Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-03-04

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y A GLANCE At ITS HISTORY AND PROG RESs
q The first machine OF this name pate nted IL
the year ISL. by Theodore Z. Weed, who diet
within few years thereafter, but there have beer
machines made ever since bearing his name. 4
was at one time constructed with les machiner,
above the table, having vibrating needle arm
4. suspended by pivots, with curved needle, &e.
simimilar to that of Wheeler andWilsOn and Others
which we're subsequently discarded and the PerPen
dieuLar needle bar aud straight needle substituted.
In the year ls65 the attention Of business men
and capitalists in Hartford, Conn. was enlisted
and reorganization effected. The mandatory
was at this time Nashua, N. H., the principal man.
agement in New York City, and the headquarters
Of the corporation at Winstead, Conn, All were
now concentrated in Hartford, and the necessary
capital and determination applied to insure sue
cess.
1t had long been evident to those familiar with
the Sewing Machine business that the real wants
Of the people had not yet been met by any Of
the various machines in the mafket. To ascertain
1 what might be the deficiencies, and then labor
faithfully to produce such machine as would sup
ply the qualities lacking in others, was the first
work to which the projectors Of the New Weed
Company applied themselves; and time, labor,
and capital freely used for this object having
satisfied themselves that simple mechanism
and greater capacity adaptation to ofaH grades
the results to be aimed for in the new machine, q
number of the most experienced and competent
mechanics in tn country were enlisted under the
chief supervision of Mr. Geo. A. Fairfield. The old
Weed" was completely Invested all ancient ana
cumbersome attachments and appliances. without
which 1t had been heretofore supposed a Sewing
Machine could not properlybe madei and after
much time spent in invention and experiment the
new Of. F." was produced and submitted for ap-
prova!.
To sec perfect Sewing Machine with half the
usual parts taken away, stripped almost entirely
Of the ordinary 'wire spring, clPmps,' 81 ranks"
'eams" ''feeding wheels" 'cog," ''rushpads,"
'bobbn hooks" and other Sewing machine para
phernalia, and such simple artistic mechanism
executing faultlessly every imaginable variety of
work, was an event seemingly not expected, and
as grating as 1t was novel; yet such appeared 10
he the result. But before presenting the nema-
chimes TO the public, ii was submitted TO a course
Of trial more severe than ever Sewing Machine
had been called upon. to undergo; thoroughly
tested in very con aeivable way, for ascertaininr
whethcrany point necessary to tscompleteness had
been overlooked, it received the highest encomI-
INNS and warm commendatiOn of all who Witnessed
Its wonderful performances.
Its inventor had claimed for Il general capacity
or executing work Of every description without
change Of ADJUSTMENT, from the most dell cate IA.
brio to the heaviest goods hitherto unattempted by
any machine and tits but simple Justice 10 saw tbat
these claims were fully substan tiated to the salts
faction of all examiners.
The few unimpOrtant changes which these eypc.
riments had shown to be necessary having been
made, arrangement were completed for PRODUCING |
the new machines in such quantitesa as ID was ex-
pected the demand would require, and the 'Fami. |
~ Favorit"'' was placed in the market as n cand- |
date for popular ayJr.
How fully these expectations have been realized
Is to some extent shown by tho standing
and business OF the Weed Company today.
lHclT TttuTHe snow u OF increase in /
ales, year after another far In excsss Of nny
ii niar in the country; and in seven wears,
business they have reached position among the
OF goods in their line, to attain
which their principal competitors have labored
or twenty years.
Each year they have been compelled to add
argely to their facilities for producing. and the
PRESENT season is exception to this rule the de
nand for their goods being greater than ever he
ore
with the highest commercial and financial sue
ess guaranteed by past experience, and deter
mined to maintain areputation for honorable deal
ng and oliahle craftsmanship second to none, the ,
ompany will spare no labor or expense to keen
heir machines in the foremost position which they
ow hold .
Honestly believing their "F. f." to he the hest :
lachine in the world, and supported by the unani-
nous favorable verdict Of its patrons they regard
he time as not far distant when even their com.
etltors must acknOw ledge the truth and Justice
their claim-that they have produced the Se,r.
% Machine for he People, aud the first representa-
i've of its class.