US1358067A - Crochet-needle - Google Patents

Description

C. E. ENSFIELD.

CROCHET NEEDLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 7, 1919.

1,358,067, Patented N0v.9,1920.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

Application filed November 7, 1919. Serial No. 336,357.

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARA ELIZABETH ENs'rInLn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fennville, in the county of Allegan and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Crochet-Needles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in crochet needles, and has for its object to pro vide a needle wherein resilient holders are provided in connection with the handle, for

engaging the ball and the thread, to prevent unwinding of the ball and to prevent raveling of the work, and to hold the ball, holder and the needle together.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved needle;

2 is a top plan view;

rig. 3 1s a slde view.

In the present embodiment of the inven tion, the needle 1, which is of ordinary construction having at one end the hook 2 and having the other end plain, as shown at V 3, is provided intermediate its ends with a flattened portion, in the present instance a loop, as shown, for convenience in grasping the needle.

Upon one side of the needle there is secured a spring plate 5, the said plate having one end soldered, brazed or otherwise connected to the handle or" the needle. Toward its free end the plate is bent outwardly away from the needle and then inwardly to lie against the handle, as shown at 6, the extremity of the 1 saidfree end being also curved outwardly.

This plate 5-6 isdesigned to engage the thread on the ball to hold the ball to the needle and to prevent unwinding of the thread upon the ball. On the opposite side there is secured a spring plate 7, the said plate being brazed, soldered or otherwise secured to the handle at one end and the other end is bent outwardly, as shown at 8.

The outward bends of the plates 5 and 7 at their free ends are for the purpose of facilitating the entrance of the thread beneath the plates. The plate 7 is for holding the threadnear the work, to prevent raveling. Since a considerable amount of thread is to be grasped by the plate 5 it is bent outwardly intermediate its "ends, and since but a single thread passes beneath the plate 7 it is not bent outwardly to receive said thread.-

With the improved needle bothwork and ball are held to the needle so that all of the elements required for crocheting are together, and there is no chance of the ball rolling away to unwind the thread.

The plate 7 also acts as a tensioning device for thread during crocheting. The plates for holding the ball and thread are in use, however, as a rule, only when the work is laid aside.

I claim:

A crochet needle having at the end remote from the hook, a pair of spring plates secured to opposite sides of the needle, and

adapted to clasp the thread between them' and the needle, said plates being connected at the ends of the plates remote from the hook of the needle.

CLARA ELIZABETH ENSFIELI

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