Abstract: A thread printing system includes a source spool containing thread. The system also includes various print heads, each of which is fluidly connected to an ink tank. The print heads are positioned to direct and apply ink to a segment of the thread as the thread travels along a transport path along from the source spool. The system also includes a fuser having one or more print rollers that are connected to a heating element. The fuser receives the dyed thread and fuses the ink to the thread. The system may include a controller that is configured to apply ink of different colors to different segments of the thread.

Abstract: A device to facilitate placement of accoutrements on a uniform.

Abstract: A hooping station for an embroidery machine, that includes a base configured to receive a garment. A plurality of tracks are formed in the base and a plurality of bumpers are configured to fit within the tracks. At least a first bumper is configured to engage the first track the predetermined position. A light source is configured to form a light mark that is in a predetermined location relative to the first bumper.

Abstract: A seam allowance guide aide system including a needle plate of a sewing machine containing vertical and horizontal lines with colors; a vertical line is provided to be aligned with the needle default position on the sewing machine. Colors are used to represent a standard measurement known and accepted in the sewing industry. The seam allowance guide aide is fixed and non-removable to said needle plate.

Abstract: A seam allowance guide aide label, Sewing with Color Label, to be applied to the surface of a sewing machine plate, as a stick-on label. The label has imprinted vertical and horizontal lines with colors; the first vertical line is the guideline to align the label to the default needle position for applying the label to the sewing machine's plate. The use of colors is a system to represent a standard measurement, known and accepted in today's sewing industry. The color system defines and establishes immediate differences between measurements, to achieve accuracy in positioning the edge of a textile to be sewn in a specific seam line without trouble of not recognizing numerical representations or seam grading lines in the actual plate of a sewing machine, either in imperial or metric system.

Abstract: Disclosed is a support guide for sewing a decorative topstitch on a seam with a slide fastener, the support guide including a first top surface; and a second top surface, the first top surface coplanar with the second top surface and spaced apart from the second top surface by a distance sized to accept the slide fastener.

Abstract: A guiding tool for a sewing machine includes a first guiding member and a second guiding member. Each of the first guiding member and the second guiding member includes a base portion having a predetermined periphery, a guide surface facing to a side of the base portion, and a connecting portion for connection of the first guiding member and the second guiding member. The base portion includes a bottom surface provided with an attaching portion for attaching the guiding tool to an attachment surface of an object due to adhesion or suction. The guide surface of the first guiding member and the guide surface of the second guiding member are configured to be flush with each other when the first guiding member and the second guiding member are connected to each other.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a flat wiring harness having discrete wires in a predetermined orientation. The wires are positioned in grooves in a flat form, the grooves having the predetermined orientation and the form having connected thread openings extending therethrough and across the grooves. The wires in the grooves are stitched together by a sewing machine that is programmed to guide a sewing needle and thread through the openings in the form to produce the flat wiring harness having the discrete wires in the predetermined orientation.

Abstract: A sewing tool is provided which has a plurality of apertures therein, each of which is trapezoidal in shape. The apertures are different sizes with respect to one another, each to be used for a different size box-bottom sewn item, such as a tote bag. A method of using such a sewing tool to create an item such as a box-bottom tote bag is also provided.

Abstract: A decoration-making assist tool includes a first and a second plates. Each plate includes a straight base edge and a peripheral edge connected to the ends of the base edge. A connecting portion pivotally connects the two plates to each other so that they can be folded to overlap each other. The first plate includes recesses formed at the peripheral edge and N elongated holes. The second plate includes (N+1) elongated holes. The ends of these elongated holes are adjacent to the peripheral edges of the plates. When the two plates overlap each other, the recesses and the ends of the elongated holes of the first plate communicate with corresponding ends of the elongated holes of the second plate.

Abstract: A quilting tool for use with commercial quilting machines with a base, a pair of handles and a narrow strip of the hook portion of hook and loop type fastener. The base is planar and rectilinear and has a plurality of spaced apart grooves that are defined on the bottom surface. The first grooves on each long edge of the base are spaced one quarter of an inch from the long edge. The second grooves from each edge are spaced one half of an inch from the first grooves. The two medial grooves are spaced apart one inch. The handles are dowel-like and extend upwardly from the top of the base and are spaced apart from each other by approximately two and three quarter inches. The hook strip portion adhesively attached between the grooves on the underside of the base and aligned to be directly under the handles.

