US1222775A

US1222775A - Embroidered seam.

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Publication number: US1222775A
Application number: US77327413A
Authority: US
Inventors: Rudolf Loeb
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1913-06-12
Filing date: 1913-06-12
Publication date: 1917-04-17
Anticipated expiration: 1934-04-17

Description

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EMBROIDERED SEAM. APPLLCATION FILED )UNE l2, i913.

., Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

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narran rarnivr ernten RUDOLF LOEB, OF LFEIQIKINTGWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

EMBROIDERED SEAT/I.

Application filed une 12, 1913.

To all whom t may concern: y

Be it lmown that I, RUDOLF Lone, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Jenkintown, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, have invented certain improvements in Embroidered Scams, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to surface ornamentation for fabrics more familiarly known as embroidery, which ornamentation may be mechanically produced; and the object of my invention is to produce an improved character of eyelet embroidery with a stitched edge entirely surrounding an aperture on the one hand, or on the other hand a seam of similar character which may inclose a plain space of the fabric receiving other ornamentation.

These and other features of my invention are more fully described hereinafter, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part thereof, in which:

Figure l, is a view illustrating a piece of fabric and holder for the same; such fabric being shown in the course of ornamentation in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2, is a perspective view illustrating the manner of effecting the inclosure of the edges of openings formed in such fabric;

Fig. 3, is an enlarged plan view of one form of opening to receive an embroidered seam;

Fig. 4, is an enlarged plan view of another form of opening to receive an embroidered seam;

Fig. 5, is an enlarged view of an embroidered seam effected around an opening such as shown in Fig. 3, and

Fig. 6, is an enlarged plan view of an embroidered seam effected around an opening such as shown in Fig. 4.

The main object of my invention is to provide an eyelet for apertured embroidery. To this end a piece of fabric 1 may be prepared by punching the same as at 2; such fabric being then stretched in an ordinary tambour frame, such as 3, and then by means of a sewing machine employing an oscillating needle, indicated at 4C, with which a suitable shuttle coperates, I form stitches entirely surrounding the openings formed in the fabric.

In my application for patent filed October 2, 1912, Serial No, 723.572, I have shown slits which, having stitches applied to their Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. il, igt?.

serial no. 773,274.

edges, are spread in the manner indicated in the drawings so that elongated apertures are produced with bound edges. lf a truly circular opening is provided and the stitches are laid by the oscillating needle in the usual manner, the stitches will form an edging of what may be termed buttonhole stitches; all of which are of the same length and radially disposed, and the width of such stitching surrounding the edge of the aperture will be substantially uniform. llt may be desirable, however, to effect an embroidered eyelet or seam which may be wider and thicker at one portion than'at another, and in order to accomplish this result, in accordance with one part of my invention, l may provide holes such as .indicated in Figs. 3 and 4, in which a portion of the fabric is left to be inclosed by the seam,

In my application above referred to, a portion of the fabric is inclosed by the seam in the process of forming the same; the operator pulling the fabric as the stitches are being formed so as to widen the same in the center.

in the present arrangement in the formation of the substantially round or eccentric eyelet, which will have a thickened side formed by gradually lengthened stitches, a semicircular aperture 10 is formed, and then during the sewing operation the portion of the fabric indicated at :c is bound in by the stitches, and the stitches effecting this binding in are longer than those of the rest of the seam so that the latter forming the eyelet has a thicker portion at one side than at another. In effecting this result, the movement of the oscillating needle in laying the stitches is always the same, but the stitches will vary in length, since a greater portion of the fabric will be inclosed by said stitches at one point of the eyelet than at another. Where the short stitches are made, the thread is drawn tightly by the needle after the formation of each stitch, and as there is no fabric to be inclosed, such stitches are very short. As the fabric is inclosed, however, the stitches gradually lengthen.

rFhe same result is accomplished in the production of the elongated eyelets, as illustrated in Fig. 6, in which the end of the aperture ll, as shown in Fig. 4, is squared instead of being rounded at one end, and the stitching made catches up the fabric y left between the straight marginal edging Clt lex;

and the curve which the innei` margin of the stitches must form as the needle is operated thereon.

In each instance, a portion of the fabric is tucked under the edge of the aperture, being completely inclosed by the stitches formed vby the needle threads, which are locked by the shuttle thread. Such caught portion of the fabric serves to stuff the .stitched edges of the apertures, and acts further as a stifener for the: same.

If desired, a round hole can be punched,

and then. by placing the saine eccentrically to the normal center of the needle, the stitches 'laid will catch up more fabric on one side than the otherI and stuit' that side, producing the eccentric effect. In the form of embroidery shown in Fig. 5, the stitches are radially disposed with reference to an imaginary axis eccentric to the outer margin of the eyelet so formed, while in the form shown in Fig. G, the stitches of the rounded end of the saine are radial with respect to an axis within the opening.

Claim:

l. As a new article of manufact-ure, an embroidered seam forming an eyelet and composed of stitches. disposed upon a fabric and surrounding and constituting the border of an aperture; said stitches differing in length throughout their extent whereby an embroidered seam is produced having inner and outer margins of different size but substantially the saine contour; certain of said stitches inclosing a portion of the fabric which serves to stuff said stitches and raise the saine above the plane of the fabric.

2. As a new article of manufacture, an embroidered seam forming an eyelet and composed of'stitches radially disposed upon 40 a fabric and surrounding and constituting the border of an aperture; said stitches differing in length throughout their extent and formin a substantially circular exterior margin with a circular interior inaroin eccentric to the exteriormargin whereby an embroidered seam is produced having two margins of substantially the same contour but of different size; certain of the stitches inclosing a portion of the fabric which RUDOLF LOEB. lVitnesses JAMES W. REANEY, VIILDA B. BESSER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.