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