With Means To Actuate Driver Patents (Class 227/38)
  • Foot powered tufting machine
    Patent number: 4312471
    Abstract: A machine for inserting quilting or tufting buttons of the type shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,701,174, has male and female button drive mechanisms similar to those shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,059,889, driven by a foot powered lever arrangement for rapidly tufting a pad or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1982
    Inventor: Arthur J. Randolph
  • Machine for the attachment of rivets, buttons or the like
    Patent number: 4247032
    Abstract: Machine for attachment of rivets, buttons or the like, particularly to clothing pieces, with an upper tool traveling towards the lower tool, which upper tool sits on a vertically guided upper tool ram. The working stroke of the ram is achieved by means of an inclined surface of a wedge, the latter entering between a roller of the ram and an abutment on the machine side, with the inclined surface of the wedge running on the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1981
    Assignee: Schaeffer-Homberg GmbH
    Inventor: Raimund Stanik