US PATENTS IN 1876
This list of patents is far than be complete, further researches will be done, including patents for Needles and Knitting Machines.
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FIRST US PATENT FOR THE YEAR
US 171.641
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JANUARY 1876
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US 171.654 Henry A. Ellis
Needle Threader for Sewing Machine
The nature and objects of my invention are fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings and description. Figure I is an enlarged partial view of my threader and Figs. II, III and IV are enlarged views of my device in different positions. In the threader for which Letters Patent US 157.745 were granted me December 15, 1874, pivoted spring-jaws, after guiding the needle over the notched end of a bar retaining the thread, were swung down to leave the threaded needle exposed for removal ...
... what I claim is a needle-threader, composed of the sliding spring-clamp d and notched bar b', the sever all parts being constructed and operating together substantially as shown and described.
January 4, 1876
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US 171.792 Josiah Glines & Noel W. Stiles
Sewing Machine
The invention consists in combining a cam shaft, crank and pin, shuttle-carrier, race and ways; in combining a face-plate, attached to a reciprocating race, with a needle-backing plate and in combining a rotary shuttle, having thread-escape in heel, with a carrier having guard, all as hereinafter described.
January 4, 1876
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US 171.877 William A. Springer
Guides for Wax-Thread for Sewing Machine
Improvements in Guides for sewing machines, to be used in sewing loops or shoe-straps at the same time that, a lap-seam is sewed, in manufacture of boots and shoes, as will be hereafter explained ...
... for the passage of the needles and awls for sewing lap or double seams, with needles arranged diagonally with respect to the line of feed, substantially as shown and described in Letters Patent US 168.521 granted John M. Nichols, dated October 5, 1875 ...
January 4, 1876
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US 171.879 Roswell H. St. John
Sewing Machine Shuttle
The subject-matter of this invention is the improved shuttle of peculiar construction referred to in Letters Patent US 155.120, issued to me under date of September 15, 1874, for improvement in sewing machines and relates to what are termed reciprocating shuttles and particularly to those shuttles which are cylindrical in general shape, the bobbin being introduced at the rear end or heel of the shuttle and confined by a heel-piece.
January 4, 1876
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US 171.944 John McCloskey
Sewing Machine
January 11, 1876
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US 172.107 James S. Fletcher
Sewing Machine
January 11, 1876
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US 172.205 Augustus Thayer
Sewing Machine
January 11, 1876
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US 172.308 Bernard Frese
Shuttle for Sewing Machine
January 18, 1876
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US 172.379 Robert and George Blake
Guards for the Balance-Wheels of Sewing Machine
Our invention relates to the formation and arrangement of a metallic guard or screen adapted to partially inclose the driving or balance wheel and the crank-pin thereon, of a sewing or other similar machine driven by a pitman, &c. The guard, which serves to protect the clothing of the operator from contact with the crank connection and wheel, is represented at c in the drawings and is made of metal by casting or otherwise.
January 18, 1876
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US 172.478 William Pearson
Sewing Machines for Seaming and Binding over the Edges of Hosiery and other looped fabrics
January 18, 1876
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US 172.545 Barker C. Young & Lyman L. Barber
Sewing Machine
January 18, 1876
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US 172.612 James S. Copeland
Sewing Machine Shuttle
This invention relates to shuttles for sewing machines and consists in the combination of the shuttle-shell with a pivoted latch, having connected with it, at one end, a bearing for the bobbin-journal, or a cap to close the opening at the heel of the shuttle, the bearing or cap being arranged to be moved longitudinally with relation to the longitudinal axis of the shuttle and to swing in the arc of a circle to uncover the open end of the shuttle, substantially as hereafter described.
