US576947A - Sewing-machine binder - Google Patents

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E. BUKIESf SEWING MACHINE BINDER.

No. 576,947. Patented Feb. 9, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. EUGENE BUKIES, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW JERSEY.

SEWING-MACHINE BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,947, dated February 9, 1897. Application filed August 31, 1894. Serial No. 521,811. (No model.)

T 0 all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE BUKIEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Sewing-Machine Binders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

In the use of binding-guides for sewing-machines in applying, thin, flimsy, or sleazy binding to fabrics the bindingis apt to be stretched somewhat, so that it is drawn tighter along the edges of the fabrics to which it is applied than is desirable, and the binding being thus strained lengthwise is somewhat stretched or drawn out, so as to be narrower than it should be. My invention has for its object to avoid this objection, and this object is effected by providing a pivoted arm or shank by which the binder or binding-guide is carried, and which pivoted arm or shank is in the form of my invention herein shown provided with a pin extending downward through a slot in the throat-plate, so as to engage the feed-bar of the machine beneath said throat-plate or some part moving with the feed-bar, and thus the said arm or shank and the binder carried thereby will be moved back and forth with the said feed-bar. Thus as the work to which the binding is being applied is moved forward by the feed the binder or binding-guide will move with it and will remain forward until the needle descends and pierces the work, when the binder will be moved backward with the feed, the binding slipping through the bindingguide as the latter is moved backward, and as the binding is held by the needle at'the time of the backward movement of the binding-guide there is less strain upon the binding and less stretching of the latter than when a stationary bindinguide is employed. As the feeding devices of sewing-machines are timed so that they make their backward or return movements when the needle is in the work it will be understood that to whatever form of sewing-machine my improved binder or binding-guide may be applied the needle will always hold the binding as the binder or binding-guide is moved backward with the feed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved binder in connection with the throat-plate of a sewingmachine. Figs. 2 and 3 are plan and side views, respectively, of the same. Fig. 4is an end view of the same, looking from the left of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a sectionon line 5 5 of Fig. 2.

A denotes the throat-plate of a sewing-machine, provided with feed-openin gs a and with a needle-opening c.

B denotes a plate which is to be attached to the work-plate of the sewing-machine and which is provided with a series of pins 1), between which the binding is to be'passed to give it a suitable tension.

0 is a shank or arm pivoted at c to the plate B, and to the forward end of which shank or arm is attached the binder or binding-guide D, which may be of any ordinary or suitable construction. The shank O is provided with a pin 0', which extends downward through a slot a in the throat-plate A, and which pin is to engage the feed-bar of the machine,working beneath the said throat-plate or some suitable projection on said feed-bar in such a man ner that as the said feed-bar is reciprocated back and forth horizontally the said shank or arm will be vibrated slightly on its pivot, thus moving the binder or binding-guide D at the forward end of said shank or arm in a horizontal direction approximately parallel with the movement of the work.

will move forward with it, and when the needle descends and pierces the binding and work the binding will be held and the binder or binding-guide may return with the feed when the latter is retracted, the binder or bindingguide slipping backward on the binding strip or braid. Thus by providing a movable binding-guide and furnishing the same with means whereby it may be engaged with the feeding device of the sewing-machine it will be seen that the said binder or binding-guide will always be moved forward with the work to the extent equal to the movement of the feed, whatever may be the movement of the latter, and as the binding will be held by the needle when the feed is moved backward'there will be less strain on the binding and less stretching of flimsy or sleazy binding than would Thus as the work is fed forward the binding-guide and binding occur with the use of a stationary binder or binding-guide.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination with a sewing-machine throat-plate provided with a slot, of a horizontally-movable binding-guide, a part by which said guide is carried, and a pin extending through said slot and serving to connect said guide-carrying part with the feeding device of the sewing-machine so that said guide will be reciprocated horizontally with said feeding device.

2. The combination with a sewing-machine throat-plate provided with a slot, of a bi nding-guide, a horizontally-movable part, as the shank O, by which said binding-guide is carried and which is provided with a pin, as 0, extending through said slot to be engaged with the feeding device of the machine.

The combination with the throat-plate A provided with the slot a of the plate 13 provided with the tension-pins b, the shank O pivoted to said plate B and provided at its free end with the binding-guide D, said shank being also provided with a pin 0 extending downward through the said slot 0. so as to engage the feeding device of a sewing-niachine.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE BUKIES. Witnesses:

II. T. Firms, 0. F. SOHLEY.

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