The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

GRAND TRIAL

SEWING MACHINES.

rilllE manner In which the decisions were
made ot the Gaud Trial of Sewing Maddest,
held at Wood Park, Nen York, to 1866, dietlagniebes
IS sa the ooly trial Goer held la which the verdict
depended, beyood all &ILK solely apes the espabilities
of the competing mathinin
Tea ad wigs keetsrly °musket, two et thew
hug and mesa sonar numufeeteren -1 et
euteeste and the amtakeivome Iteke abh..
hailthe mule. Mu U the emeed lna mee
In rawest to rash of all the item. that together cos-
White the efficiency sad utility of a easing mobil'',
making immediate award of superiority in rapport to each
item, in the presence of • Isms onsomiuse of spectotore
to the trial.

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The character of the testa employed le exhibited ha
the report from whioli ire quote:

" In regard to the decisions of the judges upon the
several points, it may be remarked that daring the
entire trial than was scarcely an instance of difference
of opinion—as, indeed, it wadi hardly possible there
could be, for the plan adopted was itself a surety both
of unanimity and • joat decision; the latter being, in
moth a plan, DelitbOX more not IS than the practical
solution of • mathematical problem For by @swat-

ing the respeeklire writs of each oriehine into in
er " Psi's*" and subjecting each point separately to
the test of practiced work dose on sash machine In
presence of the judges, their decision upon sash point
was reduced to the shopla act of recording the fasts
developed.

" For insisses : each cootsstant deism Um most
elastie stitch. Then each is required to sew a seam,
side by aids, ow the Oita of a pies, of elastic cloth;
and the judge takes the piece and stretches it length-
ways of the seams till one seam breaks; he still con-
Hausa the stretching, bet the ether seam refesea to
break at all. However disappointed his espeetatices,
the judge will hardly enter on therseavd Qat the broken
seam Is Um more elastic.

" Such were the Nets, and snob the inewiteble de-
cisions,"

After a contest of nearly seven hours, the Wllleox
and Gibbs was declared to be the best Sewing Machine.
The Iseportanos of this trial to the public is doe to
the facts that the questions decided were such as admit
of absolute determination, and that the decisions were
approved by a multitude of disinterested witnesses.

liars —lt is a fact worth, a reatark, that daring ilia
entire trial—which cautioned without interritinkon
kr nearly seven hours—lNS stash woo mimed, nor
tbe cotton once brokeoluer • media braise as boot,
by the Willcox and Gibbs Naohlwe. No Wad of
work woe tried epos IS Ilbal was ad assismplialied,
sea dome Is a rebid sad sissicarailia maws ; aad
so Mal was nadir tlia* amikely saassmiaLl
11 The apedle It:Zit"
•
IN. The Nadia h
The needle 1. kvelled.

15. The needle is secured in its plus by a patented
devise, whielt renders it Wadjuring, so that
neither akM nor experiential Is neeemery in setting
It. It is not so with any other.
18. II uses but on. areal, and thu avoids the
nueuity of complicated reashinery, whieh is
required for two threads.
17. It sews directly from the reel, au Tasking it
uneeseseary to rewind the thread.
18. ft stakes the "Wilkox and adobe stitch," gigot
origioiai ma,k this machine, which for general
purposes is superior to any odor.
NOT& —The trial upon this claim was very thorough,
and the prastical tests minute and accurate. Bub
matisime was required to use cotton from the suns
reel, make the stiash of the same length, and perform
the test work on the same pities of cloth, with the
lines of sewing side by side. Tbe results were all
decisive, and in every test in favour of the Willcox
and Gibbs.]
19. The masa he. the peculiar advantage of being
readily taken out when desirable, while it is less
liable to rip, in use or weer, than the lockathich.

[Mom —This claim also was very raverely thread in the
.me manner as the last, and with esnal positive
results—all in favour of the Willcox sad Gibbs.
110. The eman is mere elastic, and stregger them the
look-stitoh.
21. The seam is mere eves and beautiful.
VI. The seem Is sajleatamed.
fl The Insilco le mese eselly edjetheil Om limb •
of any gibes
14. li will do a melba verbal, of week thee my
other me do Is peal periodos.
X It is more many and speedily changed from ose
kind of work to another.
26. More work can be done with It In s given lime
than with any other.
27. It embroiders beaatif ally.
28. It has • shield to protest the operator's dress from
• the wheel.
29. The needle being secured in a vertical bar, it has
Important advantage, over machines with curved
needles attached directly to the beedle.arm.
30. In ooneequence of the shorter sweep of the needle,
there is mush lees wear of the cotton from its
vibrating through the needle's eye in the act at
sewing.
31. A smaller needle can be used with the same Bin
of cottoo, which adds to the straegth and beauty
of the team, eapetially os linen or other herd
materials.
32. It has the beet hemmers.
33. It has the best feller.
34. It has the beet braider.
36. Maas the best belt.

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