Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-31
WHEELER & WILSON'S NEW NO. 6
SEWING MACHINE.


Report, Nov. IA, 1874.
To the Board Of Managers:
GENTLEMEN: After full and impartial ex-
animation of the articles described, the under
igned judges make the following
RRPoRT--(A ABSTRACT:
That Sewing Machine No. 436 Wheel
er & Wilson's New No. g. was claimed
to be so 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
vention. Under these circumstances. an
extremely thorough and minute examina-
ton became both desirable and neces-
sary, 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 exam
ination 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 sew
eral complete sets of all the working
parts as they came from the manufac-
tory, and were at liberty to make our
own selection for the construction of a
complete machine in our presence. We
thus had, to large degree, demonstra-
ton of the nicely of the manufacture.
Every part was formed to fit every other
part with exact precision. SO accurate
~, for instance, did the several rotating
hooks fit in the same bearing, that
while entering it, each one of ther1,
without such contact as required force,
manifestly compressed the air within In
reaching its proper seat.
The judges enumerate and describe
some of the points of nov city and ex-
cellence of the machine. Among others:
The simple and efficient device for
producing variable motion for the TO-
tating hook;
The independent take-up lever, which
secures the Tightening of the stitch IN
der the best possible circumstances;
The peculiar form of the hook and the
use of bobbin holding great guam
tity 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
binder, corder, rufaer1 etc.
Having completed the construction of
our trial machine, in the way indicated,
it was mounted upon a convenient
stand, and submitted to every variety
of test as to the range of work that
could be executed upon it properly and
well, and without 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
discoyerable loss of SO much as single
stitch, would convey an inadequate idea
of the complete success achieved.
Beginning with q needle measuring
but II 1000 inch in diameter, and oper-
ating with the finest thread upon lace
goods, the same machine passed
through all the stages of muslin, and
broadcloth of allcenceivable thicknesses
and foldings and ridgings, and then
with waxed 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 manu-
featuring machine. In this department
we witnessed all the varieties of work
on hemming, telling and braiding, and
also a degree of success in single and
double ruffiing which we believe un-
paralleled. The varied kinds of work
on 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 in the work as piece, but in the
execution of each individual stitch.
With much patient examination, we
were unable to discover single defect.
The minuteness of this report is
simple 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 SUBJ
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 "lock-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 its
capacity and usefulness upon every
ordinarily possible kind of work, and
we can do no less than bear witness to
the entire and remarkable success which
has attended it's action in every part of
our examination. 1t is a machine
which, by the proof submitted, ne are
satisfied must eventually suaoersede all
others nOaO k,aOaon aCith aOhich it comes
in competition.
As the only conclusion at which we
can arrive after an investigation of the
several merits of each of the sewing
machines submitted, an investigation
which we have endeavored to make pa
tiently and completely in every respect,
and associating these with our best
judgment upon the merits of the sew
eral machines which are in use but not
On exhibition
We recommend for the Wseeler d