Abstract: A method for producing an electrical contact includes a step of preparing an electrical contact material including a layer that contains a carbon material on a base material that contains a metallic material having resistivity of 1.59×10?8 ?m to 9.00×10?7 ?m; and a step of processing the electrical contact material obtained to produce an electrical contact, wherein the carbon material is a graphene monolayer or a graphene laminate in which a plurality of the graphene monolayers is laminated, the step of preparing an electrical contact material includes a step of laminating a carbon material layer in which the layer that contains the carbon material is laminated on the base material by microwave surface-wave plasma CVD method or thermal CVD method, and the step of laminating a carbon material layer includes supplying a mixed gas including a source gas that contains carbon and hydrogen gas.

Abstract: A thread chain sewing method and device for use in a two-needle overlock sewing machine. An inner chaining-off finger is held in an advanced position during sewing directly on fabric material. The inner finger is also advanced during the period at which thread chains are formed right after the sewing process passes the trailing edge of fabric material. The inner chaining-off finger is retracted from its advanced position alongside an outer chaining-off finger, in a direction opposite to a fabric material feeding direction, during other periods. The thread chains formed are wrapped only around the outer chaining-off finger before the leading edge of fabric but bridge over the inner and outer chaining-off fingers right after the trailing edge. The needle threads are automatically tightly tensioned during the sewing of fabric, the tension of the needle threads being automatically changed over to slightly tensioned for production of extensible thread chains.

Abstract: A thread chain sewing method and device for use in the two-needle overlock sewing machine comprising an inner chaining-off finger arranged to be retractable from an advanced position in which it is positioned alongside an outer chaining-off finger. The inner chaining-off finger is retractable in a direction opposite the fabric material feeding direction. The inner chaining-off finger is held in its advanced position during sewing over the fabric as well as during a thread chain forming period after the trailing edge is stitched. Thread chains formed before the start of sewing are wrapped only over the outer chaining-off finger, while thread chains formed after the trailing edge of the material passes are bridged over the inner and outer chaining-off fingers.