US PATENTS IN 1861
This list of patents is far than be complete, further researches will be done, including patents for Needles and Knitting Machines.
Number of applications for patents during the year ...................... 4.643
Number of patents granted, including designs, reissues and additional improvements ............................................................................... 3.340
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JANUARY 1861
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US 31.156 Thomas Earle
Sewing Machine with two Threads and Straight Needle
January 22, 1861
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US 31.171 Charles Irwin
Sewing Machine with Shuttle and Straight Needle
January 22, 1861
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US 31.203 Francis D. Ballou
Boots & Shoes Sewing Machine
assignor to Himself and J. L. Nash
January 22, 1861
Reissued
March 31, 1868 US RE 2.906
Application has been filed and pending for the extension in 1874
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US 31.208 John T. Bruen
Sewing Machine with two Threads and Straight Needle
January 22, 1861
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US 31.209 A. F. Johnson & J. E. Bartlett
Sewing Machine with two eye-pointed Needles, each carrying its own Thread, with a Shuttle carrying its Thread through the loops of the two Needle-Threads
assignors by Mesne assignments to "Singer & Clark"
January 22, 1861
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US 31.211 S. M. Langdon
Shuttles for Sewing Machines and Looms
assignor to Himself and Hiram Wells and D. G. Littlefield
January 22, 1861
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US 31.214 Quartus Rice
January 22, 1861
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US 31.236 Warren Glover
January 29, 1861
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US 31.263 J. C. Smith
January 29, 1861
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FEBRUARY 1861
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US 31.325 Francis Nivelle
February 5, 1861
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US 31.334 J. M. Smith
February 5, 1861
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US 31.351 Albert H. Hook
Tension Apparatus of Sewing Machine
Assignor to Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company
February 5, 1861
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US 31.366 Daniel Barnum
February 12, 1861
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February 12, 1861
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US 31.411 L. H. Smith
February 12, 1861
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US 31.423 C. W. Williams
February 12, 1861
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US 31.429 Quartus Rice
February 12, 1861
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US 31.434 Louis Ballman
February 19, 1861
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US 31.481 H. G. Scofield
Sewing-work holder.
February 19, 1861
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MARCH 1861
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US 31.601 J. W. Howlett
March 5, 1861
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US 31.604 J. Little Hyde
Presser Foot of Sewing Machine
Previous to my invention presser-feet for sewing machines have been constructed with transparent foot-plates, to enable the operator to see the portion of the sea in which is beneath the foot-plate. My invention has reference principally to this description of presser-feet and its object is to enable them to be constructed at a less cost and at the same time to permit of the easy introduction of the foot-plate. To this end my invention consists in the combination of the foot-plate with the shank of the presser-foot by means of a frame open at one side to permit of the introduction of the foot-plate edgewise therein, the adjacent edges of the foot-plate and frame having the forms of a tongue and groove to fit each other. ...
... I do not claim to be the first inventor of a transparent presser foot for sewing machines, nor the first who combined a foot plate with a foot shank by means of a frame of some kind but what I claim is the combination of a foot plate with the shank of the presser foot by means of a foot frame open at one side, so as to permit the introduction of the foot plate edgewise therein.
(Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co.)
March 5, 1861
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US 31.625 C. B. Richardson
March 5, 1861
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US 31.628 Israel M. Rose
Button-Hole Sewing Machine One Thread
Fiddlebase sewing machine
My invention relates to such a modification of the common sewing machine as to enable the operator, by means thereof, to work a button-hole in cloth with the ordinary hand sewing button-hole stitch made with a single thread. The contrivance can readily be attached to many of the machines now generally in use.
March 5, 1861
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US 31.642 John E. Earle
March 5, 1861
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US 31.644 L. W. Lathrop & L. B. Justice
March 5, 1861
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March 5, 1861
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US 31.646 John Moulson
March 5, 1861
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US 31.691 George Juengst
Sewing Machine
My improvements relate to that class of sewing machines where the straight needle is used with the shuttle and the feed-wheel and they have reference to the means for giving motion to the needle, specially regarding the formation and condition of the loop of the needle's thread, to means for taking up the thread and tightening the stitch and to means for making and regulating the feed.
Assignor to J. McCrossan and T. J. McArthur
March 12, 1861
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US 31.757 Charles H. Willcox
March 19, 1861
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US 31.805 W. C. Hicks
March 26, 1861
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US 31.829 Noble G. Ross
March 26, 1861
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APRIL 1861
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US 31.864 Amos H. Boyd
April 2, 1861
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US 31.897 George H. Mallory
April 2, 1861
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US 32.007 Henry L. Shaw
April 9, 1861
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US 32.023 Theodore Burr
April 9, 1861
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US 32.037 J. D. Alvord
April 16, 1861
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April 16, 1861
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MAY 1861
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May 7, 1861
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US 32.297 William Jones & P. Haughian
May 14, 1861
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US 32.315 J. P. Sherwood
May 14, 1861
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US 32.323 M. G. Wilder
May 14, 1861
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US 32.385 L. H. Smith
May 21, 1861
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US 32.415 Lewis Cooper
May 28, 1861
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US 32.456 J. W. Stoakes
May 28, 1861
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JUNE 1861
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US 32.496 W. M. Fuller
June 4, 1861
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US 32.517 Edward Howell
June 11, 1861
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US 32.624 J. W. Hardie
June 25, 1861
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JULY 1861
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US 32.710 H. L. Paddock
July 2, 1861
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US 32.782 B. F. Norton
July 9, 1861
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US 32.785 Charles Raymond
July 9, 1861
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US 32.925 Charles Raymond
July 30, 1861
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AUGUST 1861
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US 33.029 G. F. Case
August 13, 1861
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US 33.085 Christopher Hodgkins
My invention consists, first, in an improved device for operating a rotary feed-ring; secondly, in an improved mode of applying and arranging a rotary looper in connection with an eye-pointed needle to make the chain-stitch.
August 20, 1861
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US 33.169 James McNamee
Sewing pin
August 27, 1861
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SEPTEMBER 1861
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US 33.341 C. R. Folger
September 24, 1861
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OCTOBER 1861
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US 33.414 Louis Bollman
October 1, 1861
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US 33.415 Louis Bollman
October 1, 1861
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US 33.439 F. E. Marble
October 8, 1861
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US 33.556 Charles G. Mann
October 22, 1861
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US 33.619 William Weitling
October 29, 1861
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NOVEMBER 1861
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US 33.677 Reuben W. Drew
November 5, 1861
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November 12, 1861
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US 33.778 William O. Grover
November 26, 1861
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US 33.817 S. D. Tucker
November 26, 1861
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DECEMBER 1861
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US 33.940 William O. Grover
New and useful Take-Up Apparatus for Sewing Machines
December 17, 1861
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