Assignor to Weed Sewing Machine Company
January 25, 1876
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US 172.676 Adam C. Van Sant
Revolving Hook for Sewing Machine
Assignor to Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
January 25, 1876
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FEBRUARY 1876
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US 172.966 Alfred G. Caner & Elizabeth Sloan
Platters to Sewing Machine
February 1, 1876
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US 173.123 Clifton D. Hunter
Boot & Shoe Sewing Machine
February 8, 1876
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US 173.278 James S. Fletcher
Sewing Machine
February 8, 1876
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US 173.665 John B. Price & Charles E. Billings
Sewing Machine
February 15, 1876
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US 173.837 John E. Wheeler & Lyman L. Barber
Wax-Thread Sewing Machine
This invention has for its object the automatic adjustment of the presser-foot, for work of varying thicknesses and is fully described hereafter, ...
... It will also be seen that by this arrangement the presser-bar always lifts a certain and uniform distance from the work, regardless of its thickness; the lift from the thickest work being exactly that obtained on the thin nest. The advantage consists in an automatic adjustment of the presser-bar for varying thicknesses of work, operated by the work, as the feeding advances and preventing the binding of the work between the presser-foot and work-plate, which is the result of a fixed lift, when unequal thicknesses are operated upon.
February 22, 1876
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US 173.937 Samuel M. Furman
Setters and Threaders for Sewing Machine Needles
Assignor of 1/3 his Right to Cornelius Bailey
February 22, 1876
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US 173.967 Jeremiah Keith
Sewing Machine
February 22, 1876
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US 174.095 Julius Stamm
Sewing Machine Shuttle
The objects of the invention are to provide the shuttle with a convenient means of introducing and removing the bobbin and also with a thread-guide, so secured to the side of the shuttle as to require no moving or handling of the guide in the operation of threading the shuttle.
February 29, 1876
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US 174.159 Sylvanus Sawyer & William Esty
Boot & Shoe Sewing Machine
February 29, 1876
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Bobbin Winder for Sewing Machine
February 29, 1876
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MARCH 1876
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US 174.429 Charles L. Noe
Bobbin Winder for Sewing Machine
March 7, 1876
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US 174.630 Patrick Kennedy Jr. & Nathan G. Linny
Bobbin Winder for Sewing Machine
March 14, 1876
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US 174.703 D'Arcy Porter & George W. Baker
Sewing Machine
March 14, 1876
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US 174.976 Robert Philip & Louis A. Philip
Sewing Cases
March 21, 1876
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US 175.064 Gibbons Frame
Fringing Attachments for Sewing Machine
March 21, 1876
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US 175.463 James A. House
Take-up for Sewing Machine
US 124.360 /1872
US 145.570 /1873
Assignor to The Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
March 28, 1876
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APRIL 1876
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US 175.602 Joseph L. Follett
Sewing Machine
April 4, 1876
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US 175.688 John W. Fries
Button-Sewing Attachment for Sewing Machine
April 4, 1876
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US 176.036 William H. Myers
Motor for Sewing Machine
Assignor of 1/3 of his right to E. H. Osborn and 1/3 to J. M. Fox
April 11, 1876
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US 176.148 John D. Sourwine
Ruffler Attachments for Sewing Machine
This invention is intended to so modify the construction of the ruffling attachment covered by United States Letters Patent US 163.699, granted to me May 25, 1875
April 18, 1876
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US 176.362 Charles L. Schuyler
Platforms for Sewing Machines
April 18, 1876
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US 176.636 Elijah L. Howard
Mechanism for Operating Sewing Machines
Assignor to John A. S. Graves
April 25, 1876
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US 176.660 John McCloskey
Sewing Machine
One feature of this invention consists in novel mechanism for imparting a positive motion to the shaft (which actuates the needle bar) continuously and without interruption throughout the entire revolution of the same, whereby a more steady, effective and free motion of the said shaft is secured than has hitherto been found practicable. The invention further comprises certain novel and advantageous combinations of parts for operating the feeding-dog, for feeding the cloth in directions at right angles, or thereabout, to each other and for, in other ways, facilitating the convenient and efficient operation of the machine. Furthermore, the invention consists in certain loop detaining and transposing devices in connection with a rotating hook and a reciprocating needle for working a single thread to produce a chain-stitch and, when a bobbin is used within the rotating hook, for producing a double or locked-thread stitch.
June 29, 1865 (?)
