Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-15
From the Christian Advocate and Journal.
THE NEW AMERICAN INSTITUTION.
THK sEwING MACHINE,

"Dear Sir:-It was with peculiar satisfaction
that read aud re-read your excellent article OF
October s, on the American institution the sew
ing machine. From your account of it we have
been led to consider the propriety of making our
usual annual donation to oUr pastors family in the
shape of a sewing machine, this year. In your ar
ticle the Wheeler & Wilson machine seems TO
have been the only one that you could wholly re.
commend.
10 answer to our fair correspondent, and also to
many others who have lately written to US on this
subject, give the following detailed statement,
made with the utmost for this purpose:
The Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
claim superiority for its sewing machines in miscel-
laneos family sewing and general manu- featuring
purposes for the following well-sustaiDed
First beauty and excellence of stitch, alike upon
both sides of the fabric sewed. Second, economy
of thread. Third, simplicity and thoroughness OF
construction. Fourth, case eff operation and man
agement. Fifth, speed. Sixth, quietness OF move
ment. Seventh, strength aud frmness, and dura-
bility Of that will not rip nor ravel. Eighth,
applicability to a variety of purposes and mater-
ais. Ninth elegance of model and finish.
The mechanism by which this stitch is effected is
remarkable for its simplicity, and consequent free
dom from arrangement and need Of repairs. The
machine 10 placed upon stand, and Is driven by
stirrup, band, and pulley, like the old-fashioned
fax spinning wheel. The motion 8 commune atec
directly to the mandri that revolses the hook
tanning the lover thread. An eccentric upon the
mandril communicates motion by small rod to the
arbor, 10 which is attached the needle arm. Upon
the mandril Is q small cam, giving motion to the
graduated ieed-bar, by which any required length
OF stitch Is made. The bearings and friction sur.
faces are slight that the propeng power requir-
ed Is almost nominal, while the wear OF tie ma
chine 10 60 little that the first machine sold in the
New York Office of the Wheeler and Wilson Com
pany IN 1852, which has been run continually IN a
shirt and collar manufacory, is in as good condi-
ton now as ~hea made. Only unfair usage puts
them out Of orcer.
10 the Wheeler & Wilson machine the work pas
ses from left to right, and the fabric is moved by
the machiDe--she work only requires TO be guided
In other machines, the work moves from the oper-
Ator. and the arm must be stretched across TO
guide il. The Wheeler & Wilson machine is war
ranted spplicsble 70 sewing equally well every
variety OF iabsic-silk, linen, wooden, aud cotton
goods, from the Iighsest muslins TO The heaviest
cloths. The seam formed IL not only more oeauti-
full than hand sewing. but Is as firm aud durable as
the fabric tsef Ii may be Inferred from the suten
that the seam viii rip, and cannot be raveied-
The hun OF les movement Is as pleasant as the
chirp Of the cricket under the hearth stone. The
model and dnish Of this machine eniitie Il TO
place In the psrlor o. "a ornamental piece OF fur
nilure The w heeler & Wilson is the only lock
stitch" machine 10 The market and Is furnished
with plain sabIs for Sl00; with a taols and an
elegant top case. covering the maehiae, tas sAio,
wth inll mahogany case, tor sis3, extra hnsshsS
In rosewood, t1as, The working part Of all ne
dsfsrens styles . precisely alike.