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Fig. 1106 shows the jaws, which, instead of opening and closing by a circular move- 

 ment upon a joint, as described in the former specification, are now made to open and 

 shut by a parallel horizontal movement, effected by a slide and screw ; a a is the fixed 

 jaw, made of one piece, on the under side of which is a tenon, to be inserted into the 

 top of the pedestal. By means of this tenon the jaws may be readily removed, and 

 another similar pair of jaws placed in their stead, which affords the advantage of 

 expediting the operation by enabling one person to prepare the work while another is 

 sewing ; b b is the moveable jaw, made of one piece. The two jaws being placed 

 together in the manner shown atjb. HOT, the moveable jaw traverses backwards and 

 forwards upon two guide-bars, c, which are made to pass through holes exactly fitted 

 to them, in the lower parts of the jaws. At the upper parts of the jaws are what are 

 called the indexes, dd, which are pressed tightly together by a spring shown at Jig. 

 1108, and intended to be introduced between the perpendicular ribs of the jaws at e. 

 At/ is a thumb-screw, passing through the ribs 

 for the purpose of tightening the jaws, and 

 holding the leather fast between the indexes 

 while being sewn ; this screw, however, will 

 seldom, if ever, be necessary if the spring is 

 sufficiently strong ; g is an eye or ring fixed to 

 the moveable jaw, through which the end of 

 a lever, h in fig. 1105, passes; this lever is 

 connected by a spring to a treadle i, at the 

 base of the pedestal, and by the pressure of the 

 right foot upon this treadle the moveable jaw 

 is withdrawn ; so that the person employed in 

 sewing may shift the leather, and place another 

 part of the glove between the jaws. The 

 pieces called indexes are connected to the upper 

 part of the jaws by screws passing through 

 elongated holes which render them capable of 

 adjustment. 



The patentee states that, in addition to the 

 index described in his former patent, which is 

 applicable to what is called round-seam sewing 

 only, and which permits the leather to expand 

 but in one direction, when the needle is passed 

 through it, namely, upwards, he now makes 

 two indexes of different construction, one of 

 which he calls the receding index, and the 

 other the longitudinally-grooved index. Fig. 

 1108 represents an end view, and fig. 1109 a 

 top view of the receding index, which is parti- 

 cularly adapted for what are called ' drawn sewing,' and ' prick-seam sewing/ This 

 index, instead of biting to the top, is so rounded off in the inside from the bottom of the 

 cross grooves, as to permit the needles, by being passed backwards and forwards, to 

 carry the silk thread on each side of the leather without passing over it. Fig. 1110 

 represents an end view of the longitudinally-grooved index, partly open, to show the 

 section of the grooves more distinctly ; and fig. 1111 represents an inside view of one 

 side of the same index, in which the longitudinal groove is shown, passing from k to /. 

 This index is more particularly adapted to round- seam sewing, and permits the leather 

 to expand in every direction when the needle is passed through it, by which the 

 leather is less strained, and the sewing consequently rendered much stronger. 



GLOVE-SEWING. The following simple and ingenious apparatus, invented 

 by an Englishman, has been employed -extensively in Paris. The instrument is shown 

 in profile ready for action in fig. 1112. It resembles an iron vice, having the upper 

 portion of each jaw made of brass, and tipped with a kind of comb of the same metal. 

 The teeth of this comb, only one-twelfth of an inch long, are perfectly regular and 

 equal. Change combs are provided for different styles of work. The vice A A is made 

 fast to the edge of the bench or table B. of the proper height, by a thumb-screw c, 

 armed with a cramp which lays hold of the wood. Of the two jaws composing the 

 machine, the one D is made fast to the foot A A, but the other, E, is moveable upon the 

 solid base of the machine by means of a hinge at the point F. At 1 1 is shown how 

 the upper brass portion is adjusted to the lower part made of iron ; the two being 

 secured to each other by two stout screws. The comb, seen separately in fig. 1114, is 

 made fast. to the upper end of each jaw, by the three screws w, n, n. Fig. 1113 is a 

 front view of the jaw mounted with its comb, to illustrate its construction. 



The lever K corresponds, by the stout iron wire L, with a pedal pressed by the 



