US1354795A - Method of attaching garment-hooks to fabrics - Google Patents

Description

W. L. BARRON.

METHOD OF ATTACHING GARMENT HOOKS T0 FABRICS.

. APPLICATION FILED QCT.24| I916- 1,354,795.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

ATTORNEY 'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM L. BARRON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE SINGER MANUFAC- TUBING- COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

Application filed October 24, 1916. Serial No. 127,374.

-hooks to fabric material of various kinds it I is customary to apply fastening means to the fabric across the hook-shank at the bottom of the throat and additional fastening means through the usual eyes, the purpose being to fixedly secure the hook in position adjacent its longitudinal extremities and prevent dis placement thereof relative to the fabric. I n practive, particularly when a machine 1s utilized, it is difficult to apply the fastening means at the bottom of the throat for the reason that the overhanging hook-bill interferes with the movement of the fastening means to final position closely embracing the hook-shank.

It has heretofore been customary to hold the hook in attaching position with its back against the fabric and then to pass fastening means, in the form of ordinary stitches of thread, across the hook near the bottom of the throat and through the fabric, deflecting the thread around the end of the hookbill and into the throat as each stitch is drawn down to final position. In constructing a machine for this work it is particularly difficult to provide means for deflecting the needle-thread around the end of the hookbill with certainty and without breaking the thread, especially when sewing on hooks of the larger sizes having long bills.

It has also been proposed to lay a first group of fastening stitches across the hookshank' immediately behind the eyes and then relatively move the fabric and hook to slip the group of stitches to final position at the bottom of the throat before passing a second group of stitches through the eyes. The disadvantage of this method, however, is that the first group of stitches must be loosely formed in order that it may subsequently he slipped over the hump usually found in the shank of a garment hook opposite the end of the bill.

One object of the present improvement is to devise an improved method of attaching garment-hooks or similar hook-shaped fasteners to fabric, whereby the fastening means or stitches may be snugly applied acrossthe shank at the bottom of the throat in a d rect manner, without the necessity of gclfllecting the thread around the end of the Further objects of the invention will appear from the following description and claims.

In carrying my improved method into effect a garment-hook or other hook-shaped article is first held with its bend adjacent the fabric and with its throat directed preferably at right angles to the surface of the fabrlc. Fastening means, such as stitches of thread are next passed, without deflection, directly into the throat of the hook and into the fabric. The hook and fabric are then relatively rotated about the fastening means as a hinge to position another part of the article, such as the eyes, adjacent the fabric, whereupon additional fastening means are passed about the article preferably through the eyes and into the fabric.

Although the proposed method is independent of any particular mechanism for carrying it into effect, it is deemed expedient to employ suitable mechanism and to this end I, together with A. F. Fifield, have constructed a machine which is fully disclosed in a co-pending application Serial No. 92 136, filed April 19, 1916.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the work-holder of said machine for carrying they proposed method into effect. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the clamping jaws and fabric supporting plate showing a garment-hook and a piece of fabric held thereby. Fig. 3 is a view illustrating the first step of the improved method and showing how the hook is to be held relative to the fabric so that the initial fastening means may be passed directly into the throat of the hook and into the fabric. Fig. 4 is a view showing the relative positions of the hook and fabric during the latter part of the attaching operation, and Fig. 5 is a view of the hook attached to the fabric.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 indicates a work-holder of the well-known type disclosed in the United States patent to J. J. Sullivan, No. 777,564, dated December 13,

1904. This work-holder, as modified, may conveniently be utilized to hold the article and fabric in their different relative positions during the attaching operation. In the present instance the work-holder comprises the fabric-supporting plate 2 and overhanging clamping levers 3, 4, formed with clamping feet 5, 6, in which are journaled the cylindrical shanks 7, 8, of special hook clamping jaws 9, 10, having their opposed faces grooved at 11, 11, to grip the lateral edges of the bill of a garment hook.

In accordance with the proposed method the hook it is first held with its bend adjacent the fabric and with its throat opening upwardly away from the fabric. The hook and fabric may be readily held in the above described relative positions by placing the fabric between the plate 2 and clamping feet 5, 6, and by placing the hook-bill in the grooves 11, 11, of the clamping jaws 9, 10, which may be turned to the position shown in Fig. 3.

