US1990267A - Device for use in, or in connection with, machines for sewing on buttons - Google Patents

Device for use in, or in connection with, machines for sewing on buttons Download PDF

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US1990267A
US1990267A US672335A US67233533A US1990267A US 1990267 A US1990267 A US 1990267A US 672335 A US672335 A US 672335A US 67233533 A US67233533 A US 67233533A US 1990267 A US1990267 A US 1990267A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D05—SEWING; EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
    • D05B—SEWING
    • D05B3/00—Sewing apparatus or machines with mechanism for lateral movement of the needle or the work or both for making ornamental pattern seams, for sewing buttonholes, for reinforcing openings, or for fastening articles, e.g. buttons, by sewing
    • D05B3/12—Sewing apparatus or machines with mechanism for lateral movement of the needle or the work or both for making ornamental pattern seams, for sewing buttonholes, for reinforcing openings, or for fastening articles, e.g. buttons, by sewing for fastening articles by sewing
    • D05B3/14—Sewing apparatus or machines with mechanism for lateral movement of the needle or the work or both for making ornamental pattern seams, for sewing buttonholes, for reinforcing openings, or for fastening articles, e.g. buttons, by sewing for fastening articles by sewing perforated or press buttons

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  • This invention relates to machines for sewingbracket) suitably arranged on, or associated with,
  • buttons On buttons, and particularly to means for feeding the machine.
  • the holder may ing them in the clamps or jaws of the machine comprise parallel legs afiorded by two or more with their holes in register with the sewing needle substantially rigid wires or the equivalent, or by 5 or needles. bending a piece of substantially rigid wireor the
  • the feeding means equivalent into hairpin formation, the spacing of comprise shutters or their equivalent adapted to the legs being such as to permit of buttons being co-operate to first isolate a button from the threaded thereon with each leg engaging correwaiting supply and then transfer it to the carspending holes in the buttons.
  • 10 rier for conveying it to the clamps or jaws of In the case of a holder comprising two parallel the machine.
  • tons may be retained upon the holder when not the button holding device more particularly required by an appropriate removable stop or though not exclusively for supplying buttons in stops on said lengths or legs of wire and which 5 turn to machines for sewing-on buttons commay conveniently be in the form of a clip or clips, prises essentially one or more substantially rigid and in thislatter connection said clip or clips .wires' or theequivalent on to which the buttons may serve to, connect the lengths or legs of wire can be threaded one upon another with their together.
  • buttons understood and readily carried into effect the are carried by a holder adapted to maintain them same .
  • a holder adapted to maintain them same .
  • Figure 1 is a part side elevation showing the by the holder so as to cause one or more fixed general arrangement of the main features of the pins, spindles, rods or pegs appropriately posimachine viz. the holder, the feed device,"an'd the tioned on said arm or carrier, to come into aligncarrier.
  • ment with one or more of the holes in said but-' Figures 2, 3 and 4 are respectively a side eleva- 30 ton prior to engaging therewith.
  • FIGS. 5a, 5b, and 5c are respectively a front to the carrier takes the form of shutters or their elevation, side elevation and a plan of one form equivalent adapted to co-operate to first cut off of button holder with buttons thereon.
  • end elevation and 5 then drop or supply it on to the carrier arm. front elevation respectively of a feed device.
  • the arm or carrier may now 9a, 9b, and 9c are a plan, front elevation and be Opera-ted automatically to convey the d end elevation respectively of the shutters emor gripped button into correct position between played in the feed devi e,
  • Figure 11 is a diagrammatic plan of the workupon the said jaws or clamps close upon the ing parts showing, by way of example, a conbutton to hold it in its predetermined position venient mode of operating them.
  • the holder when the upper pair of shutters are open, may c p one or a plurality of b lly
  • the holder comprises a pair of parallel legs 1 end the pp end) of the holder, m n afforded by bending a piece of wire into hairpin are provided whereby it may be suspended from, formation, the spacing of the legs being such or otherwise attached to, a support (conveniently as to permit their being engaged with or passed 5 in the form of an appropriate standard or through diametrically opposed holes in the but- 5 carrier 3 remains stationary with its pins in regand in this connection said clip may bridge across and engageboth .leg
  • the button holder Whenin use for supplying buttons to a sewingon machine, the button holder may be carried by a supporting standard in such a position that the lower end or ends of the wire leg or legs are in register with holes in supply-controlling shutters in conjunction with which works a carrier for conveying the buttons in turn from the holder provided by the but should it be necessary in any case, additional may be provided to ensure the. the buttons.
  • the carrier'for transferring the buttons to the sewing-on machine (indicated by dotted lines at Figure 1) comprises a rigid bar 3 provided with a in the buttons being the legs of the holder 1 also.
  • Figures 6 to 10 inclusive illustrate a convenient device for feeding the buttons 2 singly and successively from the holder to the carrier.
  • the said device' consists essentially of upper and lowholder 1 and the holes in the buttons 2.
