US PATENTS IN 1864
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 ...................... 6.972
Patents issued during the year ...................................................... 5.020
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JANUARY 1864
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US 41.050 I. Banister
Improvement in Thread-Waxing Apparatus for Sewing-Machines and other Purposes.
January 5, 1864
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US 41.272 H. Bland
Tension Device for Sewing Machines.
January 19, 1864
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US 41.393 A. Pilbeam
Improvements in Sewing Machine Stands or Tables.
January 26, 1864
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MARCH 1864
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US 41.923 C. R. Jackson
A new Sewing Machine Stitch for Button-Holes or over the Edge of a Fabric formed with a single thread.
March 15, 1864
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US 42.043 H. L. Brown
Gathering Mechanism for Sewing Machines.
March 22, 1864
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APRIL 1864
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US 42.184 G. Fowler
Sewing Machine Cloth Holder. A new and useful Seam-Holder.
April 5, 1864
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US 42.318 N. D. Stoops
Sewing Machine Table.
April 12, 1864
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US 42.502 Charles Parham
Button-Hole Sewing Machine Two Threads
My invention relates to the construction and operation of certain mechanism applied to a sewing machine, whereby the same machine may be used for working button-holes, as well as for sewing plain seams.
April 26, 1864
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US 42.615 G. Wisler & C. H. Peters
A new and useful Binding Attachment to Sewing Machines.
May 3, 1864
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US 42.622 G. McKay & L. R. Blake
Improvement in Sewing Turns by Machinery for boots and shoes.
May 3, 1864
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US 42.657 F. Henry
Improvement in Corders for use on Sewing-Machines.
May 10, 1864
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US 42.706 W. Weitling
Sewing Machine Shuttle.
May 10, 1864
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US 42.754 William C. Dodge
Improvements in Household Implements - Adjustable Caster
This invention consists in attaching caster wheels to sewing tables or articles of furniture in such a manner that by means of a connecting rod and lever the said article of furniture may be raised so as to be readily moved on the casters, or be set solid on the floor at pleasure. We learn from the inventor that this invention is to be applied shortly to some of Wheeler & Wilson's machines.
May 17, 1864
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US 42.801 S. P. Sleppy
Tension Indicator for Sewing Machines.
May 17, 1864
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US 42.810 J. H. Walker
Welt Gage for Sewing Machines.
May 17, 1864
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US 42.846 H. Folsom
This invention is principally applicable to that class of sewing machines employed on boot and shoe work.
May 24, 1864
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US 42.876 T. Robjohn
Sewing Machine Guide.
May 24, 1864
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US 42.877 T. Robjohn
Sewing Machine Guide.
May 24, 1864
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US 42.916 G. McKay & L. R. Blake
Improvement in Sewing Machine for sewing on the Soles of Boots and Shoes.
May 24, 1864
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US 42.989 S. B. Cochran
Binding Guide for Sewing Machines.
May 31, 1864
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JUNE 1864
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US 43.077 G. McKay & L. R. Blake
Thread Waxer for Sewing Machines.
June 7, 1864
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US 43.209 A. Holbrook, jr.
Improvement in Devices for Heating Waxed Threads in Sewing Machines.
June 21, 1864
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US 43.210 A. C. Kasson
Improvement in Bobbin Winders for Sewing Machine
June 21, 1864
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US 43.289 H. H. Chittenden
Braiding Attachment for Sewing Machine
June 28, 1864
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US 43.355 J. A. Wagener
Braid Guide for Sewing Machine
June 28, 1864
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JULY 1864
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US 43.426 C. Patch
Sewing Machine Shuttles
July 5, 1864
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US 43.514 W. A. Mack
Feeding Devices for Sewing Machine
July 12, 1864
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US 43.551 T. Williams
Driving Mechanisms for Sewing Machine, &c.
July 12, 1864
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US 43.636 William H. Carr
Burr for Knitting Machine
Assignor to himself & Nelson P. Akin
July 26, 1864
Reissued
September 3, 1878 US RE 8.391
Assignor to George Campbell & John Clute
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US 43.641 J. P. Herron
Improvement in Devices for Starting Sewing Machines, &c.
July 26, 1864
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US 43.657 C. H. Wilcox
Hemmer for Sewing Machine
July 26, 1864
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AUGUST 1864
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US 43.839 Frederick H. Drake
Thread-Winding Devices for Sewing Machines Bobbins
August 16, 1864
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SEPTEMBER 1864
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US 44.217 Charles Parham
Button-Hole Sewing Machine Two Threads
... Letters Patent US 42.502 for improvements in sewing machines and dated April 26, 1864, were granted to me, in which many of the parts and operations of my present invention may be found and I do not propose to again describe or fully represent all of those parts and operations, but simply the improvements which I have made on said patented invention and so much of the machine as will illustrate the locality and action of the improved parts. The nature of my present invention consists, first, in a needle-guard attached to the shuttle carrier for the purpose of keeping or throwing the needle back in its recess and clear of the shuttle. The needle often, when its point strikes upon the edge of or upon the seam of any material being sewed, will glance off or out of its recess and the shuttle will then strike or catch under it and break or bend it. This guard is designed to prevent this casualty, and effectually does so...
