US241116A

US241116A - arnold

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Publication number: US241116A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-05-10
Anticipated expiration: 1898-05-10

Description

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S. ARNOLD.

Device for Securing Knit Fabrics while being Out and Sew ed.

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S. ARNOLD.

Device for Securing Knit Fabrics while-being Cut and Sewed. No. 241,116. tented May 10,1881.

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S. ARNOLD. Device for Securing Knit Fabrics While bein g Out.

and Sewed.

No. 241,116., Patented May 10,1881.

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S. ARNOLD.

Device for-Securing Knit Pabrieswhile being Gut and Sewed.

No. 241,116. Patented May 10, 1881.

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SATTERLEE ARNOLD, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ANNA M. ARNOLD,

OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR SECURING KNlT FABRICS WHILE BEING CUT AND SEWED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,116, dated May 10, 1881.

Application filed June 11, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SATTERLEE ARNOLD, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Securing Knit Fabrics while being Out or Trimmed and Sewed, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device employed to hold sleazy or elastic fabric in a secured position while being trimmed or cut to a required seaming or sewing edge, and by means of which the trimmed or cut fabric may be securely held as cut or trimmed by a detachable part of the device, and by it fed into a sewing-machine.

The objectof myinvention is to combine with a frame or table-support two detachable plates arranged to be placed fiatwise one above the other, with the lower plate provided with upwardly-projecting pin -points and the upper plate constructed with holes for the pin-points in the lower plate to pass through, with the two plates so arranged with reference to each other and the edge of the frame or table-support that the outer edge of the upper plate shall coincide with or subtend the edge of the lower plate, which contains the pins, and be parallel to the edge of the frame or table-support, to form with the latter a cutting-edge, upon and against which the fabric is trimmed or cut. The upper perforated plate and the lower pin-plate are held in position by means of two end guiding and staying pins projecting upwardly from the frame or support, and over which the plates having end holes are passed. These holes are slotted, and the plates are held as adjusted with reference to their outer edges by means of a cap-plate and set-screw. At each end of the frame there is constructed a base-plate, which is also made adjustable by means of a slot and a set-screw, and by the adjustment of said base-plate the position of the pins securin g the two plates, when applied, is determined with reference to the cutting or trimming edge.

The novelty of my invention will first be described, and then pointed out in the claims.

Accompanying this specification, and forming a part of it, there are four plates of drawings, containing six figures illustrating my invention, and in all of which the same referenceletters are employed to designate the same parts of the device.

Figure 1 shows, in perspective, the device with a piece of fabric inserted between the flat plates, with the pins in the lower plate projecting up through the fabric and the holes in the upperplate. This illustration also exhibits the position of the securing-pins at the ends of the plates and the slot in the base-plate, by which the securing-pins are moved out and in and secured by a set-screw to vary the width of the fabric cut for a sewing-edge outside of the pinplate. Fig. 2 shows the perforated top plate removed after the fabric has been cut or trimmed,

with the latter still secured by the lower plate and its perforating-pins. Fig. 3 illustrates the fabric which has been cut or trimmed to a sewing or seaming edge removed from the frame support and still held by the lower plate and its pertbrating-pins, in a condition to be run into the sewing-machine and sewed along its edge and the edge of the plate. Fig. at shows the position of the slot and set-screw in the base-plate of the device, with the parts somewhat enlarged in proportion to the other illus- 7 5 trations. Fig. 5 exhibits a vertical section taken at right angles to the cutting-edge of the device, with the parts somewhat enlarged in proportion to better designate them. This view shows the position of the upper perforated plate, the lower pin-plate, the intermediatelyplaced fabric, and the front edge of the'frame or tablesupport, forming with the upper perforated plate a cutting or trimming edge. Fig.

6 shows the cap-plate holding the upper perforated plate in an adjusted position upon the staying-pins at each end by means of a slotted opening in the upper plate, as designated by a dotted line, and a set-screw connecting the cap-plate and the perforated upper plate 0 by means of a slotted aperture in the former.

The letter E represents a bed-plate, formed at its front end or edge with a guide-plate, E, projecting a short distance above the upper surface of the table, as seen in Fig. 5 of the 5 drawings. Upon the upper surface of the bedplate, and contiguous to the guiding-plate,is arranged a holding-pin plate, D, supportedin position by means of the staying-pins P P, located at the ends of the bed-plate.

This hold- I oo ing-pin plate is constructed with a series of pin-points, (1, arranged in the same horizontal line near the front edge of the plate, and at the ends with apertures or holes on m as shown fully in Fig. 3 of the drawings. These end holesnn, admit of the passage of the pin-plate over the staying and guiding pins P P of the bed-plate to its seat of rest, and the guiding and staying pins, passing u nvardly through the holes, maintain the relative position of the same to the guiding-edge of the bed-plate, and also the holes permit of the detachment of the pin-holding plate from the said staying-pins. The oflice of the small pin-points d on the plate D is to hold the fabric pressed thereon in a smooth condition, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3 ol" the drawings.

