Friedrich Heinrich August mouth lot (* 23 December 1836 in Barby; "† 27 April 1928 in Magdeburg) was a German sewing machine manufacturer and - inventors.

Mouth lot learned first the shoemaker handicraft and turned then to metalworking. it created 1863 together with Hermann Schulz in Magdeburg a sewing machine factory. First mouth lot & Schulz oriented themselves at the system of the singing he sewing machines, later at the English company Howe. 1874 separated Mundlos' partner, and he continued to lead the company alone, until 1876 its new Kompagnon, occurred Rudolf Arendt. Six years later came out the first by mouth lot designed, very low-friction sewing machine under the name Victoria and help it to the break-through; Arendt, which was first only a representative, starting from 1882 partners, worried about the international market. Beside sewing machines of all sizes also wringing and washing machines in Europe and until Russia were sold.

1901 came the first Ringschiffmaschine on the market, which made a more productive coil size possible, 1910 the patentrechtlich protected high-speed runner. At this time Mundlos' already exported company to Asia and America. Inventions like a semiautomatic hole ticking machine and a button hole sewing machine in the years 1913 and 1914 continued to strengthen the position of the company. After Arendt had died 1918, mouth lot converted the company 1920 into an AG and transferred in high age the presidency of the supervisory board; Relatives Arendts and Mundlos' held important positions. 1925 came the high-speed sewing zigzag machine on the market, which interspersed itself fast within the range of the private households, 1927 the first electrically propelled When mouth lot died, about 1300 coworkers were busy in the AG. Up to the beginning of the Second World War the AG continued to flourish, then it was obligated to the supply of armament-important elements from the range of the wood and metalworking. On 16 January 1945 the largest part of the manufacturing plants as well as the company-owned museum a bomb attack fell to the victim; which remained, as repair achievement into the Soviet Union one transported.

Literature

• Peter Wilhelm, Alte German sewing machines. A manual for collecting tanks and lovers of the sewing machine, 1987, 77-80
• Ditzenbach, company Mundlos, in: The Magazine for collecting tanks of historical sewing machines, No. 17, 1991, 7-17 and No. 18, 1991, 12-37
• Peter Zilvar, in Magdeburg was invented the in: People voice Magdeburg, 7." March 1998

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• /Mundlos' biography and picture

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