Abstract: A table for use with sewing machines that attaches to the sewing machines with screws. The table has slidably attached guide plates allowing a user to have more consistent seam lines. The guide plates have provisions to provide clearance to the presser foot of a sewing machine when moved closer together. The table has ruled markings to precisely set the seams with the use of the guide plates. The guide plates are configured to be used with sewing machines. The slide plates have graded markings a depicted on the table.

Abstract: An apparatus for stitching a fabric and/or attaching guide rings to the fabric for possible use in a covering for an architectural opening includes a lift bar to which a top edge of the fabric is connected so the fabric can hang into an underlying housing where a plurality of individually operated clamps are positioned. The clamps can manipulate the fabric as the lift bar is raised or lowered while horizontal tucks are formed in the fabric with a reciprocating tucker blade. A pair of traversing sewing machines are used to stitch a tuck and/or attach guide rings to the tuck in an automated operation.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for ribbing cloth venetian blind strips in an efficient and mass production manner. The apparatus includes a group of strip pressing mechanisms which hold a strip to be ribbed in place and define a reference plane for other mechanisms in the apparatus during the ribbing operation. After the strip is pressed in place, a tubular space opening mechanism is actuated to open front ends of two previously flattened tubular spaces at two sides of the strip. Thereafter, two tubular space expanding mechanisms pushes the strip from the two sides thereof to vertically expand the already partially opened tubular spaces, allowing ribs to be fed into and extended through the expanded tubular spaces by a rib conveying mechanism. The cloth strips for venetian blind can therefore be accurate, quickly ribbed at two sides in a mass production manner.

Abstract: A gathering gauge for assisting in the fabrication of a gather in a sewn article of manufacture. The gathering gauge is used to evenly distribute a given length of a fabric over a selected gather length, thereby eliminating guess work normally associated with such task. The gathering gauge is an elongated member defining a first slit for receiving and holding one end of a thread used to gather the fabric. A plurality of second slits is provided for receiving and holding a further portion of the thread. The second slits are disposed along the length of the gathering gauge at pre-selected distances from the first slit. A measuring guide is provided for determining the distance between the first slit and each individual second slit. Thus, depending upon the length of the fabric to be gathered, and either the length of the gather or the amount of gather desired, a particular second slit is selected.

Abstract: A method and system using an apparatus for folding and sewing a pleat in a material without the need for manual folding. The method includes the use of clamps to hold the material in place and the movement of pleates to fold the material. The pleat is kept in place by a clamp during stitching. The method may be used on any type of pleating operation, but is particularly applicable to the formation of pleats in yoke-back panel material assemblies.

Abstract: An automatic tuck forming apparatus includes a mechanism folding a piece of fabric and an improved clamp having a longitudinally and forwardly extending member for grasping the fabric and for moving the fabric along a stitching axis. The clamp also defines a downwardly projecting element on the forward portion thereof and a channel which is disposed on the stitching axis so that the needle of a sewing machine can pass therethrough during the stitching of the fabric.

Abstract: In a pin-tucking device for forming a plurality of pleats-like folds on a fabric, guide-plate mounting plates have comb-like kerfs for engaging and disengaging hook portions of guide plates so that guide plates may be varied in number to change the intervals of the pleats-like folds in various different ways. Frame shaped based plates permit easy removal of fabric jamming or the like trouble without the necessity of the base plates being put out of assembly. The guide-plate mounting plates are mounted to the base plates by fixing plates. The device is easy to manufacture and economical.

Abstract: A device for use with a sewing machine for making garments with pleats operates with a folded-over workpiece which is advanced past a reciprocating sewing needle and includes a pleating bar assembly which is insertable between the folds of the material and includes portions which engage against the folds of the material to hold a pleat in position while it is moved by a feed pressure member into a sewing position. The pleating bar assembly includes a supporting member such as a shaft or a rod having pleat members with bearing portions which are rotatable on the support member to permit the plates to be held in position and to be collapsed for bringing the pleat to a sewing position. The material is held by needle or pin members which engage into the material as it is fed into the sewing position.

Abstract: A device for making darts on cut parts for use with a sewing machine which has a reciprocating needle mounted over a support table for engagement with the material to be sewn and wherein the material to be sewn is moved along the table by a feeding mechanism, comprises, a pleating bar support plate which is mounted for movement around the needle and carries a pleating bar which is movable therewith for adjustable positioning in respect to the table. The support plate for the pleating bar may be adjustably positioned and the limit of its adjustment is governed by a stop which is adjustably positionable relative to the support plate. The stop advantageously comprises a rotatable multi-step stop which is carried on a lever arm so that it may be shifted relative to the support plate. The lever arm is advantageously biased in a direction so that the stop engages the support plate. The lever is connected with a drive device for effecting its adjustment.

Abstract: An automatic unit for the programmable tucking in of part of a piece of material and the automatic fixing of this tuck by a heat-sealed reinforcement comprises two machines arranged at an angle of 150.degree. relative to one another and symmetrical with respect to the median axis separating them.

Abstract: A drapery pleating guide for sewing machines consisting of a base plate adapted to be supported by and moved over the bed plate of a sewing machine in a direction parallel to the stitch line, and slotted to permit stitching therethrough, a pair of guide fingers carried by the base plate parallel to the stitch line and at respectively opposite sides of the stitch line, and mechanism whereby one guide finger may be accurately spaced from the stitch line at a distance equal to one-half the fabric width to be used in each pleat, and the other guide finger spaced oppositely from the stitch line at a distance equal to one-half the pleat width plus the fabric width between pleats.

Abstract: In this pleat sewing guide there is a flat sewing guide leg at one end of which is an elongated transverse head in which latter is a longitudinal channel from which extend threaded guide pins spaced on opposite sides of the sewing guide leg; a pair of adjustable legs are spaced on the opposite sides of the fixed guide leg; one of the adjustable legs is adjusted to indicate the depth of the pleat and the other leg is adapted to engage the next preceding pleat to determine the spacing of the pleat; the improvements on this pleat sewing guide are the provision of aligning shoulders or abutments on all the legs which are in a line parallel with the cross head so that the material is always aligned so that the edge of the material is always in perfectly parallel alignment with the cross head; and further the cross head has flanges extended to the same distance as the distance of the shoulders on the respective adjustable legs from the edge of the cross head; and further there are a pair of cutaway recesses one on