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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2636, 18 September 1882, Page 2

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ABY THE CHEAPEST SHOP IN TOWN FOB All kinda of Pipes, meerohanm and wood, Cigar and Cigarette Holders, Knives, Purees, Matchboxes, Razors, Combs, Brash ea, Hair Oil, Lime Cream, & ~ &o N.B.—A lot of CRICKETING MATERIAL from laat season very oheap, And laat, but not least a HAIR CUTTING SALOON, Where you can get fixed np for the small sun of SIXPENCE. H. OAKBY, 9495 Hlah atreet NOT QUITE SO DECISIVE AS IT WAS BUT A LITTLE MORE OVERWHELMING. WE CHALLENGE the representative of the Singer Sewing Machine Com* any, or any of the jurors on Sewing Caohinea at the Exhibition who voted for the report coming from that body to controvert the following statement of facts. Messrs Meddlnga, Cnnnlogton, Dale, and Kirk, we call upon yon to defend your report. H. O. FISKE & CO. Chrlatohnroh International Exhibition, June 15th, 1882. REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS. To H. O. Fiskb & Co. DEAR SIR, —In aooordanoe with your request, we have examined the New Davis and the New Singer Sewing Machines, for the purpose of comparing them. In our comparison we have takes into sideration—1. The meohanloal principle Involved 2. The quality of the material nsed 3. The degree of workmanship exhibited 4. The faoility for doing a good and varied o'bsb of work. After taking both machines asunder, carefully examining every piece, and f ally testing their capabilities, we have no hesitation in saying that we consider the Davis far the superior machine of the two. Oar reasons are aa follows : In both machines the same method is adopted for actuating the needle bar, viz., a orank with roller working In a cam. This oam in the Davis Maohine is out oat of a solid piece of steel and hardened, while In the Singer it is not only very much lighter, bat is made of oommon oast iron. The feed apparatus of the two machines are very dissimilar. That of the Singer is the usual slip feed. The Davis has the vertical feed peculiar to Itself. In this arrangement the pressor foot holds the reached ita lowest point. The pressure is then relieved and transmitted to the feed bar. Feed bar, needle, and material are then, by a very slmplo oontrivanee, moved forward simultaneously the required length of stitch. Motion Is given to the shuttle In the Davis maohine as follows. An eccentric at the wheel end of the main spindle gives motion to a vertical lever. This in torn transmits it through a ball joint of ingenious construe tion to the only moving part under the maohine, a pivotted lever having at its end Machine a pair of mitre wheels drive a vertical spindle, havirg at Its lower end a orank. A connecting rod from this orank moves a sliding shuttle carrier. It will be seen that In the Davis there are between the main spindle and the shuttle four points of friction, the pivot oarrying the vertical lever, the eooentrio, the ball joint, and the pivot of horizontal lever. The two principal movements, the eooentrio and the ball joint, are adjustable, and the parts most liable to wear are made of hardened steel. To compass the same work the Singer employs as points of Motion the teeth of the mitre wheels, the tiro journals of vertioal spindle, the two ends of the oonneotlng rod, and the sliding shuttle carrier None of these plaoes are adjustable. The small wheels are oommon oast iron, having a oertaln amount of backlash, and oonseqaent tendenoy to rattle and and break. The connecting rod la a thin bar of iron, with a hole in eaoh end. The end whioh rnns on the orank pin Is one of the principal joints in the maohine, having a considerable amount of work to do with small bearing surface, making it very liable to wear, while, as before remarked, there are no means of oompensating for any wear. It will be noticed that the shnttle of the Singer Maohine is carried In a Blide, to whioh a lateral strain is given by tbe driving rod, causing a oertaln amount of friotion, while In the Davis It Is oerrled by the lever quite free from friotion. With the exoeption of the small roller working the needle bar, there is not a single piece In the Singer Maohine, not even excepting the shuttle, that oar not be oat with an ordinary pooket knife, and there are no means of adjusting any wearing part. In the Davis not only are most of the pieces made of steel, and tempered, but at every essential point means are provided for taking up any wear. On this point we may say that where we had any doubt about the quality of the material employed the the piece was broken and the fracture carefully examined. Having examined the meohanloal arrangements of the two machines, we tested their adaptability for work, and we noticed the very peculiar feed of the Davis. In this respeot wo have been forced to the conclusion that for all purposes, sewing from the thinnest muslin to even through a metal spoon, the Davis haa no parallel for grasp, or for avoiding that puckering often the effect of the pressure on a fore motion feed. We must in common honesty express our astonishment at the range and variety of work accomplished by the Davis, whioh we are satisfied cannot be done by the Singer. In summarising onr report we repeat that we have no hesitation in saying that we regard the Davis as very superior to the Singer In workmanßhlp, material, and the meohanloal principles involved, and also In performing a greater range of work. We found the Davis to work with equal ease from the lightest to the heaviest fabric. JOHN LEE SCOTT (Scott Bros.), Meohanloal Engineer. T. GLUYAS PASOOE, Manager of the Kalapoi Clothing Factory. GEO. P. ANTHONY, Meohanloal Expert, from Nettlefold's, Birmingham, 8300