USRE6565E - Improvement in machines for making ruffles - Google Patents

Description

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1 A. PIPU. Machine for Making Buffles'.

Reissued July 27,1875.

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3Y MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

TO GEORGE H. VVOOSTER.

IMPROVEM ENT lN MACH INES FOR MAKING E UFFLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,550, dated January 27, 1863; Reissue No. 6,565, dated July 27, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN AVPIPO, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Rufliing or Plaiting Mechanisms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a mechanism for forming ruflles or plaiting fabrics; and it consists in the combination in a rufiiing mechanism of a flexible rattling-blade, and with such blade is combined a guide adapted to guide the material to which the raffle is to be attached, and also other parts or devices, substantially as hereinafter described, to form a ruffle to be connected by a series of stitches.

Figure 1 is a. plan view, representing an ordinary Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine I Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, showing the end toward the observer which is at the right hand in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail vertical transverse section, showing more fully certain parts at the left hand of the line as x, as drawn partiallyacross Fig. 1..

l is the bed'-plate,.upon which in an ordinary sewing-machine the work is usually laid to be sewed.

2is the presser, by which the work is kept down to its place.

3 is the needle.

4' is a lower and-Sis an upper guide,throngh which strips of cloth between which the ruffling is to be sewed are passed. These guides are made tubular, as represented in Fig. 3, the internal width of the tube or opening at the outer end being sufiiciently wide to admit a strip of cloth of the proper width. The end nextthe needle of each of thesepieces or guides is so formed as to turn in the edge of the cloth to form a hem, said edge being turned in each case toward the other guide, so that the fold or hem shall come next the ruffling.

6 is a tube, which guides the strip of cloth of which the rufliing is formed. This tube is others, and with a proper internal width to receive and guide the cloth intended to be-used. It is open on the top, near the end toward the needle, to receive blade 7, by which the ruflling is formed, so as to allow said blade to work directly upon the cloth.

This blade is a spring or is made flexible, and

is provided at the end next the needle with points or a roughened surface or sharp edge, which will take hold of the cloth to be ruffled and move it forward upon the smooth surface to which it is opposed, and its acting-edge is preferably turned or bent toward the surface against which it acts to form the material between it and the surface into a ruffle. 'The blade is adjustably attached to bar 8, actuated by the rocking or elbow lever 9, hung to a support or pendant connected with the bed-plate of the machine. This lever9is vibrated on its axis 10 by means of the vibrating member or.

red 11, connected with and operating the neodle and its carrier, which rises against the horizontal portion of the lever and causes it to move the blade forward and form the cloth on which it bears into aruffle. The movement of the blade back from the needle is regulated by means of a set-screw, 12, which restricts the return of the lever and blade. The bar 8, and consequently the lever 9, is drawn back from each forward vibration by a spiral spring, 13, which is attached at one end to this bar and at the other end to the bed of the machine, and the end of the blade may be made to terminate at a-greater or less distance from its carryingbar by means of a slot and set-screw. The operation of the lever is to press the spring-blade on the goods when advancing to form the ruffling, while it is rocked or lifted from the goods during its retreating movement, and the pressure of the blade on the material is thereby diminished or removed.

Operation: The strip of cloth to be ruflied is passed under the blade and between it and the presser, and the plain or band material is led through guide 5, when the plain piece is to rest 011 top of the ruffled strip and under the presser, where, as the material is ruffled and sewed, it is carried forward by the feed ing mechanism such as is usually employed for that purpose and in the ordinary manner. The edge or edges of the cloth, to or between which the ruffiingis to be sewed, is or are folded in by the guides, as before stated, and the strips used are fed or moved forward in the same manner that other fabrics are moved on the same machine. The ruflie is formed by blade 7, which is made to reciprocate at each' stroke of the-needle a sufficient distance over and above the support or surface adapted to sustain the material to be ruffled against the action of the blade to form a ruflle,having folds and a support for the material to be ruffled,of or plaits of the size desired, the size of the fold a guide adapted to present a band for the rufto form various grades of ruffling being deterl fied material to the action of sewing mechanmined by the means already described. ism, substantially as described.

It is obvious that guides of different widths i 6. The com'binatiomwith a ruffliug-blade and may be employed to admit strips of cloth of asupport for material to be ruflled, of a guide different widths, to or between which the rufadapted to turn the edge of a band and prefled material is to be sewed. sent it to the action of sewing mechanism,sub-

It will be noticed that the presser or holder stantially as described. 2, which bears on the ruffled material to flat- 7. The combination,with the actuating-lever ten and smooth it, extends laterallyfrom the and ruffling-blade, of a regulating device to needle hole or opening in the presser or holder, regulate the extent of backward movement of blade,of an actuating-lever or rocking shaft, to

tially as described.

5. The combination, with a rattling-blade which the said'blade is rigidly at'fiXed,substan-.

and the end of the ruftling-blade is wide enough the blade without afi'ectin g the position to which to extend laterally from the needle-hole in the the forward end of the blade moves, for the foot for a like distance,and the material being purpose set forth.

ruffled is held down from its line-of stitching S. In a ruffling or plaiting mechanism, a to its edge by a solid or unyielding presser or spring or flexible blade rigidly atiixed to its holder, but the presser or holder and blade becarrier,in combination with a surface opposed ing preferably adapted in width to'the width to the blade and adapted to sustain the mateof the ruffled material to press it for its whole rial being ruffledagainstthe actionof the blade, width. substantially as described.

' I am aware thatarough-surfaced feederand 9. In a ruffling or plaiting mechanism, a ruffler have been employed to engage a piece pressing or holding mechanism having a solid of material to be ruffled,forming the gather in i or unyielding surface arranged and adapted to and moving the ruffled piece forward, the rut'- I cover and press the whole width of the plaited fler and feeder both engaging the ruffled strip, fabric, substantially as described.

and in connection with such mechanism a sep- 10. In a ruffling mechanism, the combinaarator has been employed to separate a band 1 tion, with a blade and rocking lever, of a vifrom the ruffled strip, the band being laid on brating member of the needle-actuating mechthe surface of the ruflied strip engaged on its anism adapted to rock the lever and move the under side by the ruffler and feeder made as blade to form a ruffle, substantially as do four-motioned feeding devices,and I am also scribed.

aware of United States Patent No.14,475. 11. In a ruffliug mechanism, a support for \Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letan elbow-lever, in combination with an elbowters Patent, islever pivoted at its angle to the support and 1. In a ruffling mechanism,aspring or flexiadapted at one end to operate a ruffling-bladc bl'e blade'having its acting edge turned or bent rigidly affixed thereto and to have motion imtoward the surface against which it acts to parted to it at its other end, substantially as form the ruffle, in combination with a carrier described. to which the blade is rigidly attached, substan- 12. The combination of the ruffling blade tially as described. and its carrier with adjusting mechanism to '2. A ruffling-blade arranged above the clothdetermine the position of the forward or workplate and combined with an actuating lever ing edge of the ruffling-blade with relation to adapted to carry and press the blade on the its carrier, substantially as described. goods in advancingand to relieve the pressure 13. The combination of a rocking or elbow of the blade from the surface of the goods while lever and an adjustable ruffling-blade operated retreating, substantially as described. by the lever with mechanism, substantially 3. A blade adapted to form but not to space as described, for adjusting the throw of the a fold or plait in a strip to be ruffied, in comlever.

bination with a feed to engage and move the v JOHN A. PIPO. material after theruffieis formed,substantially Witnesses; as described. N. K. BARNUM,

4. The combination, with a flexible rufding- PH. BLOHM.

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