Abstract: A garment hanger comprises an integral body of synthetic material having a central portion, a hook portion extending outwardly of said central portion and first and second wing portions at respective opposed side margins of the central portion, the central portion defining, at each side margin thereof, a succession of projections extending outwardly of the side margins, each wing portion defining mutually with the projections a first channel extending into the hanger, the central portion defining a second channel in intersecting relation with the first channel. The second channel is inclined at an acute angle with respect to the first channel and the second channel extends into the central portion interiorly of the side margin thereof.

Abstract: A sewing needle has a main body 10 and a closed loop 18 of a resilient filament material rigidly secured to the rear end of the main body and lying a single common plane with the lengthwise axis of the main body. In unstressed condition, the filament has an open diamond configuration allowing a sewing thread to be easily passed through it. As the needle is pulled through the fabric, the loop collapses under the forces imposes on its sides by the fabric and thereafter expands to reassume its unstressed configuration. The rigid securement of the loop to the main body of the needle ensures that the loop remains in a single common plane with the needle axis as it collapses upon passage through the fabric and as it expands to its unstressed configuration following such passage.

Abstract: A retaining device for coupling a cover to a sewing machine. A stop is fixed in the base. A lever has a middle portion pivotally supported on a support which is fixed on a bottom of the cover. A handle is formed on one end of the lever and is reachable from outside of the cover. A pawl is formed on the other end of the lever. A spring is provided to bias the pawl to engage with the stop so that the cover can be retained in a closed position. When the handle is pulled upward, the pawl can be separated from the stop so that the cover can be opened.

Abstract: A shoulder pad which has auxiliary pads designed to conform to the shape of the wearer's shoulder. In one embodiment of the invention, a hook-and-loop fastening strap is used to enable a series of wedge-like pads to be moved to various positions on the inside of the shoulder pad. The series of auxiliary pads may be a group of three individual pads, each pad being independently positionable, or the auxiliary pads may be a group of hingedly connected pads positionable as a unit. To allow the auxiliary pads to be positioned at various locations, the shoulder area of the main cushion of the shoulder pad is equipped with a hook-and-loop fabric. The moveable auxiliary pads can be placed at any location on the fabric. The auxiliary pads of the present invention distribute impact forces in such a way as to reduce the chance of sustaining injury.

Abstract: An apparatus for loading a line closing machine with pairs of stockings. The apparatus includes a pair of cooperating fingers mounted on the end of a carousel transfer arm. Pairs of stockings are loaded onto the fingers so as to stretch the open ends of the stockings between the fingers. The carousel advances the fingers towards a line closing machine and the fingers orient the open ends of the stockings in a horizontal vertically spaced manner so as to accept a pair of stocking supports on the line closing machine. The fingers then pivot so as to release the pair of stockings onto the stocking supports of the line closing machine.

Abstract: The invention relates to a circular knitting machine comprising a carrier for knitting implements, a cam arrangement and a heat exchange apparatus, and a provision of uniform temperature conditions on a circular knitting machine of that kind. The heat exchange apparatus comprises two circuits of which one is associated with the carrier and the other with the cam arrangement and which have a liquid heat exchange agent, preferably water, flowing through them. The uniform temperature conditions are achieved by the heat exchange output of at least one circuit being so controlled that substantially the same temperature difference obtains between the carrier and the cam arrangement in all operating conditions of the circular knitting machines.

Abstract: An apparel belt has a first tapered end-portion that passes through a conventional buckle of the belt. The second end-portion of the belt, which mounts the buckle, is slightly larger in diameter than the first end-portion, which second end-portion defines an open entrance mouth and a hollow interior volume which telescopingly receives therein a section of the first end-portion, depending upon the length of the first end-portion extending through the buckle. The interior volume may also be used for storing valuables therein before inserting the first end-portion therein.

Abstract: A pair of goggles having two eye pieces. Each eye piece has an eye piece frame with a frame portion that extends continuously about a lens opening. An inflatable cushion member is provided each eye piece that extends throughout the frame portion in the eye piece. The cushion member is preformed to have convex and concave curvature on its back side.

Abstract: A hockey goalie protective headgear comprised of a helmet member for protecting a wearer's head. A plastic frame member having a forehead section, opposed side sections and a lower chin band section is also provided. A face opening is defined between the sections. A face guard is secured in the face opening. A pivoting throat guard is formed as a solid molded piece, and is secured to the opposed side sections by pivot connectors and is pivotal from the lower chin band section of the frame.

Abstract: An adjusting device for a lower knife being disposed in a support of a sewing machine and including a sleeve fitted in the support and having a pair of slots, a bolt rotatably received in the sleeve and having one end extended outward of the sleeve, a knob fixed to the bolt, a slide having an inner thread engaged with the bolt and having a pair of ribs slidably engaged with the slots of the sleeve so that the slide can be guided to slide longitudinally in the sleeve by rotation of the knob, the lower knife is fixed to the slide.

Abstract: In a method of and an apparatus for manufacturing a glass fiber mat, bundles of glass fibers shake down onto a conveyor unit arranged horizontally, to form a non-oriented fiber layer. The non-oriented fiber layer is dried by a drier. Bundles of uni-directional fibers are supplied onto the dried non-oriented fiber layer, by a bundle supply device, to laminate the uni-directional fiber layer onto the dried non-oriented fiber layer. At the laminating, the bundles of uni-directional fibers are guided in parallel relation to each other at regular intervals in a widthwise direction of the conveyor unit. The uni-directional and non-oriented fiber layers, which are laminated one upon the other, are supplied to a needler and are needled thereby, to form the glass fiber mat. The glass fiber mat is carried out by a delivery roller unit.

