Abstract: A footwear article is provided herein. The footwear article may include a cord structure including interconnected bights in a vamp cord and a rand cord forming a loop line extending along at least a portion of the footwear article, and further including an anchor cord extending along the portion of the footwear article and parallel to the loop line. The rand cord may couple to the anchor cord. In this way, the cord structure may be tensioned independently of other upper materials.

Abstract: An embroidery data generating device has a hole data acquisition portion, an embroidery data acquisition portion, a polygon acquisition portion, a line segment generating portion and a bridge data generating portion. The hole data acquisition portion acquires hole data to form a hole in a sewing workpiece. The embroidery data acquisition portion acquires embroidery data corresponding to an embroidery pattern that is arranged on the inside of the hole. The polygon acquisition portion acquires a minimum polygon that encompasses the embroidery pattern, based on the acquired embroidery data. The line segment generating portion generates a line segment that joins the polygon and a peripheral edge portion of the hole. The bridge data generating portion generates bridge data to form bridge stitches between the embroidery pattern and the peripheral edge portion of the hole, based on the generated line segments.

Abstract: An embroidery sewing appliqué technique. A tacking stitch is produced and positioned inside a column of a fabric that holds down the fabric on top of a base or host material, such as a garment. Running parallel to the tacking stitch, a column or satin stitch runs near and to the outside of the tacking stitch. The column or satin stitch has a higher density than that utilized in normal embroidery applications. The higher density satin stitch varies with needle size and thread size. The satin stitch cuts the fabric along the outer edge of the fabric. The tack stitch on the inside of the satin stitch locks the fabric down therefore not allowing the inner edge of the satin to be lifted away from the garment by virtue of the running tack stitch and without a separate cutting step.

Abstract: The present invention is a protective cover assembly, pattern, and method for use for installation upon an external orthodontic headgear protraction appliance having a chin cup interface and a forehead pad interface. The present invention comprises two aspects of a protective cover assembly, a protective chin cup cover assembly and a protective forehead pad cover assembly. Each protective cover assembly provides an absorbing soft cushioning fleece membrane between the facial skin of an orthodontic patient wearer and the hard surfaces of the orthodontic protraction headgear interfaces to prevent against a plurality of discomforts which result from wearing the orthodontic protraction headgear appliance during treatment of Class III Malocclusion; and configured to improve compliancy of use of the orthodontic protraction appliance in the orthodontic population, especially among growing children and adolescents.

Abstract: In a bar tacking stitch pattern comprising lateral stitches formed in a sewn product in such a way as to cover the starting and ending portions of overedge chain stitches which are formed on the periphery of a button hole in the direction substantially at right angles to the extending direction thereof and zigzag stitches which cross the lateral stitches, a pair of stitches of the zigzag stitches are formed on both sides of an end portion of the button hole adjacent thereto in such a way as to be substantially symmetrical with regard to the button hole and a pair of stitches of the lateral stitches are formed on both sides of the end portion of the buttonhole adjacent thereto outside the area between a pair of line segments which respectively extends through the pair of stitches of the zigzag stitches in the extending direction of the button hole.

Abstract: A towel support for a standard, preferably large, bath-type towel, consisting of at least one slot formed through that towel at a minimum distance from a towel corner and cut on the bias to the towel weave.

Abstract: A method for making a buttonhole in a piece of material using a zigzag stitch sewing machine wherein the lips of the buttonhole are formed by the alternate stitching of opposite fractions of the desired length of the two lips, the stitching always being carried out in the same direction, and this process being repeated until the desired length is achieved. The material is moved in the reverse direction in the period between the finishing of one fraction of two opposite fractions and the starting of the other. The method is almost entirely automatic, all movements being regulated by interchangeable cams on the machine, and operator supervision is minimal.