The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-01
A WONDERFUL INVENTION

n Sowing haththe, Nalico trintlng and "a
Lace Manufacturing Machine Combined
in One; and Wound up Like Clock or
Muslc-box, Works Perfectly all its
Parts simultaneously, on Exhibition To-
day.
This is truly an era of wonderful and
curious and useful inventions for the rapid
and economical execution of all kinds of
work. The latest device we have seen is
that now on exhibition in this city, II is a
complete sewing, calico printing and lace
making machine, by which any lady NAV
in only Il few hours, manufacture and
print to suit her taste from the
yarn itself, several yards of calico
and about one Quartr thereof of lace
simultaneously with her sewing. The ma
chine in question is about thrice the size of
the ordinary Singer, Howe or other sewer,
but is more like an upright piano, though
somewhat larger, and is operated by u
crank with the hand or a pedal, or by being
wound up like clock. The yarn for the
cloth or calico and the thread for the lace
being placed respectively in a kind of re-
ceptaCle or chute at the top, while the pat.
terms and the colors IA number of which 90
with each instrument and can be had to or
der of various designs, at small cost, are
mounted around the periphery of the CEN
trail cylinder. Against this cylinder an en-.
graved copper drum passes, and be-
tween the two the cloth to be printed
and u thick blanket presses. The
cylinder is supplied with the printing ma
terial by means of furnishing roller,
which ,revolves in the box, supplying the
desired colors,
In the second section or receptacle 1.-THE
Lace there is a series OF warp-threads
placed perpendcularly land not horizon.
tally, as in the ordinary looms), the space
between each being sufficiently wide to ad.
init of quarter dollar to pass between
them, Behind these threads is row Of
ingeniously constructed Hat bobbins, OF
reels, resting on an arrangement called a
comb. bar. The bobbin which carries the
thread with it passes through two of the
| perpendicular threads Of the warp, and i.
lodged in another. Then, by serie.
of movements of these bobbin,
the lace is finally produced
By different adjustments or shifting of tn,
| machinery, by means Of slide-bar pro
truding, different varieties of lace can read
lily be had, such as the guipure, the honi.
ton, the pillow or bobbin, and the point
lace, etc
With this wonderfully unique mechan
lSuli luilldluTe ClOln anu lace factory
indeed, u mere child, wher
the yarn and the thread, the
patterns and the colors desired having al
been set, can turn out many yards per day
with little more eXertion than that required
for the common sewing machine. The in
strument can also be wound up like clock
or music box, and in this way works auto
matically by itself. Time was, and that
only recently, when the sewer was thought
to be wonderful and marvel, indeed, wher
| it stitched, hemmed tucked, frilled
etc. etc, but the present mechanism
is as far ahead of it, as il surpassed tn,
! the fingers by themselves. But as we said
this is an age of invention, and there is nc
| telling what the inventive and fertile brair
of to-day will produce.
To those who have never seen how cotton
yarn is converted into calico how the pat
terms are imprinted on, and how lac,
is made, this curious machine /
well worth worth visit 1t will be OF
free exhibition this morning only, an,
will be set in operation promptly at 1913
o'clock. sharp at Sanger Bros, and tn
genial agent, Mr. Sol. D. Hagen, represent
ing the patentee, General J. O. Kerr, will
explain its working to ladies', or to other
who may desire to take the agencies OF
commission for state and county rights
Colonel Wheat will take pleasure in direct
ing the ladies and Others to the place o
operation.