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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5188265 | Continuous sheet pleating device for making overlapping pleats and arrangements for making areas with no pleats and method of making pleats The device includes a toothed wheel on which pleats of a sheet 10 are preformed, in some cases with the aid of a second toothed wheel 31, and a device for holding by a vacuum; then the preformed pleats are transferred to a pleat gathering wheel 13 either ... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5156104 | Loading apparatus with shirring unit A loading apparatus for an automatic sewing machine which includes a setting device for setting thereon a lower workpiece, a shirring plate hinge to the setting device, and a work holder having an upper blade and a lower blade for holding the workpiece th... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5042701 | Lacing apparatus with feed rollers to smooth creased crimped material after lacing Apparatus for lacing a flexible line through sheet material, such as shade cloth, of an indefinite length in a continuous operation. The apparatus has a set of pleating rollers, each with a series of teeth spaced apart about the periphery. The pleating ro... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4911342 | Pleating needle A pleating machine having a frame supporting two pairs of rollers formed with intermeshing teeth. Each pair is comprised of upper and lower intermeshing rollers, with a roller of the first pair intermeshing with a roller of the second pair to form a conti... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4890775 | Apparatus for making deep flute shade A pleating machine with two engaging pleat forming chain conveyors, one with forming rollers and the other with forming plates both directly mounted on special links in the chains.... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4811873 | Self-stripping pleating apparatus A pleating machine having a frame supporting two pairs of rollers formed with intermeshing teeth. Each pair is comprised of upper and lower intermeshing rollers, with a roller of the first pair intermeshing with a roller of the second pair to form a conti... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4599958 | Method and apparatus for making pleated draperies of arbitrary lengths French pleated draperies of any selected length are manufactured by serging panels of fabric together to provide a wide section of material. After hemming the bottom and serging a strip of buckram to the top of the section, the upper and lower edges of th... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4364494 | Smock gathering apparatus A smock gathering apparatus includes a base board having two spaced apart bearing blocks mounted thereon. A shaft adapted to support a roll of cloth material to be gathered is mounted for rotation in bearing apertures in the bearing blocks. The blocks are... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4323021 | Pleating and smocking machine The disclosure relates broadly to sewing machines and provides a machine for pleating a fabric or other sheet material by passing it between intermeshed toothed rollers which produce pleats and deliver the material onto needles which are supported by the ... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4036414 | Fabric creasing machine A fabric creasing machine is disclosed for applying one or more creases in fabric. Only that portion of fabric to be creased is sucked by vacuum into the space between a pair of heated creasing bars by vacuum, and is subjected to steam while being pressed... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4015748 | Drapery pleating and finishing machine An apparatus is provided for forming or restoring the pleats of draperies which have been newly made or freshly dry cleaned. The drape or drapes are supported from a horizontally extending hanger bar which in turn is vertically movable on an upstanding fr... | 04/05/1977 |
