The daily gazette., 1877-05-23
A NEW INDUSTRIAL WONDER.

GREAT LABOR AND HEALTH-sAvrNa IN
vENTIoN-END OF THE TREADLB-
WHAT THB sEwINo-MAcHINE WORLD
HAS HEM WAITING FOR. A1
An exhibition was given on Saturday
to number of gentlemea of a new
spring power for driving sewing mach
ines and other light machinery. As ap-
piled to the sewing machine is far ex-
ceeds any force, outside of steam, that has
yet been produced; and we are not al
together certain that its economic adyan-
tages over fuel and labor will not make
1t strong competitor of the latter. It's
principal feature in the creation of force
arises simply from two single springs
about thirty feet in length and three
inches in width. The ends of both
springs are fastenedito shaft running
through the centre of a metal frame, in
which they are secured. This is enclosed
In small cabinet, on which the sewing
machine rests, the iron legs and other ap-
purtenances being entirely dispensed
with. In order that the force exerted by
these springs may be uniform through
out their entire length, there is an auxi-
liary spring applied to each, the ends of
which are left free to act, and which are
brought into action when the main
springs are nearly unwound, and conse-
quently have become weakened, thus re-
inforcing the mainsprlngs to such an ex-
tent as to cause them to act at the weak
points with the same power that it does
| at the strongest, imparting to the sewing
machine uniform power throughout its
| entire movement. .t
The attachment Is constructed Of diff
| ferent forces, having a capacity of ten,
fifteen, twenty, twenty-five and thirty
yards for every time it is wound up, re-
quiring from one to two minutes to wind,
according to its force, which can be ac-
complished by ten-year-old girl, and
run from two to twelve hundred stitches
per minute, sewing yard every one or
two minutes, at the will of the operator.
A lady sewing for family purposes will
make during the day, including the time
| occupied in preparing the work, from
forty to fifty yards, which would require
| the force to be wound up about three
times a day. Regular operators. who
make business of sewing, now accom-
plish, where the work is prepared for
| them, about two hundred yards in one
| day, but utterly fail to. keep it up over
two or three successive days, owing to
| the severe labor entailed upon the work
| ing of the treadle. With this attach
ment the operator is enabled to sew from
four to i've hundred yards daily for an
unlimited period, and the labor and
worry compared with the treadle ma
chine is nothing at all.
Experiments made with the largest
s9wing-machines, on the heaviest work,
driven by this force, have given over
three times greater speed than can be
obtained from the treadle. Leaving out
the question of labor altogether, this ut.
tachlnent enables the operator to do rs
mu ID work in two days AZ can be done
with the treadle in an entire week, so
that with less hard work, and fewer
hours of labor, the operator can earn
more money! merit which will cause it
to become part and parcel of the port
able property of every household in the
land. ...-.. ut,.
Statistics place the sewing machines in
use in the United States at between four
and five million; less than 100, 600 of these
are driven by steam, and nearly 1000 900
are owned and worked by individual
operators, owning from five to ten ma
chimes, in the interest of large domestic
manufactures To supply these alone,
with this attachment, will require tho
production of between four and five
hundred machines daily for seventeen
years, the limit of the patent.
A company has been organized ON the
basis of this patent, under the name and
title of the "United States Spring Motor
Company" having their Office and sales
room at No. 805 Arch street, and have
already commenced to manufacture ma
chimes.
Every one who witnessed the working
of the machine ,and realizes the fact that
for the past thirty years the sewing-ma-
chine companies have been creating a
demand for such an attachment, irresist-
ably arrives at the conclusion that it is
the creation and development of busl-
ness, great In all the elements of fnans
cial prosperity.