Abstract: A template for circular sewing is used for repeatedly sewing a single pattern into a circular arrangement with use of a sewing machine equipped with a circular sewing device. The template includes a transparent sheet member having a center point, a plurality of arc-shaped base lines arranged in a concentric pattern about the center point of the sheet member, and a plurality of linear pattern pitch measurement lines which are provided for measuring a pitch of the patterns and which are arranged on the sheet member so as to pass through the center point of the sheet member and across the arc-shaped base lines.

Abstract: A method for straightening the edges of a work piece. The method includes the steps of determining the average edge position of each edge of the work piece, calculating an average edge line for each edge of the work piece, determining an actual corner point for each corner of the work piece, calculating a determined edge line through each of the actual corner points of the work piece, determining a number of actual edge points, determining if actual edge points are within the determined edge lines, and adjusting the determined edge lines inward until the actual edge points are within the determined edge lines.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a sewing product (20,21), particularly a mattress panel, a quilt or the like, preferably from several sewing product layers that are to be stitched together, as a section of a sewing product material (11), in which method said sewing product material (11) is, by means of a sewing device (1) that is movable transversely to the conveying direction, provided with at least two stitched seams (19) between two sewing products (20, 21) which are arranged adjacent to each other in the sewing product material (11), and in which the sewing product material is subsequently cut between these two stitched seams (19), said sewing device (1) including a sewing unit (3) with needles (18) and a gripper box (8) with grippers allocated to said needles (18), and a tape-like sewing element (14) being sewed to the sewing product material (11) in the area of the stitched seams (19).

Abstract: A sewing and quilting device called a SEW EASY GUIDE. This device features an essentially rectangular strip of thin, clear, and flexible plastic material with markings, the strip having a top surface, a length, and a width, and the device having a needle aperture and a means to attach the device directly to a sewing machine, such as an adhesive surface on the device. This guide device enables the user to operate a sewing machine with the guide on the topside of the fabric and to see visibly the guide markings while traversing across the fabric with the sewing machine.

Abstract: A knot placer has a rod (10) connecting a handle end (11) to a working end (12). The working end (12) has a closed leg eyelet (15) and a slit leg eyelet (16). A slidable knot (27), formed from a pair of ends of surgical suture (25a) and (25b) is used to join a patient's tissue. The knot (27) can be transferred through an access port (21) and tightened at a surgical site (26) by threading each respective suture end (25a) and (25b) into each eyelet (15) and (16), grasping the handle end (11), and pushing the slidable knot (27) to the surgical site (26) during an endoscopic surgery. Subsequently, the knot placer can be pulled out of the access port (21), and the slit eyelet (16) can release its respective suture end (25a) or (25b) through the slit (19). Another slidable knot (27) can be tied.

Abstract: A system facilitating the use of multiple sewing machines mounted on a sewing cabinet is disclosed. A circular turntable on which multiple sewing machines are mounted can be activated either manually or with an electric motor to rotate a desired sewing implement to the working position. The cabinet is designed for maximum storage space in a minimum of wall space. Different models provide up to five drawers and eight shelve as well as a drop leaf for increased table area. The system has surge protected outlets with an on/off switch and an electric cord that can be plugged into any household outlet.

Abstract: A sewing machine accessory with an accessory head which can be quickly and easily attached and removed from a sewing machine. One version of the accessory head can be mounted to a sewing machine foot, while another version can be mounted on a sewing machine shank. Either version can use a protrusion in a mating slot to serve as the mounting connection, configured so that simply inserting the protrusion into the slot is sufficient for attachment, and simply removing the protrusion from the slot is sufficient for detachment. A particular embodiment of the accessory can enable straight seams or hems to be sewn parallel to a material edge without requiring a steady hand or great skill by the operator. An edge guide is provided with a predetermined offset from the sewing machine needle, thus permitting the operator to guide the material through the sewing mechanism in a very straight line, with the resulting seam being a consistently accurate distance from the edge of the material.

Abstract: The use of a left and right-turning folding tool in the sewing of underwires providing support for a brassiere left and right cup, in which the starting end of the underwires are alternately sewn starting in the middle of the brassiere, i.e. at the location of the user's cleavage, so that by visual observation, the underwire starting ends are sewn at the same height to contribute to a neat appearance in this critical observed location of the brassiere.

Abstract: An improvement to a sewing machine which allows ribbons, trim, elastic bands and other linear-shaped materials to be accurately and automatically controlled and guided as they are fed into the sewing mechanism. For elastic, an adjustable control is provided that automatically prestretches the elastic as it feeds into the machine. This control allows the user to adjust the amount of tension in the elastic, and thus control the amount of stretch which is sewn into the finished product. These features are implemented in a hands-free manner, so the operator is not burdened with having to manually guide the materials while simultaneously tending to all the other manual duties that a sewing machine operator must typically contend with. The invention is implemented with one or more guides which can be mounted on the sewing machine foot. Custom feet are provided to allow the invention to be retrofitted onto existing sewing machines.

