(No Model.) J. H. OSBORN. NEEDLE CLAMP AND GUIDE FOR MACHINES. No. 284,657, Patented Sept, ll, 1883.

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JOHN H. OSBORN, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE LEADER COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO. NEEDLE-CLAMP AND THREAD. G UIDE FOR SEWING-MACHINEs. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,657, dated September 11, 1883. Application filed June 25, 1883. (No model.) To all, whom it may concern: periphery of said head to a point near the 5O Be it known that I, JoHN H. OSBORN, a center thereof. A thread-guide, F, prefer citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing ably of wire, and bent to form a guide-eye, f, at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and is secured in the head of the clamping-bolt, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain and the portion of said thread-guide extend new and useful Improvements in Needle ing outward from the guide-eye fis bent down 55 Clamps and Thread-Guides for Sewing-Ma into the recess or groove e, to prevent the es chines, of which the following is a specifica cape of the thread from the guide-eye. The tion, reference being had therein to the accom guide-eye fis arranged near the center of the O panying drawings. head of the clamping-bolt, so that the thread The object of my invention is to provide the will not be diverted from its proper course in 6O clamp by which the needle is secured to the its passage to the eye of the needle. The free needle-bar of a sewing-machine with a self. end of the thread-guide F is preferably ex - threading thread-guide, which, while it may tended beyond the periphery of the head E of be cheaply manufactured, is neat in appear the clamping-bolt to facilitate threading. A ance and efficient in operation. I attain this small , e", secured to the head of the clamp- 65 object by recessing or grooving the head of ing-bolt and entering a hole in the lower end the clamping-bolt horizontally from its pe of the needle-bar, prevents said bolt from turn riphery to a point near its center, and then ing with the thumb-mut D. securing to said head a thread-guide so formed In threading my device the thread is drawn as to furnish a guide-eye near the center of beneath the free end of the guide F and along 7O said head, through which guide-eye the thread the horizontal recess or groove e into the can pass, the thread-guide, from said guide guide-eyef, through which it can pass freely eye outward, being bent into the horizontal to the eye of the needle. 25 groove, to prevent the escape of the thread Having thus described my invention, I claim from the guide-eye. The end of the thread as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 75 guide is preferably extended slightly beyond 1. The combination, with a needle-clamp the periphery of the head of the clamping-bolt ing bolt the head of which is provided with to facilitate threading. a horizontal recess extending from the periph In the accompanying drawings, in which - ery thereof to a point near its center, of a like letters refer to similar parts in the differ thread-guide secured to said bolt and bent to 8o ent figures, Figure 1 is a perspective view of form a guide-eye near the center of the head my invention in its preferred form in oper thereof, that portion of said thread-guide ex ative relation to the needle and needle-bar of tending outward from said guide-eye being a sewing-machine. Figs. 2 and -3 are respect arranged in said horizontal recess, substan ively vertical and horizontal sections of the tially as hereinbefore set forth. 85 Sale. 2. The combination, with a needle-clamp A is the needle-bar, having a groove or re ing bolt the head of which is provided with cess, a, for the reception of the needle B, said a horizontal recess extending from the periph needle-bar having near its lower end a hole -ery thereof to a point near its center, of a for the passage of the clamping-bolt C. Phe thread-guide secured to said bolt and bent to 90 clamping-bolt is perforated vertically for \he form a guide-eye near the center of the head passage of the needle, and is secured to the thereof, that portion of said thread-guide ex needle-bar by a thumb-nut, D, the head of tending outward from said guide-eye being 45 said thumb-nut being preferably provided with arranged in said horizontal recess, and the ex a driving-slot, by which it may be tightened tremity of said thread-guide being extended 95 or loosened by a screw-driver. The head E beyond the periphery of the head of the clamp of the clamping-bolt Cisprovided with a hori ing-bolt, substantially as set forth. Zontal recess or groove, e, extending from the 3. The combination, with a needle-bar, a 2S4,657 needle-clamping bolt passing through the tion arranged in said horizontal recess, sub same, and a thumb-nut for securing said bolt stantially as set forth. O to said needle-bar, the head of said clamping- In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in bolt being provided with a horizontal recess presence of two witnesses. 5 and a pin entering a hole in the needle-bar, of JOHN H. OSBORN, a thread-guide secured to the head of the Witnesses: clamping-bolt, said thread-guide being bent S. E. HENDERSON, to form a guide-eye, and having its outer por- W. M. HALL.