September 13, 1864
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US 44.339 J. Ramsay
Brading Guides for Sewing Machine
September 20, 1864
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US 44.465 A. M. Smith
Improvements in Mechanism for Starting Sewing Machines.
September 27, 1864
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US 44.490 C. H. Wilcox
Improvements applied to a single-thread or chain-stitch machine, may also be used with any other kind of sewing machine having some characteristics.
September 27, 1864
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US 44.491 C. H. Wilcox
Improvements in Sewing Machines.
September 27, 1864
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OCTOBER 1864
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US 44.686 J. D. Dale
Improvement in Running-Stitch Sewing Machines.
October 11, 1864
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US 44.720 M. C. Gritzner
Improvements in Sewing Machines.
October 18, 1864
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NOVEMBER 1864
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US 44.889 W. Preiss
Improvements in Sewing Machines.
November 1, 1864
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US 44.909 J. Zuckerman
Improvement in Friction-Brake for Power Sewing Machines.
November 1, 1864
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US 44.982 E. H. Smith & D. E. Chapman
Improvements in Sewing Machines with curved needle and shuttle.
November 8, 1864
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US 45.059 W. A. Mack
Sewing Machine
November 15, 1864
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US 45.145 Henry J. Dickerson
Glove Cutting Machine
This invention relates to a new and improved device or machine for cutting out gloves preparatory to sewing the same for market or for use. The invention consists in a peculiar construction and arrangement of the cutters and their attachment to a bed-plate and also in the manner of connecting the latter to the Cross-head of a press, whereby several advantages are obtained over the machines hitherto used for the purpose, as will be hereinafter set forth.
November 22, 1864
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US 45.236 J. G. Folsom
The object of my invention is to improve the sewing machine by a new method of bringing about the adjustment of the lower needle relatively to the upper needle and by a new method of securing the lower needle or looper to its shaft.
November 29, 1864
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US 45.278 G. Stackpole, jr.
Improvements in Sewing Machines.
November 29, 1864
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DECEMBER 1864
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US 45.422 G. McKay & L. Blake
Improvements in Sewing Machines.
December 13, 1864
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US 45.477 L. T. Conant
Basting Gage for Sewing Machines.
December 20, 1864
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US 45.528 De Witt C. Smith
Improvement in Sewing Machines.
December 20, 1864
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US 45.628 T. W. Pepper, L. Planer & J. Kayser
Improvements in Sewing Machines.
December 27, 1864
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US REISSUES IN 1864
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USRE 1.616 E. A. Goodes & E. L. Miller
Button-Hole Sewing Machine One Thread or Two Thread
The invention of the said Goodes and Miller consists, first, of a needle or loop-catcher so constructed, so arranged on a sewing machine and having such a movement that it will hold a loop of thread and convey the same from the under side of the fabric and upward across the edge of the same; secondly, in the combination of the said needle or loop-catcher with an eye-pointed needle and a hook or its equivalent; thirdly, in the combination of the said eye-pointed needle, the said loop-catcher or needle, the hook and an elastic tongue.
The above devices, which are fully described hereinafter, have been designed for forming a stitch over the edge of a fabric, or a buttonhole stitch, with one or two threads, substantially in the manner described hereinafter
Assignors to:
C. S. Patterson, E. Pincus, A. Hart, M. Moore, A. Mitchell and H. H. Reed
February 9, 1864
Specification forming part of Letters Patent
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USRE 1.805 Kasimir Vogel
Button-Hole Sewing Machine Two Thread
The first part of my invention relates to the forming of seams suitable for button-holes or edging that the threads which pass around and over and form the edge shall be interlaced or united on both sides of the material with the seam which is formed through the material by the side of the edge and this part of my invention consists in combining with the eye-pointed needle, which carries its thread through the material for forming the seam within the edge, or what is to become the edge, a suitable instrument operating above the material and a suitable instrument operating below the material for interlacing or uniting the thread which forms the edge with the thread which forms the seam within the edge. The second part of my invention relates to the introduction of a thread or cord, termed a "bar", on the surface of the material and under, the thread or threads that connect two seams, or under the thread or threads that pass around the edge and extend to the seam with in the edge and this part of my invention consists in the employment of a suitable guide or guides for introducing and laying a thread or cord, termed a "bar", on one or both surfaces of the material and under the connecting thread or threads, in combination with the sewing mechanism or the equivalent thereof and the mechanism or the equivalent thereof for passing the thread or threads over and across the said bar or bars.
Assignor to the Union Button Hole and Embroidery Machine Company
November 1, 1864
Specification forming part of Letters Patent
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DESIGN IN 1864
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USD 1.902 Charles A. Shaw & James R. Clark
Design for a Sewing Machine
February 16, 1864
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