Abstract: A cap provided with removal flip up and down glasses including a mounting member for positioning the flip up and down glasses on an outwardly extending visor of the cap. Attachment members pivotally secure a pair of lenses of the flip up and down glases to the mounting member so that the glasses can be flipped up to a first position adjacent to the visor and also flipped down to a second position so that the lenses are disposed at a proper eye level for a person wearing the cap. Preferably, the lenses are removable from the attachment members. Separable fasteners are disposed between the visor and the mounting member for removably securing the visor and the mounting member together. One portion of the fasteners is secured on an underside of the visor and another mating portion of the fasteners is secured to an upper surface of the mounting member.

Abstract: A device for zone-by-zone tensioning of a flat material, especially an embroidery hoop. According to one possible solution, tensioning and clamping are brought about by a change in the circumferential length of a tensioning member that can be filled, by a gas or a fluid and another solution brings this about by twisting a tensioning member. To generate a strong tensioning force in the material, it is proposed in the first solution that the tensioning member be designed as a crease-free tube with a body. By selecting a cord angle of the body, tensioning can be achieved by increasing or decreasing the pressure and by increasing or decreasing the circumferential length. According to another solution, the tensioning member is designed as a torsion body that can be twisted in itself, preferably as a reinforced hollow body, which may also form a closed ring. To increase the tensioning force without unduly stressing the material, the device is designed with a rigid outer ring and a twistable inner ring.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a blind-stitch sewing machine with a plate-shaped fabric bender to make a sewing material bulge in to the arcuate path of an arc needle. The fabric bender extends in a plane perpendicular to the path of the arc needle and is pivotable to-and-fro in this plane by means of a drive shaft extending perpendicular to this plane. The fabric bender is rotatably supported in a slot of a support assembly projecting from the drive shaft to pivot about an axis parallel to this drive shaft, and furthermore is spring biased away from the drive shaft. To achieve a narrow construction of the fabric bender and of its support assembly, the drive shaft is hollow and a torsion spring is provided to load the fabric bender. The torsion spring is mounted in the borehole of the hollow shaft where adequate space is available to install the spring.

Abstract: It comprises an envelope (1), a couple of independent air chambers (2,3), separated from each other by an inner partition (4) and arranged within the aforementioned envelope (1), an inflating device (5), and a box (6) made up of two complementary members (7,8) joined to the envelope (1).The inner chamber (3) communicates with the outer chamber (2) through a one-way valve (9), so that the inner chamber (3) stays inflated even if the outer chamber (2) accidentally deflates.The chambers (2,3) are divided into compartments (10) separated by partitions (11) pierced by small passage holes (12) to obtain a slow deflation in case of accidental leaks.The outer chambers (2,3) are provided with respective valves (13,14) with an important passage section to obtain quick deflation.The space occupied in transportation is reduced and blows are cushioned, by maintaining a high safety level. It incorporates the same inflating device (5).

Abstract: A disposable visored cap to be worn during outdoor or indoor activities to shade the wearer's eyes from the light, or as a cap representing a club mascot or displaying advertisements. The visored cap, and blank therefor, is fabricated of a flexible material such as paper, cardboard, and the like. The blank has a first end edge, a second end edge, an arcuate fold line spaced from the first end edge defining a visor therebetween, and defining a front panel between the arcuate fold line and second end edge. To fold the blank to form the cap, the visor is folded in a downwardly direction about the arcuate fold line to project outwardly from the front panel and the front panel depends from the arcuate fold line.

Abstract: An inflatable headband comprising an elongated, strap-like air-bag body covered with a layer of velvet or cotton cloth, having a pair of connecting elements at two opposite ends, a plurality of ring holes made through said air-bag body by the process of heating and sealing or embossed stripes formed on said air-bag body by the process of heat pressing, a pair of spaced eye bars extending from the side edge thereof, and at least one air valve. The air-bag body is inflated and then fastened around the head by the pair of connecting elements. Ornamental items are fastened in the ring holes to make the structure more attractive. The two spaced eye-bars are provided for holding user's eyeglass on the head.

Abstract: A loose fitting garment for use as a costume on a doll or an adult is styled for presentation of a first selected costume design. The loose fitting garment includes, on one surface, a design corresponding to the style for the first selected costume design. The opposite or second surface of the garment includes a design representative of a second selected costume design. The garment is reversible to convert the costume from the first selected costume design to the second selected costume design. To facilitate a change in the costume, the garment includes a mask which is featured as a part of the costume for the second selected costume design. The mask is secured to the garment in a position to be concealed from view when the garment is presented to display the first selected costume design on the wearer.

Abstract: A firefighter jacket of the type having an outer shell and an inner, removable liner includes a closure assembly having multiple layers of material in excess of the number required to provide sufficient thermal and moisture protection is improved in that the closure assembly is displaced from the central portion of the jacket to one side sufficiently to clear the high perspiration area of the central chest, whereby the high perspiration area is covered only by the minimum acceptable layers of material so that heat loss and perspiration evaporation through this area is not impeded excessively.

Abstract: A cover thread cutter for a multi-needle sewing machine, the hook of the thread cutter retracts at an oblique angle above a curved cover thread laying finger and captures the cover thread at a position above the curved cover thread laying finger. While pulling the captured cover thread up to the cutting position, it is held against a specified needle, as in ordinary seam forming, and the thread end is held in this state after being cut off.