_HOWE’S MACHINE HAD_ │ _SINGER’S MACHINE HAD_ ╭─────────1─────────╮ _A curved needle. (Now obsolete in │_A straight needle. (Now in general machines of this class.)_ │ use.)_ ╭─────────2─────────╮ _A needle arm swinging like a │_A needle bar moving vertically. pendulum in an arc of a circle. │ (Now in general use.)_ (Now obsolete.)_ │ ╭─────────3─────────╮ _A clamp, or “baster-plate,” from │_A horizontal table, upon which the which the work was hung │ work was laid flat, by means of vertically in front of the │ which it could be instantly and machine. In order to make a turn │ readily turned in any direction. in the seam, the machine had to │ (Now in general use.)_ be stopped, the goods taken off │ from the plate, and then │ readjusted to it. (Now │ obsolete.)_ │ ╭─────────4─────────╮ _A feed motion imparted to the │_A feed motion imparted by means of baster-plate by the teeth of an │ a roughened feed wheel extending intermittently moving pinion, │ through a slot in the top of the working into the holes of the │ table. (Replaced by the present baster-plate, from which the work│ feed, similar in principle but was suspended, which had to be │ improved in action.)_ readjusted every time a seam had │ been sewed the length of the │ plate. (Now obsolete.)_ │ ╭─────────5─────────╮ _Two shuttle drivers, entirely │_Two shuttle carriers attached to distinct from each other, which │ the same bar, sliding steadily “threw” the shuttle from side to │ and regularly in a horizontal side, producing violent │ groove. (Now in general use.)_ concussions, and liable to throw │ the shuttle drivers out of place.│ (Now obsolete.)_ │ ╭─────────6─────────╮ │_A spring presser-foot by the side │ of the needle, to hold the work │ down. (Now in general use.)_ ╭─────────7─────────╮ │_An adjustable arm for holding the │ bobbin containing the │ needle-thread. (Now obsolete.)_ ╭─────────8─────────╮ _A single acting treadle. (Now │_A double acting treadle. (Now in obsolete.)_ │ universal use._) ╭─────────9─────────╮ _An eye-pointed needle._ (INVENTED │_An eye-pointed needle._ (INVENTED BY WALTER HUNT.) │ BY WALTER HUNT.)