The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-27
ATLANTA'S EDISON.
A Georgia Sewing Machine that Runs
Itself
From the atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.

Itself.
From the atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.
Atlanta has sewing machine made In
Georgia, of Georgia iron, wood and steel,
and it runs ITSELF
This is the beginning of an industry
which mechanical experts say will revolu-
tionize the sewing machine business Of the
world.
For forty years sewing machine men have
been trying to devise a motor which would
do away with the pedal movement that is
doing so much damage. A great many
men have tried their hands at it and failed.
All sorts Of motors have been tried without
success.
1t remained for an Atlanta man to solve
the problem.
The patent rights for all foreign countries
have been sold and the man who bought
them has named Mr.. Brosius "the Edison
of the south.n
A stock company with $500, 900 capital
stock has been formed in Atlanta to make
the machines and motors, and all the stock
is taken but about 100000. The charter
will be secured on Oct. l, and the movers
in the enterprise say that they will be max
ing machines by the hundred in less than
three months.
But what is the motor1
1t is ''clockwork reversed" as Mr.. Bro
sius describes it, ''In ordinary clockwork
the springs start the motion and there is a
system of wheels to speed it down so as to
measure time In Mr.. Brosius' motor the
motion is started by springs, but the wheels
are SO arranged as to speed it up to rapid
velocity. OF course it takes power full
springs to furnish the required power when
the speed is multiplied. Mr.. Brosius uses a
four-inch coil OF heavy steel an inch and a
half wide, and say one-eighth to one-Slx-
teenth Of an inch thick.
Two such coils run sewing machine as
if it were a toy 1t takes lever two feet
long to wind them with ease, and a few
turns of the lever will run the machine fif-
teen minutes. 1t stitches through jeans
several times doubled, aud yet IL is SO easily
controlled by brake that in stitching mus
lin the speed can be regulated SO as to turn
the sharpest corner with nicely, or to stop
in an instant if it is desired.
The motor is the big thing.
The invention is applied now to the sew
ing machine, but the application of the mo-
tor will extend through the whole range OF
mechanics 1t will run a tricycle. or q
church organ or a railway tricycle. just as
well as sewing machine, ana j. I. James
thinks it will run hight buggy.
Mr.. Brosius says that for dentists use il
will beat anything they have ever tried
and it will cost less. Wherever a light anc
economical motor is desired it will find 6
place.
The company proposes to manufacture
motors and sewing Inacaines with motors
OF the sewing machines now in uSe-proba
bly, several millions in the United States
they calculate on supplying one-fifth with
motors, which will be attachabie to any
machine. One of the advantages of Mr..
Brosius' invention is that it works by
direct gearing with cogs and without belt
He attaches the motor to the end of the
machine shaft, and he has a patent on this
form of attachment.
In addition to the motor Mr.. Brosius has
| Invented and patented new mechanical
movement to run the shuttle, feed dog and
another piece of the sewing movement.
1t is something like the cam movement
| which runs the eccentric rod on steam
engine, but the cam, instead of a lump OF
one side of the axle. is round disc with
one side set in the center, and the whole
disc projecting and carrying the eccentric
| with il as it revolves.
| 1t makes a new serpentine movement
which Mr. Brosius says will apply to {
great many other things in mechanics, anC
| supply long desired motion which viii
| improve a great many machines and make
entirely new machines possible.
He was told by experts that such motion
was not possible in mechanics, but he wen
on and perfected it anyhow.
Mr.. Brosius is genius. This is not hi'
first invention by a large number. He
learned his trade with locksmith in Vir
GINA, and has made edge tools, including
carpenters tools, and sold them in New
York. During the war he made surgical
instruments for the surgeons of the confed
crate army.
While running a locomotive, he concluded
that there was no need of being in the ditch
as often as engineers find themselves, and
he invented combination rail, which pre-
vents the derailing of cars, even after the
flange breaks off a wheel
The physicians give the machine hearty
Endorsement, and sewing machine experts
have said that with good management the
company ought to sell 30, 900 machines the
first year. That would bring into the state
81 900, 900 where $500, 900 now goes out.
The motor machine will be made to sell
for the same price as other first-clas:
machines. Its economy is one of its best
features. The motor will be sold for price
within the reach of everybody.