August 20, 1875
April 25, 1876
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MAY 1876
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US 176.772 Louis Chevallier
Wax-Thread-Feed Sewing Machine
May 2, 1876
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US 176.794 Robert Lamont
Sewing Machine for Braid, &c.
Assignor to William E. Doubleday
May 2, 1876
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US 176.880 Edward Murphy
Sewing Machine
May 2, 1876
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US 176.917
Eloi Bouscay Jr.
Sewing Machine
May 2, 1876
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US 177.037 Ausbert H. Wagner
Sewing Machine
May 2, 1876
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US 177.038 Ausbert H. Wagner
Take-up for Sewing Machine
May 2, 1876
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US 177.039 Ausbert H. Wagner
Sewing Machine
May 2, 1876
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US 177.040 Ausbert H. Wagner
Sewing Machine
May 2, 1876
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US 177.041 Ausbert H. Wagner
Sewing Machine
May 2, 1876
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US 177.042 Ausbert H. Wagner
Shuttle for Sewing Machine
The design of my invention is to reduce the weight and lessen the circumference of a shuttle and enable dust or dirt to escape from its interior when in use; to which end it consists in a sewing machine shuttle having its sides slotted longitudinally at two points, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter specified.
The weight of the shuttle is materially reduced by the removal of so much of its walls and thereby the noise and jar of the machine is correspondingly lessened, while, by means of the lower opening, dust and dirt, which would otherwise accumulate within and interfere with the operation of the bobbin, are permitted to fall harmlessly outward. Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, what I claim as new is:
The hereinbefore-described shuttle A, provided within its outer and lower sides with the longitudinal openings or slots a and a, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
May 2, 1876
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US 177.084 Georgiana L. Townsend
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May 9, 1876
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US 177.296 Daniel A. Sutherland
Presser-Feet for Sewing Machine
Assignor to himself and Joseph N. Smith
May 9, 1876
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US 177.501 Harry 0. Goodrich
Tuck Creaser for Sewing Machine
The objects of my invention are to construct the upper marker of a tuck-creaser so that it will have a sliding, or backward and forward, movement over the cloth, thus producing a well-defined crease, with less pressure than when the upper marker is pressed directly down upon the cloth and also to so construct such upper marker that it will not be liable to break in use, when made of sheet metal and I accomplish them by providing a double sheet-metal spring carrying one of the markers and so arranged and constructed that as it descends the marker is moved along over the cloth instead of being pressed down directly upon it. At the same time the spring of the metal is so distributed that it does not come at a single point and hence the liability to break is decreased.
May 16, 1876
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US 177.502 Harry C. Goodrich
Hemmers for Sewing Machine
May 16, 1876
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US 177.784 John H. Applegate & Charles B. Webb
Sewing Machine
May 23, 1876
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US 177.800 Samuel F. Burdett
Driving Mechanism for Sewing Machine
May 23, 1876
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US 177.948 John W. McDermott
Improvement in Sewing-Birds
May 30, 1876
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US 178.159 Levin T. Jones
Cams for Sewing Machine
May 30, 1876
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US 178.167 Thomas Langham
Rotary Knitting Machine
May 30, 1876
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JUNE 1876
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US 178.303 J. Kline
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June 6, 1876
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US 178.431 Joseph J. Graff
Sewing Machine Shuttle
My invention relates to an improvement in sewing machine shuttles, to that part known as the tension or thread-controlling device and it consists in the combination or arrangement, with the shuttle, of a pivoted plate or shield, that is provided with a spring within one side, so placed as to press against the side or upper part of the shuttle with more or less force as the side of the plate is brought against the shuttle, the thread being drawn out between the spring and the shuttle-face, in the manner as will more fully appear here in after.
