US471793A - Fabric-holding frame for embroidering-machines - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. IRISH.

FABRIC HOLDING FRAME FOR EMBROID-ERING MACHINES.

No. 471,793. Patented Mar. 29, 1892.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,793, dated March '29, 1892.

Application filed May 15, 1891. Serial No. 392,819. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH IRISH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fabric-Holding Frames for Embroidering-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in embroidering machines of the general type used in the production of edging and embroidery upon silk, and in which the fabric is stretched upon a suitable support for presentation to a multiplie ity of needles; and the object of myinvention is to improve upon the present methods of insetting and holding the fabric in the machine, and also to provide means whereby a piece of goods may be removed from the machine and returned thereto for the continuation of the pattern, or may be embroidered in part upon one machine and then completedupon another machine; and with these ends in view my invention consists in the construction and combination of elements hereinafter fully explained, and then recited in the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may fully understand its construction and method of operation, I will describe the same in detail, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 represents a fabricholder constructed in accordance with my invention and containing a piece of fabric. Fig. 2 is a detail front elevation of a portion of the fabricholder; Figs. 3 and 4, end elevations, partly in section, showing the fabric-holder with a piece of goods held therein; and Fig. 5, detail perspectives showing goods with the fastening-cord attached.

The same numerals and letters denote the same parts in all the figures.

In Fig 1 I show a portion of the movable frame which is a constituent element of ordinary Swiss embroidering-machines. One of the vertical ends of the frame is shown in the form of a post or bar 1, its companion being naled rollers 2, each having means for hold.- ing it as against rotation in one directionsuch, for instance, as the ratchet-wheel 3 and the pawl l-adapted to engage it. All these are common and well known. 5 is a bar, in length substantially identical with the rollers 2. Upon its lower edge is formed or secured a tube 6, having either in its outer side or elseomitted. Between these two posts are jourwhere a longitudinal slit 7, extending through- I out its entire length. The end of the tube is flared slightly, as shown at 8, to facilitate the entrance of the fabric. Secured to the bar 5 at short intervals are flexible metallic ribbons 9 or leather or fabric straps or bands, whose ends are adapted to be attached either removably or permanentlyto the roller 2. The foregoing constitutes a complete and operative holding device; but I prefer to provide additional holding means, which consist of a series of perforations extending through the tube from top to bottom and adapted to admit pins 10, for purposes which will presently be fully explained. Upon the edge of the fabric (lettered A) or near said edge I stitch acord 11.

In the operation of my invention-I take the fabric, which has attached thereto the cord, and slip the latter into the flared end of the tube and then draw it along therein in such manner that the cord will lie within the tube and wholly or partially fill the same, and the fabric will protrude through the narrow slit. Where the. cord is stitched upon the edge, a single fold of the fabric only issues from the slit; but where the cord is stitched at a little distance from the edge, as shown at the right hand of Fig. 5, the fabric is doubled over the cord, and then passed into the tube, where it is held in the manner shown at Fig. 4. When the fabric has been inserted, it is drawn smoothly in the direction of its length to remove any wrinkles or folds, and then the pins 10 may be passed downwardly through the holes in the tube and the fabric and cord therein contained, as shown at Fig. 1. Whenbe taken up by means of the lower roller.@

has been in part embroidered. The needles in ordinary emb-roidering-machines are set about one and nine-sixteenths inches apart, and I prefer that the holes for the pins shall correspond with the spacing of the needles, there being a hole for each needle or for each alternate needle, as may be found convenient. When a piece of goods has been embroidered in part upon one machine-and it is desired to complete it on another machine, it is difficult to joint the patterns perfectly by the methods now used for holding'the goods. In my irnprovement, however, the fabric may be drawn in and the points for the entry of the needles accurately determined and spaced by the use of the holes as guides, and as fastas adjusted the goods may, if desired, be firmly secured by the pins.

In Fig. 1 I have shown the top and bottom rollers both provided with my improved form of holder; but the fabric may beattached to one roller, preferably the bottom one, either by winding it upon said roller or :by any other suitable means of attachment. Furthermore, it is not vital that the roller provided with .m y holder should be revoluble, as all slack may While I have shown the pins in connection with the other parts and consider them very l useful as accessory thereto, they are not -es-, sential, since the hold .of the slitted tube upon 5 the goods is amplysufficient to retain the J fabric.

I have shown the .cords stitched upon the surface of the fabric; but it will of coursebe readily apparent that other means can be ,substituted thereforas, for instance, the edge i presence of two witnesses.

of the cloth may be rolled, thereby forming 1 1. In a machine of the character described,

the combination, with the rollers 2 andmeans for turning and holding them, of the bar 5, having upon its lower edge the tube 6, slotted longitudinally upon its outerside and throughout its entire lengtli,-and means, as described, secured at one end thereof to the bar and at the other end thereof-to one of the rollers, whereby the tube may be drawn toward and 7 parallel with the roller for the tautening of the fabric.

2. In a machineof the character described, the combination, with the rollers and means for turning and holding them, of the bar 5, having upon its lower edge the tube 6, slotted longitudinally upon its outer side for its whole length and provided with pin-sockets in its top and bottom,and connecting means, as described, secured at one end thereof to the bar and at the other end thereof to one of the rollers, and. pins 10, adapted to be inserted in the sockets and to hold thefabric within the tube, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in JOSEPH IRISH. 4

Witnesses:

SHERMAN HARTWELL HUBBARD. M. O. HINOH-CLIFFE.

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