Patents Represented by Law Firm Hill, Van Stanten, Steadman & Simps
  • Patent number: 5067424
    Abstract: An apparatus for automatically sewing a succession of fabric pieces to a continuous slide fastener chain comprises a sewing machine for feeding and sewing the fabric pieces and slide fastener chain together; a guiding apparatus disposed upstream of the sewing machine and including a pair of opposed guide rollers urged towards each other with the slide fastener chain interposed therebetween so as to be driven via the slide fastener chain by the sewing machine while guiding the slide fastener chain towards the sewing machine; and a feeding apparatus disposed between the guiding apparatus and the sewing machine and including a pair of opposed feed rollers urged towards each other so as to convergently place therebetween the slide fastener chain into superimposed relation to the fabric pieces and to feed the fabric pieces with the slide fastener chain thus superimposed thereon to the sewing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K.K.
    Inventors: Kiichirou Ishikawa, Chet Dudek, James Hutcherson