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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US 40.084                              Israel M.  Rose

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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