Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-23
WHEELER & WILSON'S NEW NO. 6
SEWING MACHINE.

SEWING MACHlNE.
American Institute, New York-Judues, Re
port, Nov. IA, 1874.
To the Board of Managers:
GENTLEMEN-After full and impartial ex-
animation of the articles described, the under
signed judges make the following
REpoRT-( ABsTRAcT):
That Sewingmachine No. 436 wheel
er & Wilson's New No. g. was claimed
to be 50 great an improvement, both
upon the well-known family machine
made by the same company. and upon
all other sewing machines, as entitled it
to recognition as new and valuable in
ventlon. Under these circumstances, an
extremely thorough and minute exami-
nation became both desirable and neces-
sary, not only of it's novelty but of the
skill and workmanship manifested III
the fitting and adjustment of all its
parts. We have risen from such exam
nation with an ample conviction that
the claim, in all its essential features, is
well founded.
At the commencement of our ex-
animation, we were provided with several
complete sets of all the working parts as
they came from the mandatory, and
were at liberty to make our own selection
for the construction of complete ma
chine in our presence. We thus had, to
large degree, demonstration of nicely
of the manufacture. Every part was
formed to fit every other part with exact
precision. So accurately, for instance,
did the several rotating hooks lit in the
same bearing, that while entering it,
each one of them, without such contact
as required force, manifestly compress
ed the air within in reaching its proper
seat.
The judges enumerate and describe
some of the points of novelty and ex-
The simple and efficient device for
producing variable motion for the rotat-
ing hook; #
The dependent take-up lever, which
secures the Tightening of the stitch un-
der the best possible circumstances;
lhe peculiar form of the hook and the
use of bobbin holding great quantity
of the under thread;
The simple device for producing and
varying the tension of the lower thread !;
The hollow steel needle bar.
The facility of applying and using
many useful attachments-the hemmer
binder, corder, ruffier, sc.
Having completed the construction of
our trial machine, in the way indicated,
1t was mounted upon convenient
stand, and submitted to every variety
of test as to the range of work that could
be executed upon it properly and we'll,
and without other adaptation than
cIraraIn oh Of ,,oalla
The mere list of operations performed
In our presence without the slightest
hesitation or failure, and without the
discoverable loss of SO much as a single
stitch, would convey an inadequate idea
OF the complete success achieved.
Beginning with needle measuring
but 17-1O0O inch in diameter, and operat-
ing with the finest thread upon lace
goods, the same machine passed through
all the stages of muslin and broadcloth
of all conceivable thicknesses and fold
ings and ridgings, and then with waxed
thread stitching through portions of
heavy harness leather. - s. s
After this demonstration of its range
of work, we entered upon the nicer tests
required for family and light manufac-
turing machine. In this departmentwe
witnessed all the varieties of work on
hemming, telling, and braiding, and
also degree of success in single and
double ruffiing which we believe unpar-
alleled The varied kinds of work on a
lady's boot were then performed, and
each of these with the same marked
success. Indeed, whatever the test, and
whatever the work presented, the same
unfailing perfection was exhibited, not
only III the work as piece, but in the
execution of each individual stitch.
With much patient examination, we
were unable to discover single defect.
F. x
The minuteness of this report is sim
pie reflection of the care with which we
have endeavored to examine these
claims. We find the chief advantage of
this machine to be in the use of modi-
fed form of the rotating hook as a sub
stitute for the shuttle, the hook carry
ing the upper thread around the bobbin
containing the lower thread, and thus
producing identically the same effect
as the shuttle. The superiority of this
rotary motion over the reciprocating
motion of the shuttle machines cannot
be disputed. The clock stitch which
is thus secured has always ranked high
est on account of the permanence,
beauty, and general desirableness of the
stitching when done, and the wide range
of its application.
To these conceded advantages there
have been added, in our presence, the
severest and most searching tests of it's
capacity and usefulness upon every Or
dinarily possible kind of work, and we
can do no less than bear witness to tn ,
entire and remarkable success which has
attended it's action in every part of our
examination. It is a machine aUhich, By
the proof submitted, aDe are satisfied
naust eventually supersede all others
aoao kaaoaOn sUith aUh6ch 1T comes in COM
petition.
As the only conclusion to which we
can arrive after an investigation of the
several merits OF each of the sewing