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Earle Harry Smith
In the year 1854 he (I presume Mr. Smith) exhibited to the editors of this journal a shuttle machine with his new combination of movements, the needle being worked as it never had been before in such a machine, viz., by a true eccentric, imparting an easy and continuous motion; while the shuttle, driven by a crank pin, also had a continuous and uninterrupted movement, a combination altogether unlike any sewing machine then known while the whole construction was exceeding novel an very simple. This, we believe, was the first shuttle sewing machine ever made having continuous or crank motions. Since then Mr. Smith has obtained, in all, eight patents for improvements looking to the perfection of this class of machines, in nearly all of which the continuous or crank motion prevails throughout...
Scientific American September 16, 1865
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US 12.754 Earle Harry Smith
Sewing Machine
Assignor to Wheeler & Wilson
April 17, 1855
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US 20.175 Earle Harry Smith
Sewing Machine
May 4, 1858
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US 20.739 Earle Harry Smith
Sewing Machine
June 29, 1858
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US 21.089 Earle Harry Smith
Sewing Machine
August 3, 1858
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US 53.353 Earle Harry Smith
Sewing Machine
March 20, 1866
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US 59.088 Earle Harry Smith
Sewing Machines Shuttle
October 23, 1866
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US 96.160 Earle Harry Smith
Sewing Machine
October 26, 1869
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...These sewing machines are made by the Continental Manufacturing Company, No. 18 Beekman Street, (A. W. Goodell, Agent, Box 3,631), New York. The patent for this invention was allowed on September 7, 1865; the invention has also been patented in great Britain and France and other foreign patents are pending.
1865 British Patent
GB 848 Earle Harry Smith
Mechanical Engineer, of Sherwood, in the county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, in the United States of America, for an invention of improvements in sewing machines which improvements also involve or comprise a new mode of manipulating the threads of the needle and shuttle in forming the lockstitch.
March 25, 1865
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Scientific American