Patent Model - Improvement in Knitting-Machines
Maker and role
William Lemon, Patentee
Production date
Apr 23 1878
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron, paint, bronze
Measurements
4 x 10 1/2 x 9" (10.2 x 26.7 x 22.9cm)
Description
Lemon's patent "relates to circular-knitting machines; and its object is to register the number of rows of stitches knit, and avoid the labor and loss of time in measuring the work with a rule." (Patent Number 202,840)
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Object number
2016.14.5a,b
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