1873 - Elliott West's Binding Folder patent model
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content: This patent model, submitted by Elliott West, uses a Wheeler & Wilson production line sewing machine to house and show West's invention of a binding folder attachment, patent # 138,772. The machine itself, which has a serial number of 27,744, dates from 1859. The Wheeler and Wilson Company was the largest manufacturer of sewing machines from their first year of operation, 1852, through the 1860s. Wilson had invented the still-used stationary rotary bobbin and the four-motion feed. The style of the machine changed very little in its first two decades.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Sewing Machines
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: TE.T06425.000
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content: T06425.000
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content: sewing machine patent model