Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 779
stitching around the edge of the sole the positionof the needle can be changed at the will of the op-erator. The feeding mechanism is actuated aboveinstead of below the work, as in the waxed-threadmachine already referred to. Anions the advan-tages claimed for the lock stitch in shoe-sewing arethe…
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