1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VI.: Charles Fiot Judkins
52. JUDKINS, CHARLES FIOT, Manchester — Patentee.
Heald machine.— The machine shown in the drawing is so constructed as to double and twist the single yarn, and at certain points it braids or plaits the yarn, thus forming the eye or loop of the heddles, without knots of any description, the whole shade or leaf being of one continuous cord. The drawing also shows a small sample of the healds made by the machine, with the eye or loop, as described, which is coated, lined, or covered with a metallic substance suitable for the purpose, which coating or covering has also been patented by the same party. The assumed advantages of these healds are as follows:—One set will outlast fifteen sets of any other sort; more yards of cloth can be produced through them per week, and at the same time the cloth is more perfect, and will weigh heavier per piece, owing to there being less friction upon the warp than is usually caused by the ordinary healds. —See fig. 1.
Set of healds produced by the machine.
Patent self-acting machine, for closing metal upon the eyes or loops of healds.
Sewing machine.— This machine is very simple in its construction, and suited to sewing either a circle, curve, or straight line, at the rate of 500 stitches per minute. But for a circle or curve the straight rack is removed, and one of a circular form applied to the side of the machine. This rack, in which the cloth is placed, is moved forward by means of a spring, at a given distance for every stitch. There are two threads employed, one of which is carried in the shuttle, and the other taken from a reel on the top of the machine, and passed through the cloth by the point of the needle, so that when it is withdrawn from the cloth both threads have been locked together, forming a firm and durable stitch. —See fig. 2.