. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 64.—The treadle of the machine was also used to help create music. George D. Garvie and George Wood received patent 267,874, Nov. 21. 1882, for "a cover for a sewing machine provided with a musical instrument and means for trans- mitting motion from the shaft of the sewing machine to the operating parts of the musical ; Although no patent model was submitted by the inventors, the "Musical Sewing Machine Cover" was offered for sale as early as October 1882, as shown by this advertisement that appeared in
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 64.—The treadle of the machine was also used to help create music. George D. Garvie and George Wood received patent 267,874, Nov. 21. 1882, for "a cover for a sewing machine provided with a musical instrument and means for trans- mitting motion from the shaft of the sewing machine to the operating parts of the musical ; Although no patent model was submitted by the inventors, the "Musical Sewing Machine Cover" was offered for sale as early as October 1882, as shown by this advertisement that appeared in 1 h, S ving Machine News that month. (Smithsonian photo 57983.) need in the 1870s. As more highly specialized stitching machines were developed, an ever-increasing variety of needles was required, and the industry gi ev\. Soon after the sewing machine was commercially successful, special attachments for it were invented and manufactured. These ranged from the simplest devices for cutting thread to complicated ones for making buttonholes (see figs. 56 through 66). The first patent for an attachment was issued in. Figure 65.—This fanning attachment was com- mercially available from James Morrison & Co. in the early 1870s; it sold for one dollar as stated in the advertising brochure from which this en- graving was copied. Other inventors also patented similar implements. (Smithsonian photo 45513.) 1853 to Harry Sweet for a binder, used to stitch a special binding edge to the fabric. Other related attachments followed; among these were the hemmer which was similar to the binder, but turned the edge of the same piece of fabric to itself as the stitching was performed. Guides for stitching braid in any pattern, as directed by the movement of the goods below, were also developed; this was followed by the embroiderer, an elaborate form of braider. The first machine to stitch buttonholes was patented in 1854 and the first buttonhole attachment in 1856, but the latter was not pra
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