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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7441508 | Mattress edge sewing machine A mattress edge sewing machine including a frame having a material supporting surface, a sewing station defined by a needle bar mounted in the frame for generally vertical reciprocatory movements along a fixed centerline, and a feeding mechanism for pulling material... | 10/28/2008 |
| 6250238 | Device for positioning and joining at an angle the edges of two sheets to be stitched in a sewing machine, particularly for forming a mattress case A device for positioning and joining at an angle, by a sewing machine, the edges of two flaps of fabric, particularly of a horizontal sheet and of a vertical band for forming a mattress case, said device comprising a first guiding wall for the edge of the... | 06/26/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6082277 | Automatic flange applying machine An automatic flange applying machine for sewing the raw edges of a mattress panel and attaching a flange strip. A multi-speed sewing machine sews at high speed along straight sides and a straight top end and bottom end and forms rounded corners at a slowe... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6055918 | Portable carpet binder A portable carpet binder applies and sews a binding tape to a carpet edge. The binder includes a sewing head having a carpet support table, a sewing mechanism, a motor, means for folding the binding tape over the carpet edge, and wheels to move the carpet... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6024036 | Sewing machine for automatically hemming garments A sewing machine for automatically hemming garments includes an arm shaft for driving a sewing needle up and down, upper and lower feed rollers disposed by the sewing needle for moving a hem of a garment under pressure, and first and second drive motors f... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6000352 | Method and apparatus for sewing fabric panels A method and apparatus for sewing flange material to a fabric panel, preferably the top or bottom panel of a mattress sack. The apparatus includes a sled which pulls the fabric panel to and through the sewing machine. The apparatus also includes an edge g... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5964171 | Method for sewing various kinds of articles, in particular made of leather, and machine for carrying out this method A method for sewing leather articles includes positioning one edge of a first article (8) and one edge of a second article (9) to be sewn together against respective flat side surfaces (7a,7b) of a longitudinal guiding plate (7) formed at the top of a rin... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5881661 | Leg binding attachment system A semi-automatic leg binding attachment system includes a pair of infeed guide plates leading towards and terminating in a pair of sew heads. To align the garment as it is fed into the sew heads, a combination of pneumatic garment aligners and active, mec... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5875723 | Portable carpet binding machine A portable carpet binding machine comprising a housing defining an interior region, a drive mechanism supported by the housing and at least partially disposed in the interior region, a prime mover operatively coupled to the drive mechanism for providing m... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5809917 | System for controlling tension of a primary backing material in a tufting machine A system for controlling tension improves carpet quality by maintaining tension along a primary backing material at a constant value. The system controls the tension by maintaining the speed of an entry pin roller slightly slower than the speed of an exit... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5782190 | Apparatus for assembly of pillow-top mattress covers An improved method and apparatus for the assembly of pillow-top mattress covers. In the method of this invention, the gussets for a pillow-top mattress cover are prepared in a single step in which the gusset material is folded longitudinally, and the flan... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5662057 | Connecting device for connecting a cloth pulling arrangement to a sewing machine A connecting device for connecting a cloth pulling arrangement to a sewing machine including first connecting member having first, second and third connecting portions, a second connecting member mounted on an arm of a sewing machine, an adjustable frame ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5642681 | Sewing sleeves on shirt bodies A work station for an operator using two sewing machines that have automatic sew cycles and work piece control and advancing mechanisms for setting sleeves in shirt bodies. Sleeves and shirt bodies are presented to the operator at the work station in a ma... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5636582 | Fell seamer device The present invention relates to a semi-automatic device for sewing full felled inseams or outer seams on jeans. The fell seamer employs optical sensors and spline rolls to guide the material into and through the folder. Sensors are embedded in the folder... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5622128 | Fabric tensioning system and separator plate for automated sewing machine An automated circular sewing machine system for attaching an elastic band to a tubular body of fabric or forming and sewing a hem thereon without the elastic band. The system includes a sewing head which is located between a pair of elongated work holding... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5605106 | Front roller feeder A fabric feed mechanism that includes a forward feed roller located forward of the stitch forming area and a rear feed roller located to the rear of the stitch forming area. The drive to the forward and rear feed rollers is synchronized such that the fabr... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5603275 | Device for forming a loop-like anchor member on a trim cover assembly A device for automatically forming a loop-like anchor member on a trim cover assembly. The device includes a recessed groove arranged between a slit formed in a table of sewing machine and a movable feed member of sewing machine, a guide duct member exten... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5568778 | Apparatus for feeding a workpiece including a rotor and endless belts An apparatus for feeding a workpiece in a machine tool, particularly in a sewing machine, comprises a main conveyor for longitudinally conveying the workpiece in a feeding direction and an auxiliary conveyor for transversely conveying the workpiece to ali... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5555831 | Festooning machine A festooning machine has at least one transport element for a forward transportation and transverse transportation of a sewing product, two vertically movable needles arranged at a distance near the transport element and parallel to a direction of the tra... