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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2642, 25 September 1882, Page 2

W. H A R R I S , IMPERIAL BOOT DEPOT, OASHEL STREET. For Kid Slaatie-Sido Boota of good quality, I at 7s 6d, try the Imperial | For Levant Elastic-Side Boots, good value, at 8a 6d, go to the Imperial For Kid Button Boot*, at 9s, try the Imperial For Kid Lace Oxford Walking Shoes, at 7', call at the Imperial For Kid Oxford Button Shoes, at 7a 6d, go to the Imperial For Children's Kid Lace Oxford Shoes, from 3a 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 5s 6d, try the Imperial For the Largeit Stook, the Best Quality, and the Lowest Price in all kinds of Colonialmade Boots, go to W. HARRIS, IMPERIAL BOOT DEPOT, Cashel street. 908 SUITS TO MEASURE FROM 70s. IIBST CONSIGNMENT of SPUING : TWEBFS AND COATINGS Just Arrived. W. M. BOBEETS, Practical Tailor, Manchester street sonth. Trousers from 18s. Splendid Seleotlon. 1002 FOR THE HOLIDAYS. XRV THE CHEAPEST SHOP IN town for All kinds of Pipes, meerohaum and wood, Cigar and Cigarette Holders, Knives, Purses, Matohboxea, Razors, Combs, Brushes, Hair Oil, lime Cream, & ~ &o NA-A lot of CRICKETING MATERIAL from last season very oheap, And last, but not least a HAIR CUTTING SALOON, Where you oan get fixed up for the small sum of SIXPENCE. H. OAKBY, 9495 High street NOT QUITE SO DECISIVE AS IT WAS BUr A LITTLE MORE OVERWHELMING. d 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 ooming from that body to controvert the following statement of faots. Messrs Meddings, Cunnington, Dale, and Kirk, we call upon you to defend your report. H. 0. PISKB & CO. Chrlitohuroh International Exhibition, June 15th, 1882. REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS, To H. O. Fiskk & Co. DEAR SIR, —In aooordanoe with your request, we have examined the New Davis and the New Singer Sewing Machines, for the purpose of comparing them. In our comparison we have take a Into consideration— 1. The meohanioal principle Involved 2. The quality of the material used 3. The decree 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 laying 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 rollor working In a gam. This oam in the Davis Machine is ont out of a solid piece of steel and hardened, while in the Singer It is not only very much lighter, but la made of oommon oast iron. The feed apparatus of the two machines 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 pressor foot holds the material firmly down till the needle has readied Its lowest point. _ The pressure la then relieved and transmitted to the feed bar. Feed bar, needle, and material are then, by a very simple oontrivanoe, moved forward simultaneously the required length of etltoh. Motion Is given to the shuttle In the Davis maohine as follows. An eccentric at the wheel end of the main spindle gives motion to a vertloal lever. This in turn transmits It through a ball joint of ingenious construction to the only moving part under the maohine, a pivotted lever having at Its end an adjustable shuttle carrier. In the Singer Maohine a pair of mitre wheels drive a vertloal spindle, having at Its lower end a orank. A connecting rod from this orank move* a eliding shuttle carrier. It will be seen that In the Davis there are between the main spindle and the shuttle four points of f riotion, the pivot carrying the vertical lever, the eccentric, the ball joint, and the pivot of horizontal lever. The two principal movements, the eccentric and the ball joint, are adjustable, and the parts most liable to wear are made of hardened steel. To oompass the same work the Singer employs as points of frlotion the teeth of the mitre wheels, the two journals of vertloal spindle, the two ends of the oonneoting rod, and the sliding shuttle carrier None of these places are adjustable. The small wheels are common oast Iron, having a certain amount of backlash, and aonsequent tendenoy to rattle and and break. The connecting rod is 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 In the machine, having a considerable amount of work to do with small bearing surface, making it very liable to wear, while, aa before remarked, there are no means of compensating for any wear. It will be notloed that the shuttle of the Singer Maohine la carried in a slide, to which a lateral strain is given by the driving rod, causing a certain amount of frlotion, while in the Davis It Is carried by the lever quite free from frlotion. With the exception of the small roller working the needle bar, there is not a single piece in the Singer Maohine, not even excepting the shuttle, that cannot be out with an ordinary pocket knife, and there are no means of adjusting any wearing part. In the Davis not only are most of the pleoes made of steel, and tempered, but at every essential 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 pieoe was broken and the fraoture carefully examined.

Having examined the mechanical arrangements of the two machines, we tested their adaptability for work, and we noticed the very peonllar feed of the Davie. In this respeot 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 effeot 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, which we are satisfied oannot 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 mechanical principles involved, and also In performing a greater range of work. We found the Davis to work with equal .ease from the lightest to the heaviest fabric, JOHN LBB SOOTT (Scott Bros.), Moohanloal Engineer. T. GLUT AS PABCOE, Manager of the Kaiapol Clothing Factory. GBO. P, ANTHONY, Mechanical Bxpert, from Nettlefold'e, Birmingham. 8300