IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Clegg, of No. 31, Finsbury Place, in the
County of Middlesex, Manufacturer of Sewing Machines, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES."
Sealed the 14th April 1870, and dated the 19th October 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Clegg at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th October 1869.
I, ARTHUR CLEGG, of No. 31, Finsbury Place, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturer of Sewing Machines, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES," to
be as follows:
My Invention relates to all lock-stitch machines with a revolving
hook or looper and spool, in which the work travels from the left-hand
to the right-hand side of the machine, or in a line with the shaft on
which the said hook or looper revolves, such as the Wheeler and Wilson,
the Elliptic, the Clegg and Blacklock, and others.

page_text: In such machines as hitherto constructed the material is fed to the
needle by means of the feed point pushing the material forward to the
needle, which is objectionable, more especially when the material to be
sewn is thin.
Now my Invention consists in so lengthening and forming the feed
bar and arranging the slot in the cloth plate through which the feed
point acts that the feed point comes in front and on the right-hand side
of the needle instead of behind and on the left-hand side of it, and in
consequence feeds the material to the needle by means of pulling it
over the surface of the cloth plate, thus ensuring a perfect and reliable 1
feed. The feed bar and feed point are worked in the usual manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Arthur Clegg in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 19th April 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
CLEGG, of No. 31, Finsbury Place, in the County of Middlesex, Manu-
facturer of Sewing Machines, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Arthur Clegg, Her special licence, that I,
the said Arthur Clegg, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Arthur Clegg, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Arthur Olegg, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal

page_text: Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Arthur Clegg, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, that is to say :-
My Invention relates to all lock-stitch machines with a revolving
hook or looper and spool in which the work travels from the left-hand
to the right-hand side of the machine, or in a line with the shaft on
which the said hook or looper revolves, such as the Wheeler and Wilson,
the Clegg and Blacklock, and other such like machines.
In such machines as hitherto constructed the material is fed to the
needle by means of the feed point pushing the material forward to the
needle, which manner of feed is objectionable, more especially when
the material to be sewn is thin.
Now my Invention consists in so lengthening and forming the feed
bar in certain machines and so forming and arranging the slot in the
cloth plate through which the feed point acts that the feed point comes
in front and on the right-hand side of the needle instead of behind and
on the left-hand side of it, and in consequence feeds the material to the
needle by means of pulling it over the surface of the cloth plate, thus
ensuring a perfect and reliable feed. The feed bar and feed point are
worked in the usual manner.
In order that the nature of my Invention and the manner in which
the same is to be performed may be particularly described and
ascertained this Specification is accompanied by a Sheet of Drawings
having figures and letters of reference marked thereupon, the like
letter being used to denote a similar or corresponding part in each
Figure.
In these Drawings Figure 1 is a front view, and Figure 2 a side view
of a machine constructed according to my Invention; Figure 3 is a plan
of the cloth plate of the same; Figure 4 is a plan of the feed bar; and
Figures 5 and 6 are respectively a plan and a section of the cloth
presser.
In the Drawings the feed bar lengthened and formed in accordance
with my Invention will be found marked a in Figure 1. The slot in cloth

page_text: plate is marked 6 (see Figure 3), and is so formed or made as to allow
of the working of the improved feed point within it. By so lengthening,
configuring, and arranging the feed bar with its point and the slot in
cloth plate the teeth on feed point come with such a position that they
act effectively, as herein-before explained, by pulling the cloth or other
material to be sewn over the surface of the cloth plate instead of pushing
it, the latter being an objectionable kind of feed, especially when the
material is thin.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the means by which I effect the same, I wish it to be
distinctly understood that what I claim is, the lengthening and forming
the feed bar with its point, and also the slot in the cloth plate of the
Wheeler and Wilson, the Clegg and Blacklock, and such like machines,
in the manner and for the purpose in this Specification and the accom-
panying Drawings described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Clegg, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
MATTHEW AUGUSTUS SOUL.
ARTHUR CLEGG. (L.S.)