US69463A - Thomas - Google Patents

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Be it known that I, THOMAS C. MICHENnn, oi' the city nn'il county or" St. Louis, :1nd Stute et Missouri. here invented a. new nstrument for Setting Needles in Sewing Machines; end'l do hereby declare that thevfollowing is a 'Full und clear description thereof, reference being hud tn the accompanying drawings, :ind to the letters el' reference marked thereon. I

The nature of this invention consists in the formation of u holder for 'the needle7 soincwhnt in the shape of the letter E, the vertieel erm of which is adjustable ns to length, and the horizontal arms nre made -nith double Spring ends, so as to embrace the needle between them, previous to its insertion into the mee-hina. A snniil steel peint between the two lower ends entersthe eye of the needle, :1nd thus fixes it to its proper relative positien te the holder, preparatory to its insertion into the machine.

lFigure Le? the draining-, is n side elevation of the setting instrument, 2irently enlarged for the purpose el illustration.

Figure is e. horizontal section of the lower erin, also enlarged for a similar reasdn. I:llie vertical arni A A is made in two pieces, halved together, and secured in place hy ineens et' n screw, a, which passes through e. slet in the piece A, and screws into the piece A. By this ari-:ingeluent of the vertical A erm itinny be lengthened or s' :tened so as to lit any setting mnehinc. At the upper end of the :trui A there is aprqjeeting arm, B, per endieulur to it, :intl n. siinilur )Vn'ojeeting erin, B', nt the bottoni` lneh of the .arms B B is mede of tiro thin sp as eletti-ly shown in lig.. 2, and emrh pnir of these springs is coupled tegmetl er near their outer ends by i. ns of n rivet, b, or n. set thumb-screw 'night he used in lieuv thercol'. v Between the two springs forming the lower erin B there is a sharp-pointed piece, inserted. "he pointed end of this picee projects n short distance (g nt the diameter of the needle) into the needle-sent, and the forum-tion of the ende of the spring pieces, of which. il und B are formed, is such as te drew thencedle C on to this point. This construction ef the outer ends of ll B is clearlyr shown in lig. 2, wherein it is shown that the needlclsent is about Oneeighth ot' :m'ilreh (more less) from theen'ds of the said :ti-ins.v 'lhe needle C is to he placed in this instrument by inserting its peint nrscen spring ends of the erm ll, and then pushing it down 4through the arm E slowly until the eye of the needle is caught and stepped by the piece c passing into it. Care should be tellen in inserting the needle inte the erm B to have the eye et' the needle directed toward the peint chin order thnt it may pnssinto the eje, when r`he saine shall here arrived opposite the said point. As it is neces- .sery to here the eye of the needle pincel in n certain relative direction while in the machine, this arrangement will be fonndyery beneficial, as the adjustment of the needle to the setting instrument een he much more readily made out oi' the machine than in it, und then when the needleisplaced in the machine it will he ensy to turn the setting instrument in the required direction7 und the adjustment will he complete. By haring the arms A A adjust-able es to length, as 31"" already been described, the top edge of the erm l muy he made to heer a. certain fixed relative diste-nce i the topend of the needle C,.whieh may .then he inserted into the machine until the arm B strikes it, and the proper distance of the eye of the needle from thenrm of the machine can be readily Eyed.

Hering described my invention, what l claim iii- The combination of the op g arms B B with theA adjustable :L1-m A and the pointed needle fluide c, al?, arranged in the inanner and for the purpose described.

THOFL C. MlGHENllI..

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