Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Rehfuss” in chapter 2, entry buttonholesewingmachine of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:

...dle-thread, a hook catches its thread and passes it in the form of a loop up through the button-hole slit and spreads it in the path of, and the needle enters it at its next descent. In patent to Rehfuss , May 23, 1865, the needle descends through the material back from the slit, a looper passes its thread through the loop of needlethread, and then passes up through the slit, where its loop is caught ...
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