US821906A - Cloth-guiding device. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED MAY 29; 1906.

' E. VAN WINKLE.

CLOTH GUIDING DBVIGE.

APPLICATION FILED 0013,1905.

INVENTOi? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLOTH-GUIDING DEViCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, 1906.

Application filed October 3, 1905. Serial No. 281-,1'72.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD VAN WINKLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at J ersey City, county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Cloth- Guiding Device, of which the 'following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cloth-guiding devices to be used in connection with any attachment for sewing-machines which is provided with a work-shift ing device-such as blindstitching, serging, overseaming, or cording attachments-and has for its objects to provide a cloth-guide on two sides of the needle of the sewing-machine that will resist the action of the workshifting device and return the cloth to the path of the needle when the work-shifting device retracts, and to do this accurately, so that an ordinary operator may properly feed the cloth without losing stitches.

The foregoing and other features of my invention will now be described in connection with the accompanying one sheet of drawings, forming part of this specification, in which I have represented my cloth-guide embodying the improvements in the preferred form, after which I shall point out more particularly in the claims those fea tures which I believe to be new and of my own invention.

Referring to the accompanying one sheet of drawings, in which similar characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a top view of my cloth-guiding device, showing its relative position to the needle and presser-foot of the sewing-machine to which it is attached. Fig 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a section at A A, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows front elevation with cloth in position for blindstitching a hem. Fig. 5 shows the clothguide resisting the action of work-shifting device of the attachment looking from above. Fig. 6 shows two means employed to attach my cloth-guiding device to the cloth-plate of any sewing-machine.

1 is a cloth-plate, 2 the needle-bar, 3 the needle, 4 the Presser-foot of any sewing-machine, 5 the base, and 6 the work-shifting de vice of any attachment, all in their relative positions.

On the base 5 of the attachment I provide a projection or lug 7, with a hole or bearing 8, through which the arm 9 passes. The arm 9 may be secured in said bearing by the thumbscrew 10. On one end of the arm 9 is a scale 11, which may be used to adjust the clothguiding device to or from the path of the needle, and is indicated by the pointer 12, which may be attached to the base 5. The other end of arm 9 is provided with a bearing 13, supporting the member 14, which is preferably made of round wire and provided with tapered ends 15 and 16 and formed into a broken hollow square, 15 leading to the needle and 16 leading away from the needle, the latter being slightly curved, as shown in Fig. 5, away from the cloth, so as not to catch hold of the cloth when the machine is running rapidly. The faces of the tapered ends 15 and 16 farthest away from the bearing 13 shouldbe in one plane, and when in adjusted position in a plane of the path of the needle of the sewing-machine, as shown in Fig. 1.

The modus opercmdi is as follows: The

member 14, being pivotally mounted in bearing 13,may be swung up into a vertical position for convenience, and the cloth folded over the guiding- faces 15 and 16. It is then returned to its original position, as shown in Fig. 4, and is ready for feeding. As the tapered ends 15 and 16 are on the front and rear side of needle and directly in a plane of its path, the cloth is returned to the path of the needle after the work-shifting device retracts and every stitch which is intended to pierce the cloth does so in its proper place.

I am aware that cloth-guiding devices have been placed on the market which guide the cloth to the needle; but they do not have guiding-faces to guide the cloth after leaving the needle.

I wish it distinctly understood that my cloth-guiding device herein illustrated and described is in the form which I desire to construct it and that any changes or variations may be made as may be convenient or desirable without departing from the salient features of my invention, and I therefore intend the following claims to cover such modifica tions as naturally fall within the lines of in vention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an overseaming attachment for sewing-machines, a work-shifting device in combination with a guiding device comprising a wire having tapering cloth guiding ends spaced apart and on opposite sides of said shifting device.

2. In an overseaming attachment for sewing-machines, a work-shifting device in combination with a pivotally-mounted guiding device comprising two guiding-faces spaced apart and on opposite sides of said shifting device.

3. In an overseaming attachment for sewing-machines, a work-shifting device in combination with a pivotally-mounted guiding device comprising a wire having tapered cloth-guidingends on opposite sides of said work-shifting device and means to adj ust'the aforesaid tapered ends to and from the workshifting device. I

4;. In an overseaming attachment for sewing-machines, a work-shifting device in combination with a cloth-guiding device comprising a bent wire tapered at both ends, forming a broken hollow' square having the extreme outerfaces of the tapered ends in one plane and on opposite sides of the said workshifting device.

'5. In anoverseaming attachment for sewing-machines a work-shifting device in eombination with a guiding device comprising a bent Wire forming a broken hollow square, adjustably mounted, having two cloth-guiding ends spaced apart with their extreme outer faces in one plane, whereby the guiding-faces can be adjusted in the plane of the needle-bar.

6. In an overseaming attachment for sewing-machines a work-shifting device, in combination with a pivotally-mounted guiding device comprising a wire having tapered cloth-guiding ends spaced apart and on opposite sides of said shifting device.

7. In an overseaming attachment for sewing-machines a work-shifting device in combinationwith a guiding device comprising a wire having tapering cloth-guiding ends spaced apart and pivotally mounted in a supporting member provided with means for lateral adjustment of the cloth-guiding member.

This specification signed and witnessed this 30th day ofSeptember, A. D. 1905 EDWD. VAN WINKLE.

In presence'of- I. M. TITUs, MARGUERITE Ross.

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