Combined tweezers, needle, and eye-curette.

Application filed May 18,1905. Serial No, 260,971.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ernesto Pastore, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and 5 State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Tweezers, Needle, and Eye-Curette; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawio ings and the figures of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification and represent, in—

Figure 1, a side view of a combined implement constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, an edge view of the same; Fig. 3, a top view of the tweezers with the needle-shank removed; Fig. 4, a side view of 20 the needle-shank and cap removed; Fig. 5, a side view of the same parts with the cap separated from the shank.

. This invention relates to a combined implement comprising a pair of tweezers, a nee25 die, and an eye-curette, the object of the invention being to produce a device in which the articles are arranged in a convenient manner; and the invention consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and 30 particularly recited in the claim.

In carrying out my invention I form the tweezers from a strip of spring metal bent to form a central portion 2 and legs 3 4, the legs being preferably tapered to a point. In the 35 head 2 is a centrally-arranged threaded opening 4, adapted to receive the threaded shank 6 of a needle 7, which when the shank is turned into the head 2 will stand between the legs of the tweezers and so as to be protected 40 thereby. The shank is formed with a collar 8, and above the collar the shank has screwthreads 9 to receive a knurled cap 10, adapted to be turned to a bearing on the collar 8. In the upper end of the shank is an eye cu45 rette or loop 11, formed from horsehair, gold wire, silver wire, or other material suitable to be used in the eye, the loop being protected when not in use by the cap 10, which also forms a convenient handle for the needle when it is removed from the tweezers. 50

In removing slivers the needle is separated from the tweezers and employed in the usual manner for raising the point of a sliver, after which it may be grasped by the points -of the tweezers and removed. The convenience 5 5 with which foreign substances may be removed from the eye by means of a loop of horsehair or other suitable material is well known.

It will be understood that I am aware 60 the various implements shown in my improved device are in themselves old, and I do not wish to be understood as claiming such as my invention, nor, broadly speaking, the combination of them all. 65