Abstract: A sewing machine wherein the fabric supporting arm or bed carries a fabric guide which is movable to any one of a number of positions at different distances from the needle. The fabric guide carries a tape measure or the arm or bed carries a ruler. The tape measure or the ruler has an eyelet for temporary attachment of the tape measure or of the ruler to the needle. The fabric guide is movable along the tape measure or ruler to a position at a desired distance from the needle. The eyelet is then detached from the needle and the tape measure or the ruler is retracted, either by hand or by a spring, to be out of the way during sewing. At such time, one edge of the fabric abuts a stop of the fabric guide while the needle makes a row of stitches at the selected distance from the edge.

Abstract: Apparatus for guiding and braking elastic or nonelastic bands during sewing to pieces of fabric has an elongated flat housing of rectangular cross-sectional outline with a transversely extending channel for a band. The housing is separably affixed to the table of a household sewing machine and contains a reciprocable slide which can alter the effective width of the channel. The slide is installed at one side of the channel, and the housing supports an adjustable fabric guide at the other side of the channel. A plate-like biasing member is installed in the channel at a level above the band, and the biasing member can be moved up or down by a screw having a knurled head so as to select the force with which the underside of the biasing member bears against the upper side of the band.

Abstract: The upper side of the sole plate in a sewing machine presser foot is formed with a transversely extending channel for the median portion of a guide which steers the needle during making of a row of stitches adjacent the edge of a marginal portion of a piece of fabric. To this end, the guide has two end portions which extend laterally beyond the respective sides of the sole plate and have downwardly bent tips one of which slides along the edge of a piece of fabric when the sewing machine is in use. The guide can be moved longitudinally to place its end portions at selected distances from the respective sides of the sole plate. A male detent member on the sole plate normally engages a selected graduation of a notched scale on the central portion of the guide to maintain the guide in a selected position. The tips of end portions of the guide are located at a level slightly above that of the underside of the sole plate.

Abstract: The takeup limb of each needle thread loop in a central bobbin hook type sewing machine is engaged by a kidney-shaped cam on the shuttle hook driver and by a projection on the housing for the hook while the takeup lever of the machine reduces the size of the loop. This ensures that the takeup limb is held and the loop is guided substantially during the entire interval of reduction of the size of the loop. The cam has a lobe with a groove for the takeup limb, and the projection of the housing engages the loop prior, during and subsequent to withdrawal of the takeup limb from the groove of the lobe.

Abstract: An elongated workpiece is transported forwardly and backwards in a sewing or stitching machine by looping it upstream and downstream of the sewing or stitching station, by maintaining both loops under tension, by increasing the size of the downstream loop simultaneously with a reduction of the size of the upstream loop, and vice versa.

Abstract: The winder shaft for a sewing machine, fashioned as a support for a thread bobbin, is positioned directly on the shaft of a low-voltage motor, independent of the drive motor for the sewing mechanism of the sewing machine. An on/off switch for this motor is operable by means of a three-armed switching lever, with the first arm being adapted to scan the package of wound thread forming on the bobbin. A trigger cam disposed on the third arm slides, during this operation, over a first surface of a spring-biased dual ramp. Once the thread bobbin is full, the trigger cam surpasses the apex of the dual ramp, and the switching lever flips into a disconnect position and cuts off the motor by way of a switching cam disposed on the second arm. All of the elements of the spooling device are mounted to a common support so that the spooling device, which is independent of the drive mechanism of the sewing machine, can be attached as a composite unit at any desired location on the sewing machine.

Abstract: An alternating presser foot with a vertically movable sole portion, fixed in the feeding direction of a feed dog, and a clamping pressure foot adapted to be placed on sewing material relative to the movable sole portion by means of a drive lever which cooperates with a needle bar for movement along with the sewing material in the feeding direction of the feed dog. For transmission of motion from the drive lever to said clamping pressure foot, an angle lever is provided, one arm of which, extends approximately vertically, defining a guide cam cooperating with a follower of the drive lever, while the other arm thereof extends approximately horizontally defining a pressure element for stressing said clamping pressure foot in order to place it in engagement with the sewing material.

Abstract: A connecting link for setting stitch width or length is fashioned as a flat metal piece and is retained on the bearing side in a molded-on synthetic resin bearing head. The bearing head is suspended by means of two trunnions on a bearing bracket and on an index lever attached to the bearing bracket. The sliding block is constituted by a sliding sleeve made of a synthetic resin, encompassing the connecting link and articulated by way of two trunnions to the linkage leading to the needle bar frame.

Abstract: The lifting device (19) of the presser foot (21) of a sewing machine is operable through the use of an operating axle (18) and a toggle lever (20). The operating axle (18) is connected to a slide (15) capable of engaging and disengaging a coupling mechanism (10). The coupling mechanism (10) is arranged between the lifting device (6) of the feed dog (3) and the oscillating drive means (7) of the lifting device. During the lifting of the presser foot (21) by means of the toggle lever (20), the coupling pin (12) of the coupling mechanism (10) is simultaneously placed out of engagement with the driven oscillating lever (8) by means of the slide (15). Thus the drive of the lifting device (6) is interrupted, and a spring (13) pulls the feed dog (3) into its lowered position. Thus the manipulation of the sewing material is made possible without the feed dog presenting an obstacle.

