Quilting machine
AssigneeArthur J. Randolph
InventorsArthur J. Randolph, Richard M. Boyce
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Abstract
A machine for inserting quilting buttons of the type described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,701,174 includes a male button drive mechanism and a female button drive mechanism in axial alignment with positive and rapid acting button feed means for very rapidly driving a female button part through a pad or the like and driving the male button part into the female button part so as to secure the quilting button in extension through such a pad. The invention is particularly directed to very rapid quilting operations.
Claims6
A quilting machine for rapidly inserting a two-part quilting button having a male and a female button part through a workpiece comprising
- a male button part holder adapted to receive male button parts contiguously fed thereto and including resiliently displaceable means receiving and holding each successive male button part,
- a single displacement male button part drive means for forcing a male button part axially thereof into a female button part,
- a female button part holder adapted to receive successive female button parts fed thereto and including a movable drive member for displacing a female button part toward said male button part holder, and
- means moving said drive member to drive a female button part through a workpiece and means actuating said male button part drive means for driving a male button part through a female button part that extends through a workpiece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.