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DOMESTIC
Sewing Machines
CHRONOLOGY
1861-69
William A. Mack & Co.
From 1861 William A. Mack and N. S. Perkins started manufacturing sewing machine and/or parts for sewing machine, in Norwalk, Ohio.
In 1863 William A. Mack of Seville, Ohio, obtained a patent US 38.592 issued the 19th of May, for a sewing machine which was an early example of Vibrating Shuttle Machine.
In 1866, William Mack of the firm Wm. A. Mack & Co., was building the Domestic sewing machine in Norwalk, Ohio, when his brother Frank Mack joined the company selling sewing machines from a wagon.
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1869
In 1869 the Domestic Sewing Machine Company was formed.
DOMESTIC FAMILY No.1 & No.2
1870s
The earliest Domestic Vibrating Shuttle (VS) sewing machine manufactured from 1863-1870's was much more modern than its competitors and was the first true "high arm" machine. Some characteristic features are:
high arm - rectangular base - vibrating shuttle - leaf tension - no clutch release knob - bobbin winder on end of machine under hand wheel - stitch length control knob behind pillar - no access plate on the front or rear of the machine - back clamping feet - SN located on front slide plate.