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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7430974 | Fly sewing machine A fly sewing machine comprising a fly carrying portion disposed on an upstream side of a fly carrying passage between a fly supply portion and a sewing machine and a carrying speed adjusting portion disposed on a downstream side is disclosed. The fly carrying portio... | 10/07/2008 |
| 6994043 | Method of forming a mattress A method of forming a mattress, with a reduction in the number of sewing operations required, in which a border and gusset or an extended portion of the border will be integrally formed and attached to a mattress panel, with a flanging material also being attached a... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6968794 | Presser foot control system A presser foot control system for a sewing station for sewing heavy gauge or thick materials includes an actuator for selectively applying and relieving an additional compression force to the presser foot of the sewing station for compressing and feeding the materia... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6957615 | Method and device to apply cord thread or ribbons onto fabrics in a quilting machine A device for applying an embroidery material onto a textile fabric including a device for feeding the textile material; an upper sewing organ having a needle bearing bar and a plurality of needles; a lower sewing organ selected from the group consisting of shuttles,... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6945185 | Apparatus, seaming assembly and method for placing seams in a continuously moving web A seaming assembly for placing seams in a continuously moving web of material. The seaming assembly includes a first support that is movable in a machine direction and a second support which is secured to the first support. The second support is movable relative to ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6938309 | Zoned stretching of a web Apparatus and methods for stretching one or more zones of a web are disclosed. Webs including stretched or activated zones are also disclosed. Each of the zones in the web is stretched in the cross-web direction, i.e., the direction transverse to the down-web direct... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6736078 | Soft goods slitter and feed system for quilting An apparatus is provided for feeding and slitting mattress covers, quilts and other soft goods supported on a table. The apparatus has a first slitting wheel rotatable by a motor. A second slitting wheel is rotatable by the motor and contacts the first slitting whee... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6415727 | Flanging machine The instant invention is directed to a flanging machine which utilizes a dual belt feeding assembly for grasping both surfaces of the material being fed to and through the sewing area. The arrangement provides for greater productivity, a more controlled a... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6386129 | Name cloth feed device There is described a tag feeder that feeds tags one after another from a tag strip comprising numerous tags and having sensor marks and cut lines onto side edges of fabric materials placed on a work table. The tag feeder comprises a pair of feed rolls to ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6347596 | Device for the transportation of a length of cloth A device (1) for the transportation of a length of cloth (10) is disclosed. The device has a slide face (7) on which the length of cloth (10), laid out flat, can be moved, and at least two conveying belts (140-14d, 17), each disposed so that they run in t... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6189470 | Automatic pillow sham sewing machine An arrangement of sewing successive edges of material which extend in two directions. The arrangement comprises a stationary sewing table having a prescribed sewing area. The sewing table supports a carriage. A sewing machine is supported by the carriage.... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6125777 | Strip sewing apparatus and method A sewing machine for attaching tapes to a web includes a web feed station, a sewing station and a transfer mechanism to transfer the web from the sewing station to a collection zone. The sewing station includes a sewing head that moves across the web to s... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6095070 | Driving device for feeding material to be sewn in a sewing machine A drive means for feeding a material to be sewn on a sewing machine (1) includes a feed dog (7) to be coupled to a continuous rotary drive (9) via at least one intermediate drive. To achieve optimum drive conditions in a comparatively simple way, the inte... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6058863 | Pillow sham apparatus An apparatus for manufacturing a pillow sham from a sheet of material. The apparatus includes one or more hemmers positioned on a predetermined path for hemming one or more lateral edges of the sheet, a tri-fold assembly positioned on the predetermined pa... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5954006 | Apparatus for folding a cloth conveyed continuously along a conveying surface of a conveying device The apparatus of the invention is applied to a case of folding, for example, the sleeve cloth of short-sleeved T-shirt in half while conveying. A holding device grips the leading end of the cloth conveyed on a conveying surface of narrow conveyor belts, l... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5943971 | Mattress production including moveable mattress support sewing table A mattress support table with conveyor receives a mattress from a feed conveyor. The support table then indexes to a central position whereat a sewing machine passes around the periphery to sew the uppermost fabric panel to the border panel. The table the... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5727487 | Combining and binding conveyor system A combining and binding conveyor system which combines a first fabric piece and a second fabric piece to form a combined fabric piece, such as a men's brief and applies binding to the fabric piece. The apparatus includes an unique combining fixture for re... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5664510 | Blindstitch machine A blindstitch machine provided with a mechanism for feeding an end of the fabric to a position where a needle of the machine main body passes thereby to form the seam from the start end of the fabric, wherein the rotating amount of a belt is adjusted corr... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5628264 | Sleeve making method and apparatus A machine for automatically producing apparel sleeves that includes a station at which the sleeve blank is trimmed, folded and hemmed. Another station at which the hemmed sleeve blank is folded and turned inside out. The sleeve blank must then be stopped ... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5617804 | Conveying device for feeding textile articles from multiple feed stations A device for conveying, to a final station, loose textile articles fed selectively by at least two feed stations. At each feed station and at the final station, fixed guides in the form of pairs of conveyor belts are located, and, at each point of converg... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5596942 | Feeding support for a sewn product In a sewing device for feeding a sewn product through a given gap defined between the feeding surface of a sewing machine table and forward feeding members provided above the feeding surface, a sewn product supporting member for carrying the sewn product ... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5579708 | Cloth feeding in a mask sewing device A mask sewing device comprises a pair of sewing machines which are fixed to a working table, being arranged left and right thereon in such a way as to face each other, and are operated in synchronism with each other, a pair of belts provided apart from ea... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5511500 | Side-by-side programmable feed system for a sewing apparatus A side-by-side material feed system is provided for feeding two dissimilar strips of material. The material is fed along parallel feed paths by first and second drive mechanisms which move the material toward respective cutters. The operation of the feed ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5458074 | Sewing device A sewing device comprises endless conveyer belts for feeding a sewn product on a feeding surface, a feeding drive unit, a sewn product supporting member which is provided under the endless conveyer belts on the feeding side of the sewn product and a cloth... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5456193 | Apparatus for automatically manufacturing panel assemblies An apparatus for manufacturing front panels for men's underwear from continuous bands of web material. The apparatus includes a pay-out mechanism for paying out the continuous bands of web material. A web conveyance system conveys first and second continu... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5443024 | Pocket hemmer An automatic hemming machine, including a multi-belt conveyor, for folding the top edge of a pocket to be subsequently sewn on a shirt and hemming it with a back binding tape, severing the binding tape sewn on the pockets with a fast acting scissors type ... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5410975 | Apparatus for sewing fabric pieces to slide fastener chain An apparatus for sewing the opposed longitudinal edges of a pair of fabric pieces to a pair of stringer tapes of a continuous slide fastener chain along the outer longitudinal edges of the stringer tapes includes a support plate for supporting thereon the... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5402733 | Stocking positioning device A stocking positioning device (10) for use with a panti-hose manufacturing machine having a number of arm assemblies (12), each of which consists of upper and lower pairs of support arms (16, 18) for supporting respective first and second stockings (14) t... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5383418 | Top feed system with toothed belt and clutch A synchronized, indexed positive material top feeding system for use with sewing and other applications. For example, material being fed to and through the sewing area of a sewing machine, is constantly "gripped" at the top thereof in front of, behind and... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5367968 | Method and apparatus for sewing upholstered furniture Apparatus and a concomitant method for sewing seams in upholstered furniture such as mattresses. The apparatus contains a sewing machine located adjacent a conveyor belt which moves the mattress in a linear direction beneath the sewing machine, a presser ... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5361961 | Feeding device of a wide sewing material A feeding device of a wide sewing material comprises a first belt conveyer unit provided on a supporting member vertically driven by a first elevating unit, a first base plate vertically driven by a second elevating unit provided on the supporting member,... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5335611 | Edge guide for a textile web A sewing machine includes two machine halves spaced from one another and each provided with respective tongues capable of displacing pieces of the material web previously cut into pieces on a conveyor, the conveyor being provided with guide rails, one of ... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5282433 | Device for applying fabric webs or lengths of fabric A device for applying fabric webs includes upper and lower runners each formed with a respective edge facing a pile edge of the web and provided with respective first, second and third segments which are differently shaped and provide aligning of the edge... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5257591 | Automatic sewing apparatus for hemming and closing sleeve An automatic sewing apparatus for hemming and closing a sleeve is used for hemming a sleeve blank and sewing it into tubular form for making, for example, a short-sleeved T-shirt. The steps subsequent to putting the sleeve blank on a conveyor are done ful... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5249540 | Sewing-material transport device for single-needle or multi-needle sewing machine A sewing-material feeding device for a sewing machine has an upper material feeder and a lower material feeder which coact for feeding the sewing material, the lower material feeder being adjacent to the throat plate. The needle passes downward through an... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5226378 | Automatic sewing apparatus for forming a tubular sleeve by hemming and closing a blank of the sleeve An automatic sewing apparatus for hemming and closing a sleeve is used for making a tubular sleeve a short-sleeved T-shirt. After placing the sleeve blanks on a conveyor only, subsequent operations are done fully automatically and continuously to make tub... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5174229 | Loading device for a sewing machine A device for loading a garment for a sewing machine having a first device for moving the garment toward the sewing machine, a second device downstream of the first moving device for moving the garments towards the sewing machine, and a device for changing... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5152235 | Sewing apparatus for manufacturing a tubular piece A sewing apparatus for forming cuffs for sweat jackets or anklets for sweat pants or the like. The apparatus includes a movable table carrying an end of an elastic tape continuous to a supply source. The tape advances on a carrying table to a cutting devi... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5152237 | Sewing machine top feed system with conveyor A synchronized, indexed, positive material top feeding system for use with sewing and other applications. For example, material being fed to and through the sewing area of a sewing machine, is constantly "gripped" at the top thereof in front of, behind an... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5146860 | Sewing and stacking apparatus A sewing and stacking apparatus, comprising a sewing unit for stitching folded tape on a series of sewing mediums of an identical shape and size arranged appropriately apart; a transporting unit for transporting the sewing mediums having the folded tape s... | 09/15/1992 |
