US2695410A

US2695410A - Edge binding or trimming combined with a textile article

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Publication number: US2695410A
Application number: US225594A
Authority: US
Inventors: Arnold J Hiltbrunner; Charles M Hiltbrunner
Original assignee: NAT SURE FIT QUILTING Co
Current assignee: NAT SURE FIT QUILTING Co; NATIONAL SURE-FIT QUILTING COMPANY Inc
Priority date: 1949-05-23
Filing date: 1951-05-10
Publication date: 1954-11-30
Anticipated expiration: 1971-11-30

Description

NOV 30, 1954 ApJ. HILTBRUNNER Erm. 2,695,410

EDGE BINDING OR TRIMMING COMBINED WITH A TEXTILE ARTICLE INVENTOR H12/vow J AKM rafa/maeva W4/af.: M fafa/waz 27 Jaw t 9 8%m ATTORNEY NOV 30, 1954 A. J. HILTBRUNNER Erm. 2,595,410

EDGE BINDING OR TRIMMING COMBINED WITH A TEXTILE ARTICLE 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Original Filed May 23, 1949 IN VEN TOR'| HRNOLD JT H/L TBRUNNER CHHRLES M,H/L.TBRUNNER HTTORNEY NOV 30, 1954 A. J. HILTBRUNNER ETAL 2,595,410

EDGE BINDING DE TRIMNING COMBINED WITH A TEXTILE ARTICLE Original Filed May 23, 1949 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 'FTI-E27 'Fi-E28 IN VEN TORS Fr'RNOLD J'. H/l. TBRUNNE R CHFRLES M. H/L TBRUNNER BY HTTORNEY United States Patent O EDGE BINDING R TRIMMING COMBINED WITH A TEXTILE ARTICLE Arnold J. Hiltbrunner, Westwood, N. J., and Charles M.

Hltbrunner, Nanuet, N. Y., assignors to National Sure- Fit Quilting Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Original application May 23, 1949, Serial No. 94,908. Divided and this application May 10, 1951, Serial No. 225,594

2 Claims. (Cl. 2-274) This invention relates to an `.edge-binding or trimming combined with a quilt or like textile article having a combined edge-binding and double-ruffled trimming and comprises a division of our co-pending application `Serial No. f

94,908, filed May 23, 1949, now Patent No. 2,669,203, dated February 16, 1954.

One of the objects of this invention is `to provide a quilt or like article having a combined edge-binding and trimming member composed of a single longitudinally folded strip of trimming material provided `along its `opposite edges with ruffle-pleats sewed to the opposite surfaces of the quilt at the edge thereof, whereby we produce a quilt or the like textile article having a binding member that encloses and binds its edge and provides an ornamental ruiiled trimming for opposite surfaces thereof to cause said quilt or like article to be reversible.

As the textile article having `a trimming provided with their dual uniform pleating and lluting as herein specied and claimed cannot, in applicants opinion, be produced by hand in any practical way for commercial purposes, applicants will now specify one form of mechanism suitable for producing a quilt with their dual uniformly pleated and iluted trimming sewed thereto.

Another object of our invention is to produce a quilt orfthe like :having edge-.binding and double-ruiiled trimming composed of a single folded strip, the ruffled pleats on opposite surfaces of the edges of which are of equal and uniform depth on both edges so that during a sewing to the quilt of a considerable length of such pleats, we will avoid any substantial unevenness of the travel of opposite edges of the trimming strip that would cause distortion or uneven tension or pulling of the material at the middle or body-portion of the edge-encircling trimming member between the rows of pleats which is ornamentally and doubly tinted by the pleats.