Assignor of one-half his right to Orla H. Jewell and Andrew Showers
June 6, 1876
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US 178.478 J. Smith
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June 6, 1876
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US 178.602 E. S. Norconibe
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June 13, 1876
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US 178.661 E.S.Norcomhe
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June 13, 1876
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US 178.679 E. Shaw
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June 13, 1876
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US 179.022 T. S. Huntington
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June 20, 1876
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US 179.036 Arthur M. Leslie
Rufflers for Sewing Machine
June 20, 1876
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US 179.081 Eddy T. Thomas
Hemmers for Sewing Machine
Assignor to himself and Julius S. Shailer
June 20, 1876
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JULY 1876
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US 179.440 Charles J. Appleton & John J. Sibley
Sewing Machine for uniting looped fabrics
One object of our invention is to construct a machine to seam or overseam elastic or other knitted looped fabrics and to seam, overseam, join together, or bind other kinds of material at pleasure.
The second object is to seam, overseam and join together material or goods with the same kind of yarn that is used in the manufacture thereof as cotton, wool, or silk.
The third object is such an arrangement of the bars as to enable the machine to be kept constantly in operation.
The fourth object is such an arrangement of the needles as to enable them to seam or overseam, with the softest kind of knitting yarns, without wearing or chafing.
The fifth object is such an arrangement of the rack-bar as to stop the machine, if another bar is not placed in the holder and connected to the rack-bar in operation, before it has run entirely out.
July 4, 1876
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US 179.571 F. T. Knauss
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July 4, 1876
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US 179.702 J. G. Hollowell
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July 11, 1876
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US 179.709 Charles Marin
Sewing Machine for Embroidering
Assignor to himself and to Isidore Rosenthal
July 11, 1876
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US 179.795 Henry Jones
Piping Attachments for Sewing Machine
July 11, 1876
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US 179.893 A. J. Callahan
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July 18, 1876
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US 180.035 Allen Johnston
Tuck Marker Attachment for Sewing Machine
This invention relates to a tuck-marking attachment of the kind described and claimed in my Letters Patent US 170.375, of November 23, 1875, comprising a marker and gage combined to move simultaneously in opposite directions, the marker twice as fast as the gage. My present improvement relates to means for combining the marker and gage and the arrangement of the parts of the attachment. In lieu of connecting and operating the marker and gage by means of levers, I make use for the purpose of racks and pinions, by which I render the attachment much more compact and better adapt it for practical use.
July 18, 1876
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US 180.177 J. Van Lennen
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July 25, 1876
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US 180.225 P. E. Gullrandsen & J. C. Rettinger
Machine for Sewing Gloves
July 25, 1876
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AUGUST 1876
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US 180.541 Joseph Butcher
Sewing Machine Shuttles
My invention consists in certain improvements in the construction of a closed sewing machine shuttle, with reference particularly to the covering of the bobbin-cavity and the method of inserting and removing the bobbin. It also consists in an improved tension for the thread, as will be hereinafter described.
Assignor to himself and to George Butcher
August 1, 1876
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US 180.542 Joseph Butcher
Sewing Machine
This invention relates to that class of sewing machines which are provided with a reciprocating shuttle and make a lock-stitch. It consists essentially in the construction of parts whereby two complete stitch-movements of the needle, shuttle and feed mechanism are produced by one rotation of the driving cam-wheel, thus completing two stitches at the said revolution. Although but two movements are contemplated, that number being thought best, two or more movements may be produced without essentially varying the construction of the cam-wheel. The invention also consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the feed mechanism, the novel construction of the shuttle-carrier and various combinations which will be more fully described hereinafter.
Assignor to himself and to George Butcher
August 1, 1876
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US 180.765 H. R. Heyl
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August 8, 1676
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US 180.952 E. S. Spalding
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August 8, 1876
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US 181.158 Alonzo W. Eldredge
Rotary Shuttle Carriers and Shuttles for Sewing Machine
August 15, 1876
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US 181.531 John McCloskey
Rotary Hook Sewing Machine
This invention consists in a novel combination of a hook with a bobbin and an independent bobbin-frame, whereby the construction of the hook itself is materially simplified and whereby the hook is enabled to rotate in dependent of the bobbin. The invention further comprises the combination, with the bobbin, of a hook of peculiar construction, whereby the back of the needle-loop is carried behind the bobbin and the front of the said loop in front of the bobbin, throughout an entire revolution of the hook, in such manner as to form such loop complete without twisting the thread and without the help of the usual cast-off. The invention further comprises a novel combination of a fixed guide, with the bobbin and the hook, whereby the slipping of the needle-loop from the bobbin, during the formation thereof, as just described, is prevented.
