Textile guide apparatus
AssigneeSewing Center Supply Co., Inc.
InventorDouglas J. Glenn
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Abstract
Apparatus and a method enable the production of novel decorative fabrics having flat narrow fabrics stitchingly secured in longitudinally compressed substrate. The narrow fabrics are such as lace, ribbon, braid or tape. The apparatus and method function so as to guide a narrow fabric into the path of a conventional reciprocating sewing needle whereby the needle on each downward stroke strikes the fabric and advances it in a compressed convoluted condition toward the needle plate whereupon the fabric is stitched in its compressed convoluted condition to a substrate or devoid of a substrate.
Claims7
An apparatus for sewing a narrow fabric onto a substrate to form a textile article therefrom comprising:
- a sewing machine having a needle mounted for vertical reciprocation with respect to a needle plate;
- narrow fabric guide means pivotally mounted on said sewing machine above said needle plate and adjacent said needle, and comprising a feed folder;
- means pivotally mounting said narrow fabric feed folder to said sewing machine adjacent said needle and including means biasing said narrow fabric feed folder toward said needle and into a first position relative to the path of reciprocation of the needle for positioning a narrow fabric in the path of said needle at a predetermined height above said needle plate for being pierced, transported downwardly and sewn to the substrate in a transversely folded configuration by said needle during its downward stroke, and said narrow fabric feed folder being movable to a second position outwardly sway from said needle in response to the downward stroke of the needle towards said needle plate, and back to the first position upon reciprocation of the needle.
A textile guide comprising a rigid hollow body portion configured so as to freely guide a narrow textile therethrough, and spring means connected to said body portion adapted to bias said body portion into the path of a reciprocating stitching needle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.