US1233258A - Process of making embroidery ornamentation. - Google Patents

Description

R. LOEB.

PROCESS OF MAKING EMBROIDERY ORNAMENTA-TION.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 19. I914.

Patented July: 10, 1917.

nuDoLr' LOEB, or JENKINTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

PROCESS OF MAKING EMBROIDERY ORNAMENTATION.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 10, 1917- Original application filed June 29, 1914, Serial No. 848,022. Divided and this application filed December 19, 1914. Serial No. 878,095. 7 i

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, Runonr Lone, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of" J enkintown, Montgomery county, Pennsyl- 5 Vania, have invented an Improved Process of Making Embroidery Ornamentation, '(being a division of my application for patent filed June 29, 1914, Serial No. 848,022,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to ornamentation effected by embroidery stitching, and comprises an improved process or method of producing a seam or other ornamental eii'ect forv sewed articles, which seam is preferably circular in outline and with which I combine a novel ornamentation or effect in the form of a central knot or raised portion; the Whole constituting a representation of large embroidered buttons or circular flower-like effects, simulating daisies and the like.

An important feature of my present invention is the method of producing the raised center or knot in connection with the novel character of embroidery or embroidered seam forming the subject of my invention. Surrounding this raised center are a plurality of rows of stitches which are substantially radial. The raised center may overlap the inner annular row. of radial stitches, or a space of plain fabric may be left between this raised center and the in nermost row of stitches. In addition the two sets of radial stitches overlap each other and the effect produced when threads of different colors are employed is highly ornamental.

My present invention comprises the method or process of making the improved embroidery or embroidered seam.

will be more fully described hereinafter, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1, is a view of the obverse side of one form of seam made in accordance with the process forming the subject of my invention, showing the means employed in laying the several sets of stitches;

Fig. 2, is a View of the reverse side of the seam shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3, is an enlarged sectional view on the line III-III, Fig. 1, showing the needles and the rotating presser foot;

of stitches 5 These and other features of my invention.

and by causing the stitches of one .Fig. 4, is a view illustrating a modified form of embroidered ornamentation within the scope of my invention;

Fig. 5, is a view of the reverse side of the embroidery shown'in Fig. 4C, and

, Fig. 6, is a sectional view on the line VI VI, Fig. 4.

In the formation of the embroidery or embroidered seam forming the subject of my present invention, I employ a sewing machine with a plurality of vibrating needles 1, 2 and 3, which needles are set in line with each other and vibrate in a single plane coincident with the plane of their position, and such machine is equipped with mechanism in the shape of a rotating fabric moving device whereby the material operated upon may be turned with respect to a predetermined center while the-needles are vibrating and laying the desired stitches; the rotative movement of the fabric with respect to the vibrating needles, while the latter are laying their stitches, being wholly under the control of the'operatoii WVhile the fabric material is being turned, the stitches from all three needles are laid in a radial direction with respect to the predetermined center, and this center will beat some point intermediate the throw of the end needle 3.

By this means, I am able to form a seam which is preferably circular, which consists radiating from a common predetermined center and forming an outer a11- nular row or series; stitches 6 radiating from the same center and set inwardly with respect to and directly adjacent the stitches 5; overlapping the same in fact, and a third set of stitches 7 which cross each other over the common predetermined center as the fabric is rotated and result in the formation of a central knot for the ornamental effect desired, which center is composed of stitches raised materially higher than either of the annular rows or sets of stitches, 5 and 6.

It will be understood, of course, that each needle will lay the same number of stitches, of the needles to cross the predetermined center of the object being formed, the height of such center will naturally be raised. The respective stitches 5, 6 and 7 showing on the face of the fabric have pairs of loops 5*, 6 'and 7 disposed on the under side of the same, and these several pairs or sets of loops are caught by a single shuttle thread 8.

In the form of ornamentation shown in Figs'l, 2 and 3, the inner raised knot or center is directly adjacent the inner ends of the intermediate set'of stitches.

In {theform of ornamentation shown in .No. 809,798, and as indicated in Fig. 3, of

the present drawings by broken lines. These means IHZLY'COIHPIISS a fixed carrier member 10, having a friction member 11 rotatably supported by said carrier and provided with a ball bearing; the friction member engaging the fabric and turning with the latter around the vibrating needles as the operator moves thetambour frame in which the fabric is stretched. This fabric moving device is adjustable so as to change the center of the same with respect to the throw tation of varioussizes.

of the needles and effect circular ornamen- The needles may also be set'in different relations with respect to each other; changes'in the throw of the shuttle being correspondingly-effected.

In order to accommodate the raised center made by the stitches 7 during the formation of the same, the presser foot 12 is'provi-ded with an enlarged space 1-3 at the outer end of the slotted portion accommodating the needles. This presser foot is employed solely to hold the fabric while the needles are in the same to insure proper coaction of the shuttle thread and is raised when the needles are raised; having no feeding or other moving effect 'upon the fabric which is wholly under the control of the operator.

I claim:

1. The process of producing circular embroidery ornamentation, which consists in disposing upon a piece of material a plurality of annular rows or sets of radial stitches formed by continuous needle threads and laid by vibrating thread-carrying nnplements, simultaneously rotating the fabric on an axis that is crossed by the path of the vibrating thread-laying implements whereby the stitches are laid upon the fabric in such manner that portions of said stitches will cross each other at the center of the embroidery ornamentation formed by the stitches and form a rounded mass projecting above the surface of the fabric and the rest of the stitches thereon.

2. The process of producing circular embroidery ornamentation, which consists in disposing upon apiece of material. a plurality of annular rows or sets of radial stitches formed by continuous needle threads and laid by vibrating thread-carrying iinplements, simultaneously rotating the fabric on an axis that is crossed by the path of the thread-laying implements whereby the stitches are laid upon the fabric in such manner that portions of said stitches will cross each other at the center of the embroidery ornamentation formed by the stitches and form a rounded mass projecting above the surface of the fabric, the balance of the stitches extending radially from said raised center and lying in annular rows independently of said raised center.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BUD OLF LOEB.

Witnesses WM. E. Sriurn, WM. A. BARR.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents,

7 Washington, D. C.

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