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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2633, 14 September 1882, Page 2

• n ARRIS, IMPERIAL BOOT DEPOT, CASHEL STREET. For Kid Elastic-Side Boots of good quality, at 7s 6d, try the Imperial For Levant Elaatio-Slde Boots, good value, at 8s 6d, go to the Imperial For Kid Button Boots, at 9s, try the Imperial For Kid Lace Oxford Walking Shoes, at 7', call at the Impeiial Fcr Kid Oxford Button Shoes, at 7s 6d, go to the Imperial For Children's Kid Lace Oxford Shoes, from 3s 6d, try the Imperial For French Lasting Boots from 8s 6d, try the Imperial For Cheap Lawn Tennis Shoes, from 5s 6d, go to the Imperial For Canvas Boating Shoes, at 6s 6d, try the Imperial For the Largest Stock, the Best Quality, and the Lowest Price la all kinds of Colonialmade Boots, go to W. HARRIS, IMPERIAL BOOT DEPOT, Cashel street. 908 SUITS TO MEASURE FROM 70s. WEST CONSIGNMENT of SPRING TWEEPS AND COATINGS Just Arrived. W. M. BOBEBTS, Practical Tailor, Manchester street south. i Trousers from 13s. Splendid Seleotlon. 1002 FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Art the cheapest shop ln TOWN FOR All kinds of Pipes, meerohaum and wood, Cigar and Cigarette Holders, Knives, Purses, Matohboxes, Razors, Combs, Brushes, Hair Oil, Lime Cream, * ~ &o N.B.—A lot of CRICKETING MATERIAL from last season very oheap. And last, but not least a HAIR GUTTING SALOON, Where you can get fixed up for the small sum of H. OAKBY. 0495 High street NOT QUITE SO DECISIVE AS IT WAS BUT A LITTLE MORE OVERWHELMING. "E CHALLENGE the representative , . of the Singer Sewing Machine Comany, or any of the jurors on Sewing laohlnes at the Exhibition who voted for the report coming from that body to controvert the following statement of facts. Messrs Meddlngs, Cunnington, Dale, and Kirk, we call upon you to defend your report. H. 0. FISKE & CO. Chrlatohuroh International Exhibition, June 15th, 1882. REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS. To H. O. Fiskk & Co. DEAR SIR, —In aooordance with your request, we have examined the New Davis and the New Singer Sewing Maohines, for the purpose of comparing them. In our comparison we have takes into consideration— 1. The meohanical principle Involved 2. The quality of the material used 3. The degree of workmanship exhibited 4. The facility for doing a good and varied o'aes of work. After taking both maohines asunder, carefully examining every piece, and fully testing their capabilities, we have no hesitation in saying that we consider the Davis far the superior maohine of the two, Our reasons are as 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 Machine is cat out of a solid pieoe of steel and hardened, while ln the Singer it is not only very much lighter, but is made of oommon oast iron. The feed apparatus of the two maohines 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 presser foot holds the material firmly down till the needle has reached Its lowest point. The pressure is then relieved and transmitted to the feed bar. Feed bar, needle, and material are then, by a very simple contrivance, moved forward simultaneously the required length of Btitoh. Motion is given to the shuttle In the Davis machine as follows An eooentrio at the wheel end of the main spindle gives motion to a vertical lever. This in turn transmits it through a ball joint of ingenious oonstruo Hon to the only moving part under the machine, a pivotted lever having at Its end an adjustable shuttle oarrler. In the Singer Maohine a pair of mitre wheels drive a vertical spindle, having at its lower end a orank A connecting rod from this crank moves a sliding shuttle oarrler. It will be seen that ln the Davis there are between the main spindle and the shuttle four points of friction, the pivot carrying 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 moat liable to wear are made of bardened steel. To compass the same work the Singer employs as points of friction tbe teeth of the mitre wheels, the two journals of vertical spindle, the two ends of the conneotlng rod, and the sliding shuttle oarrler None of these places are adjustable. The small wheels are common cast iron, having a certain amount of backlash, and consequent tendency to rattle and and break. The connecting rod lei a thin bar of iron, with a hole in each end. The end which runs on the crank pin is one of the principal joints ln the machine, 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 oompensatlng for any wear. It will be noticed that the shuttle of the Singer Machine Is carried in a Blide, to which a lateral strain 1b given by the driving rod, oauaing a oertaln amount of friction, while ln the Davis It Is oarried by the lever quite free from Motion. With the exception of the small roller working the needle bar, there Is not a single piece ln the Singer Maohine, not even excepting the shuttle, that car not be out with an ordinary poohet knife, and there are no moans of adjusting any wearing part. In the Davis not only are most of the pieces made of steel, and tempered, but at every essentia] 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 mechanical arrangements of the two machines, we tested their adaptability for work, and we noticed the very peouliar feed of the Davis. In this respect wo have been forced to the conclusion that for all purposes, sewing from the thinnest muslin to even through a metal spoon, the Davis has 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, whloh we are satisfied cannot be done by the Singer. In summarising our report we repeat that we have no hesitation in saying that we regard the Davis as very superior to the Singer in workmanship, material, and the meohanical principles involved, and also In performing a greater range cf work. We found the Davis to work with equal ease from the lightest to the heaviest fabric, JOHN LEE SOOTT (Scott Bros.), Meohauioal Engineer. T. GLUYAS PA&COE, Manager of the Kaiapol Clothing GEO. P. ANTHONY, **" Mechanical Expert, from Nettlefold'e, Birmingham. 8300