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NOT QUITE SO DECISIVE AS IT WAS BUT A LITTLE MORE OVERWHELMING. ’ill CHALLENGE the representative of the Singer Bewing Machine Company, or any of the jarors on Sowing Machines at the Exhibition who voted for the report coming from that body to controvert the following statement of facts. Messrs Meddings, Ounnlngton, Dale, and Kirk, we call upon yon to defend your report. H. O. FISKH & CO. Christchurch International Exhibition,! June 15th, 1882, REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS. |To H. C. Fiskk & Co. DEAR SIB, —In accordance with your request, we have examined the New Davis and the New Singer Sewing Machines, for the purpose of comparing them. In onr comparison we have taken Into conulderation— 1, The mechanical principle involved 2. The quality of the material used 3. The degree of woikmanshlp exhibited 4. The facility for doing a good aod varied o 1 ass of work. After taking both machines asunder, carefully examining every piece, and fully testing their capabilities, we have no hesitation in saying that wo consider the Davis far the superior machine of the two. Our reasons are as follows In both machines the same method Is adopted for actuating the needle bar, viz,, a crank with roller working In a cam. This cam in the Davis Machine Is ont ont of a solid piece of steel and hardened, while in the Singer it la not only very muoh lighter, but is made of common asst iron.

Tho feed apparatus of the two machines are very dissimilar. That of the Singer is the nsual 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 reached its lowest point. The pressure is then relieved and transmitted to the feed bar. Feed her, needle, and material are then, by a very simple contrivance, moved forward simultaneously the required length of stitch

Motion la given to the shuttle In the Davis machine as follows An eccentric at the wheel end of the main aplndlo gives motion to a vertical lever. This in turn transmits it through a ball joint of ingenious construction to the only moving part under the machine, a pivotted lever having at Its end an adjustable shuttle carrier. In the Singer Machine a pair of mitro wheel# drive a vertical spindle, havT g at its lower end a crank A connecting rod from this crank move# a eliding shuttle carrier. It will be seen that In the Davis there tire between the main spindle and the shuttle four points of friction, the pivot carrying the vertical lever, the eccentric, tha ball joint, and tho pivot of horizontal lever, Tho two principal movements, the eccentric and tho ball joint, are adjustable, and the parts moat liable to wear are made cf hardened steel. To compass the same work the Singer employs as points of friction the teeth of the mitre wheals, the two journals of vertical spindle, the two ends of the connecting rod, and the sliding shuttle carrier None of these plttoea ora adjustable. Tho small wheels are common cast Iron, having a certain amount of backlash, and consequent tendency to rattle and and break. Tho concreting rod is a thin bar of Iron, with a hole in each end. The end which rnns 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, as before remarked, there are no means of compensating for any wear. ! It will be notioad that the shuttle of tba Singer Machine Is carried in a slide, to which a lateral strain is given by the driving rod, causing a certain amount of friction, while in the Davis it is carried by the lover quite free from friction. With the exception of the small roller working the needle bar, there is not a single piece in the hingor Machine, not even excepting the shuttle, that ca not be out with an ordinary pooket knife, and there are no means of adjusting any wearing part. In the Davis not only are most of the pieces made of steel, and tempered, but at every essential point means *ro provided for taking up any wear. On this point we may say that where we had any donbt about the quality of the material employed the the piece was broken and tha fracture carefully examined. Having examined tha mechanical arrangements of tho two machines, wo tested their adaptability for work, end we noticed tha very peculiar feed of the Davis. In this respect wa have been forced to tho conclusion that for all purposes, cowing from the thinnest muslin to even through a metal spoon, the Davis has no parallel for graap, or for avoiding that puckering often the effect of tha pressure on a f ro motion feed. We must in common honesty express our astonishment at the range and variety of work accomplished by the Davis, 'jehioh wo are satisfied cannot be done by tho Singer. In autnmarii'lng our report wo repeat that wo have no hesitation in saying that wo 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. Wo found tha Davis to work with equal ease from tha lightest to tho heaviest fabric, JOHN LJBH SCOTT (Scott Bros.), Mechanical Engineer. T. GLUYAB PA3COB, Manager of the Eoiapol Clothing Factory. OHO. D. ANTHONY, Mechanical Export, from Nettlefold’e, Birmingham, 8300