Abstract: A machine for fabricating ornamental bows feeds slit sheet material from a roll, and cuts trapezoidal or truncated-triangle portions from the roll. The cut sheets are translated by a rotatable transfer head to a roll-up station, where a folding apparatus or harp receives the sheets. The folding harp has smaller dimensions than the separated sheets, so there is an overlap. The harp folds, to juxtapose border portions of the sheets. A hold-down bar presses the protruding borders onto a row of needles on the upper surface of a roll-up bar. An element guard bar is lowered, to press loops of the bow onto a front surface of the roll-up bar. A collet is introduced and grasps the sheets, and is raised and rotated to roll up one edge of the sheets against the upper surface of the roll-up bar. When rolling is finished, fingers grasp the hub of the bow, and the collet is retracted. The fingers carry the bow to a glue operation for finishing.

Abstract: An adapter assembly for pivotable mounting of a binding to a snowboard is provided. The adapter assembly includes a first part which is adapted to be one of mounted to a snowboard and connected to a binding. A second part is rotatably connected to the first part for rotation about an axis. The second part is adapted to be the other of mounted to the snowboard and connected to the binding. The first part includes an index member having a plurality of index stops spaced at least partially around the axis. A locating member is connected to the second part which is movable from a first position, where the locating member is engaged in an index stop of the index member such that the second part is held in a rotatably fixed position relative to the first part, to a second position, where the locating member is disengaged from the index stops of the index member such that the second part is rotatable relative to the first part.