US PATENTS IN 1863
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 ...................... 6.014
Patents issued during the year ...................................................... 4.170
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JANUARY 1863
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US 37.502 William O. Grover
Improvement in Sewing Machines
January 27, 1863
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US 37.505 F. Henry
Guide and Hemmer.
January 27, 1863
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FEBRUARY 1863
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US 37.580 N. Jones
Reversible Feed Mechanism of Sewing Machines.
February 3, 1863
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US 37.617 G. L. Dulaney
Improvements in Sewing Machines.
February 10, 1863
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US 37.624 J. G. Hollowell
Improvements in Sewing Machines.
February 10, 1863
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MARCH 1863
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US 37.913 A. B. Howe
Improvements in Sewing Machines.
March 17, 1863
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US 37.925 A. S. Smith
Mechanism for Starting Sewing Machines.
March 17, 1863
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US 37.931 W. Weitling
Improvement in Button-Hole.
March 17, 1863
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US 37.957 R. Eickemeyer
Sewing Machine Guide.
March 24, 1863
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US 37.985 Mervin R. Smith
Improvements in Sewing Machines.
March 24, 1863
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US 38.076 J. N. Wilkins
Improvement on the loop-controller.
March 31, 1863
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APRIL 1863
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US 38.246 Charles A. Shaw & James R. Clark
Running Stitch Sewing Machine
Our improvement is in that class of machines which use a common sewing needle and make a hand-stitch or running-stitch, such as is made by hand and relates to an improved method of combining and arranging the motive and crimping wheels in plates or bearings having a spring between them and jointed near one end, which plates can be readily detached from the main body of the machine.
April 21 1863
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US 38.276 C. W. Baldwin
Improvements in Sewing Machines.
April 28, 1863
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US 38.311 Stephen C . Ketchum
April 28, 1863
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MAY 1863
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US 38.447 Frederick W. Grote
Improvements in Sewing Machines.
May 5, 1863
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US 38.450 Charles H. Palmer
Vertical Feed or Walking Foot Mechanism.
My machine makes the stitch known as the “chain-stitch” Itis very cheaply constructed and forms two complete stitches at each revolution of the shaft.
May 5, 1863
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US 38.592 William A. Mack
Vibrating Shuttle Sewing Machine
Assignor to the Domestic Sewing Machine Company
The nature of my invention relates, first, to the devices for throwing the shuttle; second, to the construction of the shuttle and shuttle. race and, third, to the devices for driving the feed-wheel. What I claim, as my improvement and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:
1. The universal joint formed by the union of the arms J and K with the socket L, these several parts being constructed, arranged and operated as all for the purpose specified.
2. The shuttle N, in combination with the curved shuttle race M, having an angular trough, when both the shuttle and race are constructed, arranged and operated substantially as set forth.
3. The arm P', grip P , spring R and wheel O', when these parts are constructed, arranged and operated substantially as and for the purpose specified.
May 19, 1863
Reissued
November 3. 1874 US RE 6.118
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US 38.658 J. D. Dale
Running Stitch Machine.
May 26, 1863
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US 38.705 J. A. Wagner
Sewing Machine Guide.
May 26, 1863
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JUNE 1863
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US 38.740 T. J. Halligan
Improvement for driving the shuttle and feed mechanism.
June 2, 1863
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US 38.806 C. F. Bosworth
New seam or concatenation of threads or succession of stitches uniting together two pieces of material.
June 9, 1863
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US 38.807 C. F. Bosworth
Improvements applied with a Singer transverse shuttle machine.
June 9, 1863
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US 38.837 A. Palmer
Running Stitch Machine.
June 9, 1863
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US 38.927 W. G. Cook
Running Stitch Machine.
June 16, 1863
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US 38.931 J. S. McCurdy
Single Thread, Chain Stitch Sewing Machines with a revolving detached or independent looper.
June 16, 1863
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US 39.092 R. W. Drew
Attachment for Sewing Machine.
June 30, 1863
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JULY 1863
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US 39.160 J. Morrison
Folding Guide for Sewing Machines.
July 7, 1863
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US 39.207 C. W. Baldwin
New device for forming what is known as the elastic double loop or chain stitch.
July 14, 1863
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US 39.236 W. F. Lewis & J. H. Baird
Automatic Stop to Prevent Retrograde Motion in Sewing Machines.
July 14, 1863
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US 39.256 L. W. Langdon
Invention relates to the mechanism in sewing machines for feeding the material along through the machine, applied to what is known as the four-motion feed.
July 14, 1863
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US 39.336 C. P. Benedict
Sewing Machine Cording Guide.
July 28, 1863
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AUGUST 1863
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US 39.442 J. A. & H. A. House
Button-Hole Sewing Machine Two Thread
August 4, 1863
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US 39.443 J. A. & H. A. House
Button-Hole Sewing Machine Two Thread
August 4, 1863
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US 39.444 J. A. & H. A. House
Button-Hole Sewing Machine Two Thread
The invention claimed under this patent, though applicable to other machines, is mainly designed as an improvement in a sewing machine for which Letters Patent US 36.932 were granted November 11, 1862, to A. G. Seaman and ourselves, as our assignees.
August 4, 1863
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US 39.445 J. A. & H. A. House
Button-Hole Sewing Machine Two Thread
The invention claimed under this patent, though applicable to other machines, is mainly designed as an improvement on a sewing machine for which Letters Patent US 36.932 were granted November 11, 1862, to A. G. Seaman and ourselves, as our assignees.
