Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a pleat making device used to create pleats of fabric while the pleat making device is mounted to clothing. The pleat making device can have a frame for supporting the fabric, a fabric securing member for securing the fabric to the frame, and a segment frame hinge that allows for the rotation of a plurality of segment frames around an axis.

Abstract: A portable hand-held pleating apparatus for fabric material consisting of two halves containing a total of ten to twenty fingers adapted to allow fabric material to be pleated into numerous uniform pleats, specifically accordion pleats. The pleating apparatus can hold fabric material to allow for pleating by any user weaving said material through said fingers and then being removed by a simple upward motion. The pleating apparatus can be adjusted to enable variable pleat widths in a facile way.

Abstract: The present invention provides a machine and method wherein there is no physical contact between one or more thread or filaments reels and the element that generates the movement of said reel or reels in such a way that the thread or filament provided by said reel or reels can form a braid. The element that generates the movement of the reel or reels have a magnetic constituent, wherein the magnetic constituent remotely pulls into moving the device or devices holding the reel or reels.

Abstract: A device for temporary hemming/cuffing children's pants legs is disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention is a device having an outer body portion and an inner tongue portion connected by a hinge. The hinge creates an offset distance between the outer body and the inner tongue, and is biased to angle the inner tongue through the outer body. The inner tongue may be deflected from its neutral position to form a recess to accommodate material, such as a cuff made by turning the bottom edge of a pants leg over the pants leg. Another embodiment of the present invention is a clip having a pair of arms extending from a tongue portion. The arms are adapted to engage the bottom of a turned up edge of the pants leg thereby preventing the clip from sliding down the cuff.

Abstract: A handicraft clip is provided for forming a pleat in a cloth. The clip includes a relatively wide base plate and a narrower fastening plate connected to the base plate via a connecting hinge portion having a reduced thickness for allowing pivotal movement of the fastening plate relative to the base plate. The base plate is formed with a generally elliptical through-hole, while the fastening plate is provided with a locking protrusion to be fitted into the through-hole of the base plate when the base plate and the fastening plate are superposed on each other. The fastening plate includes a cloth holding portion of a generally constant width. The cloth holding portion is formed with a slit for insertion of a cloth. The slit extends from the distal end of the cloth holding portion toward the locking protrusion.

Abstract: A portable hand-held pleating apparatus for fabric material consisting of two halves containing a total of ten to twenty fingers adapted to allow fabric material to be pleated into numerous uniform pleats, specifically accordion pleats. The pleating apparatus can hold fabric material to allow for pleating by any user weaving said material through said fingers and then being removed by a simple upward motion. The pleating apparatus can be adjusted to enable variable pleat widths in a facile way.

Abstract: A binding tool for assisting in the task of folding and pressing bindings and ruffles and to a method of use thereof. The binding tool has a tool body having a top side and a bottom side and a slot disposed through the body for receiving a strip of cloth to be folded. The binding tool is used by placing the body member onto the top of an ironing board whereby the slot extends from the top of the ironing board upwardly through the body member. One end of a strip cloth is folded and then threaded through the slot from the top of the body down so that it extends between the body and the top of the ironing board. A heated iron is placed on a portion of the folded strip of cloth and then the strip of cloth is pulled through the slot whereby it is folded and simultaneously pulled under the iron and between the iron and the ironing board whereby it is pressed.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing a pleated effect to a tablecloth. A hoop having a plurality of undulating portions is positioned below the table top and above the floor such that the tablecloth is supported by the hoop with folds of the tablecloth falling between the undulating portions. In order to provide an effect of fullness, the hoop diameter is selected to be greater than the table top diameter.

Abstract: A method and system using an apparatus for folding and sewing a pleat in a material without the need for manual folding. The method includes the use of clamps to hold the material in place and the movement of pleates to fold the material. The pleat is kept in place by a clamp during stitching. The method may be used on any type of pleating operation, but is particularly applicable to the formation of pleats in yoke-back panel material assemblies.

Abstract: A device for use with a sewing machine for making garments with pleats operates with a folded-over workpiece which is advanced past a reciprocating sewing needle and includes a pleating bar assembly which is insertable between the folds of the material and includes portions which engage against the folds of the material to hold a pleat in position while it is moved by a feed pressure member into a sewing position. The pleating bar assembly includes a supporting member such as a shaft or a rod having pleat members with bearing portions which are rotatable on the support member to permit the plates to be held in position and to be collapsed for bringing the pleat to a sewing position. The material is held by needle or pin members which engage into the material as it is fed into the sewing position.

Abstract: A method of producing edge-printed, flare-pleated fabric garment pieces in which a fabric garment piece is placed in a corresponding pleating form and is held folded together with the form, thermal printing paper is so laid on the front edges of pleat creases visible in the form that its color-yielding face lies on the edges of the pleat creases, and in which pressure is applied to the back of the thermal printing paper with the simultaneous application of heat.

Abstract: A material pleater embodying a plurality of parallel, longitudinally extending plate-like members carried by an elongated member with adjacent plate-like members spaced from each other to receive a pleat of material therebetween. An elongated pleat depresser has longitudinally extending, spaced apart depresser elements with each being disposed to move between adjacent plate-like members and depress a pleat of material therebetween. Detachable means connects the pleats thus formed to each other whereby they remain in the formed position after removal of the plate-like members and the pleat depresser.

Abstract: A simple manual drapery pinch pleater used to form the "butterfly" or "pinch" pleat in draperies having a handle from which extends a trifurcated inwardly foldable fin for uniform formation of successive pinch pleats.

Abstract: A pleat forming device in which material to be pleated is held against one or more blades the edges of which define fold lines in the material spaced in accordance with a predetermined pleating pattern.