August 29, 1876
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SEPTEMBER 1876
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US 181.879 Edwin J. Toof
Ruffling Attachment for Sewing Machine
September 5, 1876
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US 181.941 William Jackson
Boot & Shoe Sewing Machine
September 5, 1876
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US 181.997 Jeffery N. Sutherland
Mechanism for Operating Sewing Machine
My invention relates to an attachment for sewing machines, whereby they may be operated by hand, instead of, or in conjunction with, the ordinary foot-power and the invention consists in a system of levers removably-attachable to sewing machines and connected with the driving mechanism as, for instance, the treadle for the purpose of permitting the operation of the machine by hand alone or in conjunction with the treadle.
September 5, 1876
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US 182.096 Kate C. Barton
Sewing Machine
September 12, 1876
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US 182.108 John J. Donahoe
Cording Attachment to Sewing Machine
September 12, 1876
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US 182.158 John L. Boone
Carrier Attachment for Sewing Machine
September 12, 1676
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US 182.182 Rudolf Eickemeyer
Sewing Machine
September 12, 1876
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US 182.249 William Webster
Machine for Sewing Bags, &c..
Assignor of 1/3 his Right to Edington Detrick
September 12, 1876
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US 182.420 John Cutlan
Boot & Shoe Sewing Machine
September 19, 1876
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OCTOBER 1876
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US 182.804 Emil Cornely
Mechanism for Operating the Stop-Motion of Sewing and Embroidering Machine
October 3, 1876
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US 182.879 Willard W.Williams & Nathan S. Wakefield
Feed Mechanisms for Sewing Machine
October 3, 1876
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US 183.039 Joseph W. Bartlett
Improvements in Street Lamps
October 10, 1876
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US 183.050 Gustav Funk
Sewing Machine
October 10, 1876
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US 183.070 William Reid
Sewing Machine Shuttle
This invention relates, essentially, to the construction of shuttles adapted for holding and using hollow cops of thread for sewing machines, whereby much more thread can be placed in the shuttle than formerly and breakage of thread will in a great measure be prevented; moreover, since the thread is unwound from the interior of the cop and passes through a hole or holes in the shuttle and under a kink-removing spring, the unwinding process is more steady and kinks are completely removed from the thread in its passage out of the shuttle, all in contradistinction to using these threads on bobbins or spools, as generally practiced.
October 10, 1876
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US 183.330 Israel M. Rose
Embroidering Attachment for Sewing Machine
This invention consists in an attachment for sewing machines, the function of which is, in connection with the sewing devices of such machines, to produce an ornamental pattern upon the surface of a fabric. The principal characteristic of the invention is a rotating loop-forming mechanism, operated by the needle-bar; but it embodies details of construction and combinations of elements too fully hereinafter pointed out to need a preliminary description.
October 17, 1876
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US 183.333 Friedrick Ernst Schmidt & John Siebels Freese
Button-Hole Attachment for Sewing Machine
This invention relates to improvements in the feed mechanism usually employed on the sewing machine known as the "Union Button-Hole Machine", but is also applicable to button hole machines of different construction. The invention consists, first, in the use of a peculiar jointed lever and in its combination with all automatically-adjustable stop, for regulating the speed of the feed in proper degree, causing it to be slower when the cloth clamp describes a curve than when it moves in a straight line. The automatic stop is adjusted by a cam groove or guide formed in or on the intermittently-rotating feed-wheel. The jointed lever is oscillated and imparts motion to the feed-wheel by a vibrating friction lug, which enters a circular groove in the under side of the feed-wheel, or of a pinion connected therewith. The invention also consists in the application to the feed-wheel of a peculiar stop for centering the clamp preparatory to the operation of cutting the button hole and also in the arrangement of an adjustable mechanism for arresting the rotation of the feed-wheel and regulating the length of the stitching along the button-hole, all as hereinafter more fully described.
