Patent Model - Improvement in Knitting-Machines
Maker and role
Shubael Howland, Patentee
Production date
May 14 1861
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron, wood
Measurements
10 x 12 x 10 1/2" (25.4 x 30.5 x 26.7cm)
Description
Howland's patent consists in constructing what he calls a "pressing sinker-wheel." This improvement produces "a better or improved manufacture of piled knit cloth adapted to stockings, shirts, drawers, and other articles, and to goods in the piece for a variety of useful purposes, also an open work of knitting and double-faced or piled goods." (Patent Number 32,295)
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Object number
2016.14.7a,b
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