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  2. Elna (Swiss company) - Wikipedia

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    Elna's drop-in rotary hook runs with little movement or noise, unlike oscillating shuttle machines popular at the time, which require a bobbin case and vibrate at high speeds due to air resistance. Casas also recognized that "when a woman finishes sewing she wants to get the machine out of the way," [ 4 ] so Elna was designed to be portable and ...

  3. Lockstitch - Wikipedia

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    The hook mechanism carries the upper thread entirely around the bobbin case so that it has made one wrap of the bobbin thread. Then the take-up arm pulls the excess upper thread (from the bobbin area) back to the top, forming the lockstitch. Then the feed dogs pull the material along one stitch length, and the cycle repeats.

  4. Rotary hook - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Bobbin driver - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. 2024 NFL playoff picture: Who’s sealed their spot and who’s ...

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    The NFL playoffs are nearly in sight and the heat is on for some teams still in the fight to make the postseason.. Week 15 saw the number of teams that have qualified for the playoffs increase to ...

  7. Vibrating shuttle - Wikipedia

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    A vibrating shuttle is a bobbin driver design used in home lockstitch sewing machines during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. It supplanted earlier transverse shuttle designs, but was itself supplanted by rotating shuttle designs.

  8. Russia won't cancel Navalny's 'terrorist' status even though ...

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    Russia's financial watchdog has rejected a request to remove late opposition leader Alexei Navalny from its list of "terrorists and extremists" even though he is dead, his widow Yulia Navalnaya ...

  9. Mom Faces Backlash After Taking Down Christmas Tree ... - AOL

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    "Take my Christmas tree down with me because there's no point my kids don't have anything to open under my tree for Christmas morning," the TikTok video begins, showing the mom disassembling the tree.