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M. B; FOOTB. NEEDLE THREADBR FOR SEWNG MACHINES.

No. 601,353. i Patented Dec. l1, `1866.`

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IMPROVEMENT IN NEEDLE-THREADBR FOR SEWING MACBIES.

M B. FOOTE, OF NORTHAMLPTO'N, MASSACHUSETTS.

Laim Parmi No. 60,353, dated Beamten, 1866. y

To ALL WHoM IrMAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, M. B. Foo'rn, of Northampton, Hampshire county, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Implement for Threading Sewing-'Machine Needles; `and I do hereby declare that the follow.- ing is afull, clear, and exact description thereofwhich will enableothers skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying.drawing,.forming part of this specification.

The present invention relates to a novel and extremely useful implement, tofb'e used for the threading of sewing-machine needles, whereby the needles can be threaded with the utmost `ease `and rapidity, as will be obvious from the following detail description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying plate of drawings, in whichi Y V Figure 1 is a view of the implement, showing it applied to the needle of a sewing machine- Figure 2, a -horizontal section taken in the plane of the line x saftig. 1 and Figure 3, asimilar section to iig. 2, but taken in the plane of the line y y, lig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. i 4 f A, in the drawings, represents the frame of the implement, consisting of a. handle, B, with two parallel arms, C C, o'n `the same side of each of which. is secured a bent spring, D, by means ofwhich the frame is placed 'arid claspednpon a needle, as plainly shown in fig. 1. At the outer end of the lower arm, 0,' andupon its under `side is an eye, E, having its lower edge slotted at F, through which eye, after having properly adjusted it so as to correspond with 4the eye of the needle, the thread is passed and into and'through the eye'of the needle, when, withdrawing the frame from the needle, the escape of the thread from the eye of the frame is allowed through its slot orslit at F, the frame eye, E, being made conical in shape, as plainly` shown in fig. 3, `so that the thread may be easily and readily, and with but the slightest care, `if any, passed through it to tle cyeof the i needle. Gr, a gauge, consisting of a slotted bar, H, with a right-angular arm, I, at one end, which gaugefby i means of a s et-sc rew, K,is secured to the upper armof the frame, A, the purpose of which gauge is to enable the eye of the implement to be so adjusted with regard to the eye of the needle, by properly setting the gauge to the distance between the yoke-arm, in which the needle is secured, and the needle-eye, as `plainly shown in iig. 1, that, no matter how often the needle is to be threaded, it is only necessary to simply slip the implement on the needle when its eye will exactly correspond with the eye of the needle, as is obvious without any further explanation.- i

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The frame A, with its handle B, springs D, and the arms C, to the lower .one of which the slotted eye E is secured, in combination with the slotted, right-angular gauge G, all operating substantially as described, for

the purpose specified.

M. B. EOOTE.`

Witnesses:

DANIEL KINGSLEY, W. S. KINesLEY.

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