The fastening inserting implement, such as the thread-carrying needle 12, cooperating with a suitable loop-taker 12, is caused to descend at the point a and form an initial fastening stitch forwardly of the bend of the hook. The needle is next caused to penetrate the fabric alternately at opposite sides of the bend of the upturned hook, (Fig. 3), and form a group of stitches b closely about the hook-shank at the bottom of the throat, carrying the thread directly into the throat of the hook and into the fabric. The hook is next turned about the stitches b as ahinge to place the back of the hook against the fabric, a step which may be performed, for example, by rotating the clamping jaws 9, 10, a quarter of a turn. The needle is next caused to form an intermediate stitch at the point a and then to form a group of stitches a, passing the thread through the eyes of the hook and into the fabric as shown in Fig. 4. If desired one or more final or tying stitches may be formed by the needle at the point a for the purpose of securely anchoring the thread end.

The present method is not limited to the attachment of garment-hooks to fabrics but may be advantageously employed in attaching various other articles of irregular shape to fabrics, as will be obvious to those skilled in the art from the foregoing disclosure.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention. what I claim herein is 1. The improved method of attaching articles to fabrics which consists in supporting the article close to the fabric. passing fastening means about a localized portion of the article and into the fabric, relatively swinging the article and fabric about said fastening means as a hinge, and passing additional fastening means about another localized portion of the article and into the fabric, whereby to fixedly secure the article to'the fabric at two spaced points.

2. The improved method of attachin garment hooks or the like to fabrics whic consists in supporting the hook with its bend adjacent the fabric and its throat directed at an angle to the fabric, passing fastening means about the bend of the hook and into the fabric, relatively swinging the hook and fabric about said fastening means as a hinge, and passing additional fastening means about a portion of the hook spaced from the bend and into the fabric, whereby to fixedly secure the hook to the fabric at two spaced points.

3. The improved method of attaching hook fasteners to fabrics which consists in supporting the hook with its bend adjacent the fabric and its throat directed at an angle to the fabric, passing fastening means directly into the throat of the hook and into the fabric, relatively rotating the hook and fabric to position the eyes adjacent the fabric, and passing additional fastening means through the eyes and into the fabric.

4. The improved method of attaching hook fasteners to fabrics which consists in supporting the hook with its bend adjacent the fabric and its'throat directed at substantially right angles to the surface of the fabric, passing fastening means into the fabric in a direction substantially normal to the fabric and directly into the upwardly directed throat of the hook, relatively'rotating the hook and fabric to position the eyes adjacent the fabric, and passing additional fastening means through the eyes and into the fabric.

5. The improved method of attaching hook fasteners to fabrics which consists in supporting the hook with its bend adjacent the fabric and its throat opening in a direction at an angle to the fabric, passing stitches ofthread directly into the throat of the hook and into the fabric, relatively rotating the hook and fabric to position the eyes adjacent the fabric, and finally passing additional stitches through the eyes and into the fabric.

6. The improved method of attaching hook fasteners to fabrics which consists in supporting the hook with its bend adjacent the fabric and its throat opening in a direction at an angle to the fabric, passing stitches of thread directly into the throat of the hook and into the fabric, relatively rotating the hook and fabric to position the eyes adjacent the fabric. and finally passing additional stitches of the same thread through the eyes and into the fabric.

7. The improved method of attaching hook fasteners to fabrics which consists in supporting the hook with its bend adjacent the fabric and its throat opening in a direction at an angle to the fabric, passing stitches of thread directly into the throat of with its bend adjacent a fabric and with its the hook and i110 the fabric, relatively rotatshank approximately at right angles with ing the hook and fabric to position the eyes said fabric, sewing stitches across said bend, adjacent the fabric, passing additional swinging said hook fiatwise of said fabric 5 Stitches of the same thread through the eyes and sewing stitches embracing a portion of 15 and into the fabric, and finally forming a the hook spaced from said first stitches. plurality of tying stitches at a point out- In testimony whereof I have signed my side of the eyes. name to this specification.

8. That method of securing a hook to a p 10 fabric which consists in sustaining a' hook WILLIAM L. BARRON.

Images