Method of finless cold forming of sewing machine needle
AssigneeThe Singer Company
InventorJosef Zocher
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Abstract
The method of fabricating a sewing machine needle is disclosed in which the needle blade including the long groove and the eye portion with a thin eye-accommodating web is cold formed in one finless flow pressing operation. The method of forming the needle orienting flat on the needle butt and laterally displacing the needle blade relatively thereto by a flow pressing operation is disclosed. A method of flaring the side flanges particularly in the eye portion to facilitate threading and a needle so constructed is also disclosed.
Claims7
The method of cold forming a finless sewing machine needle comprising a butt portion and a blade portion of reduced cross-sectional area extending from said butt portion to a free extremity, comprising subjecting said entire blade portion to one finless flow pressing operation to form a continuous groove in said blade portion from the butt portion to closely adjacent said free extremity, and simultaneously, to form an eye portion along said continuous groove having a thin eye-accommodating web, punching an eye hole through said eye-accommendating web, and forming a point at the free extremity of said blade portion.
The method of forming a sewing machine needle from a cylindrical blank, comprising subjecting a portion of said cylindrical blank to a swaging operation to define a cylindrical butt portion and a coaxial cylindrical blade portion extending from said butt portion to a free extremity, said blade portion being of substantially uniform cross-sectional diameter smaller than that of said butt portion, subjecting the entire swaged blank to one flow pressing operation to form a continuous groove in said blade portion from said butt portion to closely adjacent said free extremity, and simultaneously, to form an eye portion along said continuous groove having a thin eye-accommodating web, punching an eye hole through said eye-accommodating web, forming a point at the free extremity of said blade portion, and subjecting the needle to a die pressing operation to deform the butt portion into a noncircular cross-sectional shape having a predetermined orientation relatively to said blade portion.
The method of forming a finless sewing machine needle comprising a butt portion and a blade portion of reduced cross-sectional area extending from said butt portion to a free extremity, comprising subjecting said entire needle to a single flow pressing operation simultaneously to form a flat on said butt portion, to form a continuous groove in said blade portion from the butt portion to closely adjacent said free extremity, to form an eye portion along said continuous groove having a thin eye-accommodating web, and to orient said blade portion laterally a predetermined distance from a plane containing the flat on said butt portion, punching an eye hole through said eye-accommodating web, and forming a point at the free extremity of said blade portion.
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