Part 16 (2/2)
[Illustration: Figure 119--ILlustRATED PAGE in a Shaw & Clark advertising brochure, published in late 1864 (Sure 120--SHAW & CLARK SEWING MACHINE (Page patent) of 1867, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts (Sures 119 and 120--SHAW & CLARK SEWING MACHINES In addition to the early style Monitor sewingmarks, the company continued to manufacture machines after a lawsuit with the ”Combination” forced them to take out a license They manufactured an adapted version of their Monitor and an entirely new design patented in 1861 Their machines were now marked with the co those of Howe, Wheeler and Wilson, Grover and Baker, and Singer and the Batchelder patent, together with their own design patents In 1867 the company moved from Biddeford, Maine, to Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts
In the san patented by T C Page The co Machine Co year and re machine is in the Sure 121--SINGER ”Traverse Shuttle Machine--Letter A”
(Sures 121 and 122--SINGER SEWING MACHINES Fro-type sewing28) The first33) was manufactured from 1858-1861 Their second-style family machine was called the ”Traverse Shuttle Machine--Letter A;” it was manufactured from 1859 to 1865, when they introduced their third fa machine This style machine continued until about 1883 when the ”Improved Family” machine appeared In addition to the lockstitch er also hly specialized h the 1880s, the Singer machines were marked with two serial numbers It is possible that the numbers were related to the ”Coer company Until about 1873 there was a difference of exactly 4,000 in the two numbers, thus one machine would be marked 12163 and directly beloould be its of the two nuht be much lower in value than either nuer number is believed to have been a record of total production while the lower number er co of the top (or lower of the two) serial numbers Generally, in the earlier machines, the difference in the two nu of aby serial number can only be estimated, the two numbers do not add an appreciable variable prior to 1873 Only the larger nu machines after 1873
_Serial Number_ _Year_
1-100 1850 101-900 1851 901-1711 1852 1712-2521 1853 2522-3400 1854 3401-4283 1855 4284-6847 1856 6848-10477 1857 10478-14071 1858 14072-25024 1859 25025-43000 1860 43001-61000 1861 61001-79396 1862 79397-99426 1863 99427-123058 1864 123059-149399 1865 149400-180360 1866 180361-223414 1867 223415-283044 1868 283045-369826 1869 369827-497660 1870 497661-678921 1871 678922-898680 1872 898681-1121125 1873 1121126-1362805 1874 1362806-1612658 1875 1612659-1874975 1876
Since records of annual production from 1877 to the turn of the century are not complete, it is difficult to establish yearly approxi the machines submitted as patent models, and thus known to have been manufactured before the date of deposit, however, has provided us with the following date guides By 1877 there had been 2 million machines manufactured, 3 million by 1880, 4 million by 1882, 5 million by 1884, 6 million by 1886, 7 million by 1888, 8 million by 1889, 9 million by 1890, and 10 ure 122--SINGER ”New Fa machine
(Sure 123--STANDARD SEWING MACHINE of about 1870 This chainstitch machine is believed to have been made by the co Machine Co lockstitch machines about 1874 This machine is marked with the name, ”Standard,” and with the dates ”Patented July 14, 1870, Patented Jan 22, 1856, Dec 9, 1856, Dec 12, 1865” The dates refer to the reissue and extended reissue of the Bachelder and the A B
Wilson patents The number of chainstitch machines of this type that were manufactured is not known (Sure 124--TAGGART & FARR sewing machine, front view
(Sures 124 and 125--TAGGART & FARR sewing otten ust 9, 1859 The machine, however, was in commercial production as early as 1858, the year the patent application wastwo threads--both taken directly from the spool--to form a chainstitch, the machine was operated basically by treadle but also by hand The drive wheel ison this ht
The name and patent date were painted on the end of the machine This was true of o unidentified once the paint has becoart & Farr machines were manufactured, but the co those that had disappeared by 1881
[Illustration: Figure 125--TAGGART & FARR sewing machine, end view
(Sure 126--WATSON SEWING MACHINE, 1856, illustrated in Scientific American, December 13, 1856 The earliest Watson machines were two-thread lockstitch ust 10, 1850 Although the azine reported that the inventor had applied for a patent, the earliest lockstitch patent issued to William C Watson was on March 11, 1856 A few of his machines were made in 1850, the article continued, ”several of thesethe upon Messrs Jones & Lee” A Watson machine was exhibited by Jones & Lee at the Sixth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics association held in Boston in September 1850
In 1853 a Watson machine was exhibited at the New York Industry of All Nations Exhibition, but this was a single-looping le-thread machine on November 25, 1856
In the December 13, 1856, issue of _Scientific A machine was illustrated and described
It was a small machine (only 8 by 5 inches)for 10 References to the Watson single-thread machine occur as late as 1860, but no examples are known to have survived (Sure 127--WEST & WILLSON SEWING MACHINE of about 1859
The West & Willson machine, manufactured under the patent of H B West and H F Willson, enjoyed a very brief span of popularity The patent covered the peculiar -looper in cole chainstitch, but whether le-thread variety were manufactured is unknown The machine illustrated here is a two-thread machine of basically the saht and bears serial number 1544 and the inscription ”West & Willson Co patented June 29, 1858”
(Sure 128--WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINE of about 1872 Serial number 670974 (Sure 129--WHEELER AND WILSON NO 8 sewing machine of about 1876 (Sures 128 and 129--Wheeler and Wilson sewing estan in 1851 as A B Wilson; from 1852 to 1856 it was the Wheeler, Wilson & Co, Watertown, Connecticut; and froeport, Connecticut