The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-29 00:00:00

A SHOEMAKER'S SEWING MACHINE'

The Engineer contains a description of a shoonalgl
sewing machine, which has recently been perfect%
Exactly ten years since, it says, a Mr. Lyman 131241,
patented in England an improvement on the Amery le
Wickersham sewing machine, the object being to
it to sew on the soles of boots. Tne rigidity of the bos"
as there was no welt to connect the upper with the o°l4
made the system a most inconvenient one. There ,
also a difficulty with regard to repairs ; and the raat-h,
could not be profitably used for " children's" work. -1110"-
projection of the stitching on the inner sole Was
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reverse of comfortable in walking, and although o
endeavoured to remove this objection by the italer„.iti°
of a sole or sock, it proved to be only a tenligit,,,h
expedient. The sole soon became uncomfortable
foot, and had to be drawn out, leaving the 0'5,,
to get destroyed by the moisture of the foot,
riveting or pegging had to be resorted to to patch lt 14f
These considerations occupied the careful attention ;
Messrs. John Keats, William Keats, and Williar° a
Clark, the inventors of the Crispin sewing machine fit
system of boot manufacture. The object was, in they
place, to secure with two threads, capable of being °sot
when waxed with shoemakers' wax, seams which could.%
be made sufficiently solid by the ordinary sewing niac131111;
which does not admit of the use of shoemakers' wax...' .1
the second place, they desired to manufacture bynascli'dio
welt-sewn boots which should be equal in quality 0,44" t
very best hand-sewn boots, and at a price approachin,gl4:o
of riveted boots. The first patents were taken by John gad
and William S. Clark for the Crispin sewing machine, "'"ea
by William Keats and John Keats for their imPrcil
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system of boot construction. The chief characteristiool,
the Crispin sewing machine is the combination of btbe
and a shuttle instead of a needle and shuttle, and tv-
he
advantages of this arrangement are twofold. First'
thread, not having to pass through an eye, car/b. .. h
thoroughly saturated with the wax' which is
squeezed out nor scraped off by the eye• and, second-OA
the hook in descending has no thread in it
leather, the hole made is no larger than theePsize of the
hook, and a thicker thread can be used, so as to fill
hole with thread and wax. The shuttle and book b 7,
both situated above the table on which the work is Of-0
the stitch is formed on the upper surface of the vg'rr'eeil
that the operation can alwaysbe seen. The stitch prciall4
is a twisted lock-stitch, which makes the firmest oelfra
known. The machine is arranged to be drivel:lfoot
power, and a stop motion is applied by means of o' h
lever, which stops the motion of the machine ihistslll
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in any part of the stich, leaving the operator both P—tro
at liberty with which to manipulate the work. he
Crispin sewing machine was first used for the clo to
of heavy uppers, and from that time until ote
present this work has been carried on with CO
success, a large trade having been developed in .„0,
direction. After satisfactorily testing the
machine at this work for three years, during veil
time some hundreds of thousands of seams have otr
closed, it was decided to adapt this machine to the 03-00
facture of boots having welts to connect the uppers talciSlia
together, according to the system before alluded t0i15...11100
been patented by Messrs. W. and J. Keats, of the -I)%uti
Mills, Leek, Staffordshire. In carrying this a feC
improvements and special arrangements were devil 004
which patents were obtained by Mr. Thomas Greed 14L,
(of the firm of Greenwood and Batley, of Leeds), and.
William Keats, Mr. Greenwood, and Mr. John

Sir Robert Clifton, M.P., is reported to be rapt'

sinking.
The plasterer's strike at Manchester still 01'

tinues. in%
A Catholic journal has suggested that the reigt,
Pontiff should in future be written and spoken of ":1.
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the Great, in the same way as the first Leo and the -
first Gregory. The Tablet approves of this proposal'
rootlt,
f Sir Frederick Ileygate will move, on the
"That, 89 13
or third reading of the Irish Church Bill,
Bill for the disestablisliment and disendowment of the
Church amounts to a fundamental change in the Coestitd,
tion of Ireland, it ought, in jmtice to all parties eonceir:s4
to be accompanied by a declaration of the principle, At
the
cf any other remedial measures in contemplation 14
Government." fined
The Sheffield betting men baying been
re,
heavily for permitting and facilitating betting in t het fey
spective private premises, they have now formed what) vs
call an " Exchange Club and Newsroom." The _AcluateglAl
been established in consequencce of the recent Inatro
decisions against betting, and the place is bei4
felted u T, ou h the club is not jet ClitifattAk