US1708860A - Darning and weaving device - Google Patents

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April 9, 1929. -J. E. BALDRY 1,708,860

Patented Apr. 9, 1929.

JOHN E. BALDRY, OF ELhIGLEWOOD, MISSOURI.

DARNING AND WEAVING DEVICE.

Application filed May 31,

My invention relates to darning and weaving devices, and particularly to a: device of this character for clarning and weaving a patch in fabric materials, and the object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device for mending articles of clothing by combining facilities for darning and weaving patches therein.

I attain these objects and other advantages to by means of the parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a top plan of a device embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical elevation of the device, and showing the supporting member in section, on line 2 2, on Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a plan of the blank from which the weaving member is formed.

Figure 4 is a cross section of the weaving member, on the line 4-4:, on Figure 2.

Similar numerals of reference refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates a circular supporting member,

preferably a circular block of suitable material, such as wood, and the like, having-a converted upper face adapted to receive the fabric article to be mended and a yielding hand 2, preferably a spiral spring, which is seated in an annular groove 3 circumferentially in the said member, said band being adapted to hold the piece of goods 4 having therein a hole 5 to be mended by the darning and weaving device as is hereinafter ex plained.

A weaving member 6 consisting of a hollow triangular shaped elongated body provided with a series of transverse slotted apertures 7 alternating as to their length with respect to position and adapted to receive therein warp threads 8 to be woven with the woof threads 9 carried by a needle 10 which functions as a shuttle and as a darning needle to fasten and darn the threads 9 in weaving and darning a patch 1]. to cover the hole 5. The one end portion of the weaving member is formed as for a tube in which a smoothing device 12 is fitted, the tubular portion.serving to'facilitate the handling of the member. The other end portion of the member is cut away to form of the cut away portions a fin- 1927. Serial Ito. 195,414.

ger portion 13 having therein a curved slotted aperture forming a thread. cutter 14:. The weaving member is made of a metal sheet 15 which is blanked and apertured to form the slots 7 and the cutter lt as well to describe the contour of the finger portion 13 and the blanked portion formed up upon the dotted lines 16 to form a three sided body, as shown in section in Figure t. The side edges of the folded sheet are secured by solder or in any other suitable manner and the sides of the body are, for the most part, formed slightly concaved. See Figure l.

To use the device the fabric to be mended is placed upon the upper side of the Supporting member with the hole therein in proper position to be patched. Then the band 2 is placed over the overhanging portions of the fabric and seated in the annular groove 3, thus smoothly stretching the fabric upon the upper side (if the supporting member. The warp threads 8 are stitched in the fabric and extended across the hole therein and spaced apart a distance corresponding to the spaced relation of the slotted apertures 7 in the weaving member. The weaving member is then introduced between the alternate threads of the warp and the threads entered into the slots, so that the threads will be arranged therein as shown in Fig. 2. Then the needle 10 carrying the thread 9 is shuttled across between the warp threads and stitched in the fabric. Then the weaving member is rocked to lie upon its. opposite side, thus reversing the arrangement of the warp threads, where-- upon the needle is shuttled back between the warp threads to the other side of the hole and the thread carried by the needle stitched in the fabric. This operation of weaving and darning is continued until the hole in the fabric has been patched. At the end of the weaving the weaving member is withdrawn and the patch finished by suitable darning, after which the patch is smoothed or ironed out by using the smoothing device in the end of the weaving member. The cutter 14 is sharpened to cut thread or yarn as it may be drawn into the slotted aperture forming the two edges of the cutter.

Having described my invention what I claim is In a daruing and weaving device, the com-- 1 bination with the article supporting member, of a weaving member associated with the article supporting member, said weaving member consisting of an elongated triangular 5 shaped hollow body having a series of off-set transversely slotted-apertures to receive the warp threads and reverse their relativeorder when the weaving member is rocked on the supporting member and provided at its one end with a finger portion having a thread 10 cutting slotted aperture therein.

Dated Kansas City, Mo., May 23rd, 1927.

JOHN E. BALDRY.

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