1862 Practical Mechanics Journal - International Exhibition - Henry Ferrabee Listing

GREAT EXHIBITION 1862.

PROPRIETOR'S OFFICE (PATENT OFFICES), 47 LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, LONDON LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS.

GLASGOW:   PRINTED BY WILLIAM MACKENZIE, 45 & 47 HOWARD STREET.

RECORD OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION, 1862.

H. FERRABEE.-A machine (1597), yelept the "British Sewing Machine," although owing its origin to American soil, is exhibited by H. Ferrabee of High Holborn. It is a lock stitch machine, provided with a stationary discoidal thread case below the cloth plate, and has a peculiar rotatory hook working in conjunction with an eye-pointed needle for the purpose of catching the loop of the needle, and passing it round the thread case, so as to interlock the thread contained in the thread case with the loop of the needle thread, thereby producing the lock or shuttle stitch previously referred to. Fig. 462 represents a side elevation of this machine in working order. The needle carries its thread through the fabric in the form of a loop, and by rising slightly opens that loop, so as to enable the nose of a hook to enter therein with greater certainty. This hook forms the upper extremity of a lever, which

Ferrabee's Sewing Machine-Side Elevation.