US514606A - Binder attachment for sewing-machines - Google Patents

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Patented Feb. 13, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT MARY BIKER, OF YONKER-S, NEW YORK.

BINDER ATTACHMENT FQR SEWING-MACHlNES.

SPECIFICATION formingI part of Letters Patent No. 514,606, dated February 13, 1894. Applioationtllcd June 23, 1893- Serial No. 478,625. (No model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY BIKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yonkers, Westchester county, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Binders for SewingMachines, of which the following is a specification.

In binding hats by machine it is common to apply a strip to the edges of the hat rim by means of a guide secured to the workplate of the machine, which guide receives the edge of the hat rim and also doubles or folds round the latter, the strip of binding so that the rim with the strip folded upon it is properly presented to the needle. An illustration of this character of guide may be found in Letters Patent to J. L. Coles, No. 112,019, dated February 21, 1871. W'hile a guide of the character described is eifective to the extent of properly applying the strip to the hat rim and in relation to the needle it cannot be effectively employed in connecting together the ends of the strip an operation which must be doneby hand.

My improvement has for its vobject to enable the operator not only to present the rim and binding properly to the needle as before but also to permit the end of the binding to be folded in and upon the rim and so presented to the needle that the binding can be secured to the hat its entire length by means of the machine, and to this end I construct a binder, as fully set forth hereinafter and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of my irnproved binder, illustrating the position of the hat rim and binding strip just prior to connecting the ends of the strip to the brim. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the binder. Fig. 3 is a section illustrating the manner in which the strips are arranged prior to being presented to the needle. Y

The binder is provided with a plate A, adapted for attachment to the work-plate of a sewing machine and with two plates each bent to a U-shape onesmaller than the other the plate c, adapted to receive the edge 4of the rim and the plate d, which is folded on 5o the plate c, but is separated therefrom and adapted to receive the binding, these plates c, and d, being properly supported in position, as illustrated in Fig. 2, upon the plate A in a manner too well known to need description. The inner edges of the plates c, d, are on about the saine vertical plane adjacent to the point where the needle m, penetrates the fabric. Heretofore the outer edges of the plates have been upon the same vertical plane, but instead of adopting this construction I make the plato c, much longer than the plate d, so that there is an extension c of the plate c, beyond the end of the plate d and forward of said plate so as to be first met by the approaching end of the binding.

The hat rino is introduced into the guide c, and the strip y, 0f binding material is introduced between the guides o, d, as usual and the sewing is conducted in the ordinary mannner untilthe meeting ends of the binding y are brought adjacent to the extension c of the guide c. As the forward end of the binding, that is the loose end nearest the needle is carried over the forward end of the extension c', just after the other end of the binding, which has been sewed to the rim is carried inside of said extension the operator folds in the forward loose end upon itself, as illustrated in Fig. 3, and then doubles this infolded end around the extension e along which it is carried as the rim of the hat travels in the direction of the arrow, until the infolded end passes from the end of the guide c, and onto the rim inclosing the opposite end of the binding just prior to passing beneath the needle which continues the seam along the inner edges of the binding and across the joint formed as above described.

It will be seen that the infolded end of the binding is thus folded close around the edge of the hat and laid close onto the rim inclosing the other end of the binding and secured permanently in place by the row of stitching thereby forming a neat and durable joint not liable to open or fray without the necessity of any hand sewing.

While I have described my invention in connection with the particular form of binder shown in said Coles patent, it will be evident that the same may be used in connec- ICO tion with other forms of binders where there allel with the path of movement of the fabare two U-shaped guides with passages for ric beyond the end of the outer guide and the binding strip between them. forming` an extension c', substantially as and Without limiting myself to the precise confor-the purpose set forth. t 5 5 struction and arrangement shown and de- In testimony whereof I have signed my scribed, I claimname to this specification in the presence of The combination in a binder of stationary two subscribing Witnesses.

U-shaped guides, one arranged within the MARY RIKER. i

other with an intervening space for the pas-- Witnesses:

xo sage of the binding material, the forward end ANNIE MARRAN,

of the inner guide proj ccting in a line par- GEORGE C. MARRAN.

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