US1442622A - Embroidery machine - Google Patents

Description

' Jan. 16,1923.

J. A. LEVI ET AL. EMBROIDERY MACHINE.

FILED MAR. 30, 1922.

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EMBROIDERY MACHINE.

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J. A. LEVI ET AL.

EMBROiDERY MACHINE.

FILED MAR. 30. 1922.

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Application filed March 30, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES A. Lnvi and Qrro Pnoiirimn, citizens oi the United States, the former a resident oi the city, county and State or New York, and t1, latter a resident of North Bergen. in th, county of Hudson and State of. new J sey, have invented certain new and useiiul improvements in Embroidery Machines of which the following is a specification.

fur invention relates to embroidery ma chines and particularly to an attachment the :tor whereby the pattern is formed by sewing on, to a fabric such material as cord. braid, chenille, threaded beads, or other materials tor producing ornamentation on the fabric. in such machines provided with an attachment embodying our invention the ornamenting material does not pass through the needles but is sewed to the tabric by the thread carried in the needles.

An object of our invention is to provide a machine of the class desc i ed with guidmeans "for the material that is to be sewed upon the fabric.

.i-inother object is to provide means for controlling the means which go ides the material to be sewed on to the fabric in such way as to maintain the guiding mean position ahead of the needle along the ot' the design, a further object bein to p vent nto lerence between the guidin means and stitching mechanism and to preserve synclu'onism in the operations thereof.

.iinother object of our invention to provide means for controlling the means which guides the material to be sewed upon the fabric in such a way that the material will positively and automatically be drawn alternately opposite sides of the line. of the do sign in synchronisin with the stitching mechanism. The attainment of this object is of particular importance when the material which is sewed on to the fabric is oi: such a nature that the needles cannot or preferably should not pass tlii'ouoh the la-- torial as in the case of a cord r threaded beads, or threads comprising metallic fibers.

Another object of our invention is to provide mechanism -for maintaining the proper tension in the material to be sewed onto the fabric and comprising slack adjusting means for the material to be sewed on to the fabric which will withdraw any slack in the material to he sewed on when the guiding Serial No 547,984.

means therefor is moved in such a direction as to tend to produce any slack in the matcrial. and which will feed the material when the guiding means is moved in a direction which would tend to produce extra tensionv therein.

Other and further objects and advantaoes of our invention will appear from the toilowing specification taken in connection with the accompanying drawings formin a part thereof and in. which:

E l is an end view of an embroidery machine, embodying our invention, parts of said emlu'oidery machine which. are not modified by our intention being broken away or generally indicated.

Fig. 2 is a top View of the construction shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. is a detailed view on the line 3-3 of Fi 2.

F '4 is a partial detailed view, and

8 is a sectional view on the line 88 cl min. i.

(aninvention is adaptable to well-known tvpes of eiibroidcry machines and it is therelore. unnecessary to illustrate and describe the complete mechanism of such a machine. However, parts of such a machine have been indicated in the drawings, in order to illustrate the adaptatimi thereto of one embodiment of our invention which we have illustrated for the purpose of disclosing our invention. in l, the frame 1 which may be operated by a pantograph or any wellknown automatic embroidery frame controllirg-incchanisin, carries the fabric 2, one of the fabric carrying rollers 8 being shown. The usual shuttle operating mechanism 5 mounted on the machine frame, parts 1 of which shown, operates the shuttle 6 in a nown manner. The needle bar 7 caril. plurality of needles 8 and is operated in a. well-known manner by means of the operating ears 9. These bars are operated in a well known manner as stated from the main shaft 10. Each needle 8 is supplied with thread 11 which passes over the usual tension rods 12 which pass as is well-known from one end of the machine to the other. Associated with each. needle is a material of the machine it may be desirable to have.

