Bobbin driver

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Longitudinal shuttle

|1846 by Elias Howe{{cite patent|country=US | number=4750| pubdate= 10 September 1846|status=patent }}

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|Transverse shuttles carry the bobbin in a boat-shaped shuttle, and reciprocate the shuttle along a straight horizontal shaft. The design was popularized in Singer's 'New Family' machine.{{cite book|author=Singer Sewing Machine Company |chapter=Monograph 5|page =[https://archive.org/details/mechanicssewing00compgoog/page/n49 49]|url=https://archive.org/details/mechanicssewing00compgoog|quote=mechanics of the sewing machine monograph 5. |title=Mechanics of the Sewing Machine|publisher=Singer Sewing Machine Company |year=1914}} The design became obsolete once the other bobbin driver designs were developed.{{cite book |page =152 |author=Grace Cooper|title=The Sewing Machine: Its Invention and Use|publisher=Smithsonian Museum |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/hst/cooper/|chapter=1913 trade flyer offering a treadle cabinet and a choice of machines representing every bobbin driver design except the transverse shuttle|year=2004}}

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|Sometimes incorrectly called an "oscillating shuttle". Somewhat confusingly, the term "Transverse Shuttle" is usually used only to refer to a side-to-side motion of the bobbin. When moved in a front-to-back motion, as in the Howe machines, and the earliest Singers, the term "Reciprocating Shuttle" is used instead.

|1850 by Allen B. WilsonRefer to Vibrating shuttle for full inventor credits with references

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|Vibrating shuttle machines reciprocate their shuttle through a short arc. The earliest vibrating shuttles used boat-shaped shuttles, but bullet-shaped shuttles soon replaced them. The design was popularized in the White Sewing Machine Company's 'White Sewing Machine' and Singer's 27-series machines.All information drawn from the Vibrating shuttle article Now obsolete.Singer's last vibrating shuttle machine was built in 1962, according to the references on the Singer Model 27 and 127 page

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Rotating hook

Rotary loop takerSee e.g. {{cite patent|country=US |number=5617803|gdate=1997|title=Rotary Loop Taker with Replaceable Tip|status=patent}}

Revolving hook

|1851 by Allen B. Wilson{{cite patent |country=US|number=9041|pubdate=15 June 1852|status =patent}}; but see Rotary hook for full inventor credits with references

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|Rotary hook machines hold their bobbin stationary, and continuously rotate the thread hook around it. The design was popularized in the White Sewing Machine Company's 'Family Rotary' sewing machineAll information drawn from the Rotary hook article and Singer's models 95 and 115.{{cite book |author=Singer Sewing Machine Company|chapter=Monograph 5|pages =54–55|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=chkLAAAAIAAJ&dq=mechanics%20of%20the%20sewing%20machine%20monograph%205&pg=PA49|title=Mechanics of the Sewing Machine|year=1914}}

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|1877 by Lebbeus B. Miller and Philip Diehl{{cite patent |country=US |number= 208838|fdate=8 June 1877|gdate=8 Oct 1878|status=patent}}; and refinement {{cite patent |country=US |number=221338|fdate=21 November 1878|gdate=4 November 1879|status=patent }}. {{cite book |chapter=Monograph 5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/mechanicssewing00compgoog/page/n50 50] |author=The Singer Sewing Machine Company|url=https://archive.org/details/mechanicssewing00compgoog|quote=mechanics of the sewing machine. |title=Mechanics of the Sewing Machine|publisher=Singer Sewing Machine Company |year=1914}}, the date of invention is given as 1879, but the Miller/Diehl patent trail actually began in 1877.

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|Oscillating shuttle machines mount their bobbin on the hook, and reciprocate the hook through a short arc. The design was popularized in Singer's models 15 'Improved Family' and 31.{{cite book |author=Singer Sewing Machine Company|chapter=Monograph 5|page =[https://archive.org/details/mechanicssewing00compgoog/page/n52 52]|url=https://archive.org/details/mechanicssewing00compgoog|quote=mechanics of the sewing machine monograph 5.|title=Mechanics of the Sewing Machine|publisher=Singer Sewing Machine Company|year=1914}}

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|Oscillating hook machines hold their bobbin stationary, and reciprocate the hook through a short arc. The bobbin lies horizontally, right under the needle plate. The design was popularized in Singer's model 66.{{cite book |author=Singer Sewing Machine Company|chapter=Monograph 5|page =[https://archive.org/details/mechanicssewing00compgoog/page/n53 53]|url=https://archive.org/details/mechanicssewing00compgoog|quote=mechanics of the sewing machine monograph 5.|title=Mechanics of the Sewing Machine|publisher=Singer Sewing Machine Company|year=1914}}

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