DAVIS’ VERTICAL – FEED MACHINE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2319, 23 August 1880, Page 2

DAVIS’ VERTICAL - FEED MACHINE.

Among the useful Yankee novelties that have lately Leen introduced to New Zealand, the Davis’ Vertical-feed Sowing Machine, for which Mr T. G. Rowley, of Timaru is agent, takes a prominent if not foremost place. It has put such celebrities in the stitching and hemming line as Singer, Wheeler and Wilson, and even LittleWanzer out of joint, and it has astonished the ladies of South Canterbury who have witnessed it at work Mrs H. Fiskc, who is agenting the machine all over New Zealand, has been astonishing the natives by exhibiting its performances. In her hands it is all docility, and the ease and elegance Avith which she stitches a thick piece of lead, and, without altering the tension, glides on to a piece of line cambric, and from thence binds together a score of thicknesses of heavy tweeds is something amazing. With the aid of a few appliances, it turns out more than twenty different kinds of work, making French folds and milliners’ folds with different colors and sewing them on ; folding hems with cords enclosed and stitching themdownatone operation,and generally doing at once the work of several machines of the ordinary kind. It has the advantage of great simplicity of workmanship, being worked entirely by eccentrics, and without cog-wheels, thus assuring speed aud durability, while the vertical-feed movement gives regularity, strength, and evenness to the stitch, no matter how greatly the thickness of the work may vary. At the Sydney Exhibition, this machine obtained the only first prize for sewing machines, aud in making their award, the judges made the following note : —“ The new Davis’ Sewing Machine, being a complete departure from the ordinary style of sewing machines, possessing all the advantages of such ordinary sewing machines, and in addition an increased range of work, with the greatest simplicity of construction, aud reduction in number of working parts, we consider it entitled to first place in awards,” Those who desire to see this machine

may have their curiosity gratified, by paying a visit to Mr T. G. Rowley’s establishment in Main North Road.