IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Newton Wilson, of 144, High Holborn,.
in the County of Middlesex, Sewing Machine Manufacturer, and James,
Pitt, of Cleckheaton, in the County of Yorkshire, Machinist, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SEWING MACHINES."
"
Invention of “Improvements in Apparatus for Sewing Machines,”
Sealed the 28th August 1860, and dated the 5th March 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Newton Wilson
and James Pitt at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 5th March 1860.
WILLIAM NEWTON WILSON, of 144, High Holborn, in the County of
Middlesex, Sewing Machine Manufacturer, and JAMES PITT, of Cleckheaton,
in the County of Yorkshire, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SEWING MACHINES," to be
as follows:-
Our improvements consist in a new combination and arrangement of parts
in a binding apparatus, by which an absolute precision is effected in the
folding of the binding, and a power of adjustment obtained in connection there-
with, so that the binding may be of greater or less width, and may be laid on
more or less on either side of the fabric, and this we accomplish in the following
manner-To a piece of metal, curled at one point, somewhat in the form of
the letter S reversed, we attach by two screws a double clip, one end of which

page_text: rests firmly on the upper part of the curl, and the other enters a small slot in
the bottom of the curl, thereby fixing absolutely the position of the binding.
Where the binding is required to be laid on more on one side than the other.
the clip is made in two separate parts, both being adjusted by the screw by
which they are connected with the fixed plate, which in its turn is screwed to
the machine. The binding is conducted by a guide from the back or side of
the instrument, behind the clips and into the bottom of the curved part, where
it is laid on the fabric and conducted to the needle. In connection with this
instrument we put a drag on the binding by means of a spring or a screw, or
we can apply any of the ordinary tensions. The whole of the apparatus is
so arranged that no alteration is required in the machines to which it is
attached, and it can be attached or detached at pleasure.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Newton Wilson and James Pitt in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 5th September 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
NEWTON WILSON, of 144, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Sewing
Machine Manufacturer, and JAMES PITT, of Cleckheaton, in the County of
Yorkshire, Machinist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
William Newton Wilson and James Pitt, Her special licence that we, the
said William Newton Wilson and James Pitt, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said William Newton Wilson and
James Pitt, our 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
APPARATUS FOR 'SEWING MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said William Newton Wilson and James Pitt, or one of us, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 per-

page_text: formed, 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 we, the said William Newton Wilson and James
Pitt, do hereby declare the nature of our 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:-
This Invention consists in the general construction of an apparatus for
facilitating the operation of putting binding on the edges of articles or garments
in an even or uniform manner.
The accompanying Drawing shews the principle and details of the Invention;
wherein Fig. 1 represents a flat view or plan of the apparatus in its working
condition fixed to the bed of a sewing machine, and Fig. 2 is a side or front
view of the same. The detached diagrams are as follows; viz., Fig. 3 is a
view of the under side of the bottom plate; Fig. 4 is an elevation of this
plate with its fixed studs magnified; Fig. 5 is the under side of the upper clip
or top plate; Fig. 6 is an edge view of the same; Fig. 7 is a side, and Fig. 8,
a plan view of a hooked wire, being the lower clip. The following letters
denote the same parts in all the Figures.
A, A, is the lower plate, which in Fig. 1 is shewn to be fastened down to
the table or bed of a sewing machine by the set screw a, passing through &
slot hole so as to be free for adjustment; B is a pillar stud fast to the lower
plate, having a hole through it for the reception of the lower clip wire, with
a set screw C in the side to fix the clip, and also a set nut at the top to fix
the upper clip; D is the upper clip, which is kept in its longitudinal position
by the pillar B, and the wire stud e fixed in the bottom plate; E is another
pillar stud fixed also in the bottom plate, and furnished at top with a set
nut f. This pillar is for supporting an arm g, the descending stud h, around
which passes the binding material; F is another wire stud fixed to the lower
plate, for guiding the binding material in its passage to the work.
This apparatus is prepared for use by passing the end of the binding
between the descending stud h, and the pillar E, then between the stud F, and
the back of the circular mouth at h, h, (see Fig. 4); it is then drawn towards
the back of the machine entering the semicircle I, where it will assume a
folding or circular shape. The work to be bound is then put into the fold of
the binding, and brought under the needle and pressure foot of the machine,
and the stitching commenced.
Should the binding come forward too freely from the reel or not sufficiently
free, the set nut f, must be loosened, and the arm g, turned so as to cause the

page_text: binding to embrace a greater or lesser portion of the circumference of the
pillar E, by which means the tension will be regulated.
The top edge of the binding is guided by the small hook in the end of the
upper clip, and the bottom by that of the wire or lower clip, keeping both in
the same vertical line, or so that one may stand forward beyond the other.
The hook in the plate D, presses slightly on the top of the semicircular
mouth I, and that of the wire C against the bottom. The slot in the bottom
plate (Fig. 3,) is for receiving the hook end of the wire.
In cases where the binding used has no selvedge, we apply an instrument
as shown by Figs. 9 and 10, to fold the edges inside as the binding is being
laid on the fabric. The black lines in Fig. 9, represent the form of the matrix,
and the space marked I, I, is the opening into which the binding is drawn
through in its way to the needle. The lines J, J, shew the position of the
material or part of garment to be bound; Fig. 10 represents the apparatus in
plan as laid on the bed of the sewing machine in a similar position to the one
shewn by Fig. 1, and fastened by a set screw passing through a slot hole for
easy adjustment to the line of the needle.
We claim the general arrangement of binding apparatus as herein described
and illustrated by the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Newton Wilson, on behalf of
myself and the said James Pitt, have hereunto set my hand and seal,
this Fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty.
W. N. WILSON. (L.S.)