US1467626A

US1467626A - Seam for fabrics

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Publication number: US1467626A
Application number: US459639A
Authority: US
Inventors: Henry L Tucker
Original assignee: TOM WYE Inc
Current assignee: TOM WYE Inc
Priority date: 1921-04-08
Filing date: 1921-04-08
Publication date: 1923-09-11
Anticipated expiration: 1940-09-11

Description

sepa M, 19123. www@ H. L. TUCK 151' SEAM lFOR FABRICS' Filed April 8, 1921 Wenig@ o Zvwkcen Patented Sept. ll, i923.

TE @KEES anatre HENRY Il. TUCKER, 0F WINCHENDON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 TOM WYE, INC.,

OF WENCHENDON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CRPORTIQN 0F MASSACHUSETTS.

BEAM FOR FABRICS.

Application led April To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY L. TUCKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Winchendon, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seams for Fabrics, of which the following is a specification. y v

The invention is an improved form of seam for knit goods having an elastic nature, the object being to eliminate or counteract the elasticity of the material at the seam, for instance, at the shoulder seam of knitted jackets, In carrying out the invention a smooth seam is provided and one that will preserve the shape of the model.

Thel invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a sectional or edge view of two pieces of knitted fabric with the seam partly formed.

Fig. 2 is a view ofan'other step in the operation of forming the seam.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view across the complete seam indicating the cover-seaming stitch.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the seam.

In these drawings, 1, 2 indicate two pieces of knit fabric which are to be joined say at the shoulder of a jacket. This seam is shown in Fig. 4 as made transverse to the wales of knitted stitches of the fabric, or in other words, in the direction of the courses of knitting and therefore in the direction in which the knitted fabric is most elastic.

The seam is fabricated by laying a piece of tape 3 on the face of one of the pieces of fabric and then sewing through the ta e and through both layers of fabric as in icated at a, the stitching being done from the tape side through the layers and locked by a chain stitch on the under side as indicated at b. The tape makes a foundation for the stitches on the side a and provides for uniformity of holding power of the stitches on this side of the la ers of knitted fabric and the ordinary lock or chain stitch provides uniformity of the work on the other side of the layers at b. n

The tape is fed into the seam automati- 191. erial No. 459,639.

cally on a seaming machine, and after the through and through stitches (L are made, a cover-seaming stitch is applied in the nature of a herring-bone stitch as indicated at c. This stitching is held by loops of other stitches d passing through the fabric and alongside the turned edges of the lapped portions forming the seam. This stitching c does not go through the fabric from face to face but it smooths down the edges of the fabric on one side and keeps these edges close to the main body of the knit pieces,

In the process of applying this over-seaming or cover-seaming stitch the edges of the fabric pieces that project beyond the line of seaming stitches a automatically lap or turn back upon the fabric and one of these turned back edges completely covers the tape and encloses the same between itself and the body portion of this piece of fabric.

This seam as shown in Fig.` 4 extends transverse to thewales of the knitted fabric and it provides a non-elastic portion of the completed garment along any desired line such, for instance, as along the shoulder so that the shape of the garment will be preserved.

The seam, being reinforced and rigid, is durable and will outwear any other part of the arment. v

'liie fabric may be plain or rib knit. The seam may bear. other relations to the courses and wales than that shown herein.

I claim:

The combination of contiguous sections of knit fabric lapped upon themselves to form contiguous folds, a reinforcing ta e folded upon itself within one of said fol s, stitches extending transversely through said tape and said folds at the bends thereof to unite said fabric sections and overseaming stitches extending over said folds and through said fabric sections adjacent to the free edges of said folds but not through the latter to connect said fabric sections independently of said tape and said transverse stitches and to hold said folds in place.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature this fifteenth day of March, A. D. 1921.

HENRY L. TUCKER.