Abstract: Apparatus for forming components of shoulder straps for ladies garments including tapes with either a buckle or a ring sewn onto one end. The apparatus allows the sewing to be performed with a non-linear seam, by means of a sewing machine of the type which moves its bed and sewing foot through a predetermined path while sewing is being performed by a needle. The apparatus includes a special holding device for the ring or buckle element which allows this movement to occur, the holding device including a main body part and a holding part, the holding part having clamping means for the element. The body part is movable to suitably position the holding part firstly in a position to receive an element from a magazine and secondly in the sewing position.

Abstract: A machine for forming shoulder straps for ladies garments, of the type having a first tape with a buckle secured to one end and a second (elastic) tape having a ring secured to its end, the two tapes being united by passing the free end of the first tape through the ring and then back through the two slots of the buckle. The machine described is supplied with spools of tape, and with buckles and rings, and performs all the operations needed to produce the strap including sewing of the buckles and rings in place, and the threading and buckling operations, as well as cutting off suitable lengths of the tapes.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming a component of shoulder straps for ladies garments, including a tape with a two-slot buckle sewn onto one end. A feature of the apparatus is a pivotable buckle holding and transfer device arranged to receive horizontal buckles at a delivery point and pivotable through about a right angle to move the buckles from the delivery point to a threading position adjacent the operative part of a sewing machine in which latter position the buckles are disposed vertically. Threading means are provided for advancing a free end of tape past the operative part of the sewing machine and through one slot in the vertically held buckle, and bending means are provided for bending the free end of tape towards the other slot in the buckle.