L. BOLLMANN & Co.

The first Grover & Baker sewing machine factory in Austria was built by Louis Bollmann in the 1850s.

1873

The Austrian sewing machine manufacturers, especially those in Vienna, were fairly richly represented at the exhibition, some of whom had still exhibited Grover & Bake machines, such as August Rast and Popp & Sosna, which provided their "Wheeler & Wilson-Machine" with a device for producing the Grover & Baker stitch.

Steiner in Graz exhibited Wheeler & Wilson machines for the manufacture of finest goods and J. Anger, L. Bollmann & Co. and Reichel & Co., all in Vienna, also exhibited shuttle machines without any particularly worthy remark.

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Auch die österreichischen Nähmaschinenfabrikanten, besonders die Wiener, waren auf der Ausstellung ziemlich reich vertreten, sie hatten theil weise noch Grover & Bake-Maschinen ausgestellt, wie A. Rast, und Popp & Sosna, welche ihrer Wheeler & Wilson-Maschine eine Vorrichtung zur Erzeugung des Grover & Baker-Stiches zugegeben hatten. Steiner in Graz stellte Wheeler & Wilson-Maschinen zur Weisszeugfabrikation aus, ferner hatten J. Anger, L. Bollmann & Co. sowie Reichel&Co., sämmtlich in Wien, Schiffchenmaschinen ohne besonders Bemerkenswerthes ausgestellt.

1880  BRITISH PATENT

GB 5.252

A. Storer, a communication from Louis Bollmann and J. Bollman, both of Penzing, Austria, for improvements in apparatus for overhead sewing.

December 14, 1880

1885  AMERICAN PATENT

US 323.108                            Louis Bollmann

Dynamo-Electric Machines

For which invention I have been granted patents in:

Great Britain, GB 14.779  November 8, 1884;

France, F 165.437  November 18, 1884;

Belgium, B 66.952  November 20, 1884;

Italy, I XXXV, 366  December 31, 1884;

Austria-Hungary, A-H 42.744  March 6, 1885 and A-H 11.356 March 6, 1885.

July 28, 1885