Abstract: An automatic thread trimmer for use on a computerized embroidery sewing machine having a work table, a bobbin mechanism below the work table, an arm overhanging the work table with a needle driver therein movable through one cycle for each cycle of operation of the sewing machine needle, and a computerized control connected to the machine for driving the needle driver and shifting the needle according to the computer program.

Abstract: A method of producing a cap having a plurality of tapered panels and surface ornamented so as to have the appearance of a three dimensional object. Photographs of side views of the object are taken from a plurality of positions spaced at equal angles around the object and the same as the number of panels in the cap, and photographs of the top portions of the object corresponding to the number of side views are also taken. There is then cut from each of the side view photographs of the object a piece corresponding to the developed shape of a panel having the lower edge of the image of the object at the position corresponding to the lower edge of the panel in the cap, and there is cut from each of the top portion photographs of the object further pieces corresponding to the tapered portions of corresponding panels. The pieces are joined for forming composites of the panels of the cap with photographic representations of the three dimensional object thereon.

Abstract: A method of making a cap and a cap made thereby. A plurality of panels each having an upwardly extending tapered portion are assembled into a cap with hems along the tapered edges of each panel sewn to the hems of adjacent panels to form the crown of the cap. The tapered portions of the panels are surface ornamented prior to assembly with a decoration having directionally oriented portions which cross the seam of the cap at a crossing angle other than perpendicular to the seams. The directionally oriented portions are extended across the hems to the tapered edges of said panel at an angle perpendicular to the tapered edges.