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First mechanical experiments on producing a seam with a machine and a two-pointed needle with an eye INVENTOR: CHARLES FREDERIC WEISENTHAL (ENGLAND) |
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First sewing machine made of wood for shoemakers With forked needle, pricker, hooked needle: chain stitch INVENTOR: THOMAS SAINT (ENGLAND) |
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Chain-stitch sewing system The first of its kind: needle with eye at the tip and controlled bobbin hook; sprocket wheel material feed – 300–350 stitches per minute INVENTOR: BALTHASAR KREMS FROM MAYEN/EIFEL (GERMANY) |
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Double-stitch sewing machine Two-pointed needle with eye and shuttle-like device for double-stitching INVENTOR: JOSEPH MADERSPERGER FROM KUFSTEIN (AUSTRIA)
1814 Machine for sewing quilts INVENTOR: JOSEF MADERSPERGER (AUSTRIA)
1830 Serial production of the Couseuse model – for the production of military uniforms INVENTOR: BARTHÉLEMY THIMON-NIER – CONSIDERED TO BE THE FIRST MANUFACTURER OF SEWING MACHINES
1834 Two-thread sewing machine With shuttle, however not yet fully functional INVENTOR: WALTER HUNT (USA)
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Double saddle-stitch sewing machine With a sewing rail of 30 – 40 cm; the second thread travels back and forth in a shuttle INVENTOR: ELIAS HOWE FROM BOSTON (USA) |
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Central bobbin sewing machine With two-pointed shuttle and rotating bobbin with spool, forwards and backwards movement; mass-produced INVENTOR: WILSON (USA) |
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Two-thread, chain-stitch sewing machine INVENTOR: GROVER/BAKER (USA) |
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Sewing machine With rotary sewing hook with curved needle and hopper feed INVENTOR: WILSON/WHEELER (USA) |
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Sewing machine With improved cloth feed device was presented at the World Exhibition in Paris INVENTOR: WILSON/WHEELER (USA) |
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A new type of low-priced chain-stitch sewing machine was massproduced virtually unmodified until 1930; by 1958, there were already more than 100,000 sewing machines of this kind in the USA INVENTOR: JAMES GIBBS FROM VIRGINIA (USA) |
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Free-arm sewing machine from France |
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Singer sewing machine With a vertical needle bar, horizontal motor shaft and continuous material feed INVENTOR: ISAAC MERRIT SINGER (USA) |
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First sewing machines from Adam Opel and Georg Michael Pfaff | |
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Vibrating shuttle sewing machine from France (illustration above) Chain-stitch sewing machine (illustration below) |
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Sewing machine with two rotary sewing hooks Also featured a bobbin case fan, rotary thread take-up and controlled thread tension INVENTOR: MAX GRITZNER FROM KARLSRUHE (GERMANY)
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First German zigzag sewing machine INVENTOR: JOHN KAYSER (GERMANY) |
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First hemstitch sewing machine Sewed 1,000 stitches per minute INVENTOR: KARL FRIEDRICH GEGAUF, STECKBORN (SWITZERLAND) |
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Models D and F of the hemstitch sewing machines Was used in the clothing industry in Europe and the United States INVENTOR: FRITZ GEGAUF, GEGAUF AG, STECKBORN (SWITZERLAND) |
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The German word “gegaufen” (English equivalent: “to gegauf”) came into use for mechanical hemstitching | |
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High-speed hemstitching machine Gegauf-Fisa Sewed 2,200 stitches per minute INVENTOR: KARL FRIEDRICH GEGAUF, STECKBORN (SWITZERLAND) |
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First household sewing machine from the BERNINA brand, model 105 INVENTOR: FRITZ GEGAUF, GEGAUF AG, STECKBORN (SWITZERLAND) |
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