Hand Propelling Device for Sewing Machines.
Description:
Patent for a new and improved crank for sewing machines. This design "is to provide propelling device for sewing-machines and similar treadle-power machines which shall dispense with the treadle-action and injurious strain which its use imposes . . . It consists in a rod jointed to the fly-wheel after the manner of a pitman, but which, instead of connecting with a treadle, is fashioned into a handle, which extends obliquely upward toward the operator, and is combined with and held in place by a…
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Date:
April 10, 1888
Creator:
Beaird, Kate Palmer
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department