The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-15
THE SEWING MACHINE.

minds of Europe failed in their efforts to reduce
to practice the idea OF Machine Sewing and 1t
was left for the genius so OF AN Amerloa 10 PIouucg
Machine. Of the usefulness OF this invention 1T
is unnecessary to speak at this late day. Tue
preiudces that impeded its early introduction
have long since been swept away by the stern
facts when its everyday successes practically
demonstrates and for the last ten years the
Sewing Machine has been universally recog-
nized as a necessity In the manufacture or put.
ting together of every known description of
textile fabric, and an important addition to the
household economy,
Baker are the most promnent names ldenuned
the Shuttle stitch Machine, but did not manu-
facture more than were necessary TO use as
models in his lawsuits, until after the Sewing
Machine was made practical and useful by sub.
se0uent inventors. A. b. Wilson improved on
the feeding mechanism of Howe's Machine, and
invented a substitute for the Howe shuttle in
the rotary hook OF the Wheeler Wilson Ma.
chine, which makes the shuttle stitch by DIFF
ferent mechanism. Grover & Baker invented
the Machine making the Grover Baker Elastic
Stitch, and have been manufacturing their Ma
chimes ever since the taking out of their patent.
There are over 10000 OF the Grover Baker
Elastic Stitch Machines now in use, which is
abundant evidence that the excellencies of this
stitch are appreciated by the public.
Soon after Howe's invention became known,
a number of manufacturers OF Sewing Machines
aDpeared in the field, each with some little at.
tachment or Improvement, on the strength
which they sought to identity themselves with
the Sewing Machine III the public MIND. Nearly
all these made Shuttle Stitch Machines, and 1t
was their interest in common to cry down and
damage to the extent of their ability, their for
midable rival, the Grover & Baker Elastic Stitch
Machine; and no means, honorable or otherWlSe,
were spared by them to prejudice the public
against it, Despite all this opposition, the
Grover & Baker Machines gradually but surely
worked their way into the foremost place in
public favor, relying solely on their intrinsic
and manifest merits over other machines.
As further evidence of their great popularity,
we may state that they have. been awarded the
highest premiums at all the State Fairs at which
they were entered III competition the past tnree
years, and at hundreds OF Institute and County
Fairs. They have also been awarded gold
medals and diplomas at various exhibitions OF
England, France, Spain, and Austria, and have
been furnished by command to the Empress of
France, Empress OF Russia, Empress OF Brazil,
Queen of Spain, and Queen of Bavaria.
Keeping pace with the growing demand for
their Machines, Grover Baker increased their
facilities for manufacturing, and invented and
built new machinery, OF the most perfect kind,
adapted to all the parts OF the Sewing Machine.
The Companys mandatory is at Boston, and
they have wholesale depots in all the principal
cities OF the Union; in San Francisco in LONDON
and Liverpool, England; and Melbourne, Aus
trala. Agencies are also established IN all the
other leading cities of the Old World, and in
almost every village of the New. The Company
cOnuuCl LWeuIy-lOuT GSIdDllSulueuIS III luelI
own name, ana employ in connection with them
over 800 clerks, statesmen, mechanics, and ope
rators AT the Factory, in the manufacture Of
Machines, Stands, Cabinets, ETC., between fou,
and hve hundred hands are employed, capable
Of turning out complete from thirty to forty
thousand Machines per annum.
The Grover & Baker Sewing Machine makes
double thread Elastic Stitch, and forms sean
Of great strength and beauty, peculiarly adapted
for family sewing, and the manufacture o
goods where hrmness and elasticity OF seam arr
required. The mechanism of the machine il
simple, the parts few, its movements quiet, anC
the method of operation easily acquired. 1t use
the thread directly from the spool as purchased
One side of the seam can be made highly orna
mental tor embroidering, by using colored sill
or worsted.
The Importance of Grover & Bakers lnven
tons will be more apparent when it is under
stood tnat the principle OF the Grover & Bake
Machines is entirely different from that of tn
Howe Machine and all those making the How
Shuttle Stitch, among which are the Singer
Wheeler Il Wilson, Florence, etc. The Grover
Baker Machine, making the double thread Ella:
tic Stitch, from the time of its invention, i
1851, has taken its position as competitor ic
public favor against the entire class Of Machine
descended from the Howe Shuttle invention
and bases its claims for superiority over these
not on any improvement on or attachment
the Machine that Howe invented, but on mi
Nhanism of an entirely different principle form
ing seam possessing qualities impossible
attainment by any Machine making the Shut
Stitch OF Howe. When treating the subject
Sewing Machines therefore. it is only necessal
TO hold in view the two principles of tormiu
a seam with two threads by machinery, viz
the Shuttle Stitch and the Grover Baker Ella
TIC Stitch.
1t Is not only unnecessary, but leads to COZ
fusion, to speak of this Shuttle Stitch Machr
or that Lock Stitch Machine, tor by WhoeVt
manufactured or by whatever name it may
known, the shuttle and Lock Stitch are ident
cal, and it possesses the same merits and I'll
same faults that it had twenty years ago. Tho
contemplating the use of Sewing Machines
their business or their homes should attach
much importance to the selection of the one {
the other principle as if they were determiniI
the choice between hand and machine sewing
There are great many uses, in manufactori
and families, TO which the Grover IL Bak
Stitch can be successfully applied in which tt
Shuttle Stitch would be utterly useless, WIN
there is no use to which the latter can be a
piled that the former will not accomp4is
Where both principles can be applied to ii
same uses with comparatively equal success,
is of little importance which is adopted. Tue
are however, numerous employmentS for Il
Sewing Machine where the superiority OF Ol
kind is so marked that a wrong conclusiC
as to the stitch best suited would result
failure.
The fouo,oing extracts from testimony taken
oath, in a recent cuSe before The Hon. COnInul
stOneT of Pdtents zoe CONSIDER Conclusive pro
of The superiority of The GrOUer 6 Bdk
Elastic Stjtch Machine for nearly all The uS
TO I0hloh machine Seloinq can be applied.
Edward S. Renwick, OF New YORK city, pr
fessional engineer, says:-
''The seam produced, while secure, Is e
tremely elastic, and can be strained to as gre
an extent as the cloth IN which it is sewe
without the fracture of the threads, while t
two-thread seams, sewed by tie machines n
embodYng the said Grover & Bakers inventio
are easily fractured by straining the cloth, D.
tcularly when bias seams are sewed. L
Grover 4 Baker machines are therefore adapt
to sewing great variety of articles which ca