Sewing Machinery: Being a Practical Manual of the Sewing Machine, Comprising Its History and Details of Its Construction with Full Technical Directions for the Adjusting of Sewing Machines
| Author(s): | John W. Urquhart |
| Category: | Tools |
| Publisher: | London: Crosby, Lockwood & Co. |
| Publish date: | Jan 1, 1881 |
| ISBN: | 0009900000380 |
| Number of pages: | 241 |
The invention of what is known as the lock stitch, and of the mechanism by which it is produced, is due to America, and dates from about 1844.
Table of contents
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
SECTION I. HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE SEWING MACHINE.
CHAPTER I. INVENTION OF THE SEWING MACHINE: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH.
CHAPTER II. THE ELEMENTS OF STITCHING MECHANISM
CHAPTER III. SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINES.
CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIONS OF ROTATING-HOOK MACHINES.
CHAPTER V. SINGLE-THREAD SEWING MACHINES.
CHAPTER VI. PROPORTIONS OF NEEDLES AND THREAD TO WORK.
SECTION II. DIRECTIONS FOR ADJUSTING THE VARIOUS TYPES OF SEWING MACHINERY.
CHAPTER VII. THE ADJUSTING OF WHEELER AND WILSON MACHINES.
CHAPTER VIII. THE ADJUSTING OF SINGER MACHINES.
CHAPTER IX. THE ADJUSTING OF GROVER AND BAKER MACHINES.
CHAPTER X. ADJUSTMENTS OF THE "LITTLE WANZER" MACHINE.
INDEX.
