The expiration, August 14, of two of what have heretofore been considered the "controlling " patents of the McKay Sewing ...

This applies to the machine for sewing the soles to the uppers of shoes that is to-day used on some forty million pairs a year. Lyman R. Blake, the inventor, had never seen shoes sewed by hand, but ...

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