IMPROVE- MENTS IN SEWING MACHINES AND APPARATUS CONNECTED THERE WITH
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Foxwell, of the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Card Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SEWING MACHINES AND APPARATUS CONNECTED THERE WITH."
Sealed the 16th August. 1859, and dated the 12th May 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Foxwell at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th May 1859.
I, DANIEL FOXWELL, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Card Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES AND APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH,"
to be as follows:-
First, I employ an improved arrangement of parts for actuating the needle
by means of a cam, slide, rocking lever, and also another slide to which the
needle is attached.
Secondly, an arrangement of machinery by which two needles shall pierce
the material on the same side one after the other, and by means of a peculiar
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page_text: forked instrument form a peculiar stitch, together with the springs, levers,
and other requisite parts in combination.
Thirdly, an improved support or side frame, in which the necessary
centres or bearings are surrounded by an ornamental design, so as to combine
beauty with utility.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Daniel Foxwell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th November 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE. PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL
FOXWELL, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Card
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of May, in the year: of our Lordi
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Daniel Foxwell, Her special licence that I, the said Daniel
Foxwell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Daniel Foxwell, 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 "IM.
PROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES AND APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Daniel Foxwell, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Daniel Foxwell, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):-

page_text: First, I employ an improved arrangement of parts for actuating the needle
by means of a cam, slide, or connecting rod, rocking lever, and also another
slide to which the needle is attached.
Secondly, an arrangement of machinery by which two needles shall pierce
the material on the same side of the fabric one after the other, and by means of
a forked instrument form a peculiar stitch, together with the springs, levers,
and other requisite parts in combination.
These improvements will be clearly understood by referring to the figures
and letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, the first part being shewn
in Figs. 1 and 2, and the second part in Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
In Figs. 1 and 2, a represents the needle; b, the slide to which it is
attached; and c, the rocking lever, the latter being put in motion by con-
necting it with the slide d, from which projects a pin or stud e, furnished
with a friction roller, fitting the grooved cam fin the cam wheel g. Instead
of the slide d, a connecting rod may be substituted when desired.
In Figs. 3 and 4 the two needles on the top side are shewn at h and i,
supplied with thread from the two reels k,also seen in Fig. 5, the said threads
being guided over studs 7, and passing in cross directions to the fingers m,
from whence they pass also in cross directions to the needles, the required
alternate motion of which is obtained by the rocking levers n and cam o.
When the threads are passed through the fabric, they are guided by my usual
forked instrument, but having no eye, and carrying no thread, thereby pro-
ducing a peculiar stitch with the top thread only, no under thread being
required. A side view of the stitch is shewn in Fig. 6, a top view in Fig. 7,
and an under view in Fig. 8.
Having thus fullydescribed the nature and particulars of mysaid Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be
distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein
set forth, as such may be varied or modified without departing from the
principle thereof; but I claim as my Invention, and which to the best of
my knowledge and belief has not been hitherto used within the realm,-
Firstly, an improved arrangement of parts for actuating the needle by
means of a cam, slide, or connecting rod, rocking lever, and also another
slide to which the needle is attached.
And, secondly, an arrangement of machinery by which two needles shall
pierce the material on the same side of the fabric one after the other, and by
means of a forked instrument form a peculiar stitch, together with the springs,

page_text: levers, and other requisite parts in combination, as such improvements are
herein described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Foxwell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Daniel Foxwell, in
the presence of
DANIEL FOXWELL. (L.S.)
E. J. HUGHES, Patent Agent,
Manchester.