Sewing machine were born during the Industrial Revolution. On September 10, 1846, the United States Patent Office issued the first patent for a sewing machine to inventor Elias Howe, with the patent number "US 4750 A. The patent obtained by Elias Howe is called "Improvement in Sewing Machines", which is an improvement of a sewing machine. As the name suggests, before the improvement, there were already many prototype sewing machines. Among them, the earliest date can be traced back to 1755 when German craftsman Charles Wiesenthal obtained the first patent related to mechanical sewing in the UK - a needle patent for machine design. However, the patent did not describe the rest of the machine and did not promote it in large-scale commercialization.
Thomas Sant, a British cabinet manufacturer, obtained the first complete sewing machine patent in 1790 and invented the world's first single thread chain stitch hand sewing machine for punching holes first, threading later, and sewing leather shoes. Due to the absence of the concept of sewing machinery at that time, Thomas Sant's patents were included in the patent database of textile machinery, thus being buried for over 80 years.
Until Elias Howe, an American, made significant improvements to the sewing machine, making it the first truly modern sewing machine. It adopts the double thread interlocking sewing method and has invented a series of structures that are crucial for modern sewing machines, such as needle eyes set at the needle tips and automatic feeding devices. Meanwhile, Single Co. has developed and innovated to became the most successful multinational sewing machinery manufacturing company in history after obtaining this technology patent.
Meanwhile, China also began to import large sewing machine from abroad before 1949, actually the production of domestically produced sewing machine in China is small in this period. In this case, a large number of excellent domestic sewing machine brands have rapidly emerged, gradually becoming leaders in the sewing machine manufacturing industry.
In 1966, in order to unify the Chinese and English trademark names for domestic and foreign trade, "Wudi" was renamed again and named "Butterfly". The "Butterfly" sewing machine factory has continued to this day. By 1982, the annual production of sewing machine in China had reached 12.86 million units, ranking first in the world. By the beginning of the 21st century, more than 70% of the world's sewing machines were produced in China.
Now, there are a wide variety of domestic sewing machines, which are intelligent and more convenient to use than before. You can scan our KINGMAX site to understand the types of industrial sewing machine.