Abstract: A thread gripper and cutting device for a sewing machine is inserted in a cover plate (1) forming the working surface (A) of the sewing machine. Thus the thread gripper and cutting device is inserted in one of the corner points of the diagonal of an imagining square (y), with the point of needle penetration (x) lying in the other corner point thereof. A first clamping disk (8) is integrally joined via a marginal web (4c) with the shank portion (4a) of a retaining bush (4). The clamping disk (8), which is rounded on all sides, projects only a little beyond the working surface (A) and is slightly inclined with respect to the latter. The corresponding end face (12) of a second clamping disk (11) is urged, by means of a spring (14), against the inner face (9) of the clamping disk (8). This second clamping disk is seated on a pin (13) guided in the shank portion (4a). The lead-in slot (15) for the threads (F) lies at the highest point of the clamping plane formed by the clamping surfaces (9, 12).

Abstract: A feeder device for a sewing machine containing a stitch plate and provided with a material feeder which reaches through the stitch plate from below, and which is driven by a lift- and thrust rocker along a path made up of four phases. The feeder device further includes a support member and an intermediate rocker. The support member of the material feeder is arranged on the intermediate rocker, which in turn is rotatingly attached to the thrust rocker whereby the horizontal rotational axis of the support member is arranged on the intermediate rocker at a distance from the rotational axis of the intermediate rocker and substantially parallel thereto.

Abstract: A control device comprising a housing having a bottom pin, and a cable drum mounted on said bottom pin said cable drum being stressed by a reset spring 11. The cable drum 6 is radially and axially guided, at its periphery, by offset supporting rollers (1c). A regulating member 8a of a potentiometer 8 is fixedly installed on the hub 6a of the cable drum 6. The tap pins 8b of the potentiometer 8 are arranged on the slide 9 axially movable in the hub. The slide 9 is connected with a treadle 3 by a tappet 10 provided with a ball-and-socket joint 9b, 10a. The treadle 3 is mounted to the housing 1 to be vertically pivotable by means of two pivots beside the cable drum 6. The blocking means for the cable drum 6, actuatable by remote control, is located between the two pivots. The device of the present invention is especially suited for the control of electrical household sewing machines.

Abstract: A needle thread guide device containing an articulated thread feeder oscillating in a vertical plane on a sewing machine provided with a skip stitch mechanism working at intervals to form stitches of varying lengths, wherein a thread catcher is combined with a thread lever which can be engaged and disengaged synchronously with the skip stitch mechanism and which aligns in its operating position with a hook eye open to the top at a position of the upper area of the ascending movement part of the thread lever eye with the latter, thereby catching the thread loop which is carried along by the thread lever.

Abstract: A holder (3) for replacing the presser foot of a sewing machine comprising a foot plate (3a) attached to a presser bar (1) of the sewing machine (2), and a presser foot sole (8) operatively associated with the holder and being supported in a pendulating and vertically resilient fashion. A fixed blade (5) is adjustably mounted to the foot plate (3a) of the holder (3). A movable blade (9) is fashioned as a two-armed lever and is pivotably supported in a vertical plane. The movable blade (9) operatively engages the lower arm (13a) of a two-armed intermediate toggle joint with a carrier bolt (13). The other arm (13b) of the toggle joint has a curved cam contour (14). A control pin (15) is guided in the curved path of the cam contour (14), said pin being disposed on a control lever (16) supported (16a) at one end by the holder (3). The other end of the control lever is provided with a fork (6a) at the needle bar (6).

Abstract: A gap stitch mechanism for a sewing machine containing a needle shaft which is oscillatingly driven by a crank assembly, wherein the crank assembly is provided with means for reducing the crank radius at predetermined intervals during the sewing operation, thereby determining the stroke of the needle shaft and making it impossible for the loop catcher to catch the needle thread.

Abstract: A winding device for a sewing machine including a sewing mechanism connected to a machine drive mechanism, by a coupling which comprises, a sewing machine housing, the winding device being movable to swing into the sewing machine housing and be covered by a lid when not being used. A two-armed hinge support is pivotally disposed on the housing and connected to the lid. One arm of the said two-armed hinge support is connected by a lever mechanism with a support, and the support is pivotally attached to the sewing machine housing for the winding device forming a toggle joint such that when the lid is opened the toggle joint is pushed through and the winding device is brought into its operating position and secured there while the other arm of the two-armed hinge support disengages said coupling between the machine drive mechanism and the sewing mechanism.

Abstract: A sewing machine drive having a mains rectifier (1) which, via a chopper (2) operating at a relatively high frequency, supplies direct current pulses to the driving motor (3). The duty ratio of these driving pulses is controlled as a function of a nominal value transmitter (11) and a current limiting circuit (14) controlled by the motor speed. This produces a smooth quiet, vibration-free operation of the motor (3) or the driven machine with a high degree of motor efficiency. Moreover, a speed-dependent current limitation occurs in such a manner that at high speeds a limited maximum current flows, which at the same time results in an output limitation.