several devices distributed along); the length of the machine in the same manner for movthe guide supporting: rod 14 but in order mplify our description only one of these be described. The shafts 15, 16 17 18, and 19 may all or only some of them run the entire length of the machine, if several devices are used if 1' moving bar 1 1. Shafts 15, 1, 17 and 18 are in any event operated from the main drive shaft as hereinafter more fully described. Supported upon the shafts 16 17 and 19 a frame men'iber 20 as well shown in Figs. 41- and This frame member is provided with cars 21 at its upper and lower portions which carry rods 22. A sub-frame member 23 (see Fig. is pro vided with ears 24; at its upper and lower portions through which the rods 22 pass so that the sub-frame member may slide up and down upon the rods 22. The sub-frame member carries bracket arms 25 to which are attached plates 26 (see Fig. 6) which support the rods 27 which may run from one end of the machine to the other and which pass through openings in the blocks 28 which carry the guide supporting bar 14-. Extending out from each sub-frame 23 are cars 29 to which an eccentric strap 30 is pivoted by the pin 31. Within the eccentric strap 30 runs an eccentric 32 splined to the shaft 17. It will thus be seen that a rotation of the shaft 17 will by reason of the operation of the eccentric 32 in the strap 30 cause the sub-frame 23 to slide up and down upon the rods 22 of the main frame 20 and cause the arms 25 to move up and down carrying;- the rods 27 up and down impartan up and down motion to the guide carrying bar 14. In one face of each block 28 there is slot in which fits a block 86 having an opening into which fits a stud 37. The stud 3? is carried by a rocker arm 38 pivoted at 39 in the face of the frame 20 and carrying; at its lower end a stud 10 which fits into a cam slot 41 in the cam 12 which is splined upon the shaft- 16. It will thus be seen that a rotation of the shaft 16 will cause the cam slot 411 to act upon the stud 4-0 to rock the arm 38 about its pivot 39 so that the stud 37 will cause the block 28 to slide back and forth upon the rods 27 and the guide carrying bar 14 being mounted upon with the recinrocatory movements imparted by a rotation of either of the shafts 17 or 16. The cam 4-2 being fixed between the arms 17 of the frame 20 by its bosses 12 and splined to the shaft 16 and the eccentric being); xed hetween the arms as of the frame 20 by its hosses 32 and splined to the shaft 1! they will be moved along with the frame 20 when the threaded member 41 1- is rotated.

Referring to Fig. 6 A indicates the points where the needles reciprocate. If a guide 13 is at the position I rotation of the shaft 17 will cause the guide to reciprocate between positions 1 and H, or rotation of the shaft 16 wi 1 cause the guide 13 to reciprocate between the positions l and IV. If the guide is in the position ll rotation of the shaft 16 will cause it to reciprocate between the positions H and Ill. If the shaft 19 has been rotated to bring the guide 13 to the position V rotation of the shaft 17 will cause the guide 13 to reciprocate between the positions l and i l.

The material 58 to be sewed onto the fabric is fed from spools supported on the shaft 51 carried on the main frame by the brackets 52. The material passes around tension roller 53 and over a guide'har 54 carried by the bracket 55 from the needle carryibar 7 and then through the guides 13. The tension roller 53 is freely supported on a shaft 53 and a collar 56 adjustably fastened to the shaft 5?) by setscrer-/ ries a. spring; tension spider 5? against the end of the tension roller 50 produce the necessary tension in the material. 58. If the guide 13 is recipi'ocated between the points I and ll or V and Fl there wil be slack in the material 58 each time the guide rises and a pull on the material the tension therein each. time the guide goes down. In order to remove this slack or feed the material to insure that the guide will postively draw the material along the proper line during the stitching, we have provided slack adjusting means as follows: a ratchet wheel 60 is fixed to shaft 53 and an arm 60 swinging on the shaft 53' has pivoted to it double acting: pawl 61 and a rod 62 which leads down to a crank or eccentric pin 63 carried by the shaft 18 which is driven from the shaft 17 as hereinafter described. Carried on the main driving shaft 10 is a pulley 64- which may be connected to the shaft 10 by a one-position clutch 64. 1* one-position clutch is used in order to premeaeae serve proper synchronism between the stitching and guide moving mechanisms. The pulley (i l drives the belt 65 which in turn drives a pulley 66 on the shaft- 15. The shaft 15 carries a gear 67 which drgear 68 loosely mounted on the shaft 16 and a gear 69 loosely mounted on the shaft Ill. A gear 70 keyed to the shaft 1? drives a gear 71 keyed to the shaft 18 to operate a sled adjusting mechanism. A clutch member 72 splined upon the shaft LG-has in its c opposed to the gear 68 diametrically opposite notches T2 for cooperation with the diametrically opposite lugs 73 on the face of the gear 68. In its opposite face it has a single notch T l cooperating with a single ug 1'5 on the frame. Splined on the shaft .7 is a clutch member 76 which has in its lace opposed to the gear 69 two diametrically opposite notches which cooperate with corresponding lugs 7? on the face of the gear 69. A clutch operating lever T8 is piv oted at 79 and carries a pin 80 cooperating with a groove 81 in the clutch member '72 and a pin 82 cooperating with a groove 83 in the clutch member 6. The clutch member '76 also has diametrically opposite notches 84c cooperating with the lugs 85 on the frame. The lever 78 and clutch memhers 72 and 76 together with the notches therein and the various lugs adapted to be accommodated by those notches constitute one embodiment of our invention wherein the method of our invention may be fully carried out. But it is obvious that various modifications of the clutches whereby the shafts 16 and 17 are driven and of t ie means for operating those clutches may be made without departing from the spirit of our invention. Embroidery machines of the type with which our invention is intended to he used are ordinarily controlled in a large part by automatic devices that among; other things move the frame in order to produce the desired design upon the fabric carried thereby and it is obvious that such devices well-known in this art for the control of various operations of embroidery machines of the type with which our invention used could be employed to effect such control of the guide moving mechanism of our invention that the same method of operation would. be followed as is provided for by the specific mechanism that we have shown and described, namely, the lever 78 and the clutches 72 and 7 6 that are operated thereby.

