Abstract: A two needle sewing machine having a one needle pause function wherein a needle thread supply device is provided. The needle thread supply device includes a thread guide element. The thread guide element is reciprocally movable in association with a drive means to change the length of the thread path for controlling the tension of the thread.

Abstract: Sewing apparatus is provided having a plurality of connected sewing stations, each of which includes a sweing head with needles for stitching, and a cylinder arm which is raised from the sewing table. The raised posture of the cylinder arm makes for an efficient operation in stitching or sewing large garments such as sweat shirts, jackets or the like within framing hoops since the excess material of the garment can be maintained beneath the cylinder arm and out of the way. The sewing table may extend laterally for use by two (2) or more such sewing stations and a device is provided to drive the framing hoops simultaneously and to control the sewing machines to duplicate the sewing operations from station to station. The framing hoops are configured to easily mount in receivers at the sewing stations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method wherein open spaces in woven fabrics useful as industrial materials, such as coated cloth and cloth for fiber-reinforced plastics, are reduced by allowing the woven fabrics to pass under pressure between a pair of rolls at least one of which vibrates in the axial direction thereof.

Abstract: A combination cap hanger and visor press includes pivotally connected spring loaded gripping members, adapted to receive a cap visor between them and curved in the direction appropriate to the cap visor. The curvature of the gripping members and the force of the spring combine to press the cap visor into a desired shape. Several alternatives for hanging the device and cap are disclosed.

Abstract: In an automatic sewing device the sewing head has, for producing a tangential path of the needle relative to the seam to be produced, a rotary housing which receives the needle bar and a likewise rotatable hook bearing which receives the hook and which can be tilt driven by an adjusting shaft at the same angle of rotation as the rotary housing. A drive shaft is provided for driving the needle bar and the hook. To enable even pivoting movements of the rotary housing in a simple embodiment without a change in the height of the needle bar occurring, there are provided a device for the drive-like connection of the adjusting shaft and the drive shaft and a device for the disengagement of the drive motor from the drive shaft.

Abstract: A seam forming apparatus for forming a seam in one or more limp material segments includes a fold assembly and a driver for positioning the segments within guide channels in the fold assembly prior to presentation to a seam joining device. The driver controls the segments to be at associated predetermined positions within the fold assembly.

Abstract: A device for driving a thread take-up lever in a multi-head sewing machine having a plurality of sewing heads, one or more thread take-up levers each mounted on a respective head, and a main shaft for driving the heads. The device comprises a movement converting mechanism located within each head for converting rotational movement of the main shaft into reciprocating movement thereof, a transmission control mechanism operatively associated with the movement converting mechanism for transmitting and disconnecting the reciprocating movement produced by the movement converting mechanism to one of the thread take-up levers selected for sewing operation, and a retaining mechanism for retaining the selected take-up lever in a predetermined position when the reciprocating movement of the movement converting mechanism is disconnected from the selected take-up lever by the transmission control mechanism.

Abstract: A garment hanger has at least a pair of arms on either side of the central stem. Each arm of each pair extends outwardly from a hinge connection with the stem. The hinges of each pair are disposed vertically spaced and at their opposite ends the arms are hingedly attached at spaced points to a garment retaining member. Each upper arm is hinged at a point intermediate of the two end hinge mountings to move outwardly away from the other arm on compression of the ends towards each other and resilient biassing means such as springs in the arms are provided on at least the upper arm to bias the ends of the hanger outwardly. The construction of this hanger becomes the known radial movement of the arms which tend to tilt the garment retaining member at an angle to the original vertical angle resulting in considerable pressure to effect movement of the arms. The hanger of this invention ensures that the garment retaining member remains in a desirable direction.

Abstract: There is disclosed a portable mannequin which is both collasible and attachable to a coat hanger. The mannequin includes a frame member, a hoop pivotally mounted to said frame member, and a hoop extension member connected at one end to said hoop and slideably connected at the other end to said frame member.

Abstract: A garment hanging apparatus comprising a principal vertical body portion having an upper loop at its upper end, and a lower loop at its lower end, the upper and lower loops positioned in perpendicular relationship. Further, substantially along the length of the body portion, there is included a mounting member which has hingedly engaged therewith a pair of arm members which are movable from an vertical upright position to an extended horizontal position. In the use of the apparatus the garment to be dried is slid over the apparatus with the pair of arm members moved completely to the horizontal position and the upper loop portion extending through the neck of the garment so that the arms of the garment is extended outward and the loop serves as a means for hanging the apparatus in position during drying.

