Anti-pucker apparatus
AssigneeSeamflat Ltd
InventorsKenny McMaster, Walter Wheater
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Abstract
An anti-puckering apparatus for forming, on a work piece, a line of stitching substantially free from puckering is disclosed. The apparatus includes a removable base which is added to a sewing machine bed surface proximate to a needle and a stitch formation zone. The apparatus also includes a carrier mounted on, and moveable relative to, the base and an endless row of flexible filamentary elements carried by the carrier. The carrier progressively moves subsets of filamentary elements into and out of a stitch formation zone during the formation of a line of stitching. The filamentary elements are presented across a stitch formation zone in advance of an intended line of stitching at an oblique angle relative to a sewing machine bed surface.
Claims16
An anti-puckering apparatus for forming, on a work piece, a line of stitching substantially free from puckering;
- the apparatus comprising:
- (i) a base member for removable attachment to a sewing machine bed surface proximate a needle and a stitch formation zone;
- (ii) a carrier member mounted on, and moveable relative to, the base member;
- and
- (iii) an endless row of flexible filamentary elements carried by the carrier member;
- wherein the carrier member progressively moves subsets of filamentary elements into and out of a stitch formation zone during the formation of a line of stitching;
- the filamentary elements being presented across a stitch formation zone in advance of an intended line of stitching at an oblique angle relative to a sewing machine bed surface.
A sewing machine comprising an anti-puckering apparatus wherein the anti-puckering apparatus comprises:
- (i) a base member for removable attachment to a sewing machine bed surface proximate a needle and a stitch formation zone;
- (ii) a carrier member mounted on, and moveable relative to, the base member;
- and
- (iii) an endless row of flexible filamentary elements carried by the carrier member;
- wherein the carrier member progressively moves subsets of filamentary elements into and out of a stitch formation zone during the formation of a line of stitching;
- the filamentary elements being presented across a stitch formation zone in advance of an intended line of stitching at an oblique angle relative to a sewing machine bed surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.