Attachments Patents (Class 112/115)
  • Publication number: 20150040809
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for whipping a button sewing thread, capable of ensuring the operational convenience, reliability and durability by simplifying main elements of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a body including a holder for holding a sewed button; a tension control unit provided with a plurality of tensioners and a thread hook on a passage of the thread; a thread guide unit adjacent to the tension control unit to guide the thread toward the holder; a winding unit including a rotational arm for winding the thread around a sliding support linearly moving toward the holder; and a knotting unit including a separating arm linearly moving toward the holder in order to form a thread knot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Hyeong Gi KIM
  • Patent number: 8869722
    Abstract: A single bead-shaped piece fed from a storage pipe storing therein a large number of bead-shaped pieces is carried not on a bearing plate but on a support member provided independently from the bearing plate. The support member is arranged movable on the bearing plate in conjunction with forward and backward movement of a feeding member, and also arranged to be moved relative to the feeding member at the time of the forward or backward movement thereof. The support member is provided with a clamping section for clamping the bead-shaped piece, which is adapted to clamp the bead-shaped piece in conjunction with the relative movement of the feeding member and the support member. This permits the bead-shaped piece to be delivered properly from the storage pipe to the sewing position in a stable manner, and hence a sewing machine can reliably sew the bead-shaped piece on a sewing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Tokai Kogyo Mishin Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Terutada Kojima, Taichi Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20100313806
    Abstract: A placement device (3) for placing decorative elements (5) on a textile or non-textile sheet material is connected to a sewing machine. The decorative elements (5) are stored in an ordered way in magazines (7) and are fed in a controlled way by the control of the sewing machine to the appropriate set positions on the sheet material (39) and are connected to this material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: BERNINA INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Michael König, Frank Prüfer
  • Publication number: 20080245283
    Abstract: Automatic multi-function multi-needle sewing machine comprising upper sewing members (14) and lower sewing members (15) cooperating with each other so as to achieve stitches (18) on a simple or padded fabric (11), with or without lining. The machine comprises at least an auxiliary supporting bar (19) cooperating with the sewing members (14, 15) and a plurality of accessory elements (28, 28a, 30, 37, 47, 51, 70) able to be selectively associated with said supporting bar (19) by means of attachment means (50, 60) of a standardized type, said accessory elements (28, 28a, 30, 37, 47, 51, 70) being interchangeable with each other so as to achieve one or the other of at least the operations of multiple sewing, application of accessories, such as ribbons, trimmings, paillettes or strass, tapes, longitudinally or transversely to said fabric (11), or crimping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: MECA SPA
    Inventor: Giannino Landoni
  • Patent number: 5230294
    Abstract: A zip-fastener feeding device for an automatic sewing unit comprises an introduction device, an endless drawing means guided via a drive wheel and via deflection pulleys and a guiding device. Zip fasteners can be introduced through the introduction device by means of the drawing means by at least one guiding channel of the guiding device onto a workpiece retaining plate or a zip-fastener retainer provided in the latter and these zip fasteners can be precisely positioned there.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Assignee: Durkopp Adler Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Michael Klein
  • Patent number: 5088428
    Abstract: A programmable sewing machine having movable work holding means, first and second separable button holding means, button supporting means movable into proximity with the button holding means and means to move the button holding means toward the sewing machine bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: MIM Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Ricky J. Frye
  • Patent number: 5058515
    Abstract: An arrangement for adjusting the operative position of a button stitcher tongue includes a detented sliding mechanism for adjusting the position of the tongue relative to a pivotal bottom cloth presser. The tongue includes a pivotal portion and a cam member which contacts the sliding adjustment mechanism when the tongue is in a button stitching position. The tongue also includes a jigger button slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Automated Machinery Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter F. Chapman, Marc R. M. Arijs
  • Patent number: 4493275
    Abstract: In order to facilitate the stitching of a finding such as a hook or an eye with two or three spaced-apart locations to an underlying fabric, an attachment for a sewing machine with a transversely oscillating needle or work table has a base on which a cross-slide assembly is mounted for supporting a retaining device movable in two mutually orthogonal directions under the control of a handle and a guide member displaceable along a part-circular track. The retaining device has a pointed stud engageable with the fabric and a gripper or clamping jaw adapted to hold the finding which, together with the fabric, is thus displaceable by the handle into any of three different positions relative to a stitching station aligned with the sewing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1985
    Assignee: William Prym Werke KG
    Inventor: Albert J. Fischer
  • Patent number: 4005663
    Abstract: An attachment for automatically forming a horizontal thread loop over the sewing area of a sewing machine to enable the loop to be sewn onto a garment as a belt loop includes a prong mounted on one side of the sewing area. A solenoid driven linkage located on the other side of sewing area carries an eye which receives thread from a source. The free end of the thread, after passage through the eye is pinched initially between a fixed sleeve and a moving arrow-shaped blade carried for movement with a sliding bed plate of the machine and located on the other side of the sewing area. In response to brief energization of the solenoid, the eye is carried across the sewing area and about the prong to catch the thread thereon and thereby form a loop having two straight crossing segments radiating from the prong respectively to the eye and the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1977
    Inventor: Raymond Barthelmes