US94299A - Improvement in rttffling-attachment for sewing-machines - Google Patents

Description

' ,1. 0. FAIRBAIRN.

Ruffling Attachment for Sewing Machines. No. 94,299. Patented Aug. 31, 1869.

iiinitml $121M JOHN. G. FAIRBAIRN, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN Letters Patent No. 94,299, dated August 31, 1869.

IMFROVEMEN'I IN RUFILINGI-ATTACHMENT ron snwi G-MAcHINes.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J 01m 0. FAIRBAIRN, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and State of others'skilled in the art to make and use the same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in rufilers, wherebyit is designed to provide an improved r'ufilingdevice, adapted to the Howe-and other sewing-ma chines, so arranged, that by it ruffling may be done without changing the thread-tension adjusted when for ordinary sewing, as is required to be done with the rufiling-deviccs now in use.

Figure 1 represents a plan view of my improved rutfier, as applied to a sewing-machine, also showing the application to the work, and

Figure 2 represents an end view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. v

A represents the body of the instrument, consisting of a plate of thin metal, adapted to be attached by a set-screw to the table of the machine, and having at one end a wide tongue, B, and a narrow tongue, 0, with a narrow slot between them;also, another narrow tongue, D, fastened beyond the end of the slot to the upper surface of the said plate, so that its free end projects-ever the wide tongue, with one edge parallel with the edge of the said wide tongue, forming the wall of the slot.

Erepresentsanother tongue, projecting from the under side of the wide tongue B, at right angles thereto, and parallel with the seam to be formed.

1 represents a bridge of wire, serving as a guide for the work, and one end projects through the plate, as shown at G, serving as a stud to stay the plate, by taking into a hole in the table.

H represents, in red, the strip to be ruffled. It is fed over the tongue 0, under the wide tongueB, and over the feeder, whereby it is ruffled as it is shoved along past the needle, working through the notch I.

K represents the hand to he sewed on, which is fed over the tongues G and B, and under the tongue D, and is prevented by the wide tongue B from coming in contact with the feeder. I

'When the rufller 18 attached to the machine, and the cloth to be ruffled, and the band or strip to which it is to be sewed, are properly adjusted, the presserfoot of the machine is brought down, and rests upon the tongue E, which latter prevents the teed from coming in contact with the band or upper strip of cloth.

.As the feed operated, it takes hold upon the under strip H, and moves it along, until the ratchet or feed has moved nearly its entire distance, without stirring the band K but as the feed passes from under the tongue E, it operates upon both pieces of the cloth, moving them together the distance of a stitch. At the same time, the tongue E rests between the two pieces of cloth, with its inner edge directly alongside of the seam, and thus operates as a guide, to keep the cloth in a direct line; the operator drawing the seam over against the inner edge of the tongue E, and keeping it there as it proceeds.

It is obvious that the tongue E, instead of being soldered to the part B, may be made solid with B, by simply cutting the latter in such a form as to leave E projecting from the side thereof, at the proper point.

I am aware that variousstyles of rufliers have heretofore been made of plates of metal arranged somewhat similar to mine, as shown by vpatent No. 83,592; but none have been made with the projecting guide E.

Having thus described my invention.

Whatl claim, is-

A rufiler for sewingmachines, consisting of the plates B, (hand I), with the guideE connected to the plate 13, and serving to guide the material, by hearing against the seam, all arranged as herein described.

JNO. O. FAIRBAIRN.

Witnesses:

H. P. EnLIs,

ROBT. BRIMER.

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