The Davis company began in 1868 in Watertown, New York, and later moved to Dayton, Ohio in about 1890. Davis sewing machines had no conventional four motion feed (invented by Allen B Wilson and used in most other machines) as it is the needle bar and presser foot that moves the cloth forward so it is sometime referred to as a walking foot

Walking foot

A walking foot is a mechanism for feeding the workpiece through a sewing machine as it is being stitched. It is most useful for sewing heavy materials where needle feed is mechanically inadequate, for spongy or cushioned materials where lifting the foot out of contact with the material helps in...

or vertical feed machine.
The Davis company went bankrupt in 1924