The Lake County star., 1874-12-31
WHEELER 4 WILSON'S NEW NO.
9 SEWING MACHINE.
Ansericsa Institute, New Yerk---yuAge'
Report, Nov. IA, I67l.

Report, Nov. II, Is1s.
To Me Board Of Managers;
GENTLEMEN-After full and impartial
examination of the articles described, the
undersigned judges make the following
REPORT (ABsTRACT):
That Sewing-machine No. 436 Wheel
er & Wilson's New No. g. was claimed
to be so great an improvement, both up
on the well-known family machine made
by the same company, and upon all other
sewing machines, as entitled it to recog-
milton as new and valuable invention.
Under these circumstances, an extremely
thorough and minute examination be-
came both desirable and necessary, not
only of its novelty but of the skill and
workmanship manifested in the fitting
and adjustment of all its parts. We
have risen from such examination with
an ample conviction that the claim, in
all its essential features, is well founded.
At the commencement of our exami-
nation, 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 selec-
ton for the construction of complete
machine in our presence. We thus had,
to large degree, demonstration of the
nicely of the manufacture. Every part
was formed to fit every other part with
exact precision. so accurately, for in
stance, did the several rotating hooks fit
in the same bearing, that while entering
it, each one of them without such con-
tact as required force, manifestly COM
pressed the air within in reaching its
proper seat.
The judges enumerate and describe
some of the points of novelty and excel
lence of the machine. Among others:
The simple and efficient device for pro-
ducing variable motion for the rotating
hook;
The independent take-up lever, which
secures the tightening of the stitch un-
der the best possible circumstances
The 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 I;
Tha hollow steel needle-bar;
The facility of applying and using
many useful attachments-the hemmer,
Dlnder, c0rder, rufner, &c.
Having completed the construction of
our trial machine, in the way indicated,
it was mounted upon convenient stand,
and submitted to every variety of test as
to the range of work that could be exccu-
ted upon it properly and we'll, and with
out other adaptation than simple changes
of needle and thread. 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 17-1000 inch in diameter, and opera
ting 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 waxcd
thread, stitching through portions of
heavy harness leather.
After this demonstration of its range
of work, we entered upon the nicer tests
required for family and light manutac-
turing machine. In this department we
witnessed all the varieties of work on
hemming, telling. and braiding, and also
degree of success in single and double
ruffling which we believe unparalleled.
The varied kinds of work on lady's
boot were then performed, and each of
these with the same marked success. In
deed, whatever the test, and whatever
the work presented, the same unfailing
perfection was exhibited, not only in the
work as piece, but in the execution of
each individual stitch. With much pa
tient examination, we were unable to
discover a single defect
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 ma
chine to be in the use of modified form
of the rotating hook as a substitute for
the shuttle, the hook carrying the upper
thread around the bobbin containing the
lower thread, and thus producing identi-
cally the same effect as the shuttle. The
superiority of this rotary motion over the
reciprocating motion of the shuttle ma
chimes cannot be disputed. The clock
stitch" which is thus secured has always
nence, 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 its
capacity and usefulness upon every or
dinarily possible kind of work, and we
can do no less than bear witness to the en-.
tire and remarkable success which has
attended its action in every part OF
our examination. 1t is a machine which,
By the proof submitted, ,ce are satisfied must
erentually supersede all Others no,o kno,cn
,oith ,chich IL comes in competition.
As the only conclusion to which We can
arrive after an investigation of the several
merits of each of the sewing-machines
submitted, ADMINISTRATION which we have
endeavored to make patiently and COM
pletely in every respect, and associating
these with our best judgment upon the
merits of the several machines which are
in use but not on exhibition:
We recommend .forMe Wheeler & Wilson Nf,r
No. s Sering-machine,l lhehighea a,rard mhich
IL is in he po'ctr Of the Institute 10 bcstou.
JOHN A.. .BAssETT,
MOSES ). BEACH,
III. w. STEELE, Judges.
JOHN MATTHEW'S,
REUBEN BULL.
The Board of Managers unanimously
approved the report, and recommended
for this machine the Gold Medal of the In
stitute.
The Board of Direction unanimously
approved this recommendation, and
awarded the Gold Medal to Wheeler &
Wilson, the only gold medal awarded for
a sewing-machine by the American In
stitute for many years.
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