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The Invention of the Sewing Machine Grace Rogers Cooper 135550K 2022-07-20

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48-52 Zigzag stitches for sewing straw braid

53-62 Straight straw-braid stitches

63-67 Special embroidery stitches

68 Saddler's stitch]

In the _Sewing Machine News_, vol 3, no 5, p 12 (1881), there were listed a nu these are many well-known names and little-known names for which at least one additional reference can be found There are some, however, for which this is the only reference to date These are: Blanchard, Babcock, Banner, Brown Rotary, Cottage, Cole, Duplex, Economist, Erie, Gutman, Hill, Hancock & Bennett, Jenks, Lockett, McCoy, McCardy, Medallion, McArthur & Co, Monopoly, Moreau, Mack, Niagra, New Cannaan, Orphean, Pride-of-the-West, Seamen & Guiness, Surprise, Stackpole, Shanks, Stanford, Troy, Utica, United States Faner, and Williaiven to machines manufactured by one of the known companies, but at least a few are names of machines manufactured for a very short time prior to 1881 about which ould like to know -Machine Patent Models in the Smithsonian Collections

There are -machine patent models and a similar number of attachment models in the Smithsonian collections Most of these machines were received in 1926 when the Patent Office disposed of its collection of hundreds of thousands of models Prior to 1880, h the requirement was discontinued that year, patentees continued to furnish models for another decade or so All models prior to 1836 were lost in a Patent Office fire of that year, but since the sewing-machine patent history dates from the 1840s, most of the historically important ones of this subject have been preserved

These models form a valuable part of the record of the invention, supples and the text of the written specifications

The early sewing-machine models were made to order, either by the inventor or a co machines were produced commercially, it was less expensive for the patentee to use a coe or improvement, than to have a complete model constructed to order Some of the commercial machines used in this way are the only examples known to be in existence, and as such, are ofthe history of the es

During the period of the ”Sewing Machine Combination,” many patentees attempted to invent and patent ”the different e in style or an attempt to produce a far less-expensive type of machine These machines were not always put into coive an indication of the extent to which some inventors went to si

The following is a list of those sewing-machine patent models in the Smithsonian Institution collections:

IV 19th-Century Sewing-Machine Leaflets in the Smithsonian Collections

_Machine or Manufacturer_ |_Date_ |_Type_ | | A Machine |1874 |Illustrated, advertising leaflet Buckeye sewing| | the machine New Buckeye |ca 1872 |Illustrated, directions for using | | theleaflet Do leaflet Florence sewingleaflet Florence sewing| | theleaflet Grant Brothers sewingleaflet | | (Xerox copy) Grover and Baker sewingleaflet Grover and Baker sewingleaflet Ho leaflet Hoing machine, new ”B”ofleaflet Ladd, Webster sewingleaflet Little Monitor sewing ton Fa leaflet Shaw and Clark sewing er sewing er sewingof machines shown at the | | Coluleaflet Ten Dollar Novelty sewingleaflet Weed sewingleaflet Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine |ca 1869 |Illustrated, instruction booklet Wheeler and Wilson sewingleaflet Wheeler and Wilson no 8 machine |ca 1878 |Illustrated, instruction booklet Wilson sewingleaflet

V A Brief History of Cotton Thread

Although Sa the first cotton sewing thread from yarns spun at the Pawtucket, Rhode Island, mill in about 1794, cotton thread did not become a manufactured ite cotton-twist yarns needed for the warps of cotton fabrics By 1809, however, the agents of Almy and Brown, partners and distributors for Slater, were advertising cotton thread as follows:

Factory Cotton and Thread Store, No 26 Court Street opposite Concert Hall George Connell, Agent for Almy and Brown of Providence and Pawtucket Manufactories, has now for sale frofive hundred pounds cotton thread, in hanks, from No 12 to 60 of a superior quality and very white[91]

Although it was a short hop fro of these cotton yarns to foreneral inate in the United States but rather in Scotland in the early 19th century

Napoleon's blockade, which curtailed Great Britain's importation of silk--needed not only for fabrics but also for s for the looms--stimulated the production of cotton thread there James and Patrick Clark, in desperation, attempted to substitute cotton for silk in their s When they were successful, they considered that if cotton could be used successfully for this purpose it could also bethread In 1812 they built a factory in Paisley, Scotland, which had long been noted for its textile industries The thread was sold in hanks About 1820 Ja J & J Clark & Co, began to wind the thread on spools For this service they charged an extra halfpenny, which was refunded when the empty spool was returned The thread was usually a three-ply or so-called three-cord thread

About 1815 Ja thread at Ferguslie, Scotland His two sons took over the company in 1826 and formed the J & P Coats Coent in the United States about 1840 But the cotton-thread industry was not fully launched

As reported in an 1853 _Scientific Ao than there is today”[92] It was not until the six-cord cabled cotton thread, which was suitable for both ressed into full operation

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