October 17, 1876
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US 183.338 James T. Sterrett
Tuck Marker or Creaser for Sewing Machines
My improvements have for their object the rendering of tuck-markers more efficient and reliable than as heretofore constructed and also the better adapting them for readily indicating and accurately determining the precise width of tuck desired and the precise width of space desired between the tucks.
October 17, 1876
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US 183.400 Charles F. Knoch
Machines for Sewing Furs
October 17, 1876
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US 183.528 George W. Baker
Shuttle for Sewing Machine
October 24, 1876
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US 183.564 Oliver S. Hazard
Feed Mechanisms for Sewing Machine
October 24, 1876
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US 183.678 James Jamieson
Take-up for Sewing Machine
Assignor to Richard Mott Wanzer
October 24, 1876
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US 183.836 Franklin H. Brown
Sewing Machine
October 31, 1876
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NOVEMBER 1876
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US 184.160 John A. Liebert
Sewing Machine Cabinet
November 7, 1876
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US 184.239 Thomas Hagerty
Button-Hole Attachments for Sewing Machine
Assignor to 1/3 of his Right to John B. Valdettaro and 1/3 to A. L. Wood
November 14, 1876
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US 184.347 William H. Dayton & James Alldis
Grooving Sewing Machine Needles
Assignor to Excelsior Needle Company
November 14, 1876
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US 184.348 William H. Dayton & James Alldis
Pointing Wire for Sewing-Machine Needles, &c..
Assignor to Excelsior Needle Company
November 14, 1876
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US 184.366 William Gillett
Sewing Machine Shuttle
My invention relates to shuttles for sewing machines and it consists in a frame or support for the bobbin, which also carries the tension and thread slide, that can be readily attached to or removed from the shuttle, the object being to provide a reliable support for the bobbin and an even and smooth tension on the thread.
November 14, 1876
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US 184.458 J.B. Button
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November 21, 1876
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US 184.477 J. ONeil
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November 21, 1876
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US 184.500 Alonzo W. Brown
Tucker for Sewing Machine
My invention consists of a tuck folding and gaging machine, in which the contrivance is such that the tuck is gaged by the previously formed tuck and there is another gage to regulate the width of the tucks and a guard plate to prevent displacement of one of the folders by the work.
November 21, 1876
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US 184.560 C. B. True
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November 21, 1876
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US 184.594 C. S. Cushman
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November 21, 1876
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US 184.644 John McCloskey
Sewing Machine
This invention comprises a novel combination of parts whereby, in a sewing machine, is secured a pause or cessation in the motion of the needle at the end of its downward stroke, in order to insure full time for the passage of the shuttle through the needle-loop. The invention further comprises a novel combination of a circular raceway, a rotary shuttle arranged to travel therein and provided with steadying-springs and a radial arm on the operating-shaft, whereby a steady movement of the shuttle in accord with the movement of the needle is secured. The invention further comprises a novel combination of leaf-springs, curved or bowed in their longitudinal direction, with the shuttle and the aforesaid raceway, whereby the smooth and frictionless operation of the springs in steadying the shuttle during its motion is provided for. The invention further comprises a novel construction of the said shuttle and its in closed bobbin, whereby easy access to the bobbin is provided for and whereby a proper tension to the shuttle-thread and its facile delivery are secured.
November 21, 1876
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US 184.824 Adam Böcher
Sewing Machine Take-Ups
This invention relates to a take-up mechanism which is composed of a lever mounted on a rock-shaft, which extends through the upper part of the face-plate of the needle-arm or goose-neck and on the inner end of which is secured a toe, which is thrown down by the action of a spring and which is acted on by a tappet secured to the needle-bar, said tappet and toe being placed in such relation to each other that the needle-slide can rise a short distance without imparting motion to the take up lever, thus allowing the shuttle to pass clear through the loop of the needle-thread before the take-up lever begins to draw up the needle-thread. By this arrangement the danger of breaking the needle-thread is avoided.