Abstract: The bottom plate of a cloth presser supporter is pivotally mounted on a lower end of the supporter adjacent a rear end of the plate. The plate has an L shaped slot, one slot leg being a needle location groove, the other slot leg being a needle thread guide. The plate has a knife receiving groove with a knife mounted therein. A thread holder holds the end of a thread vertically above the plate so that the thread when extended between the held thread end and the first zigzag stitch of the thread does not extend over a corner defined by the intersection of the side wall of one slot leg with the corresponding side wall of the other slot leg.

Abstract: 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 continuous train of gears. Each roller is provided with registering circumferential grooves along the length thereof. A needle having a pointed tip end and an eye end is disposed in "floating" relation in the machine with its pointed end positioned between the first pair of rollers (entrance rollers) and with its eye end extending just beyond the second pair of rollers. The needle is provided with a predetermined length which extends from the pointed tip to the eye end of the needle which is disposed proximate an arc prescribed by rotation of a point on the outer periphery of the lower of the second set (exit) of rollers.

Abstract: A small part (42) is automatically lowered, with its front side (76) facing upward, directly onto a main part (43) which is spread out on a worktable (2), the front side (76) of said main part also facing upward. The respective patterns of the main part (43) and the small part (42) are aligned. Then the small part (42) is automatically turned over, whereby it then can be deposited, with its front side (76) facing downward, on a sewing-material clamp (8). The latter transports both the main and small sewing parts, fixed in position, first to the sewing station (68) and then to the cutting station (6).

Abstract: The adjustable garment hanger of the present invention has a main body member having a pair of oppositely extending arms engaged within a pair of auxiliary sleeves which may be adjusted to provide a hanger arm of variable lengths. Each of the opposed arms is biasable such that the sleeve may be slideably moved over the arm. The sleeves are held in a fixed position relative to the main body member when the arm is in an unbiased position. The sleeves are provided with support means which are slideably engaged with the underside of the top edge of the main body member so that when the sleeves are extended to their greatest extremity, no dipping occurs.

Abstract: An apparatus for folding and creasing pocket material is provided. A table has a heating plate mounted thereon. A top die has upper and lower die plates for folding material therebetween, the lower die plate being wider than the upper die plate. The top die is lowered between the side dies which move inwardly to fold and crease the pocket material.

Abstract: A frame for holding and displaying articles of clothing comprises top bar (1), side bars (3) and bottom bar (4) with shorter internal bars (2) for location inside the shoulder regions of the garment. Each flat tab (6) near the respective upper portions of bars (3) can have a zigzag edge (7), and the bars (3) can themselves be zigzagged as at (5) for strength and to assist garment retention. Detachable spring polymer clips can fit onto the tab (6) to hold a lower edge of the folded garment. A suspension hook located by studs (17) and/or a polo-neck attachment fitted over bars (2) and (2a) can also be provided.

Abstract: For a garment hanger having a rigid, elongated body equipped with garment clamps at each end, an accessory garment support bar is provided having a garment holding portion longer than the spacing between the clamps, which bar is detachably connected to the hanger body inward of the clamps which supports the bar rearwardly of the plane assumed by a garment suspended from the clamps.

Abstract: A needle pushing head is made integral with a ring for wearing on a finger. The head has at least one needle receiving indentation so that the needle can be placed therein and forced by the finger through cloth or other material.

Abstract: A machine for producing pompons in which an indefinite length of thin plastic tape 9 is ripped into a plurality of strips of constant width, the strips are cut off to a predetermined length, and the cut strips are bundled at their central areas. The machine includes a shaft 7 for rotatably supporting a tape roll 11 wound about a core 10, a ripping device 4 for ripping the tape into strips, and a reel 5 about which the strips are wound mounted on a common framework 1. The ripping device has a plurality of equally spaced cutters 34. The outer periphery of the reel is provided with at least two recesses 48 through one of which a string 54 is passed to bundle the strips and through the other of which a knife or scissors for removing the strips from the reel is passed.

Abstract: The invention discloses an overlock sewing machine equipped with a threading unit of very simple configuration, which comprises a shaft having a threading member fixed thereon and a mechanism (including arm and disc elements) for determining the rotation timing of the shaft.