August 4, 1863
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US 39.454 W. V. Perry
Take-up for Sewing Machine
August 4, 1863
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US 39.474 H. Folsom
Welt Guide for Sewing Machine
August 11, 1863
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US 39.567 T. J. Halligan
Sewing Machine Shuttle
August 18, 1863
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US 39.658 R. H. Jewett
This invention consists in a stitch of novel character, produced with two threads.
August 25, 1863
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SEPTEMBER 1863
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US 39.892 J. C. Day
Sewing Machine
The stitch made is what is known as the double lock-stitch, composed of the interlocking loops of two threads.
September 15, 1863
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US 39.997 Dustin F. Mellen
Sewing Machine Bobbin Winder
Assignor to himself and J. C. Wilder
September 15, 1863
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US 40.000 Dwight Tracy & G. Hobbs
Sewing Machine
The subject-matter of our invention consists of several improvements in sewing machines, a part of which improvements are more particularly applicable to machines which make the lock-stitch, so called, by means of a needle and rotating hook and bobbins, similar to what is known as the Wheeler & Wilson machine and other improvements, which are more or less applicable to sewing machines of other descriptions.
Assignors to Dwight Tracy aforesaid
September 15, 1863
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Tucking Device for Sewing Machine
Tucks were heretofore determined on sewing machines by some piercing or marking instrument vibrated or held to bear with constant pressure upon the cloth in a line adjustable at the pleasure of the operator. The objections to the former were that the cloth was either injured by the large holes made by the piercing-needle or the holes were so small as to leave almost imperceptible marks and that in either instance it was necessary care fully to crimp and fold the cloth by following the trace of the holes. Fine fabrics were particularly liable to injury by this mode of marking tucks and it had to be abandoned. The objections to the marking of tucks by means of an instrument constantly pressing on the material are still more serious. It will be understood that the pressure to produce a pencil-mark on or a permanent depression or crease in the cloth is by no means inconsiderable. Now, if the material to be operated upon be limber, the tendency is to drag it by the feed and cause a tuck-mark to be produced, which will not be in a line parallel with the seam.
Assignor to J. Wilcox
September 22, 1863
Reissues dated:
December 1, 1868 Henry W. Fuller US RE 3.218
Assignee, by Mesne Assignments of Israel M. Rose
May 21, 1878 Isaac W. Barnum US RE 8.236
Assignee, by Mesne Assignments, of Israel M. Rose
This is Israel M. Rose's tuckmarker, originally assigned to J Willcox in 1863. When it was re-issued in 1878 it was under the name of Isaac W. Barnum, the attachment maker. It was this re-issue (US RE 8.236) that required many tucker makers, including Goodrich, to take out licenses.
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US 40.127 G. R. Smith
Binding Guide for Sewing Machines.
September 29, 1863
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OCTOBER 1863
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US 40.209 James Bolton
Presser foot of Sewing Machine
I claim:
1. The combination of the legs of the frame of a presser-foot (which are grooved to hold a removable foot-plate) with the stem thereof by means of upright connections, so that the junction of the two sides of the frame is above the level of the foot-plate, substantially as set forth.
2. The combination of the first part of my invention with an adjusting-screw, substantially grooved frame; but as set forth.
Assignor to Singer Manufacturing Company
October 6, 1863
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US 40.212 L. & S. B. Holden
This invention relates more particularly to sewing machines for sewing on the soles of shoes and boots and especially to the sewing on of soles which are prepared for sewing as described in Letters Patent No. 925, of 1861.
October 6, 1863
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US 40.296 J. A. Wagner
This invention and improvement in sewing machinery has for its object the production of a simple and cheap double-lock-stitch machine.
October 13, 1863
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US 40.311 G. Rehfuss
My invention consists in certain mechanism, for making a button hole stitch from two threads.
October 13, 1863
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US 40.446 L. W. Lathrop & W. P. De Sauno
New and useful improvements relates to that class of sewing machines which use two spools without rewinding in making the lock or shuttle stitch, in which the needle-loop is caught by a hook and carried around the under spool.
October 27, 1863
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NOVEMBER 1863
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US 40.464 W. L. Fish
Guide for Sewing Machines.
November 3, 1863
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US 40.484 O. R. Hyde
Device for Oiling Thread in Sewing Machines.
November 3, 1863
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US 40.589 J. B. Secor
Loop Check for Sewing Machines, commonly known as the Wheeler & Wilson.
November 10, 1863
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US 40.622 W. D. Heyer
This invention consists in a novel and very simple arrangement of the parts of a sewing machine for making a chain-stitch with a single thread, whereby the whole are enabled to be made entirely of one piece of metal.
November 17, 1863
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US 40.657 L. Bollmann
Improvements applied to a Grover & Baker family machine.
November 17, 1863
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DECEMBER 1863
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US 40.736 J. Coignard
Improvement in Shuttles for Sewing Machines.
December 1, 1863
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US 40.853 W. S. Pratt
Running Stitch Machine.
December 8, 1863
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REISSUED IN 1863
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US RE 1.388 James G. Wilson
Assignee of William H. Akins & J. D. Felthousen
Improvements in Sewing Machines
January 20, 1863
Specification forming part of Letters Patent US 8.282 dated August 5, 1851
US RE 1.930 Akins & Felthousen dated April 11, 1865
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