Patent for "a guard attachment to the Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine for preventing the thread from being thrown off the tension by the work, and for preventing the thread from running off the spool onto the spindle." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
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Titles
Main Title:
Improvement in Sewing-Machine Thread-Guards.
Added Title:
Sewing Machine Thread Guards.
Description
Patent for "a guard attachment to the Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine for preventing the thread from being thrown off the tension by the work, and for preventing the thread from running off the spool onto the spindle." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Physical Description
[1], 1 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,428, dated December 21, 1875; application filed July 31, 1875.
Roosevelt, Lillian.Improvement in Sewing-Machine Thread-Guards.,
patent,
December 21, 1875;
[Washington D.C.].
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth166509/:
accessed July 18, 2024),
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crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.