Figure 79. — Clark's Revolving-Looper double-thread 

 sewing machine, 1860. This machine was manufactured 

 by Lamson, Goodnow, & Yale of Windsor, Vermont. 

 It was an attempt to improve on the combined ideas of 

 the Grover and Baker machine, the Nettleton & 

 Raymond machine, and the earlier single-thread 

 Windsor machine. The improvements were made and 

 patented by Edwin Clark on December 6, 1859. 

 Widely advertised, the machines sold for $35 with a 

 foot-power table. They could also be operated by 

 hand. Over three thousand were manufactured and 

 sold, and preparations were being made to continue 

 manufacture of the earlier single-thread Windsor, 

 originally made by the company's predecessor, 

 Vermont Arms Co., when the Civil War broke out. A 

 flood of arms orders arrived, and the sewing-machine 

 manufacture was discontinued early in the summer 

 of 1861. The sewing-machine equipment and business 

 was sold to Grout & White of Massachusetts. (Smilh 

 sonian photo 48216.) 



Figure 80. — Du Laney sewing machine 

 of about 1872. Most of the small, 

 simple, chainstitch sewing machines of 

 this period were constructed so that 

 they could either be turned by hand or 

 set into a treadle-powered table. Du 

 Laney's Litde Monitor, manufactured 

 for only a few years, was based on the 

 patents of G.L. Du Laney, July 3, 

 1866, and May 2, 1871. It was a two- 

 thread, chainstitch machine powered 

 only by a foot treadle. By simple ad- 

 justment, the machine could also make 

 the cablestitch and the lockstitch. 

 (Smithsonian photo 4822I-C.) 



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