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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1932 (includes original specification sheet), Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company Inc. patented improvements in or relating to woven pile fabrics. 

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1888, K. L. Offerman patented improvements to a barring-apparatus for wool. The fleece is led over the edge of a curved bar and while partially held by a slowly-rotating roller the burrs are torn by a rapidly-rotating roller.

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1888, F. Hainsworth patented wire fabrics. The fabric is formed of interwoven coiled springs. As each wire is made, a straight wire or rod is placed in it, and on intertwining the next coil it is made to take up the rod every time is engages a turn.

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1888, F. Hainsworth patented wire fabrics, making. The coils are formed and interlocked with other coils previously formed with straight wires passed through the, by forcing the wire through helical grooves in the spindle by push-wheels.

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1932 (includes original specification sheet), Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company Inc. patented improvements in or relating to methods of and apparatus for weaving tufted pile fabric. 

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1888, J. F. Golding patented improvements relating to a machine for making metal lattice-work or trellis-work by cutting and expanding sheet metal, the upper cutters being operated very similarly to the upper cutting-blade of guillotine shears.

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1933 (includes original specification sheet), Emil Stutz-Benz, a Swiss engineer in Germany, patented an apparatus for automatically interrupting the feed of material for spinning, twisting, and similar textile machines.

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1888, C. G. Hill patented Chain – stitching machines; lock-stitch shuttle sewing-machines; cords, applying. Lock-stitching, chain-stitching, or chain-stitching locked by one or two additional threads, which may be ornamental, is made by a rotating detached looper carrying thread bobbins and co-operating with an ordinary reciprocating eye-pointed needle.

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1888, Graham, J. patented a setting for a sewing machine. A supporting piece carries a pin which is inserted in the eye of the needle, and a bent slider which is caused by a spring, to press the needle against the fixed strip.

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1888, Gundelach, L. patented a sewing machine feed. This feed slides horizontally on pivots at one end and is pressed downward and backward by a spring at the other. It is raised by an extension engaging a cam carried by a rock-shaft which also carries the shuttle and is moved forward by contact of a projection with a cam.

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1888, A. E. Morrall patented sewing-needles. A longitudinal slot is made at the bottom of the eye to which the thread gains access by the diagonal slit.

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1888, C. Mundy patented double-loop stitching machines; knitted-fabric sewing machines. The machine is applicable for various kinds of work, including embroidery and seaming hosiery.

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1932 (includes original specification sheet), The Singer Manufacturing Company patented a trimming mechanism for sewing machines. Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of sewing machines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark. Best known for its sewing machines, it was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865, then The Singer Company in 1963. It is based in La Vergne, Tennessee, near Nashville. Its first large factory for mass production was built in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1863.

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1889, E. W. Rowley patented improvements to sewing machine stands. Relates to cabinets for sewing and similar small machines. Drawers are carried by the door of the cabinet; the door is pivoted so that it can turn through three-quarters of a circle.

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On this original linen-backed lithograph from 1888, A. Kahl patented an invention that related to winding-gear for spring motors for driving sewing-machines and other purposes.