GENERAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF GROUP XXII. 3! end with a notch, was then lowered into operative position, so that the loop-taker could seize the loop of looper thread, carry it back from the edge above the upper side of the cloth, and hold it open for the passage of the eye-pointed perforating needle in its next descent. All the changes necessary to be made to fully describe the operation of changing from plain sewing to button-hole stitching, and vice versa, need not necessarily be described here. The button-hole devices work best upon heavy or woolen fabrics. Button-holes in linen and white cotton goods can be best worked by hand. This company showed a machine with the button-hole features re moved, and designed to make only the lock-stitch. It also exhibited a machine containing the button-hole features, and designed specially to sew carpets with an overedge-stitch. In such machine the carpet was stretched upon a long table, and the machine and the operator’s seat were made to travel along the table, the machine uniting the edges of the carpet. This machine was the only one of its kind on exhibition in the American department. It is effective for the pur pose intended, and operated well. A finger extending between the two edges of the carpet to be sewed pushed back the pile loops. The finger was not used when sewing ingrain carpets. They also exhibited a novel and special machine to bind and cord the edges of woolen and other blankets to be dyed, wherein it was desired to protect the edges of the blanket so that they could not be dyed, but would remain white. This machine used a single thread. A tubular guide delivered a small rope within the turned-over or rolled edge of the blanket, turned or rolled by means of a scroll. A strip of heavy cotton binding was automatically applied over the turned blanket edge and rope, and was sewed down about the blanket edge and rope by a single thread extended about all, as at the edge of a button-hole or in overseaming. No other company showed a machine for this purpose. Johnson, Clark, & Co., Boston, Mass. This company exhibited the Home Shuttle-Machine. It was adapted for hand use, made a lock-stitch, and employed a straight needle and vibrating shuttle. The needle-bar was moved by a heart- cam on the upper rotating shaft. The lower rotating shaft was pro vided at its forward end with two cams, one to lift and the other to move the four-motioned feeding device forward, a spring returning it. The shuttle was carried by a centrally pivoted vibrating lever, provided at its back end with an adjustable fork to embrace an eccentric upon the lower shaft, the eccentric moving the shuttle-lever. A lever,