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The Improved Family, later replaced by the Model 15, is a sewing machine produced by the Singer Manufacturing Company during the 19th century. In 1895, it was replaced by the very similar Model 15. It utilizes an oscillating shuttle, but is otherwise quite similar to the Model 27-series machines. [1] Singer Model 15
Needle moves slightly upward to form a small loop in the upper thread at the needle's eye. 4 Shuttle is midway, and its point ('hook') has passed through the loop in the upper thread. Upper thread is now looped around the shuttle's waist. Needle is up. 5 Shuttle is forward again, having completely passed through the loop in the upper thread.
1851 by Allen B. Wilson [8] Figures from Wilson's patent 9041, showing rotary hook and bobbin: Rotary hook machines hold their bobbin stationary, and continuously rotate the thread hook around it. The design was popularized in the White Sewing Machine Company's 'Family Rotary' sewing machine [9] and Singer's models 95 and 115. [10]
A Singer 1851 sewing machine. Singer's original design was the first practical sewing machine for general domestic use. It incorporated the basic eye-pointed needle and lock stitch, developed by Elias Howe, who won a patent-infringement suit against Singer in 1854.
The rotary hook or rotating hook is a bobbin driver design used in lockstitch sewing machines since the 19th century. It triumphed over competing designs because it can run at higher speeds with less vibration. Rotary hooks and oscillating shuttles are the two most common bobbin drivers in use today.
Parts of a sewing machine needle and comparison of several types of needle points and parts. A sewing machine needle is a specialized needle for use in a sewing machine. A sewing machine needle consists of: [1] shank - clamped by the sewing machine's needle holder; shoulder - where the thick shank tapers down to the shaft
Cotton-spinning machinery is machines which process (or spin) prepared cotton roving into workable yarn or thread. [1] Such machinery can be dated back centuries. During the 18th and 19th centuries, as part of the Industrial Revolution cotton-spinning machinery was developed to bring mass production to the cotton industry.
The Singer Featherweight is a model series of lockstitch domestic sewing machines produced by the Singer Manufacturing Company from 1933 to 1968, [1] significant among sewing machines for their continuing popularity, active use by quilters and high collector's value.