Sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread.
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Sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread.
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Since the invention of the first sewing machine, generally considered to have been the work of Englishman Thomas Saint in 1790, the sewing machine has greatly improved the efficiency and productivity of the clothing industry.
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Sewing machine's invention consisted of a double pointed needle with an eye at one end.
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Sewing machine's machine was meant to be used on leather and canvas material.
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Saint's machine was designed to aid the manufacture of various leather goods, including saddles and bridles, but it was capable of working with canvas, and was used for sewing ship sails.
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In 1804, a sewing machine was built by the Englishmen Thomas Stone and James Henderson, and a machine for embroidering was constructed by John Duncan in Scotland.
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Sewing machine's machine sewed straight seams using chain stitch like Saint's model, and in 1830, he signed a contract with Auguste Ferrand, a mining engineer, who made the requisite drawings and submitted a patent application.
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The patent for his Sewing machine was issued on 17 July 1830, and in the same year, he opened, with partners, the first Sewing machine-based clothing manufacturing company in the world to create army uniforms for the French Army.
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The Sewing machine is made of wood and uses a barbed needle which passes downward through the cloth to grab the thread and pull it up to form a loop to be locked by the next loop.
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Sewing machine's machine used a needle with the eye and the point on the same end carrying the upper thread, and a falling shuttle carrying the lower thread.
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An important improvement on his Sewing machine was to have the needle running away from the point, starting from the eye.
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Sewing machine eventually won a case for patent infringement in 1854 and was awarded the right to claim royalties from the manufacturers using ideas covered by his patent, including Singer.
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The Sewing machine he devised used a falling shuttle instead of a rotary one; the needle was mounted vertically and included a presser foot to hold the cloth in place.
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Sewing machine went into partnership with Nathaniel Wheeler to produce a machine with a rotary hook instead of a shuttle.
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In 1877 the world's first crochet machine was invented and patented by Joseph M Merrow, then-president of what had started in the 1840s as a machine shop to develop specialized machinery for the knitting operations.
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Machines using two to four threads are most common, and frequently one Sewing machine can be configured for several varieties of overlock stitch.
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Tension in a sewing machine refers to the pull of the thread between the needle and the bobbin.
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