It will be observed that the gear 70 being; keyed to the shaft 17, will only be rotated when the clutch 76 is in the position shown in Fig. 2, that is to say, it will only be rotated when the shaft 17 is rotated to reciprocate the guides between the positions I and II. or V and VI. When the guides rise and fall a Withdrawing and feeding of the material 58 is necessary in order to prevent undue Slacl: or tension. Rotation of the gear 70 will impart r ion to the gear 71 and through the eccentrur pin 63 rcciprocm tion will he imparted to the link o2. Coiise quently a rising and falling of the arm 13") will occur. The first rotation of the shaft 17 will cause a liftingof the guides 13 and downward pull on the link 62 so that the pawl 61 will en iagge the ratchet wheel (5 and rotate it clocirwise to withdraw the material 58. Further rotation. o the shaft 1'? and the eccentric 32 will cause the guides to descend but will move the link {52 upwardly and the pawl 6i will impart a counterclockwise motion to the ratchet wheel 60 and effect a feedinc of the material that is wrapped around the drum or tension roller 53. It will thus be apparent that in one phase of the operation of the machine and during the motion of the guides 13 along a path crossing the line of the pattern or in order to keep them in advance of the needle there will automatically be a feeding or withdrawing of the material 58.

The mechanism whereby the guides are reciprocated laterally can be loc d when the guides are in positions I or II by the stop lug 75 on the frame of the machine enter the recess M of the clutch member 72; and mechanical reciprocation between the positions I an l II can only be effected when such locking existsv This follows since the clutch member 76, which is mechanically rxmncct a? with the clutch member 72 through the lever 78 can only be sufliciently displaced on the shaft 17 in the direction to establish a driving connection for this shaft, when the clutch member 72 has been displaced in the opposite direction to interrupt the driving; connection for shaft 16 and the locking: lug 75 has entered the recess in the clutch member 72. One revolution of the aft 1% is designed to effect one complete back and forth horizontal motion of the guides 13 ainl the lug 75 is fixed to the frame of the n 1- chine at such a point with relation to t clutch element 72, as will insure stopping the guide bar 1% at the right hand limit o l its horizontal travel by the lug '75 entering the recess 74: in the clutch element This leaves the guides in position I or II 6) and the guides must be in this position be fore the clutch element 76 can be put into the position shown in Fig. 2, for driving shaft 17 to effect vertical reciprocation of the guide members.

