Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-05-27
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SIRs-As your machine, Is vel as ell It's parts and
operations is quite familiar to ne, do think it
really necessary that should be further enlighten-
ed ia The arts and mysteries ofthe Sewing Machine
l latter myself that possess the capacity and am
fully competent 20 properly understand and appre-
ciate the lone AID dminutiVe merit possessed By
your Nettleton Raymond Machine 10 lCit: the price,
$40 at wholesale or 525 retail, in other respects
on par and near relative and member OF the same
family; running parallel with the famous Watson
ten dollar piratieal wreck Of an i'll spent life But
the Stitch. We deplore thy condition. Thou art
good and faithful servant, having been reared and
properly trained ia thy YOUTH and why dids't thou
listen to the winning of deception and suffer
thy SELF like poor deg Tray to be caught in bad COM
pany.
But to the point We win endeavOr to make our
squib' as short as the nature and complication OF
the case will admit. By reference 70 my letter in
the Union and American Of the 22d you will observe
my first interrOgatory.
Have you any legal right to vend or use your ma.
chine in any portion Of the United Statesy
Your aneWer TO this question, although very
simple, plain, and extremely easy to be understood,
is as follows;
ave have q legal right to dispose Of the Patent
issued in the United States, to NettletOn Raymond,
April 14th, 1855"
Mr. Goodell may think that he has answered my
question: but the discriminating public viii doubt
less come to different conclusion. The answer
speaks for ITSELF direct evasion and total disregard
Of the points in question. hard Qusstion-iid not
expect direct answer even from the most learned
in the whole class Of piratical students.
My I'd intorrogatory. Is not the rough surface
feed motion, well the formation Of the stitch
made by your machine direct infringement Of other
we'll known patents?
You answer by saying you edo not use the rough
and surface feed" Well, now, we do not like to say
that you have made misstatement In your attempt
to answer this question, and will therefore insist that
you examine more mnutely the construction of your
Nettleton & Raymond machine some time when you
are not 80 much 'pressed with business" as at the
present. and make, If possible fair and more direct
report; we think you will have no difficulty in max
ing the discovery of both the rough and the surface
feed. Aud when you make the discovery, which
doubtless you will, for know its there, and We
know further that it is a acknowledgement Of other
well known patents, please be candid enough to
acknowledge the fact.
In answer to my Sd interrogatory you say you
have given " for YEAR PAST most satisfactory
guarantees" Now, if you have valid patent, why
The necessity Of giving any guarantee a. all And
you further state that you before had it ques
toned, that your patent infringed on one"
Now think if you will refer to my letter ad-
dressed to Johnson GoOdel September 8th 1867,
you will there find the validity of the NettletOn &
Raymond patent questioned. You doubt have
my letter with you but when the nature Of that
letter is understood we do not think your sales of
exclusive rights to vend the NettletOn Raymond
machine Will De muCn augmented. gu may cease
further 10 hatter yourself with the idea that my let
ter addressed to johnson GoOdel was for the pur-
pose Of soliciting the sale Of your machines in he
city Of Nashville or anywhere else, You know very
well that this was not my object. have written
several letters Of inquiry TO many others purpOrng
to be inventors Of Sewing Machines Of the NetetOn
Raymond class; desiring, however, as in the
case referred to, my letter 10 johnson GoOden,
nothing more than answer which is of more i'm
portance to me than the questionable commodity
they propose to Vend
And further, 1 shoald be unwilling to step so far
aside from all just and honorable rules Of fair deal
ing as to vend and recommend to the public an ar
ticle that l believe to be entirely worthless and
so wholly void Of merit as the NettetOn & Raymond
Sewing Machine.
We have Messrs johnson S Goodells answer as
you doubtless are aware, and also have what pur-
ports to be a copy Of the NettleOn Raymond in
vention; evidence, not only beyond all cavil, of
direct infringement in many respects, but utterly
worthless in the enc essential point, utility.
l do not deny your right to sell the patent, if
any, issued to Nettleton Raymond But do deny
that you any one else has any legal right to
or vend the machine you call the NettletOn Ray
mOnd Patent, with its present feed motiOn-and
whenever you, or any one else, claiming TO be res
ponsibe, sell, attempt to use your machine in this
community, shall be soon made aware that the
amount paid for the machine is not clear receipt
As regards your assertion, which is nothing more
or less than assertion relative to Patent issued to
Fisher Gibbons of England, yOuhave very widely
missed the mark. We happen to be familiar with
The form Of said claim patent, to which you al
lIde, and your statement or assertion, in this re-
speot is too absurd to deserve notice. However, it
may your ends in carrying out the principles
Of business in which you engaged.
If you will just step across the street from your
50 ParIor No IL to the Mechanics Library and there
examine the Patent Office reports under the follow
ing dates, Feb, llth 1857; June 22d, 1852; Feb.
hon Sb
if the assertion or in other words, your attempt to
answer my 9th interr0gatOry has the slightest tOuR-
dation in truth. Please take particular notice Of
the patent report of June 22d, 1852, No 9053 and
you may as well as any one else who will take the
trouble to examine these reports convince yourself
of the whole Grover Baker claim, and also at the
same time, will perceive, the called Nettleton
s. Raymond Machine uses the Grover Baker
feed motion both the forward and back mo-
ton and also the rough surface feed nOtchedb bar
and without this feed motion the said NettletOn
Raymond Machine could not take stitch.
It would, think, be well for the purchaser of
what you propose to vend to look into these reports
above referred to. This is only one point Of in
fringement. l might mention many others, but the
one above, more particularly referred to, is so
palpable that it is at once made apparent to any
one upon q slight examination.
You say you infer from my advertisement. that
retailing a high priced Sewing Machine. True,
am retailing Sewing Machines at the price Of $50
to SAB and STILL il is very cheap-eztremely so,
when compared with that class Of Machine for
which you propose to sell the right to vend. The
high priced Machine you call It, being at all times
fairly and correctly represented to the public, while
the Nettleton s. Raymond Machine belongs to the
Watson & Wooster stripe; which is well known to
the public as being entirely worthless which said
Watson & Wooster pratical Machine, we learn the
gentleman Mr. A. W. Goodell, highly endorsed
by prominent fellow citizens was lately engaged in
vending
will here state in conclusion, that 1 desire to
cast no imputation upon the private character Of
Mr.. Goodel, futher than one might infer, under
standing the nature Of his business. Now we deny
that any patent ever issued to Netleton Raymond
for the invention you forth and call the Nettleton
s. Raymond Double Lock Stitch Family Sewing Ma
chine, ard we further deny that said NettletoR
Raymond, are ever were the inventors OF any
Sewing Machine. Show up your claim MIR. GoOdell,
it is but justice to the public
1t is not the merits of the Nettleton Raymond |
Machine that called forth my inteTOgatOries IN the
Nashville Union American of the ODD, for fair and
honorable competition is but just. But sense of
justice to the parties we represent and more espe
cally the public who you seem extremely anxious
to serve, requires at hands course which may
place before disneresed parties, the true condition
Of the right in question. And this is but Of
great number similar in character and almost every
day adds another the list wesha ever hold oursef
in readiness, as they make their appearance, to
show them up in their true light. We know them
all, and are familiar with their dafOrmities, and
they shall at all times have especial attention.
R. II. BROCKWAY.
May oath, 1858.