Abstract: A bias binder sewing aid which functions to receive fabric or the like having a predetermined width and automatically fold such fabric wherein the center of the width remains the center of such folded fabric The portion of the fabric to the left of the center is substantially folded in half along its center and the portion of the fabric to the right of the center is substantially folded in half along its center.

Abstract: A device for feeding a product to be sewn to a sewing machine includes a guide element having a curved slide surface on which the product to be sewn is guided in a sliding manner in a direction toward a sewing point. The guide element further has a strip-shaped projection, fitted onto the curved slide surface, which includes an elongated unrolling edge arranged transversely or obliquely to a conveying direction of the product to be sewn, and which projects from the curved slide surface. The elongated unrolling edge defines an upper boundary of the strip-shaped projection on the curved slide surface of the guide element.

Abstract: An apparatus for aligning the cross-seams of similar lateral edges of two composite limp material segments, where each composite limp material segment includes two panels joined at a cross-seam extending transversely from corresponding points in the lateral edges-to-be-aligned. Following alignment of the cross-seams of the lateral edges, the segments are fed from the apparatus with the lateral edges and corresponding points of the cross-seams in overlapping alignment. Thereafter, the aligned edges may be joined using a conventional sewing machine.

Abstract: A sewing machine, capable of at least partial automatic operation, performs a second stitched seam, e.g. a deck seam, about joined ends of a pair of fabric panels which are components of an air bag. The machine features a vertically extended pedestal supporting the sewing head and a corresponding veritcally extended post supporting the plate beneath the head. The post supports the joined bag panels draped around it with the joint of the draped panels located between the sewing head and plate for stitching the edges of the panels to one of the panels while the remainder of the panels hang vertically around the post. A fixed lower guide plate and retractable upper guides are provided which will move a previously made stitched perimeter joint in the panels into precise spaced relation with a sewing head, so as to stitch the materials outside the first seam to each other and to one of the panels, forming the deck seam.

Abstract: A topstitch guide for a sewing machine comprises a guide member positioned immediately prior to the presser foot and extending from the right side of the axis along which the topstitch is to be applied to a composite fabric to the left side of the axis. The composite fabric is folded along the principal seamline uniting the individual fabric components. The tip of the guide fits within the fold and engages the principal seamline so as to guide the composite fabric during the topstitching process.

Abstract: A self-guiding zig-zag satin stitch presser edge foot includes a sole to be pressed against a fabric to be sewn and a fabric guide for engaging an edge of the fabric. The fabric guide carriers a thread guide pin which lies adjacent to the edge of the fabric. The fabric guide and the thread guide pin are laterally movable, as a unit, by the positioning of a nut on a threaded shank which is fixed relative to the sole. Extending upwardly from the fabric guide is a U-shaped yoke which is slidably received onto the threaded shank. A nut, which is threaded onto the shank, is positioned within the yoke to move the fabric guide and the thread guide pin as the nut is rotated about the shank. The sole includes a channel formed on the underside thereof rearwardly of a needle dropping hole, having a sufficient depth to permit a thickened satin-stitch hem to pass therethrough.

Abstract: A sewing machine wherein the fabric supporting arm or bed carries a fabric guide which is movable to any one of a number of positions at different distances from the needle. The fabric guide carries a tape measure or the arm or bed carries a ruler. The tape measure or the ruler has an eyelet for temporary attachment of the tape measure or of the ruler to the needle. The fabric guide is movable along the tape measure or ruler to a position at a desired distance from the needle. The eyelet is then detached from the needle and the tape measure or the ruler is retracted, either by hand or by a spring, to be out of the way during sewing. At such time, one edge of the fabric abuts a stop of the fabric guide while the needle makes a row of stitches at the selected distance from the edge.

Abstract: The sewing attachment of a jacket front panel zipper in which the edges of the zipper side tapes are folded into inwardly facing C shapes and the left and right jacket front panel edges into outwardly facing C shapes, and these inwardly and outwardly facing C shapes are interfolded with each other and held in this relationship by the zipper attaching seams, with the result that the cut edges of the sewn together components are hidden within the folding from view to thereby enhance the appearance of jacket.

