Apparatus for stitching vehicle interior components
AssigneeInteva Products, LLC
InventorsEdward J. Wenzel, Joseph Anthony Massetti
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Abstract
An apparatus for stitching an interior component is disclosed herein. The component having an outer skin layer and the apparatus is a single needle chain stitch machine with a rotary looper and wherein a needle of the apparatus descends through the interior component and a hook of the rotary looper engages a thread loop formed during retraction of the needle after it has descended through the interior component; and wherein the apparatus further includes a mechanism for moving the interior component relative to the needle and looper to establish a stitch length.
Claims20
An apparatus for stitching an interior component, comprising an outer skin layer, wherein the apparatus is a single needle chain stitch machine with a rotary looper and wherein a needle of the apparatus descends through the interior component and a hook of the rotary looper engages a thread loop formed during retraction of the needle after it has descended through the interior component;
- and wherein the apparatus further comprises a mechanism for moving the interior component relative to the needle and looper to establish a stitch length.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.