![]() These were marketed as the ‘Silent Automatic’ sewing machine. In 1875 the glass tension discs were replaced by an automatic tension device which ensured that the tension did not get out of alignment and which adapted itself to different thicknesses of fabric. Luckily the machine was in instant success and soon the orders were rolling in. ![]() Brown and Sharpe were beset with problems and it was 8 months before the first 50 Willcox and Gibbs machines, of the original 100 commissioned orders were finished. Work began early in 1858 with the local New England Butt Company casting the frames. Brown and Lucian Sharpe, who undertook the manufacturing of the machines. He hired the services of the Providence, Rhode Island company of Joseph R. Willcox was a forward thinking businessman and was in charge of production. Gibbs patented his first practical single thread rotary twisted chain stitch machine for domestic use in 1856. Gibbs of Pocahontas County, West Virginia. (New York) was formed in 1857 by James Willcox and his son Charles, of Philadelphia and James E.A. Willcox & Gibbs Chain Stitch Sewing Machines Willcox & Gibbs Chain Stitch Sewing Machine Singer Sewing Info
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