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US 3,945,542 AGranted
Cloth tube everter and method of operation
OwnerMonte L. Taylorinventor
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A device and method for manually everting a cloth or fabric tube where all manipulations may be visually monitored. The device comprises an elongated hollow body having a convergent passageway entrance at one end thereof and a fabric attachment member connected to a handle member adapted to be selectively introduced into or removed from the other end of said hollow body. The body portion of the tool is preferably cylindrical in configuration. The means connecting the handle member and the fabric attachment member is arranged within the interior of said hollow body when the handle member is introduced into said one end thereof. With the handle member so arranged, the fabric attachment means engages the open end of the cloth tube. The tube may then be everted by moving the handle outwardly from the hollow body, thereby pulling the end of the tube into the convergent passageway entrance. This causes the fabric tube to gather and move upwardly through the hollow body. The fabric attachment means is then removed from the fabric and the open end of the gathered tube is spread over and pulled down around the outside of the hollow body while the remaining portion of the tube is automatically pulled through the cylindrical body until the entire cloth tube is reversed.
A device for everting a tube of fabric comprising:
The method of turning or reversing tubular fabric articles exemplified by belts, neckties and the like, with the assistance of a tool comprising an elongated hollow body member, a handle member adapted to be selectively introduced into, or removed from the vicinity of a first end thereof, a fabric attachment means, and means connecting said handle member to said fabric attachment means, which method comprises passing the fabric attachment means through the interior of said hollow body member in a first direction to extend outwardly therefrom by introducing the handle member into the immediate vicinity of said first end of said body member, securing said fabric attachment means to said tubular fabric article to be turned, and drawing said tubular fabric article interiorly into said hollow body member by moving the handle member outwardly from the body member in the opposite direction until said tubular fabric article extends exteriorly from said first end of said body member;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.