Patents Assigned to Midwestco, Inc.
  • Method for forming fabric tubes
    Patent number: 4413580
    Abstract: A web of fabric material is fed flat along a substantially horizontal table. The web is continuous and is marked and then partly cut just short of its edges while in the feeding plane. The edges of the web are then gripped, moved together, and overlapped as the web is moving, and the edges are sewn. A moving gripper pulls the web through the apparatus to an off the arm sewing machine, and a puller roll downstream of the sewing machine assists pulling of the web and maintains the seam tensioned during sewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1983
    Assignee: Midwestco, Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Moyer, Robert S. Hoffert
  • Fabric tube forming methods and apparatus
    Patent number: 4370936
    Abstract: A web of fabric material is fed flat along a substantially horizontal table. The web is continuous and is marked and then partly cut just short of its edges while in the feeding plane. The edges of the web are then gripped, moved together, and overlapped as the web is moving, and the edges are sewn. A moving gripper pulls the web through the apparatus to an off the arm sewing machine, and a puller roll downstream of the sewing machine assists pulling of the web and maintains the seam tensioned during sewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Assignee: Midwestco, Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Moyer, Robert S. Hoffert