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impertcctions in work. We caimot too strongly commend this 

 machine as an evidence of American skill and progress in a diffi- 

 cult branch of manufocture. We respectfully suggest that it 

 receive the first class honors of the Institute. . . 



No. 253. Wire Heddle Machine. (Brown & Ashworth.) Its 

 merits are, good material and workmanship; great ingenuity in 

 design and construction of the working parts, and the accuracy and 

 completeness of its many movements, as also their positive charac- 

 ter; the device for spreading the eye of the heddle from the mside, 

 to prevent the catching fraying and breakage of the warp. 



We wish to express our appreciation of the difficulties which 

 have been so ingeniously overcome, by . earnestly recommending 

 that the highest honors of the Institute be awarded. 



No. 848. Hat Lathe. (Isaiah Nutt.) Its merits are, that it 

 allows the hat to be placed upon, and removed from the lathe with 

 great facility, and insures the placing of the block at the exact 

 point necessary to insm-e best results in oval work. A good and 

 useful device. 



No. 390. Toggle Link Cloth and Hay Press. (L. & P. K. Dede- 

 rick.) This press contains a powerful pressing mechanism within 

 narrow limits. Without having seen the large press in actual ope- 

 ration, we have a high opinion of its value from its great power, 

 its compactness, and its strength and accessibility to working parts. 

 We therefore recommend it to high consideration. 



No.. 726. Spoolers. (Hadley Company.) Its merits are, great 

 nicety of operation, both in laying on the thread evenly and cor- 

 rectly, measuring and registering the number of yards -wound. The 

 machine is exceedingly well made, and we therefore strongly com- 

 mend it for its ingenuity, the beauty of its work, and its thorough- 

 ness of construction, to high honors of the Institute. 



No. 239. Cheneille Machines. (Bernstein Brothers.) Its merits 

 are, the production of the goods known as cheneille cord or trim- 

 ming with greater uniformity and rapidity than by the old process 

 of manufacture. As an ingenious machine, we commend it to high 

 consideration. 



No. 1053. Loom Temples. (Henry Kayser.) In a collection of 

 five of these temples one only is entered for competition. Its 

 merits are, that by the inclination of a scries of toothed wheels or 

 disks, the cloth is kept continually stretched as it is woven. The 

 great beauty of the invention is its external simplicity, its non-lia- 