With these and other objects in View, the invention comprises the combination of members and arrangement of parts so combined as to co-act and cooperate with each othe1 in the performance of the functions and the accomplishment of the results herein contemplated, and comprises in one of its adaptations the species or preferred form illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. l is a view in plan of a portion of a quilt showing my combined binding and trimming sewed thereto;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3--3 of Fig. l;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view in end elevation of a sewing machine head embodying a double-milling attachment for producing our quilt and showing the needles in raised position and the rufing blades in retracted position;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view in plan of said doubleruiing attachment with the parts in the position shown in Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a view in end elevation similar to Fig. 4 showing the needles lowered and the ruling blades in ruflling position;

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary view of the needles, presser foot and adjacent ruining-attachment parts with the needles raised, the ruflling blades retracted on the guides and showing the paths of the materials through said guides and the machine;

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary view similar to Fig. 7 with the needle lowered and the ruling blades forming rules be- 2,695,410 Patented Nov. 30, 1954 ice 2 tween` the presser foot and feed` dog adjaeent` to the needles; and

Fig. 9 is a section on the line 9-9 `of Fig. 5.

Referring now to these drawings which illustrate a preferred embodiment of our invention, we produce an article such` as the quilt 1 shown in Figs. l, 2 and 3 having a combined edge-binding and trimming member 2 composed of a single longitudinally folded strip 3 of trimming material `provided along its opposite edges 4 and 5 with rutile-

pleats

6, 7 sewed to the opposite surfaces la, 1b of the quilt l `at the edge thereof. We thus produce a quilt or the like having a binding member that encloses and binds its `edge and` provides an ornamental and double rutlled trimming 8 for opposite `surfaces thereof. The

ruffled pleats

6, 7 on opposite surfaces of the edges are of equal and uniform depth on both edges so that during a sewing to the quilt of a considerable length `of such pleats, we will avoid any substantial unevenness of the travel of opposite edges of the trimming strip that would cause distortion or uneven tension or pulling of the material at the middle or body-portion 9 of the edge-encircling trimming member between the rows of pleats which is ornamentally fluted by the pleats.

The preferred mechanism for producing the article 1` comprises a head V10 of a conventional sewing machine having `a needle-bar 11 carrying a needle 12 and a presserfoot bar 13 carrying `a presser foot 14, both of which are actuated by conventional `mechanism not shown. The presser foot presses and holds the material in engagement with a set of feed dogs 15 also actuated in the usual manner by conventional mechanismnot shown.

The sewing machine head 10 is provided with a conventional horizontally disposed rutile shaft 16 mounted `in bearing arms 168L extending laterally from the head 10, and We mount on the shaft 16 a binding and rufing attachment that wi1l,`during a sewing operation, enable the simultaneous `binding of the edge of a quilt .or the ylike and produce ruiing pleats of opposite side edges .of a single folded strip of trimming material to provide a trimming surrounding such edge to function both as an edge-.binding and as an ornamental rutlled trimming. In our preferred embodiment, we preferably mount in an inwardly-offset Ipositiona ruining-blade lever 17 which, as shown, is adjustable vertically in a sleeve 17EL and has an offset color 17lo fast on the said shaft 16. The inward offsetting of the lever 16 provides more space at the outside thereof for our blade-connecting device which, in the preferred embodiment shown, comprises an oscillatable yoke member 18 having arms 18a, 18b extending angularly to each other from au intermediate pivot-bearing 18c which is pivoted on a block or collar 19 adjustable vertically on the lever 16. In the embodiment shown, the outer ends of the yoke-arms 18a, 18b have mounted therein and carry horizontal extensions or blades-positioning rods 20, 20a, the outer ends of which extend transversely across the path of movement of the quilt edge and the trimming material and are provided at such outer ends with pairs of attaching

screws

21, 21a and 22, 22a by which a pair or rufing-

blades

23, 23a are mounted on the rods 20, 201 to extend transversely thereto in substantial parallelism and alignment with the said path of movement of the quilt edge and trimming material. Said pair of blades 23, 23E are resilient and bent at their outer ends to extend toward a common plane and are positioned to move in contact with upper and lower terminal plates 24a, 24b of a channeled guiding member 24 having a middle guide-channel portion 25 for the reception of the edge 26 of the quilt 1 and a U-shaped channelled portion 27 fitting around said channeled portion 25 and having leg portions 27a, 27b extending on opposite sides thereof. A channel is formed between the inner channelled portion 25 and the outer channeled portion 27 and the channel so formed received a folded strip of trimming material 3 which has been initially folded between its edges by any suitable means and then passed through a lateral or side extension 29 of said U-shaped channel member 24, from which it is turned to pass through said U-shaped doublechanneled member 24. Said member 24 extends along the front of the machine in alignment with the final path of travel both of the quilt-edge 26 and of the trimming material 3. In such travel, the quilt edge and trimming material pass through the upper and lower terminal ends of thesaid guiding member 24, and in accordance with our invention, said terminal ends 24E, 24b are utilized as guides for the movement of the resilient upper and lower ruiug blades 23, 23E. Due to the resilience, positioning and mounting of said ruling blades, they are adapted to move toward each other, and are guided by said channeled portion ends 24a, 24vb to move into ruffling contact with the opposite edges of the trimming material fed through said channel between the

