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GENERAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF GROUP XXII. 7 the one previously formed and then held between the nipple and the cloth-support, the nipple and support holding the cloth firmly. The chain of the stitch was formed upon the surface of the material. The Scientific American of April 17, 1869, states that in 1841 eighty Thimonnier machines, made chiefly of wood, might have been seen in Rue de Sevres very busy upon clothing for the army, “but they were destroyed by a mob,” and that in the year 1845 “the French machine was making two hundred stitches per minute.” The writer has been unable to verify this statement. The needle-carrier in the Thimon nier machine was made as a sliding frame, which was depressed at each stitch by the foot of the operator and raised by a spring. Thi monnier died in 1857, penniless. The Thimonnier form of needle and thread-carrier are now used in machines for embroidering purposes and in machines for sewing leather with a waxed thread. English patent No. 8948, May 4, 1841, shows and describes a short, needle-like, eye-pointed instrument at the end of a vibrating lever. It was used to cany a thread through the back of a glove held on a frame, the frame and glove being moved together after each stitch. The machine was designed solely for the purpose of embroidering the backs of gloves with a chain-stitch and not for sewing. Another form of sewing-machine, now known as the running-stitch machine, made its appearance, and was patented in the United States, No. 2982, March 4, 1843, by B. W. Bean. It employed a needle with an eye at one end and a point at the other, which carried a short length of thread; the needle was held between toothed rollers, some of which corrugated the material and fed it upon the point, along the body, and off the heel of the needle upon the thread held in the eye at the heel of the needle, as in hand-needles, the operator crowding the fabric back upon the thread. This Bean machine made the run ning-stitch used for basting. A number of varieties of this machine were subsequently patented both in the United States and in England. They were principally used to sew together the ends of pieces of cloth to be bleached, dyed, or printed. The patents heretofore cited illustrate substantially the state of the art of sewing by machinery up to the date of a sewing-machine in vented by Walter Hunt. In Howe vs. Underwood fist Fisher, Reports of United States Circuit Courts) it was proven that Walter Hunt invented a sewing-machine in 1833 or 1834. Justice Sprague in that case stated “that Mr. Hunt made an ingenious machine, there is no doubt; and that in many respects it was like Mr. Howe’s machine, there is no doubt; that it had a needle similar to Mr. Howe’s, operated by a vibrating arm and going through the cloth, a shuttle that passed