1852 - Christopher Hodgkin's Patent Model of a Sewing Machine
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"content": "Christopher Hodgkins of Boston, Massachusetts"}, {"label": "Description", "content": "On his sewing machine patent model, Christopher Hodgkins made sure his model was well identified. On the base, \u00e2\u0080\u009cHodgkins\u00e2\u0080\u009d was painted in bold gold letters, and a brass bed plate was stamped \u00e2\u0080\u009cChristopher Hodgkins.\u00e2\u0080\u009d In his patent specification, Hodgkins wrote \u00e2\u0080\u009cMy machine sews with two needles working through the cloth in opposite directions, and the one being made to cross the path of the other. It performs a lock-stitch, the loops made by each thread being locked in the cloth by those of the other.\u00e2\u0080\u009d"}, {"label": "Description", "content": "Hogkins assigned his patents (Patent No. 9,365, issued November 2, 1852; Patent No. 10,622, issued March 7, 1854; and Patent No. 10,879, issued May 9, 1854) to Nehemiah Hunt of Boston. In 1853, N. Hunt & Co. manufactured sewing machines based on Hodgkins\u00e2\u0080\u0099s patents. A year later, Hunt took a partner, and the company became Hunt and Webster."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "Ballou\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Pictorial, July 5, 1856, featured Hunt and Webster in an article. The illustration depicted Hunt and Webster sewing machines in an elegant exhibition and showroom in Boston. They noted that \u00e2\u0080\u009c . . . the North American Shoe Company have over fifty of the latest improved machines now running . . . .\u00e2\u0080\u009d"}, {"label": "Location", "content": "Currently not on view"}], "name": [{"label": "inventor", "content": "Hodgkins, Christopher"}], "publisher": [{"label": "Related Publication", "content": "Janssen, Barbara Suit. Patent Models Index"}, {"label": "Related Publication", "content": "Cooper, Grace Rogers. 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