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5553561 | Sleeve insertion system with edge guide feature An apparatus for high production assembly and sewing of tubular sleeve sections to shirt bodies. Tubular sleeve sections are loaded onto sleeve cones, preferably of cylindrical or frusto-conical form. The sleeve cones may be mounted for pivoting movement ... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5540164 | Workpiece positioning apparatus Two workpiece portions (30, 32) that are to be stitched together along a stitching path (28) each have a stitching region (24, 26) which corresponds to the stitching path (28), but which is so shaped that the regions do not overlap when the workpieces (30... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5522329 | Device for selectively feeding bands in a sewing machine A band feeding device feeds a selected one of a plurality of band-type materials (e.g. cloth tape, rubber) to a sewing machine for sewing to a ring-shaped garment such as, for example, the waist or crotch of a pair of trousers or briefs. One of a pluralit... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5505149 | Method and apparatus for attaching sleeves to shirt bodies A method and apparatus for sewing sleeve sections to a knitted shirt body. The sleeve sections are provided with a right-side-out orientation and are engaged and supported for sewing by a limited edge margin. A shirt body, supplied in an inside-out orient... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5505148 | Side-by-side programmable feed system for supplying strips in a sewing operation 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 material feeders which move the material toward respective cutters. The operation of the feede... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5501164 | Apparatus for assembly of pillow-top mattress covers An improved method and apparatus for the assembly of pillow-top mattress covers. In the method of this invention, the gussets for a pillow-top mattress cover are prepared in a single step in which the gusset material is folded longitudinally, and the flan... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5493979 | Independent guide system for upper roller feeder A guide mechanism for the roller presser bar of a sewing machine of the type that includes an upper surface roller feeder for imparting movement to the upper work surface and a presser foot that cooperates with the feed dog. The guide mechanism for the ro... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5370072 | Automatic alignment of material and positioning at the stitch forming location A device for aligning the margin and leading edges of plies of material to be sewed and locating the aligned edges at the stitch forming location of a sewing machine. A first sensor for detecting the presence of the work piece and actuating a power driven... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5341755 | Automated multiple-needle sewing machine An automated multiple-needle sewing device which comprises a table, a guide plate movable on the table, a multiple-needle sewing mechanism, a feed roller mechanism, a yarn cutting mechanism, and a guide plate returning mechanism. A material to be sewn is ... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5331910 | Sewing machine with auxiliary transport rollers, belt, and cutter An auxiliary transport device for sending out workpieces sewn on an elastic tape by a sewing machine is composed of front and rear rollers and a belt transmission device, and a cutter between the rollers, and one of the rollers is rotated and driven in sy... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5307750 | Method and apparatus for chaining in sewing machine An apparatus and method for maintaining the continuity of a free thread chain between successively sewn fabric parts by tensioning the free thread chain with a puller roller activated by drive means responsive to the sensing of the edges of the fabric par... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5269239 | Automatic attachment of pre-closed elastic waistbands An apparatus for and method of attaching an elastic band to the body of a garment is provided. The workpieces are monitored and aligned during the attachment process by sensors and guide mechanisms, electrically coupled to a controller that facilitates th... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5251557 | Sewing machine with an edge guiding device to guide one or more plies of material A workpiece guide device on a sewing machine serves for the automatically controlled alignment of a workpiece, with respect to its edge, for the purpose of sewing along the edge of the workpiece at the correct distance from that edge. The circumferential ... | 10/12/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5235923 | Double shelled rolled hemming device and endless feeder A device for producing a rolled hemming of a cloth including a rolling tool for rolling an edge of said cloth therein. The tool has an outer shell member and an inner shell member. A spiral shaped gap is formed between the shells for feeding the cloth edg... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5230294 | Endless belt zipper feed with sensors for a sewing machine A zip-fastener feeding device for an automatic sewing unit comprises an introduction device, an endless drawing means guided via a drive wheel and via deflection pulleys and a guiding device. Zip fasteners can be introduced through the introduction device... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5203268 | Apparatus for sewing elastic hems on fabric pieces An apparatus for sewing elastic hems on fabric pieces is designed as a tandem machine. In a first sewing machine (26a), an elastic band (6) is prefixed at the edge of a fabric piece (8). During further conveyance thereof, the thus created double-ply struc... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5111759 | Inconstant-thickness workpiece feeding apparatus An apparatus for picking up and feeding, one by one, workpieces which are stacked in a guide, such as shirt cuffs or the like having an inconsistent thickness. A pair of delivery rollers is rotated so as to slacken the lowermost workpiece so that the latt... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5038692 | Wheel low fabric feeding in sewing Wheel low fabric feeding for sewing machines where oscillations of the feeding shaft are transmitted to two gear couples mounted on free release wheels fixed to a support pivoted free to rotate. By acting on a stitch length regulator device one of these c... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5010834 | Clutch type roller feed for a sewing machine needle thread A needle thread feeding assembly in which the thread is positively fed at a desired stitch pitch while being clamped in between a presser roller and a drive roller, whose rotation is frictionally transmitted from a drive source. An encoder detects a prede... | 04/30/1991 |
