1889 American Patents

US PATENTS IN 1889

This list of patents is far than be complete, further researches will be done, including patents for Needles and Knitting Machines.

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JANUARY 1889

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FEBRUARY 1889

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US 397.587 Henry H. Cummings

Button-Sewing Machine

My invention relates to button-sewing machines, so called and has for its object to adapt a machine of the kind mentioned to sewing on a four-hole button with either a "cross" or parallel-bar stitch, as well as to sewing on bar and two-hole buttons and to provide a construction whereby the machine may be readily changed from one kind of work to another and set to perform the work it is desired that it shall do. My invention consists in improvements for operating and controlling the operations of the button-holder, so as to present the button in proper position to the needle. My invention also consists in improvements incidental to the foregoing.

Assignor to the

Union Button Sewing Machine Company

of Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 1889

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US 397.588 Henry H. Cummings

Button-Sewing Machine

My invention has relation to button-sewing machines of the class designed to sew on buttons having eyes or holes extending through from side to side of the button and for per forming cross, bar and other stitching. It is the object of my invention to so improve button-sewing machines that the mechanism for moving the button and cloth carrier or holder shall be placed wholly be neath the bed of the machine, leaving the upper surface of the bed free from such mechanism, so that the goods being operated upon can be manipulated unhindered by the means for shifting the button-carrier, usually arranged above the bed-plate. It is also the object of my invention to provide means whereby the button-carrier may be reciprocated bodily in one direction and in like manner reciprocated in a direction at right angles to that first mentioned. It is also the object of my invention to provide a construction whereby interchangeable pattern-disks may be employed in the same machine for the purpose of producing stitching of varying character or design. It is also the object of my invention to produce other improvements having as their purpose the simplification of an organized button-sewing machine, as also the increasing of the capacity of such machine.

Assignor to the

Union Button Sewing Machine Company

of Boston, Massachusetts

February 12, 1889

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US 397.980 John Milton Griest

Box

This invention has for its object the production of a novel box, one especially adapted, among other things, to contain sewing machine attachments, the box being attractive in appearance and compact in construction. The improved box herein to be described is so constructed that it may be folded into a compact body or be unfolded or opened out flat, or substantially so, the end portions of the box standing up substantially at right angles to the sides and being angular in shape, the free ends of the end pieces meeting substantially at the center line of the box when closed. This invention consists, essentially, of a box composed of a plurality of sides flexibly joint ed together and of end pieces composed of a number of matching segments equal to the number of sides and secured to the opposite ends of the sides, the angular or inclined edges of the end pieces abutting together when the box is closed and meeting in line of the center of the ends of the box.

Assignor to The Singer Manufacturing Company

February 19, 1889

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US 398.585 Henry H. Cummings

Button-Sewing Machine

This invention has for its object to improve that class of apparatus employed for sewing upon clothing and other articles buttons having holes or eyes made through them from side to side. My present invention consists, chiefly, in the apparatus employed for holding and moving the button intermittingly, the same having provision whereby a button having four eyes may be stitched either diagonally across the center of the button or from eye to eye about the button, the machine having provision whereby it may be automatically stopped when the button has received the proper number of stitches...

... Figure 1, in plan view, represents the bed plate of a sewing machine of the Wheeler & Wilson class, it having been selected by me to illustrate my invention...

Assignor to the

Union Button Sewing Machine Company

of Boston, Massachusetts

February 26, 1889

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MARCH 1889

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APRIL 1889

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US 401.029 John Milton Griest

Tuck Creaser or Marker for Sewing Machine

In the operation of that class of tuck-creasers in which a notched or grooved creasing roller or armis caused to travel back and forth in contact with the work lying on an upturned creasing-lip more or less difficulty has been encountered when creasing across previously made tucks, plaits, or seams, owing to the fact that the goods are moved back and forth with the creasing roller or arm and the proper feed of the work is thus interfered with. The object of my invention is to obviate this difficulty by providing an improved tuck creaser having a rigid creasing-arm which is yieldingly pressed against the work by a spring connecting the same with a rigid rocking bar operated from the needle-bar of the machine.

Assignor to The Singer Manufacturing Company

April 9, 1889

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MAY 1889

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JUNE 1889

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JULY 1889

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AUGUST 1889

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US 409.281 Andrew Eppler Jr.

Boot & Shoe Sewing Machine

This invention relates to sewing machines having curved oscillating needles and adapted chiefly for stitching together the soles and uppers of shoes which are turned inside out. The invention has for its object to provide a machine of this class with a cast-off having a yielding movement, whereby it is enabled to conform to variations in the thickness of the upper of the shoe ...

... The mechanism which operates the needle, looper and back-gage forms no part of my present invention and as said mechanism is fully shown and described in Letters Patent US 337.291, granted to Edwin Adams, March 2, 1886, I do not here describe nor show it in detail, my present invention being confined to the means hereinafter described for operating and giving a yielding pressure to the cast-off.

August 20, 1889

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SEPTEMBER 1889

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OCTOBER 1889

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NOVEMBER 1889

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DECEMBER 1889

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