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INSTRUCTION BOOK

.Part Five


Fig. 19

TO TAKE OFF THE PRESSER FOOT

Remove the back shuttle race cover No. 112; turn the handle of the lifter No. 60 back until it points straight from you, as shown above. Loosen screw No. 103, turn the presser foot back, and take it off directly into the shuttle race.

To put the foot on, hold it in the same position as shown above.

NOTE -- The above rule must be strictly observed in both taking off and putting on the Hemmer, Braider and Corder. The object in lowering them into the shuttle race is to avoid scratching the japan and defacing the bed of the machine.

TO ADJUST THE HEMMER

NOTE -- Before taking off the presser foot to attach the Hemmer, read carefully the directions under Fig. 19, page 21.

Lower the needle bar until the point of the needle passes through the hole in the throat plate No. 109, Fig 21, page 23. Take the hemmer in the left hand, and with the large screw-driver loosen screw No. 227, pass the lower end into the shuttle race in the same position as the presser foot is held in Fig. 19, page 21. Put the hemmer on the end of the presser bar, and work it up to the shoulder at 56; with the left hand pull it around on the bar towards you until the needle passes directly through the centre of the needle hole in the Hemmer, and fasten it securely in place with screw 227.

Fig. 20

TO COMMENCE HEMMING

Turn over the edge of the material and crease it down about two inches in length. as shown above; enter it into the hemmer, having the material, A A, pass under the hemmer foot, and the fold or creased edge C into the hemmer, over the blade B. Use a pin in assisting to enter the material into the hemmer and passing it along the blades to the needle.

Pull the handle of the lifter No. 60 towards you, letting the hemmer down on the material, and start the machine.

Fig. 21

HEMMING

With the left hand fold the edge of the material and guide into the hemmer just enough to fill the channel, as shown above, holding back on the material gently to keep it straight.

If too much material is fed into the hemmer it will be crowded out under the right hand edge, thus laking a wide and irregular hem, and if not enough the raw edge will not be turned under. If the stitching is too far from the edge of the hem, loosen screw No. 227, and turn the hemmer a little to the right; if too near the edge, turn it a little to the left. When the hemmer is properly adjusted fasten it firmly with the screw No. 227. If the presser bar guide No. 58 becomes loose, allowing the hemmer to work sideways, loosen screw No. 18, and move up adjuster No. 17 close against the guide No. 58 and titghten the screw.

NOTE -- In removing the work from the hemmer, always take it out from you towards the back part of the machine, as hsown in Fig. 18, page 20. If you pull it out towards you, you will be liable to ruin the hemmer.

Fig. 22

TO MAKE A FELL

Place the two pieces of material to be felled under the hemmer, and let it down upon them; have the edge of the lower piece project about an eighth of an inch beyond the edge of the upper; stitch them together, guiding the edge of the upper piece by the right hand edge of the hemmer at 224. On reaching the end of the same pull the work out, as shown in Fig. 18, page 20; cut the threads, leaving ends about three inches long attached to the material, as shown at B B.

Trim the edges, if necessary, as in hand felling, the upper one as close as it will bear with safety, leaving the under one just wide enough to fill the hemmer, as shown in Fig. 20, page 22.

Open out the goods, turn the wide edge over to the left and crease it down, holding the material in the left hand, raise it up a little, take hold of the two threads B B, and draw the edge to be felled into the hemmer over the blade B as far as the needle, and let down the hemmer upon the work, and start the machine. Pull gently on the threads B B until two or three stitches have been taken.

Keep the cloth smooth and guide it into the hemmer, as shown above. Be sure to draw the work from you when removing it, as shown in Fig. 18, page 20.

NOTE -- Never attempt to fell coarse, heavy goods with this hemmer.

Fig. 23

BRAIDING

Have the needle at its highest point; attach the Braider Foot No. 229 in place of the presser foot; be careful to have the needle pass through the centre of the needle hole in the braider. Insert the short end of the braider wire No. 232 in the hole in the presser arm, as in Fig. 26, page 28, and fasten it with the set screw in the back part of the arm.

Place the spool of braid on the long end of the wire No. 232; pass the braid under the end of the spring No. 231, and down through the needle hole in the foot, letting the end extend back from the under side of the foot, as shown above; start the machine, guiding the material according to the pattern already marked out. In turning square corners, have the needle about half way down.

NOTE -- The following fixtures, viz.: a Gauge, Thumb-Screw, twelve Needles, six Bobbins, one Wrench, Oil-Can filled with Oil, Screw-Driver, Shuttle Screw-Driver, an extra Needle or Throat-Plate, a narrow Hemmer (which is also a Feller), a Braider, and Quilting Gauge, go with each family machine -- also with the step feed B and step feed C machines -- free of charge.

Fig. 24

QUILTING

To attach the quilting gauge, put the quilter bar No. 105 through the hole in the presser foot, as shown above, and fasten it in place with screw No. 107 in the back part of the presser foot.

Adjust it to the right or left, according to the distance required between the lines of stitching, and just far enough above the bed of the machine to allow the work to pass under freely.

The fiest line of stitching should pass through the centre of the goods, and from this line work both ways towards the edge.


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