  • the holder 1 When the machine is ready for use see Figure 1) the holder 1 with its buttons a position that by suitable manipulation of the shutters '6, '7. Such manipulation may be effected at the proper time during the travel of the carrier bar 3to and from the sewing-on machine ( Figure 1) by mechanism such as thatshown by way of examated by the lever 11 in or about the two extreme stages of its movement, respectively.
  • the lower shutters 7 are actuated when the carrier 3 is beneath them by the co-operation of the lever 11 with an abutment 14 on a spring pressed link 15, movement of which actuates lever and link mechanism 16 to open the lower shutters.
  • the raising and opening of the clamp elements being eflfected by mechanism such as levers, and/or cable transmission timed to operate during the forward movement of the carrier-arm.
  • mechanism such as levers, and/or cable transmission timed to operate during the forward movement of the carrier-arm.
  • means for delivering buttons singly from a stack to the sewing mechanism of the machine comprising a moving carrier bar adapted to travel from a point under the stack to the'sewing mechanism, an upper and a lower pair of shutters positioned below said stack and adapted to isolate a single button therebetween and to transfer the same to the bar, and operating means for said shutters, timed to open the lower pair of shutters after the bar reaches the limit of its inward movement toward said point under the stack, and to open the upper pair of shutters at a diflerent point in the cycle of movement of said carrier bar.
  • buttons singly from a stack to the sewing mechanism of the machine, said means comprising a moving carrier bar adapted to travel from a point under the stack to the sewing mechanism, an upper and a lower pair of shutters positioned below said stack and adapted to isolate.a single button therebetween-and to transfer the same to the bar, and operating means for said shutters, timed to open the lower pair of shutters after the bar reaches the limit of its inward movement toward said point under the stack, and to open the upper pair of shutters at substantially the end of tltie outward movement of the bar away from the s ack.
  • buttons singly from a stack to the sewing mechanism of the machine, said means comprising a moving carrier bar adapted to travel from a point under the stack to the sewing mechanism, an upper and a lower pair of shutters positioned belowsaid stack and adapted to isolate a single button therebetween and to transfer the same to the bar, and operating means for said shutters timed to open the lower pair of shutters after the bar reaches the limit of its inward movement toward said point under the stack, and to open the upper pair of shutters during the movement of the bar remote from the stack.
  • buttons singly from a stack to the sewing mechanism of the machine, said means comprising a reciprocating carrier bar adapted to travel from a position under the stack to the sewing mechanism, two pairs of shutters posiand adapted to isolate a same to the bar, said pairs of shutters serving for said stack of buttons, means for opening and then closing the upper pair of shutters while the lower pair is closed to isolate a button between said pairs, and means for opening the lower'pair while the upper pair is closed and when the feeder bar is positioned thereunder button to the bar.
  • means for deto transfer the isolated livering buttons singly from a stack of buttons to the sewing mechanism of the machine said means comprising a reciprocating feeder bar adapted to travel from a position below the stack to the sewing mechanism, two pairs 'of shutters isolate a button means for engaging rods to position the same accurately,
  • Button holding anddelivering means for use with a button sewing machine having a button carrier bar associated therewith, said means comprising a pair of vertically disposed parallel rods supported adjacent their upper ends, and adapted to have a plurality of buttons threaded thereon in stacked formation, two pairs of horizontally disposed shutters adjacent the lower ends of said rods in supporting relation to the stack of buttons, each pair of shutters being opened and closed alternately, first to isolate a button from said stack and then to drop said button tothe button carrier bar for the sewing machine, said pairs of shutters each having recesses shaped to embrace the lower end of each of said rods to position the same vaccurately, and to prevent lateral displacement thereof.
  • a button carrying device adapted to hold a plurality of buttons in proper relation thereon to be received by a button sewing machine or the the device is dis-associated with the machine and as a button feeding'means when associated with the machine, said device comprising a single elongated substantially rigid wire bent upon itself intermediate its ends into substantially ushape, and stop means associated with anend of said wire, the legs formed by the bend therein being disposed in parallel relation to each other and being spaced apart a distance equal to the spacing of the holes in the buttons threaded the wire at the bend comprising a means whereby the device may be hung from a support and the buttons retained thereon by said stop means to store said buttons, and whereby said device may thereafter be hung from asupport onsaid machine, and serve as a button feeding magazine for the machine, after the stop means has been rendered inoperative.

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US3108715A (en) * 1961-08-22 1963-10-29 Automation Machines And Equipm Machine for removing and delivering a predetermined number of laminations or other articles from a supply stack
US5704515A (en) * 1995-12-15 1998-01-06 Martin; Gerald D. Ferrule applicator and method

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US3108715A (en) * 1961-08-22 1963-10-29 Automation Machines And Equipm Machine for removing and delivering a predetermined number of laminations or other articles from a supply stack
US5704515A (en) * 1995-12-15 1998-01-06 Martin; Gerald D. Ferrule applicator and method
US5865341A (en) * 1995-12-15 1999-02-02 Martin; Gerald D. Ferrule applicator and method

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