Device for manufacturing braided openings in cuts of articles of clothing

In a device for manufacturing braided openings in cuts of articles of clothing, of the type comprising a folding mechanism, for a braid strip, mounted at a location spaced from the stitch forming area of a two-needle sewing machine installed in a table plate and having an arm shaft, a work clamp displaceable relative to the stitch forming area, and a cutting knife working between the needles, with folding of a braid strip being effected by a shape bar, having an inverted T-shape, adapted to be lowered into a folding groove, and by folding slides mounted for movement toward the shape bar to fold a braid strip about the shape bar, and further comprising a work clamp by which a cut of clothing and, if provided, a flap to be placed in contact with a folded braid strip, are received and fed to the stitch forming area:

• the improvement comprising, in combination, means mounting said folding mechanism, laterally of said stitch forming area and above the location where the cuts are fed to said stitch forming area, to extend in a plane inclined toward said table plate;
• a baseplate in said folding mechanism, formed with an elongated recess constituting said folding groove;
• a support;
• means mounting said shape bar for displacement vertically of said support;
• means mounting said support for pivoting, about an axis parallel to the axis of said arm shaft, between an initial position, in which said shape bar is aligned with said recess forming the folding groove, and a transfer position, in which said shape bar is aligned, in advance of said stitch forming area, with the direction of displacement of said work clamp, for effecting delivery of a braid strip and flap to said work clamp;
• and clamping bars, for a braid strip and a flap, mounted on said support on respective opposite sides of the web of said shape bar for displacement parallel to said web.