WHEELER & WILSON No. 10
For Boot and Shoe Manufacturing
From 1882 To 1899 c.
The new W&W No.10 machine is especially designed for heavy work, Tailoring, Upholstery, Stay and Corset Manufacture, as well as for Stitching Leather. The Company have in their New No.10 a machine, which possesses several valuable improvements. It is a machine specially adapted for heavy work, but, notwithstanding its larger size, it is so constructed as to run at as high a rate of speed as the lightest lock-stitch machine, without irregularity of tension. There is less friction in the feed motion and an improved mode of altering the stitch. There is, besides, greater space for work under the arm and more direct action to the needle from the driving power. The under spool being held by a spring, partly on the ring and partly on the hook, ensures a more regular tension. The clear space under the arm, without any projections, prevents any obstruction to the work, also without variation of tension. The take-up being more continuous and regular, prevents jerking.
The Company's new No. 8 Machines are quite as extensively purchased in lots from 60 upwards at a time and lately saw an order for 100 of them from a well known firm. The new No.6 machine (the one recommended for leather work) is likewise in great demand and as it may be of interest to the trade we append the Judges report upon the Company's New No. 6 machine at the late American Institute Fair, where the Wheeler & Wilson Company received the highest award.
The Sewing Machine Gazette 1882
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US PATENTS FOR W&W No.10
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US 303.453 Freeland W. Ostrom
Button hole for W&W No. 10
This invention is an improvement on that described in application No. 63.023, filed June 1, 1882 and has for its object to simplify the construction and operation of the same.
...Figure 1 is a plan or top view of a Wheeler & Wilson No. 10 machine with my improvements added...
Assignor to the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
August 12, 1884
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US 317.749 George H. Dimond
Thread Clamp for W&W No. 10
Specification forming part of Letters Patent US 317.749, May 12, 1885
Application filed December 14, 1883
Assignor to the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
May 12, 1885
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US 328.165 Nathaniel Wheeler & Wilbur F. Dial
Rotating Loop for W&W No. 10
This invention has for its object to improve the construction and simplify the operation of the class of machine wherein a rotating loop taker enters and opens a loop of needle-thread and carries it around a bobbin, the only movement of which is that about its own axis or center and the extent of this latter movement is solely that due to the pull of the thread as the latter is consumed in the formation of the Stitch.
Assignors to the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
October 13, 1885
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WHEELER & WILSON D 10
For Boot and Shoe Manufacturing
From 1885 To 1999 c.
New Wheeler & Wilson Machine
Unlike a number of sewing machine manufacturers the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company do not appear to be content to rest on past triumphs, but are ever on the alert to discover and introduce fresh improvements in sewing machinery.
Their latest machine is called the " D 10 " and is one of the fastest known. It is a rotary and the stitch produced differs from the ordinary lock-stitch, the upper thread being carried round the lower one in such a way as to become interlocked. The speed attained is extraordinary.
In America the " D 10 " is being used by boot and shoe manufacturers, who can work it at the rate of 1.900 stitches a minute.
Notwithstanding this great speed, the machine can be reversed almost instantaneously by means of a lever under the control of the worker. The needle used is short and can be easily set. The spool is constructed to hold 100 yards of No. 60 sewing cotton, which is a great advantage. All the parts are interchangeable. We are certain this new machine possesses several important improvements, which stamp it as being an excellent piece of mechanism. No matter what be the nature of the goods, it does its work well. The stitch is perfect on the finest linens and the heaviest work, such as leather uppers. We need not add that it is well made, as Messrs. Wheeler & Wilson have the reputation of only sending out machines of the best possible construction.
The Sewing Machine Gazette (December 1886)
New Wheeler & Wilson Spool. The Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co. now supply for their new " D 10 " machine a wooden spool which holds 200 yards of cotton. This spool does away entirely with the necessity of winding bobbins. It is made by Messrs. Clark & Co., of the Anchor Thread Mills, Paisley. The invention is a great success and is specially liked by the hem-stitch trade.
The Sewing Machine Gazette (July 1887)
...The Wheeler & Wilson D 10 Automatic-Cutter Button-Hole Machine, which has the enormous speed of five holes a minute, has been altered so that it will make automatically a double row of stitches at the end of the hole In practice it is found that one girl can attend to two machines, which, together with the fact that it produces splendid work, is sufficient to account for its enormous success the past few months...
The Sewing Machine Gazette (July 1891)
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US PATENTS FOR W&W D 10
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US 331.174 Nathaniel Wheeler & Wilbur F. Dial
Feeding Mechanism for W&W D 10
Assignors to the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
November 24, 1885
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US 331.183 Andrew C. Campbell
Feeding Mechanism for W&W D 10
Assignor to the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
November 24, 1885
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US 345.207 Charles H. Bayley
Rotating Hook for W&W D 10 (not sure)
This invention relates to improvements in that class of sewing-machines in which a lock stitch is made by an eye-pointed needle and a rotating hook fixed to the shaft which moves it and which is adapted to take the loop of needle thread and carry it about a bobbin case containing the under or second thread.
Assignor to the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
July 6, 1886
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US 350.044 Wilbur F. Dial
Loop-taker Guide W&W D 10
This invention has for its object to provide means for positively rotating a segmental loop taker in a circular race or loop-taker guide, my invention being an improvement upon the machine described in US 328.165, dated October 13, 1885, to which reference may be had. The machine described in the said patent has as the driver for the loop-taker a saddle fixed to one end of a variably - rotating shaft, the said saddle being provided at one end with a lug and at the other end with a prong, the said lug, owing to the eccentric adjustment of the loop-taker guide, being made to move out and in a notch in the loop-taker back of its point, the said lug at times pushing and at other times pulling the loop-taker in its guide.
Assignors to the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
September 28, 1886
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US 352.775 Freeland W. Ostrom
Improvement in Stop-Motion Mechanism
I have herein shown my invention as applied to a sewing machine, substantially such as illustrated in my patent US 303.453, to which reference may be had.
November 16, 1886
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US 369.619 Aurelius Steward
Variable Motion for W&W D 10
Specification forming part of Letters Patent US 369.619, September 6, 1887
Application filed February 25, 1887. Serial No. 228.842
Assignor to the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
September 6, 1887
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US 622.632 Freeland W. Ostrom
Stop Motion for W&W D 10
Assignor to the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
April 4, 1899
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By 1894, the W&W Nos. 5, 7, 8 and 10 were no longer made, so customers would have been offered the No.1 (curved needle) and the New No. 4 for shirt manufacture; No.6; No.11 to special order with the Number 10 buttonhole version. All basic work could be covered by the No.9 and versions of the No.12.
by John Langdon (ISMACS)