There can therefore in the normal or antomatic operation of the machine be no mechanical reciprocation between positions III and IV but by rotation of the shaft 19 the guide can be carried while it is loclrcd in position I over to position V and mechanical reciprocation between positions V and VI may be made as though the reciprocation were between positions I and II. The only difference is that the shank of the guide 1.3 will lie on the opposite side of the line of reciprocation of the needle from that in which it lay during the reciprocation between positions 1 and TI.

If the guide is in the position I and the clutch lever 73 is in the position shown in Fig. 2 and the clutch 6-1 is engaged, the shaft 1'? will be rotated and rause the guide to reciprocate between the points I and IT and the slack adjusting mechanism will be operated from the gear 70. if the clutch lever T3 is swung to the right in Fig. 2 the shaft 1.6 will be driven and the guide 13 will reciprocate between the positions I and 1V if the clutch 76 has left the lugs 77 in one position, or bet-ween the positions l1 and Ill if 'he clutch '1' 6 has left the lugs 77 in the other of its two positions, nan'lely one half a. rotation removed from the first position. it will be apparent that the adjustment of the frame by the threaded member feel will not interfere with the operation of the guide moving mechanism operated from the shafts 16 and 17. There is preferably only one lug '75 for cooperation with the clutch 72 as it is desired that when the shaft 16 stops rotating the cam 1-2 will be in such a psoition that the guide 13 is either at position I or H, There are two lugs 85 cooperating with diametrically opposite notches 8 1 in the clutch member 76 so that when the shaft 1'? stops rotating the guide 13 may be at either position I or 11. so that it may reciprocate between positions I and IV or positions IT and TH when shaft 16 is rotated. Shaft 16 may be rotated by the collar 88 and the shaft 1'? may be rotated by the collar 89 or gear to secure minor adjustments.

The pulley 6-1- is preferably half as large as the pulley (56 so that the guide will make one reci n'ocation for each complete forward and backward reciprocation of the needle bar 7 driven from the shaft 10 in a wellknown manner.

If it desirable that the material to be. sewed on to the fabric shall be a flat braid or tape we mount a disk 90 in an enlarged loop 90 at the head of the guide 13 as shown in F 7. The disk is provided with a slot 91 for a tape and it rotates freely so that the material may be properly applied to the fabric without becoming twisted.

The guide 13 is so formed that its shank lies on the same side of the needle when it is in all of the positions I, II, III, and 1V but its shank is shifted to the opposite side of the needle when it is in either of the positions V or VI. It will therefore be apparent from the above description that by providing only one lug for holding the clutch member 72 in fixed position so that the cam 41-2 will always leave the guide at position I or II the automatic guide moving mechanism can never carry the guide across the line of reciprocation of the needle. It can only be carried across that line by manual operation of the shaft 19. it will furthermore be apparent that if it is desirable to follow a design without moving the guide alternately to opposite sides thereof in synchronism with the stitch mechanism, the clutch lever 78 may be put in a neutral position and the shafts 16 and 17 may be rotated manually respectively by their collars 88 or 89 to bring the guide 13 to any point between the positions I and H or I and TV or H and HI but not between the positions 111 and IV because the needle would be interfered with in that case. If it is desired to position the guide 13 directly at the left of the needle, it is brought to either position V or VI and then adjusted by rotation of the shaft 17. It will thus be apparent that the guide may be more or less permanently positioned at any point along the lines which it may be made to follow by the automatic mechanism.

While we have described one embodiment of our invention in great detail for the purpose of disclosingit, it is not intended that we shall be limited to the particular mechanism described; and it is especially intended that different methods of driving the shafts may be employed as it is to be understood that we have merely shown one arrangement for securing proper synchronism of the motion of the material guides 13 with the stitching mechanism and whereb the guide is prevented from being reciprocated across the line of reciprocation of the needle during the normal automatic operation of the machine. Reeiprocation of the guide across the line of the needle is not impossible as the needle is ordinarily withdrawn far enough to permit the guide to move across its point and the cams and eccentrics are designed to mahe'thc shifting motion rapid as the guide crosses the line of the needle. It will be apparent however. that by the arrangement of clutches disclosed or an equivalent arrangement the automatic movement of the guides will never carry them to a position where they will interfere with the operation of the needles.

