US 11,807,970 B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for threading needles
Natasha Brundage, Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by Natasha Brundage, Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on May 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/323,610.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/026,520, filed on May 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0355618 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. D05B 87/02 (2006.01); D05B 3/12 (2006.01); A41G 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC D05B 87/02 (2013.01) [D05B 3/12 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving a supply of thread;
receiving, at each needle receptacle of a plurality of needle receptacles, a needle of a plurality of needles;
receiving, from the supply of thread, a portion of the thread;
receiving a selection of a threader arm of a plurality of threader arms via a rotation of a rotary knob about a rotational axis, wherein each threader arm is associated with a needle receptacle of the plurality of needle receptacles;
causing, based on the selection of the threader arm, the threader arm to rotate about the rotational axis from a retracted position to an extended position; and
causing the selected threader arm to push the portion of the thread through an eye of the needle of the plurality of needles received at the needle receptacle of the plurality of needle receptacles that is associated with the selected threader arm.