A Lard and Fruit Presser A very simple but handy device for pressing out lard, juices for jelly, or fruit for marmalade, is made from two boards, each 18 in.
The head is stripped of its base plate with the shuttle gearing; likewise the needle rod, presser foot, etc.
This presser will save the hands from stains and other effects of the juices.
To fix this foot, remove the ordinary presser foot, turn the foot bar round by loosening the set screw, so that the groove made for the reception of the presser foot is directly behind the needle.
Presser foot with details] Presser feet are made solid for ordinary purposes, although alternating feet can be fitted when desired.
Make the foot to bear squarely on the needle plate, and the feed square to the presser foot.
When the presser foot is lowered, this lever should withdraw itself from the disc, thus allowing the proper tension to be put on the cotton.
The latter of these is preferred, especially by the Nottingham hosiers, because, as they assert, it makes the presser spring up with greater rapidity, and consequently saves time in working.
The preceding course, and former fabric, being then again pushed back, the barbs are shut by depressing the middle treadle, and forcing down the presser upon the needles.
In this figure a section of the presser is represented at F; the needle appears at G, and the socket or level at K.
When the presserat F, is forced down upon the barb, this sinks into the groove of the stem, and the needle is shut; when the presser rises, the barb opens again by its own elasticity.
From the middle of the bend, the presser is connected with the middle treadle by a depending wire appearing at M, fig.
The re-ascent of the presser is sometimes effected by means of a counterpoising weight passing over a pulley behind; and sometimes by the reaction of a wooden spring, formed of a strong hoop like that represented at K.
The presser of the operation, of which something has already been said, appears at F; and of the two arms which support and give motion to it, one appears very plainly at E, its centre of motion being at C.
Avoid stretching while pressing especially the edges and collar, unless it is required, (and the presser understands where to stretch, and is familiar with the fitting qualities of the garment.
The presser should have control of the iron at all times, also see that the iron is not too hot before using by testing it on a piece of light colored woolen material.
The presser keeps this in motion with his left hand, whilst with the right he guides the polisher.
The process is very expeditious, although the presser is obliged to repeat the operation, to give more pressure and finish.
This unusual example featured two semidraped female figures holding the spool of thread, a mermaid holding the needle, a serpent which served as the presser foot, and a heart-shaped baster plate.
A type of retractable thimble or presser foot was used to hold the fabric down as required.
The presser foot was made of metal but shaped like an open [?
At right, an original brass plate from the same type of machine with needle arm and presser foot and arm, serial number 119; the plate, however, does not fit the machine correctly.
Footnote 2: An expert presser can do as many as 400 shoes a day.
The case goes from presser to the seaming machine.
All straight seams should be stretched to the full extent of their straight edge in stitching, as the work passes under the presser foot.
Loosen the tension on the presser foot, use fine thread with light tension.
Stitching can be done more easily on the right of the presser foot with the bulk of the material lying to the left.
Handel The Story of a Little Boy Who Practiced in an Attic This Book was made by Philadelphia Theodore Presser Co.
The presser is moveable and the fabric proceeds downwards, there being a winding roller to take up the fabric.
In the French circular frame, the presser consists of a plain circular disc which, by reason of its adjustment, presses the beards or springs of the needles as they revolve.
These stitch portions are pushed back on the needles, and when the next yarn is fed into them, the presser is moved along so that needles left unpressed at the last course are now pressed and two yarns are discharged in place of one.
One way is to have a tuckpresser and a plain presser arranged alternately in the machine so that there is a tucked pattern where the double stitches are discharged every second course.
Immediately this is completed the needle leaves the presser and the beard springs back to its former position once again.
Stitch 1 and stitch 3 are pressed as usual and form their ordinary stitches as given by the shape of the presser in Fig.
At this stage the presser comes largely into the picture, and in itself is simply a piece of steel fixed in front of the bar in which the sinkers work.
When this is completed the presser marked P is drawn firmly down on to the beards of the needles and the sinker with a further movement to the right pushes the old loops so that they cover the beards.
The idlers, or presser rollers, should not fit tight enough to bind, but must fit closely enough to hold the film securely.
The presser or friction rollers exist merely to hold the film in its proper place.
Never try to draw the cloth under the needle any faster than it is pushed along by the feed plate under the presser foot.
Learn to raise and lower the presser foot on a piece of brown paper, and to stitch without thread.
Presser foot, the part of a sewing machine which rests on the cloth and presses it down upon the table of the machine.
Presser bar, or Presser wheel (Knitting machine), a bar or wheel which closes the barbs of the needles to enable the loops of the yarn to pass over them.
Copyright, 1902, by Theodore Presser International Copyright Printed in the United States of America My Keys I.
Franz Schubert The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Beautiful Songs This Book was made by Philadelphia Theodore Presser Co.
A small sweater in Brunswick Street employed a presser and a machinist, with two women for button-holes and felling, his business being the production of tunics for postmen.
The baster may be a skilled woman; the presser is always a man, the irons weighing from seven to eighteen pounds, and the work being of the most exhausting description, no man being able to continue it beyond eight or ten years at the utmost.
This invention relates to a new device for soaping the cloth that is fed under the needle of a sewing machine, and consists in the attachment of a tubular soap holder to the presser foot of a sewing machine.
Frederic Francois Chopin The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies This Book was made by Philadelphia Theodore Presser Co.
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