Abstract: The machine includes a fixed guide that defines two longitudinal work tops, first and second work tops, which support and guide the edges of leather articles to be sewn together. A curved needle, located next to the first work top, pierce the edge located on the first work top, pass through a slot in a guide, pierce the another edge, which is being pressed onto the second work top by a pressure foot, and, finally, operates in combination with a crochet hook to produce a stitch. The needle-pressure foot assembly serves to intermittently feed the two edges while a feed dog, acting in combination with a second pressure foot located downstream of the assembly, crimps the edge situated on the first work top.

Abstract: An edge trimmer guide for a sewing machine which is removably attached to a sewing machine has a head, a body and a foot. The cylindrical head is provided with an outer wall and an inner wall, both of which are formed integral with a vertical wall and are arranged concentrically to form a clearance therebetween into which a front edge of a side cover of the edge trimmer is fittable. The outer and inner walls extend horizontally in parallel to form a first and a second horizontal wall of the body respectively in such a way that a clearance is arranged therebetween into which a horizontal edge of the side cover of the trimmer is fittable. Another clearance is arranged between a slanted wall extended from the vertical wall and a depending wall of the first horizontal wall. A vertical edge of the side cover of the trimmer may be fitted into the second clearance while a guide foot is projected horizontally from the depending wall in parallel with the slanted wall toward the vertical wall of the head of the guide.

Abstract: A cutting device on a sewing machine for cutting a tape or tape-like lace comprising, a first blade which is disposed on a swingable blade guide and which has a cutting edge which cooperates with the cutting edge of a further second blade secured to a holder. The cutting device has a feed device, provided with a shaft for feeding the tape or tape-like lace, the arrangement being such that the cutting edge of the blade on the swingable blade guide is movable in a substantially cylindrical path of swing about the center of swing of the blade guide, and such that the cutting edges of the blades are inclined towards one another when in a cutting position, the holder for the further blade being situated within the cylindrical path of swing of the cutting edge of the blade disposed on the swingable blade guide.

Abstract: A sewing machine for sewing a rubber strip to a tubular end section of an item of clothing made from an elastic, textile fabric to form an endless, elastic gather, has a feed mechanism for feeding the rubber strip, and a presser foot and transportor for feeding the item of clothing. A brake and shear are positioned in the path of the rubber strip. When actuated, the brake holds the end section of rubber strip under a desired tension so that the end of the strip is precisely sewn to the item of clothing with respect to the front edge of the strip. Additionally, a light barrier is positioned in the path of the strip which has been sewn to the item of clothing to control the feed mechanism for feeding the rubber strip, the shear, and the brake.

Abstract: A sewing machine for simultaneously forming a plurality of spaced seams disposed in parallel relation. The machine includes a pair of spaced needle bars and needle clamps for supporting stitching needles. Adjacent each needle bar a presserfoot bar is provided for supporting separate presserfoots on their lower ends. Below each presserfoot there is a cooperating feed dog and below each feed dog a separate looper for controlling the lower threads during the formation of chain stitches. To form the stitches simultaneously, all of the machine's stitching instrumentalities, including the stitching needles, presserfeet, feed dogs and loopers, are operatively interconnected so that their movements occur at the same time.

Abstract: A button sewing aid for use with sewing machines holds various size buttons securely in one position on the fabric during the machine sewing operation. A button holding jig has a groove cut therein, the groove having converging sidewalls which hold and support a button between them. An open channel extends from the front edge of the jig towards the rear edge and terminates at a base portion of the jig adjacent the rear edge. An elongated spacing pin extends from the base portion towards the front edge and is positioned within the open channel. The sew through holes in the button are positioned to lie on either side of the spacing pin.

Abstract: A thread is passed through a dyeing apparatus before the thread is supplied to a sewing machine as an upper thread. The dyeing apparatus has a cylinder containing a plurality of coloring members, each coloring member containing a coloring liquid of a different color. The cylinder is rotated by a manually operated dial to select one of the coloring members in accordance with a stitch to be sewn with a sewing machine. A coloring section of the selected coloring member is exposed to the outside of the cylinder for establishing contact between the thread and the coloring section. A heat-set roller is adapted to come into contact with the thread for heat-setting the coloring liquid applied thereto. The contact between the thread and the coloring member and the heat-set roller is actuated in response to operation of the sewing machine.

