What Kind Of Machine Is This?

[medion]

Does anyone recognise what kind of machine this might be?

[Colt W Knight]

Adler 204-370 maybe?

[Uwe]

Looks like a design based on the Singer Class 7 type machine. There are many present day variations, some of them listed in this Kaplan Sewing web page.

Edited September 24, 2015 by Uwe

[Colt W Knight]

Looks like a design based on the Singer Class 7 type machine. There are many present day variations, some of them listed in this Kaplan Sewing web page.

I think you are right

[medion]

Amazing, thanks everyone - such fast replies! Kaplan Sewing link was great, thank you.

Has anyone ever worked in high load safety sling sewing? Ie. lifting slings, vehicle lifting slings, etc - and if so, did you work within standards set about by your country? For example, in Australia we have things like the AS/NZS 4380:2001 standards - Cargo restraint systems -Transport webbing and components. Does anyone have any feedback on the reality of working in this kind of industry?

[Uwe]

No experience with strap sewing standards, sorry. But if you're looking to do work sewing straps that people's lives depend on, check out SL-Spezial in Germany. They make licensed Durkopp Adler Class 120 strap sewing machines similar to the one shown in the video. If the situation calls for it, I want to be dangling from a strap sewn on their machines.

Edited September 24, 2015 by Uwe

[Colt W Knight]

I don't know anything about strap construction, but I do have a ton of experience with lifting straps working in mines across the USA. Safety standards here are very strict. We could only use certified straps for lifting, and if they had grease on them or any frayed threads we were not suppose to use them.

The slings we buy here in the USA have a tag with their lifting ratings based on how they are used (straight, basket, choked).

I don't know about tow straps, but I bet there would be a ton of hoops to jump through to manufacture and sell lifting straps.

Here is one regulatory agencies policy on slings - OSHA - is a major workplace safety organization in the USA that regulates working conditions.

https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9834

Edited September 24, 2015 by Colt W Knight

[jimi]

Seiko SLH series.

http://www.seiko-sewing.co.jp/english/a6.html

[shoepatcher]

Jimi is right. It is a Seiko SLH series machine which is their copy of the 7 Class Singer.

glenn