As above stated the fabric upon which the material is to be sewed is carried by a frame operated in any wellknown manner. The operation of such a frame includes the movement of the frame so that the needles will form the prescribed pattern. The frame may also be moved so that in cases where cords and similar materials are being sewed upon'the fabric the stitches will be made alternately on opposite sides of the exact line of the pattern and a slight distance from that line. The distance from the exact line at which the stitch may be placed is limited by two considerations: the stitch must not be conspicuous and it must be close enough to the cord or other similar mate rials to hold it very close to the line of the pattern. The limitation of the distance from the line at which the stitch may be placed adds to the importance of our in vent-ion because the guides in shifting from one side of the line of the pattern to the other carry the material well out of the way of the needle so that the stitch may be very close to the line 'or in some cases exactly upon it and the stitching thread will nevertheless properly cross over the top of the material to hold t in place upon the fabric.

What we claim as new and desire to cure by Letters Patent is:

1. In an embroidery machine having stitching means including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for positively reciprocating the said guides in synchronism with the stitching means in a plane parallel with the plane or the fabric, and selective controlling means for determining the path for reciprocation of the guides, whichpath for each guide is constantly along a line all points of which lie ahead of its respective needle in the direction of advance of the line of the design.

2. In an embroidery machine having stitching means including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric. means for positively reciprocating the said guides in synchronism with the stitching means in a plane parallel with the plane of the fabric across the line of the pattern, and selective controlling means for maintaining each guide ahead of its respective needle as the direction of the line of the pattern changes.

3. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means whereby said guides are reciprocated in a path ahead of the needles along the line of the pattern bein followed, and means for maintaining tension in the material substantially constant.

4. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, and means whereby each guide may be reciprocated along the sides of a rectangle substantially surrounding the point of reciprocation of its respective needle.

5. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, and means whereby each guide may be moved to positions along the sides of a rectangle embracing the point of reciprocation of its respective needle.

6. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, and means whereby each guide may be reciprocated along straight lines together embracing substantially the point of reciprocation of its respective needle.

7. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, and means for reciprocating each guide selectively along one of a plurality of lines in a plane parallel with the fabric.

8. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, and means for reciprocating each guide selectively along one of a plurality of lines in a plane parallel with the fabric, said lines together substantially enclosing the point of reciprocation of its respective needle.

9. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for setting each guide at a plurality of positions, and means for positively reciprocating said guides along a plurality of lines from one of said positions and along a given line from the other of said positions.

10. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles. guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, and means for positively reciprocating each guide in a plane parallel to the fabric along lines at an angle to one another.

11. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, and means whereby each guide may be reciprocated along parallel lines on opposite sides of each needle.

12. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for reciprocating said guides along lines at an angle to one another and means operative to prevent reciprocation along one of said lines during reciprocation along another of said lines.

13. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles. guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for reciprocating said guides between two points and between each of said points and respectively two other points and means operative to prevent reci pro action between said two last named points.

14:. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for reciprocating said guides between two points and between each of said points and respectively two other points, means for preventing reciprocation between said two last mentioned points, and means for setting said guides for reciprocation between points other than said first named points and adjacent said last named points.

5. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric and means for reciprocating said guides along lines at an angle to one another and comprising means for reciprocating said guides along one of said lines and including a clutch engagab-le at two positions to effect reciprocation of said guides and at one position to lock said last-mentioned means against operation, and means for reciprocating said guides along the other of said lines including a clutch engagable at two positions to effect reciprocation of said guides and at either of two positions to lock said last-mentioned means against operation.

16.111 an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to he sewed onto the fabric, and means for reciprocating said guides in a plane parallel to the fabric along selective portions of lines respectively substantially surrounding the points of reciprocation of the needles.

17. In an embrodiery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for moving said guides to positions ahead of the needles along the line of the pattern being followed, and means for feeding the material as said guides are moved away from the supply thereof.

18. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for moving said guides to positions ahead of the needles along the line of the pattern being followed. and means for withdrawing the material as the guides are moved toward the supply thereof.

l9. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means formoving said guides to positions ahead of the needles along the line of the pattern being followed, and means for feeding the material as said guides are moved in one direction and for withdrawing the material as the guides are moved in another direction.

20. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for moving said guides to positions ahead of the needles along the line of the pattern being followed, means for imparting tension to the material, and means for feeding the material as said ineaeae guides are moved in one direction and for withdrawing the material as saidguides are moved in another direction.

21. In an embroidery machine of the horizontal needle type having stitching mech anism including needles, a bar, guides mounted on the said bar for material to be sewed onto the fabric by the stitching means, and means positively operated in sychronism with the stitching mechanism for moving saidbar to carry the guides in a plane parallel to the fabric alternately to points on opposite sides of the line of the design followed by their respective needles, said points being in advance of the needles and said means carrying each of said guides from one point to the other directly over a path all points of which are ahead of its respective needle along the line of the pattern being followed.

22. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for imparting translatory motion to said guides along straight lines parallel to the fabric to carry them to points about their respective needles, and means for limiting the operation of saidlirst namedmeans to prevent accidental motion of said guides across the points of reciprocation of the needles.

23. In an embroidery machine having stitching means including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for positively reciprocating said guides in synchronism with the stitching means across the line of the pattern, means for producing tension in the material and means for feeding and withdrawing the material during reciprocation of said guides to maintain constant the tension therein.

In an embroidery machine having stitching means including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for positively reciprocating said guides in synchronism with the stitching means selectively along one of two pairs of intersecting parallel lines.

25. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles. guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric and means for moving each guide selectively along any one of four lines together substantially surrounding the line of reciprocation of its respective needle.

26.111 an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides-for material to be sewed ontothe fabric, a member mounted for sliding in a given direction, and a guide-supportingbar mounted on said member for sliding in a direction transverse to said given direction.

27. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the vdirection transverse to said given stitching mechanism fabric, a member mounted for sliding in a given direction, a guide-supporting bar mounted on said member for sliding in a direction transverse to said given direction, and means whereby said member and bar may be reciprocated in synchronism "with said stitching mechanism.

28. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, member mounted for sliding in given direction, a guide-supporting bar mounted on said member for sliding in a direction, and means whereby said member and bar may be selectively reciprocated in synchronism with said stitching mechanism.

29. In an embroidery machine having including needles, for material to be sewed onto the fabric, a member mounted for sliding in a given direction, a guide-supporting bar mounted on said member for sliding in a direct-ion transverse to said given direction, an eccentric operatively connected to said member to reciprocate it, and a cam operatively connected with said bar to reciprocate it.

80.1n an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, a member mounted for sliding in a given direction, a guide-supporting bar mounted on said member for sliding in a direction transverse to said given direction, an eccentric operat-ively connected to said member to reciprocate it, a cam operatively connected with said bar to reciprocate it, and means for selectively operating said cam and eccentric.

31. in an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for reciprocating each of said guides in a given direction, means for locking said first-named means when each guide is on a given side of its respective needle, means for reciprocating each of said guides in a transverse direction.

32. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles,

guides guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for reciprocating each oi said guides in a given difection, means for looking first-named means when each guide is on a given side of its respective needle, means for reciprocating each or said guides in a transverse direction, and means for carrying each guide, while said first named reciprocating means ioclzed, to the opposite side oi? its respective needle.

33. In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, a frame, member mounted on raid frame for sliding in a given direction. and a guide-supporting bar mounted on said member for sliding in a direction transverse to said given direction, said tranic being adjustable to position each guide on opposite sides of its respective needle.

34:, In an embroidery machine having stitching mechanism including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the tabric,'means for imparting translatory motion to said guides along straight lines parallel to the fabric to carry said guides to points about their respective needles.

35. In an embroidery machine of the horizontal needle type, having stitching means including needles, guides for material to be sewed onto the fabric, means for positively reciorocating said guides in synchronism with the stitching means in a plane parallel with the plane of the fabric, each guide traversing a path all parts of which lie ahead of its respective needle in the direction of advance along the line of design.

36. In an embroidery mac line of the horizontal needle type having stitching means including needles, guides for material to he sewed onto the fabric, means for positively reciprocating said guides in synchronism with the stitching means in a plane parallel with the plane of th fabric across the line of the pattern, and along paths all points of which lie ahead 01' their respective needles in the direction of advance along the line of design.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification.

JAMES A. LEVI. OTTO PLOETNER.

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