US906903A - Embroidering attachment for sewing-machines. - Google Patents

Description

G. F. LICK.

EMBRQIDERING ATTAGHMENT FOR SEWING MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED $11 M. 1a, 1908.

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Specification of Letters'Patent.

' Pat ntedDec. i-5190s.

Application filed September is, 1908, Serial No. 45 .614.

-To all whom it may concern: B6111; known that vI, GEORGE FRAYKLIX LICK, a citizensof the-United States. residing fat Hartford, in the county of Sebastian and State of Arkansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Embroidering the following is a specification. I i

'This invention. relates to an enibroidering attachment for sew ng machines adapted to be applied to the needle-bar of the-machine.

, in lieu of the ordinary presser-foot; for

,' executing, various kinds pf embroidery or fancy work.

The object of theinvention .is to amide v a simple and inexpensive device of, this character which may be conveniently applied and removed, which is eflicient in use,

which will opcratey'ithout obscuring the design or pattern,1and in which the parts are combined and arranged in such manner as to reduce the number ofparts and to secure maximum simplicity of construction.

The invention consists of the features of construction, combination and arrangementof parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a sewing machine head showing the application of the invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment.

The embroidery attachment embodying my invention is preferably formed of a single piece of spring wire, It comprises a body portion of substantially U-form and composed of upper and lower substantially horizontal arms 1 and 2 connected'at one end by a main spring coil 3, whicli-coiloperates to exert u' ward pressure on the arm 1 and downwarc shank and is bent downwardly and upwardly to form a U-shaped sprin clasp 6 having'its j receiving end uppermost, as clearly shown in F 1g. 2. ment has its free end terminating inwardly beyond the plane of the clasp'and bent downg of the fabric slipping while the shuttle perwardly at an angle to form an extension 1 y The device is shown iirFigdasamh ac pressure on the arm 2. lhe inner end of the arm 1, wlnch is rela- One of the ends of i The lower arm 2 of the attachbeing provided at its lower, or free end with an eye or loop 8 to rest-upo' ithfabric and to serve as aguide for the needle. At the angle of intersection of thearm- 2 and ex tension 1 the wire is bent to form ,aiiI-auxil spring 001i 9, whereby the pressei'i foo rendered freely resilient independent resiliency oi" the coil 3.

)rac'tice for use 11 ona sewim in ordinaryconstruction, which inachi is provided with the usual verticallygrecipr eating needle-bar .10 provided-at itsulower end with a socket to receive the uppergend of the needle andhaving at one side a thread guide 12 and at its opposite side an nternally threaded boss 13 in which operates a thumbscrew H'for clampingthe needle in said socket.

In applying e anate, the needle-bar is" elevated to raise the'needle its full extent above the surface, of thefwork table (and the ordinary presser foot'is removed and the at tachment applied by slipping'the same onto the needle from the free end of the latter, so that the needle will pass through the guides 4 and 8, and so that the attachment will lie transversely of the line of feed of the fabric. The device is then slipped upward to its operative position in which the clasp 6 is forced in engagement with the boss 13 or shank of the thumb-screw 14, after which the thread is passed downward through the guide 12, loop 8 and eye of the needle.

In the operation of the device for executing embroidery or fancy work the loop or eye 8 of the )resser foot bears lightly and easily on the fa ric, its pressure force being sufficient to hold the fabric in position while the needle is in action but light enough to permit the fabric being shifted in any direction to properly work the design which is being embroidered.

It will be understood that the device is held in position in a secure manner against displacement by the frictional clamping grip of the clasp 6, which is held from any possibility of displacement under the vibration of the machine bythe upward pressure of the main spring 3 on the arm 1, and that the downward pressure of said spring on the arm 2 serves to hold the presser foot in engagement with the fabric with a determined degree of force. By this means any possibility forms its function in making the stitch is prevented, while at the sametime the presser foot'is permitted to have a limited yielding "independent motion to compensate for any irregularities in the thickness or surface of the fabric and avoid possible injury to the stitching during the shifting of the fabric. By the construction described, it will be, apparent that the device is held in position by the.combined grip of the clasp, 6 and the upward'pressure of-the arm 1', and that the arrangement of the parts for securing this rethat the double s ring action of the coils 3 vsultfis simple and avoids the necessity of using a complexity of members, as would be necessary in employing an attaching member hooked to enga' e over the top of the boss or thumb-screw. twill also be apparent and 9 in holdingt e resser foot to its work and removed without the necessityv of de-.

taching or adjusting thethumb-screw 14. I

' HBNIIN' thus fully described the invention;

what'is c aimed as new is:-

1." A sewing machine attachment of the character described comprising a single piece of spring metal embodying upper and lower loop upon the upper arm, an attaching dev ce extending upward from said upper arm, an extension from the lower arm forming a end, and a spring coil connecting said presser foot with said lowerarm and adapted to permit yielding movement of the presser foot independent of said arm. 2, A sewing machine attachment of the char cter described, comprising a single iece' of springmetal embodying upper and owersubstantially horizontal arms, a main spring coil connecting the arms at one end, a guide loop upon the upper arm, a-shank' extending upwardly from the free end of the upper arm and provided at its free end with a vertically disposed laterally'extending U- shaped clasp having the entrance to its receiving space at the upper end thereof, an extension from the lower arm forming a end, and a spring 0011 connecting said presser foot with said lower arm and adapted to erindependent of said arm.

- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses. GEORGE F. LICK.

Witnesses:

- M. R. PARKS, W11. HEARN.

mit yielding movement of the presser oot substantially horizontal arms, a main spring c011 connecting the armsat one end, a guide npresser foot having a guide loop at its free presser foot having a guide loop at its free 7

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