Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-19 | Page 14 | Ogden Man Perfects Quilting Machine

IOGDERI MAN PERFECTS QITI1CIIE I J. I. Smith Has Working j Model of Superior Type, I After Years of Labor. I Special lo The Tribune. I OGDEN, Feb. IS J. I. Smith of the I Smith Brothers Mattress & Boddlng j company of this city hits just completed i a machine of his own Invention for quilt- I jng. It has required three years of study i and labor to perfect the device, which Ji Mr. Smith believes Is equal In every way to any quilting machine to be found in I the largest factories of the United States. I At a cost of not less than $1000 Mr. I Smith prepared the model and had cv- i cry part of the large machine east at local foundries. It was assembled by j It. M. Grange knd this part or the work required three months. It Is operated I by electricity and has a capacity of ' twelve quilts per hour, sowed In any do- sign known to tho manufacturers of such bed covering. . The work of the. machine I is said to be superior to tho hund quilt- ! ing. The Smith machine has a dis- i tinctlve fcaturo in that it will sew a quilt of any size, from a cradle tfovur I to a quilt eighty by ninety inches. The I' newlnc arm is eight feet In length, while L the entire machine occupies a floor space of twelve by fifteen reet. ( When Air. Smith went cast several rears ago for tho purpose of purchasing purchas-ing a quilting machine he discovered that no such muchlne Is manufactured for general sale, also that he would not bo permitted to pattern a specially-constructed machine after the style of any then in operation In the factories. Thero j was nothing else to do but build ono ' in' accordance with his own ideas, and ' tho finished machine now in operation 1 5s the result of his determination.