The Tubular Presser Foot: Hold the Leather Flat Round the Hole So the Needle Raises No Burr

A hook-needle machine sewing leather from below pierces it with the needle rising, and the leather pushed up round the hole forms a burr on the face of the work. T. K. Reed of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, received US 67,906, dated 20 August 1867, for "a tubular foot, arranged above the table, and in vertical line with the needle, and having a vertical movement to and away from the table, this foot after each feed movement of the leather, coming down upon the leather, and before the needle enters the leather, and pressing it firmly against the table, the tube in the foot being of size just sufficient to allow the needle to pass freely up into it". The leather round the needle is held and made to expand radially, "in contradistinction to being pressed up in the form of a burr". This rung works out the pressure the foot puts on the leather, then makes a tubular foot and pierces leather from below with and without it, and compares the face.