. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . Fig. 15.—Over-scamiiig machine. Fig. 16.—Carpet-sewing machine. —This is a lock-stitch machine, having oscillating shuttle mechanism, and is fitted with twoneedles set to any desired gauge, with two shuttles (right and left) to correspond, and bothactuated by the same shaft. It makes two complete and uniform rows of stitching, andis used in making shirts and corsets. India-rubber clothing, etc. The Singer Cylinder M


. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . Fig. 15.—Over-scamiiig machine. Fig. 16.—Carpet-sewing machine. —This is a lock-stitch machine, having oscillating shuttle mechanism, and is fitted with twoneedles set to any desired gauge, with two shuttles (right and left) to correspond, and bothactuated by the same shaft. It makes two complete and uniform rows of stitching, andis used in making shirts and corsets. India-rubber clothing, etc. The Singer Cylinder Machines, Fig. 14, are used for stitching many articles which cannotbe stitched upon a flat surface, as elastic gores and back seams in shoes, legs of trousers,and other work in which it is necessary that the thread should pass from and to the inside ofa cylindrical or concave surface. They have the oscillating mechanism ; are fitted with areverse stitch regulator, so that the work is fed either up or off the arm, and are made withboth wheel and drop feed for feeding around the arm, right or left. Over-seaming —A machine of this class, for over-seaming hos


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