The letter A represents a clamping perforated plate formed with end holes, m m, to coincide and register with the end holes, m m, in the pin-holding plate, and with a series of perforations, 0, corresponding in number with the pins (1. in the pin-holding plate arranged below. This perforated plate A is provided with end cap-plates, L, havingfixed centers at R, and holes to register with the holes m, as seen in Fig. 2 of the drawings. This perforated plate A is adjusted over the guiding and staying pins P P, and clamps the fabric in position upon the pins d of the plate D, as seen in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

When it is desired to vary the width of the sewing or seaming edge, it is done by means of the slotted opening G, formed in the perforated upper plate, the staying-pin hole m, the slot S, and set-screw T in the cap-plate L, which is pivoted to the plate A at R. The staying-pins P P are secured at their bases to the end base-plate, K, and constructed so as to be moved outwardly or inwardly to or from the edge of the table or frame-support upon the lower base-plate,1 and secured in an adjusted position by means of the slot S, formed in the upper base-plate, K, and the set-screw T, connecting the plate K with the upper plate at each end of the device.

The operation of the device is as follows: \Vhen the fabric is to be cut or trimmed to a sewing-edge, one or more thicknesses of it are placed in the proposed line of its union upon the lower holding-pin plate, D, and bed-plate, the former arranged in position upon the latter over the guiding and staying pins P P, located at or near each end of the bed-plate, and the fabric pressed over the pin-points d to secure a fastening. The clamping perforated plate A is then passed over the guiding and staying pins P P and pressed down upon the fabric, the perforations 0 thereof registering with the pin-points d of the plate below, thus holding the fabric in a irm and smooth manner, to be trimmed or Cl t by a suitable instrument on the coincidin gline formed by the outer edge of the clamping pe forated plate A and the guiding-edge of the b :d-plate. When this operation is accomplished the upper clamping perforated plate, A, is remc ved, leaving th e fab ric still held on the pin-points of the lower pinplate, D, and finally the fabric and pin-plate are removed from the bed-plate E, with the former still held by the latter, as seen in Fi 3, in which condition, and while on the plate, it is run through a sewing-machine and sewed between the edge N N and the outer edge of the plate without distortion.

From the foregoing description it will be ob served that both the clamping perforated plate and holding-pin plate are bodily removable from the bed-plate.

\Vhile I have illustrated and described the plates A and D and the edge of the table-support or frame E as straight, 'et they may be curved coincidin gly,so as to cut and trim curved lines of form, ifdesired, and the parts employed to accomplish such a result would perform it in the same manner as though the lines to be cut or trimmed were straight ones.

I am aware that a bar provided with a series of pin-points has been hinged to a lower clampbar; but this is not my invention, since the hinged pin-bar is incapable of being removed with the trimmed fabric and guided through a sewing-machine.

I reserve the right to make another application for the process or method of trimming or cutting a sewing-edge on fabric, then transferrin g the trimmed fabric on a pin-plate and guiding the same through a sewing-machine; also, for the combination, with a pin-plate having a guiding-edge, of a base or bottom plate underlying or overlying the pin -plate, and provided with a guidingedge subtending the guiding-edge of the pinplate at a desired distance, for the purpose of trimming the fabric on the subtended edge of the base or bottom plate, substantially as herein indicated, shown, or described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

' 1. In a means for holding and securing elastic fabrics while being cut or trimmed to a sewing-edge, the detachable pin-plate having a guiding-edge with the form of the seam to be sewed, for holding the fabric during the process of trimming a sewing-edge and guiding the trimmed fabric through a sewing-machine without distortion, as described.

2. In a means forholdin g and securi-n g fabric while being cut or trimmed to a sewingedge, the combination of a bed-plate having end guiding and staying pins, a detachable holding-pin plate, and a detachable clamping perforated plate, each of said plates being provided with end holes for the passage of the plates over the guiding and staying pins, substantially as described.

3. In a device for holding or securing knit fabrics from distortion while being cut or trimmed, in combination with the plates A and D, for holding the fabric placed between them by means of projecting pin-points upon the lower plate and perforations in the upper plate for the pin-points to pass through, the cap-plate L, pivoted to the plate A, said cap-plate being the staying-pins P P are attached,-with the provided with the openings m for the stayslots S S, and the set-screws T T, arranged in in g-pins P P, the slot S and set-screw T, arthe sliding plates K K, for the lateral ad just- I 5 ranged to operatein connection with the slotted ment of the outer edge of the plate D with refer- 5 opening Gin the plate A, for the lateral adjustence to the outer edge of the plate A, all comment of the latter, as shown and described. bined as shown and described.

4. In a device for holding knit fabrics while Signed at Troy, New York, this 2d day of being cut or trimmed, and having the plates A June, A. D. 1880.

and D for securing the fabric between them SATTERLEE ARNOLD, 1 0 while being cut or trimmed, the end base-plates, Witnesses:

K K, attached to the table-support, the slid- CLARENCE B. CUTLER,

ing plates K K above the latter, and to which HARRY P. FIELDING.