November 28, 1876
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US 184.860 Leo Griswold
Sewing Machine
The object of my invention is to so construct sewing machines having vibrating needle-bars, needle-bar guides and their equivalents, (which are designed to sew a zigzag stitch,) by means of certain new and simple devices, whereby the stitch may be varied (by means of a screw or its equivalent) from a straight seam to an extreme Zig-Zag, or any intermediate width of seam, as, desired, being entirely under the control of the operator.
November 28, 1876
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US 184.937 Robert Whitehill
Bobbin Winders for Sewing Machine
This invention relates to shuttle-bobbin winders for sewing machines in which the winder is provided with a wheel that is brought into contact with the fly or driving wheel of the machine to effect the winding and is released from said contact after the required amount of thread has been wound up on the bobbin. The invention consists in a bobbin-winder of this description that is swiveled or rocked to bring its wheel in contact with and release it from action by the operating-wheel of the machine and in which the construction is such that both the bobbin and the winding spindle work between two centers, subject to all easy axial spring pressure or hold and in which the same spring not only serves to thus hold the bobbin and winding-spindle, but also to keep the winder in position when its wheel is brought in contact with the operating-wheel of the machine and to provide for its release from such contact when required.
November 28, 1876
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US 184.938 Robert Whitehill
Sewing Machine
The invention consists in a combination, with the take-up of a double-thread or lock stitch sewing machine, of an intermittently and positively operated clamp, serving to hold onto the needle-thread till the take-up has drawn thread from between the shuttle-driver and the shuttle; an intermittently and positively operated needle-thread supplier, drawing thread from the spool when the said clamp is closed and a tension device arranged between the said clamp and needle-thread supplier and serving to hold the thread while the said clamp is open and thereby to prevent the take-up from pulling thread from the spool instead of drawing it through the cloth and to prevent the take-up from drawing more thread than is necessary. ...
November 28, 1876
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US 184.939 Robert Whitchill
Tuck-Creaser for Sewing Machine
This invention consists in a rocking or vibrating tuck-creaser, operating by spring pressure with a drawing action to effect the crease and comprising various combinations of parts, whereby a most perfect action, with every facility of adjustment, is obtained for the creaser.
November 28, 1876
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DECEMBER 1876
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US 184.959 Mary Duff
Hemmers for Sewing Machine
December 5, 1876
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US 184.961 G. W. Glazier
o
December 5, 1876
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US 184.989 James Crawford Smyth
Book-Sewing Machine
Assignor to Orianna Smyth
December 5, 1876
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US 185.021 Joshua H. Dymond
Sewing Machine Chair
December 5, 1876
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US 185.033 Frank M. Johnson
Sewing Machine
Assignor to one-half of his Right to Lester Goodenouge
December 5, 1876
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US 185.182 Fred A. Kursheedt
Platters for Sewing Machine
December 12, 1876
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US 185.399 Thomas A. Macaulay
Sewing Machine
December 12, 1876
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US 185.766 George W. Levin
Movable Needle-Holding Attachment for Sewing Machine
The object of my invention is to save time and avoid annoyance in threading the sewing machine needle, by bringing the needle from its normal working position to an angular position, more convenient for threading, after which the needle is returned to its original position and there firmly held while the machine is at work.
Assignor of one half his right to Charles E. Barrett
December 26, 1876
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US 185.811 John Wood
Sewing Machine for Embroidering
This invention is designed for the purpose of forming a line of embroidery or satin-stitch (either straight, waved, or otherwise) at some distance from the edge of the fabric and consists, principally, in the employment of two eye-pointed needles, placed at a distance apart corresponding with the width of the desired stripe, each having a separate thread and forming an ordinary stitch, in combination with a thread carrier or guide which carries the embroidery-thread from side to side by an alternate circular movement and lays it alternately behind the point of each needle just before the descent of the latter and then carries it round the front to the back of the other needle and so on alternately.
December 26, 1876
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