Abstract: A solid, rectilinear sewing form of thin, rigid construction and a process for using the sewing form to hand make cloth trim tape, cloth pockets or folded cloth rope is provided. The width of the sewing form controls the width of the finished cloth trim tape, cloth pockets, or folded cloth rope. The form is laid on top of cloth material so that the edges of the cloth material extend beyond the longitudinal edges of the form. The cloth extensions are then folded back over the sewing form using the edges of the form as parallel folding guides, and the cloth is creased at the folds by pressing with a hot iron. Longitudinal grooves run the length of the sewing form and serve as cutting guides for trimming the folded and creased cloth. Folded cloth rope is produced by making a third longitudinal fold and crease in the cloth material using the form as a folding guide, and thereafter stitching together the two edges formed by the first two creases.

Abstract: A fabric guide device for a linking machine having a rotatable circle of radially extending points. The device guides fabrics, which are to be joined by a chain stitch, onto the points so that the fabric edges are located at a predetermined height relative to the points. The device includes at least one pair of opposed guide surfaces for engaging slidingly opposite sides of a fabric adjacent an edge thereof. Adjustable reference surfaces locate selectively the height of the fabric edges relative to the points. The device is particularly useful in the joining together of patterned fabrics. It permits fabrics which are to be joined to be held in correct pattern position relative to each other, so that adjacent parts of the pattern are impaled upon the same points. When the seam is made, the pattern shows a correct join.

Abstract: A guiding apparatus in a sewing unit for seaming superimposed layers of cloth having intersecting seams defining areas of increased thickness. The apparatus includes a pair of spaced channel type guides within which the layers of cloth are guided during their advance to the stitch forming instrumentalities. The areas of increased thickness are disposed intermediate the two guides which are both movable to and from positions of close proximity with the stitch forming area. As the guide most remote from the machine's needle approaches the latter the guide adjacent the needle is timed to be withdrawn to an inoperative position permitting the approaching guide to assume the withdrawn guide's operating position thereby permitting the areas of increased thickness to be presented to the stitching instrumentalities without passing through the channels of either of the guides.

Abstract: A multidifferential device of the type comprising a plurality of differentials, whereby each comprises a differential holder with at least two epicyclic gears and two planetary gears and in which the imaginary rotation axis of all the differential holders and planetary gears is the same. The differential holders and planetary gears are designed as rotary members, whereof two serve as input members and one serves as the output member. They comprise two end members and, between them, a plurality of intermediate members in which an end input and output member is constituted as a planetary gear, whereby the epicyclic gears of every other intermediate differential holder member are located at the same radial level relative to said rotation axis. A plurality of intermediate differential holder members each comprises an external or internal planetary gear path on both of its faces. At least one inner or outer epicyclic gear of each end member comprises a planetary gear.

Abstract: A button holder for holding different sized buttons while underneath a presser foot of a sewing machine to assure a firm hold and accurate placement of the hole relative to the needle to prevent breakage of the latter.The holder comprises essentially a strip of material having a plurality of different sized holes for accommodating the particular button sizes. Slits are provided at both ends of the strip extending from the outermost holes to allow movement of the threaded needle and avoid the necessity of cutting the thread after sewing on the button, permitting the sewing of another button.

Abstract: In an apparatus for sewing articles, such as sewing a slide fastener chain to an opening in an article, stitching of thread to an article is initiated by a manual control and is terminated by an automatic control in response to the sensing of a terminal point, such as the terminal point of an opening, on the article.Article guiding facilities urge folded edge portions of an article toward each other by spring biased members on folding plates.A scroll for receiving and guiding a folded edge portion of an article has an adjustable channel.A linear motion apparatus, such as a dual needle holding mechanism, employs a linear motor driving a camming member which engages a locking member on a movable member to move the movable member to a selected position and to operate the locking member.

Abstract: A work guide apparatus for a sewing machine providing a plate moveable in guided engagement with guide means attached to a base surface of the sewing machine. The plate carries a work piece along a path of motion relative to the sewing machine needle, with plate movement being limited by adjustable stop means to correspondingly limit the stitching length. Gauge means extending across the plate accommodates positioning portions of the work piece in a selected spatial relation to a reference line on the plate to control the location of the stitching as required in tacking, pleating, measuring and sizing of draperies.

Abstract: There is disclosed a device to limit the travel of a buttonhole attachment for a sewing machine wherein the button for which the hole is made serves to set the limit of travel. The device includes a bracket having a front wall and a back wall with the front wall fixed to the buttonhole attachment, a limit which is positioned in front of the front wall and fixed to a shaft which in turn is movably attached to both the front wall and the back wall of the bracket and biased to move toward the front wall, and a stop fixed to the shaft between the front wall and the back wall, with the bracket adapted to provide access to insert a button between the front wall and the stop.