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US 4,899,916 AGranted
Ring needle pusher
AssigneesJohn D. Gassett, Paul H. Johnson
InventorBlue H. Townsend
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Abstract
A needle pushing head is made integral with a ring for wearing on a finger. The head has at least one needle receiving indentation so that the needle can be placed therein and forced by the finger through cloth or other material.
Claims1
A ring needle pusher comprising:
- a ring for wearing on a finger and having a finger receiving opening of a size to fit between the end and first joint of said finger, said ring having a circumference, ring plane, a diameter and width in which the diameter is at least two times the width, said ring having a front side and a back side and being uniform in cross section of planes parallel to said ring plate from said front to said back;
- a needle pushing head with a forward face, said head being a raised blocklike portion of said ring along only a part of the circumference of said ring, said head having only three needle receiving indentations in its face thereof of which one constitutes a main needle receiving indentation and others constitute secondary needle pushing indentations, one on each side of said main needle receiving indentation, each said indentation having an axis substantially perpendicular to said ring plane, said head having a width which is no greater than the width of the ring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.