Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-02-12
Wheeler & Wilson's New No. Sewing
Machine.

The following are extracts from ii Report to
the Board of Managers Of the New York Ameri
can Institute, made Nov. ii, 1874, by Judges
appointed to examine Sewing Machines on eX-
hbition at the Institute. The Wheeler VIII
sons New No. was claimed to be so great an
Improvement, both upon the well-known fam-
ly machine made by the same company. and
upon all other sewing machines, as entitled it
to recognition as Il new and valuable invention.
After giving an extremely thorough and mi
mute examination of the machine, the Judges
say
At the commencement of our examination we
were provided with several complete sets OF all
the working parts us they came from the manu-
factory, and were at liberty to make our own
selection for the construction of a complete
machine in our presence. We thus had, to Il
large degree. demonstration of the nicely OF
the manufacture. Every part WAS formed TO
fit every other part with exact precision. So
accurately, for instance, did the several rotat-
ing hooks fit in the same bearing, that while
entering it each one of them, without such con-
tact as required force manitestly compressed
the air within in reaching its proper seat.
The Judges enumerate and describe some OF
the points of novelty and excellence of the ma
chine Among others
The simple and efficient device for producing
variable motion for the rotating hook
The independent take-up lever which secures
the tightening of the stitch, under the best pos
sihle circumstances
The peculiar form of the hook and the use Of
a bobbin holding great quantity OF the under
thread;
The simple device for producing and vary-
ing the tension of the lower-thread;
The hollow steel ncedle-har;
The facility Of applying and using many use
full attachments-the hcmmer, binder, corder,
ruliler, etc.
Having completed the construction of our
trial machine in the way indicated, il was
mounted upon a convenient stand, and submit
ted to every variety of test as 10 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 pres
ence without the slightest hesitation or failure
and without the discoverable loss OF so much
single stitch would convey an Inadequate
idea of the complete success achieved.
Beginning with II needle measuring but sew
enteen-onc-thouSandIho of IN inch in diameter
and operating with the finest thread upon lace
goods, the same machine passed through all
the stages OF muslin. and hruadcoth of all con-
ceivable thicknesse> and foldings and ridgngs
and then with walked thread stitching through
portions of heavy harness leather.
. After this demonstration of its range of
work, We entered upon the nicer tests required
for i family and light manufacturing machine
In this department We witnessed all the varie-
ties of work on hemming, telling aud brading,
and also n degree OF success in single and dou-
BILE ruffiing, which We believe unparalleled -
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
IL IL
same nnfailing perception w'S exhibited, not
ouly in the work piece, but in the execu-
ton of each individual stitch With much pa
tient examination, we were unable to discover
a single defect. II is machine
which by the proof submitted, ICE are satisfied,
must erehtudiiy superssde oil others now knoea
rih trhich IL GENES "a competition.