US830855A - Appliance for inserting beading in boot and shoe ware and other goods. - Google Patents

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No. 830,855. PATENTED SEPT. 11, 1906.

. E. TOWNSEND. APPLIANCE FOR INSBR-TING BEADING IN BOOT AND SHOE WARE AND OTHER GOODS.

APPLICATION FILED JULYI, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELLEN TOWNSEND, OF PORT MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.

APPLIANCE FOR INSERTING BEADING IN BOOT AND SHOE WARE AND OTHER GOODS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11, 1906.

I Application filed July 1, 1905. Serial No. 267.8f35.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLEN TOWNSEND, a

subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 197 Princes street, Port Melbourne, in the State of Victoria, Commonwealth of Australia, have invented a cer tain new and useful Appliance for Inserting Beading .in Boot and Shoe Ware and other Goods, of which the following is a specification.

This is an invention for saving manual labor in the process of inserting beading, commonly called patent beading, by sewing or stitching into boot and shoe ware and other goods.

According to my invention the whole of the hand process of fitting and sticking, hammering, and adjusting is rendered unnecessary and the services of the fitter operative are altogether dispensed with and the cost saved. This is accomplished by a contrivance which I have invented to be used in conjunction with a suitable sewing-machine. It provides the means for holding the beading in such a position and such a manner that it is sewed between the button-piece and the lining by the sewing-machine operator. It may be described as a finger or carrying part with appurtenances which has a horizontal bead-guiding aperture suitably shaped and positioned to cause the beading to pass easily through it and thence under the needle of the machine. The finger may be of any suitable size and metal.

The following particulars describe the construction which I have found most suitable for ordinary work in mens, womens, and childrens boots and shoes; but modifications may be also employed without departing from the principle of my invention.

In the drawings attached hereto, Figure 1 is a plan of my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section showing the point of the finger and the presser-foot in their relation to one another. Fig. 4 is a view of the barrelbracket. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail perspective views of the two principal members of finger.

The plate A is a sliding plate, such as used in some forms of sewing-machines, and to which the main portion of my invention may be conveniently attached.

B is a finger pointing, preferably, from the operators right to left, the point B being near the needle 0. The finger is slidably mounted in a flat horizontally-positioned barrel-bracket D, fastened down by means of screws D D entering slots E E in the bracket. The front end of the finger is provided with a horizontal guide-aperture G, made of size and shape to carry the beading H. (See Fig. 6.) The back end of the fin ger is so fitted that it can be slid to and fro and is held in its desired position more or less forward by a set-screw J, passing through the barrel of the bracket, so that the beading may be held nearer to or farther from the needle-path. Two slots E allow the bracket and thus the finger, to be adjusted 7o nearer to or farther from the operator.

The width of the member in which is formed the guide-aperture G may be varied, as will presently be explained. It is necessary that the beading shall be held sufficiently tight to prevent oscillation and yet loosely enough to allow it to pass freely through the guide-aperture as the operator feeds it to the needle.

The finger is constituted mainly of two members B and Y, conjoined, the main one, B, having a button-handle K. The other member Y is a thinner piece of metal extending along underneath member B past its front end and then lapped back over it and provided with a set-screw L and a slot or opening 0. This construction enables the lapped member to be pushed in or out, and thus to contract or enlarge the width of the bead-carrying aperture G, the member Y being fixed at the desired adjustment by the setscrew L. It will be seen that the lap of the thin member forms one side of the bead guide aperture, while the other side is formed by the end of the thick member, which is shaped in the form of a horizontal arc finished in a groove M, adapted to receive and guide the round edge of the bead H, and extended in the point B to closely approximate the needle C and resser-foot P. A small lug R is extended from the member Y upward and lapped over the edge of B to maintain the two in alinement.

The presser-foot to be used with my invention is specially devised, shaped, and positioned so that it impinges over the edge of the beading, and thus cooperating with the pointed end of the finger and with the guideaperture effectually guides the beading regularly to and under the needle.

In order to provide for the thickness of lining or work, the finger is adjusted up or down from the plate by a set-screw N, pass-'- of the ing through the conjoined members finger and contacting with the plate.- A slot 0 is provided in the member Y to allow this adjustment to be efiected without interfering with the adjustment of Y.

Operative parts of the machine below and above the portions illustrated are not shown, as they may be constructed as required for use by hand, foot, or other motive power and adapted to varying requirements.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I An attachment for sewing-machines, comprising a bracket having a transverse barrel and provided with slots upon each side of the barrel, and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis thereof, of a finger engaging the barrel and comprising two adjustably-connected members, one member underlying the other and having a bent portion extending over the same at one end, the other member having a horizontal are at its corresponding end forming with said bent portion a guide-aperture for a beading to be stitched to an article, a set-screw threaded through the barrel and engaging the finger whereby to maintain it in adjusted position with respect to the barrel, and a set-screw for retaining the members of the finger in their adjusted position witn respect to each other.

In testimony that I claimthe foregoing as my nvention I have signed my name, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 23d day of May, A. D. 1905.

ELLEN TOWNSEND.

Witnesses:

CHARLES NICHOLAS CoLLIsoN, JAMES MILLAR.

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