US603558A - Work-holder - Google Patents

Description

(No Medel.)

C. D. EAMES..

' WORK HOLDER.

No. 603,558. Patented May 3,1898.

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OANLY D. EAMES, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,558, dated May 3, 1898. Application filed March 23, 1897. Renewed March 29, 1898. Serial No. 67,639. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, CANLY D. EAMES, of Worcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have-invented a new and Improved Work-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved work-holder more especially designed for use in hemstitching border-embroidery, hemming, dac., and arranged to hold the fabric material tightly stretched, so as to permit the operator to conveniently hold the material while sewing or stitching thereon and relieving the fingers of the hand holding the material of the tiresome strain incident to holding the material in a stretched position by hand, as heretofore practiced.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fullyr described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the igures.

Figure l is a perspective view of the improvement as applied, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the sarne with the clamping device in an open position. y

The improved work-holder, as illustrated in the drawings, is preferably made of a singlo piece of spring-wire bent to form a bow A, having its ends A and A2 terminating in the bent-up bars A3 and A4, respectively, eX- tending parallel with the ends A and A2 at the outside thereof and bent at their upper ends transversely to form the downwardlyextending bars A5 and A0, respectively, bent forwardly at their inner ends to form the clamping-bars A? and A0, respectively, arranged close to the front bars A3 and A4 and bent at their upper ends into clam ping-bars A9 and A10, respectively, extending close to the bars A7 and A8. The lower end of the clamping-bar A0 terminates in a longitudinally-extending handle A11, having its end fastened into the loop formed by the bend between the two bars A7 and A0. The lower end of the clamping-bar A10 is formed into a loop A12, adapted to be taken hold of by the operator.

The material B to be operated on is passed at one end between the clamping-bars A0 and A7, passed rearwardly around the bar A5 to the front between the clamping-bars A7 and A3, thence over the bars A3A across the open end of the bow and over the bars A2 and A4, around the latter, to then extend transy A3, and, second/the material is clamped at the outer end between the bars A4 and A8 and between the latter and the bar A10.

Thus the material is securely held by the clamping devices at the ends of the bow to permit the operator to conveniently take hold of the entire device with one hand, as shown in Fig. Land with the foretinger and thumb in contact with the material between the ends of the bow to permit of properly stitching or sewing this part of the material in the usual manner. When the part stretched between the ends of the bow has been sewed or stitched, the operator takes hold with one hand of the handle A11 and pulls at the outer end B ofVY the material, whereby the clamping devices are opened up, as shown in Fig. 2, and the material readily passes along from the left to the right to bring an unstitched or an unsewed part between the ends A and A2of the bow A. When the pull is released on the end B', the clamping device is again closed to securely hold the work stretched between the ends of the bow.

Now it will be seen that by the arrangement described the operator is relieved from holding the material with one hand in astretched position while sewing, as the device holds the material properly stretched,and the foreiinger and thumb can be used to hold the material at opposite sides at the point where the stitching or sewing takes place.

It will further be seen that the device is light and convenient to handle and sufticiently I oo small to be easily held in the hand, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

' t-ially as described.

3. A work-holder, comprising a bow, and clamping devices depending from the ends thereof and composed of spring-loops forming clamps which are arranged practically at right angles to the bow, and areopen at their bent lower ends to permit convenient insertion and removal ot' the work held stretched parallel to the bow proper, as shown and described.

4. The work-holder herein described formed of a length of wire bent at one end to form a handle, bent adjacent to said handle to form a clamp device, extended from said handle to form a bow and bent at the opposite ends of said bow to form clamping devices, substantially as described.

5. A work-holder composed of a bow andv clamps arranged practically at right angles to such bow and composed of inner bars, clamping-bars arranged exterior to such inner ones, and a third portion A5, A6, arranged adjacent to, but in the rear of, the aforesaid inner and clamping bars, as shown and described, whereby the work is drawn around parts A5, A6, and passes between the other adjacent parts,for clamping and stretching it, as specified.

6. A work-holder comprising a bow and j clamps at the ends thereof comprising bars between which the work is passed and returned and a bar around which the work is passed between said first bars whereby the latter will be spread apart to release the Work when longitudinal stress is exerted on the said Work substantially as described.

CANLY D. EAMES.

Witnesses:

ANNA L. STEARNs, FRANK B. HALL.

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