to the advantages accruing from the provision of a cutter in connection with a thimble.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is v 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a thimble having a plurality of notches surrounding the closed end thereof, and a cutter exposed at regular intervals through said notches.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a thimble having a plurality of notches surrounding the closed end thereof, and a tubular cutter fitted in the thimble and having its sharpened edge exposed at regular intervals through said notches.

8. As an improved article of manufacture, a thimble having a body with a plurality of notches forming prongs at the reduced end thereof and a cap over which said prongs are bent and secured, and a tubular cutter inserted in said body and having its sharpened edge exposed at intervals by said notches and intermediately shielded by said prongs.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS M. MCINTOSH.

Witnesses:

J. J. MEILs, G. T. MoULns.