portions

25 and 27 and through the outlet at the ends of said terminal portions 24a, 24h.

The rufrling blades are preferably formed of relatively at blade-attaching spring members 23h, 23 and reverselybent blade-sections 23d, 23e whichfare each provided at their terminal ends with ne teeth 23f as shown in Fig. 5.

As shown, the lower terminal end 24b extends to a line adjacent to the bottom of a shallow groove 30 in the top surface of the sewing machine table t and the outer end 23e of the lower rulling blade operates in said groove 30 and reciprocates between the bottom thereof and said terminal end 24b of the said guide member 24.

It will be seen that the pair of rufing blades are mounted for reciprocable movement conjointly toward and away from a common plane and adapted, during a machine stitching operation, for sewing to opposite surfaces adjacent to the edge of a quilt or the like the opposite edges of a folded trimming strip, to simultaneously ruflle such opposite edges of the folded trimming strip and thus to provide on the edge of the quilt or the like a combined edge-binding and double-ruined trimming; that the pair of milling blades are reciprocably movable conjointly toward and away from a common plane extending adjacently above a sewing machine base and the feed dog thereof combined with means for moving and guiding said blades to move at a position above said feed dog and below a presser foot to provide on both surfaces of a guided edge of a quilt or the like ruled pleats of a trimming strip, and that the attachment of the type specified is adapted to produce rufes or pleats of equal width at opposite surfaces of the guided edge of the quilt or the I like, and also that we provide a mounting means for said blades which will enable both blades to be moved by a common ruflling blade lever and to be moved similar distances on each operation of said lever and to provide amounting means preferably comprising an oscillatory t1 yoke pivotally mounted between its ends on said rufingblade lever and having arms through which the pair of ruffling blades are conjointly reciprocated by said ruifling blade lever through equal distances to produce uniforml rutile pleats on each operation.

Having described our invention, we claim:

l. In an edge binding or trimming combined with a textile article, the combination of a body of textile material and an edge trimming surrounding at least one marginal edge thereof, said edge trimming comprising a single trimming strip having between its edges a longitudinal fold and provided with longitudinally-disposed edge portions at opposite sides of said fold, said edge portions comprising two plies of material and contacting with opposite faces of said textile body adjacent to said marginal edge, each of said two longitudinally-disposed edge-portions of said strip being provided with a series of independentlyruffled pleats to form two series of pleats, said pleated edge portions being sewed to the face of said body adjacent to said marginal edge, said pleats of said two series being arranged in pairs having one member of a pair at each face of said textile body and the pleats of such pair being of equal and uniform depth and providing in the longitudinally folded portion of said strip between said pleats an ornamental fluted portion at each side of said textile body having ilutes of substantially equal size, said longitudinally-folded uted and pleat-edged strip of trimming material producing with said trimmed body a textile article having a reversible marginal edge with opposite faces thereof enclosed within and bound by said pleated and uted trimming strip.

2. In an edge binding or trimming combined with a textile article as claimed in claim l in which the body of said textile article is rectilinear in shape and a single trimming strip completely surrounds the four edges and corners of said rectilinear body to produce a completely reversible textile article having all its marginal edges and corners enclosed within and bound by an ornamental trimming strip having pleats of uniform depth and flutes of uniform area.

References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,042,046 Gwathmey May 26, 1936 2,256,992 stam sept. 23, 1941 2,418,886 Irwin Apr. l5, 1947