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Wi? QUITS SO DECISIVE A 3 IT WAS BUT A LITTLE MORS OVER. WHELMING. WE CHALLENGE the representative of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, or any of the jurors on Sewing Machines at the Exhibition who voted for the report oomlng from that body to controvert the following statement of facts. I Messrs Moddlnga, Ctmnlngton, Dale, and Kirk, we upon you to defend your report. ' h. a FISKS & CO. Christchurch International Exhibition, June 15th, 1882. REPORT OP COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS. To H, <5. Fiske & Co. DEAR SIB, —In accordance with your request, wo have examined the New Davis and the New Singer Sewing Machines, for the purpose of comparing them. In our comparison we have takes into consideration— 1, Ihe mechanical principle Involved 12. The quality of the material need 3. The degree of workmanship exhibited 4. The facility for doing a good and varied

o ass of work. After taking both machines asunder, carefully examining every piece, and fully testing their capabilities, we have no hesitation in saying that we consider the Davis far the superior machine of the two. Our reasons are as follows :

In both machines the same method ii adopted for actuating the needle bar, viz., i crank with roller working In a cam. Thli cam In the Davis Machine is oc.t out of i solid piece of steel and hardened, while ii

but Is made of common oast The feed apparatus of tl ace very dissimilar. That the usual slip feed. The vertical feed peculiar to arrangement the preaser material firmly down till reached its lowest point, then relieved and transmi bar. Feed bar, needle, a: then, by a very simple ooi forward simultaneously the of stitch. Motion is given to the shi machine as follows. An wheel end of the main spin to a vertical lever. This it through a ball joint of In tlon to the only moving machine, a pivotted lever ' an adjustable shuttle oarrle Machine a pair of mitre wl tlcal spindle, having at its 1 A connecting rod from tl slicing shuttle carrier. It In the Davis there are I spindle and the shuttle friction, the pivot carrying the eccentric, the ball joint horizontal lever. The tw ments, the eccentric and tl adjustable, and the parts n are made of hardened sti the same work the Singer of friction the teeth of 1 the two journals of vertloa ends of the connecting rod shuttle carrier. None of adjustable. The small wh cast Iron, having a certain i lash, and consequent tendon .and break. The connecting Of iron, with a hole In eac which runs on the crank principal joints in the mi considerable amount of v small bearing surface, mak to wear, while, aa before rer no means of compensating f It will be noticed that tl Singer Machine is carried which a lateral strain is giv rod, causing a certain ami while in the Davis It is esi quite free from friction. Will* fclio oxoopMnn of working the needle bar, the piece In the Singer Maobl cepting the shuttle, that ca an ordinary pocket knife, i means of adjusting any w the Davis not only are mi made of steel, and temper essential point means are pr up any wear. On this p< that where wo had any i quality of the material the piece was broken and tl fully examined. Having examined the mei ments of the two machines,

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