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US 5,474,003 AGranted
Pneumatic sewing machine
OwnerDennis J. Tippmanninventor
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Abstract
A pneumatic sewing machine having a housing mounting a presser foot and needle bar for reciprocatory movement and a bobbin for rotary movement, a rocker arm pivotably mounted on the housing having one end attached to the needle bar and the other attached to a pneumatically actuated piston, a rack and pinion operatively connected to the rocker arm for rotating the bobbin, and valve means for controlling delivery of pressurized air from a source to the piston to bring the needle bar proximate the bobbin to perform a stitching operation.
Claims12
A sewing machine comprising:
- a) a main frame housing, a presser foot means and a needle bar means mounted in said housing for reciprocatory movement and a shuttle means mounted in said housing for rotary movement, said needle bar means having needle and thread means carried thereby,
- b) rocker arm means pivotably mounted in said housing and having one end thereof attached to said needle bar means and the other end thereof attached to first pneumatically actuated cylinder means to cause said reciprocatory movement of said needle bar means,
- c) means for rotating said shuttle means,
- d) valve means for controlling the delivery of pressurized air from a source to said first cylinder means to thereby bring said needle and thread means proximate said rotating shuttle means to perform a stitching operation, and
- e) second pneumatically actuated cylinder means operatively connected to said presser foot means to cause reciprocatory movement thereof in response to said pressurized air from said valve means.
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A sewing machine comprising:
- a) a main frame housing, a presser foot means and needle bar means mounted in said housing for reciprocatory movement and shuttle means mounted in said housing for rotary movement, said needle bar means having a sewing needle attached thereto for bringing thread from a source to the vicinity of said shuttle means to form a stitch as said shuttle rotates,
- b) rocker arm means pivotably mounted on said housing and having one end thereof attached to said needle bar means and the other end thereof attached to a first pneumatically actuated cylinder means to cause said reciprocatory movement of said needle bar means,
- c) means operatively connected to said rocker arm means for rotating said shuttle means,
- d) a second pneumatically actuated cylinder means operatively connected to said presser foot means to cause said reciprocatory movement thereof,
- e) a third pneumatically actuated cylinder means having rod means operatively connected to said thread for tightening said thread after said stitch has been formed, and
- f) valve means for controlling pressurized air to said first, second and third pneumatically actuated cylinder means to cause sequential operation thereof to perform a stitching operation.
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A sewing machine comprising:
- a) a main frame housing, a needle bar means mounted in said housing for reciprocatory movement, and a shuttle means mounted in said housing for rotary movement, said needle bar means having needle and thread means carried thereby,
- b) rocker arm means pivotably mounted in said housing and having one end thereof attached to said needle bar means and the other end thereof attached to pneumatically actuated cylinder means to cause said reciprocatory movement of said needle bar means,
- c) means for rotating said shuttle means, and
- d) valve means actuated by movement of said rocker arm means for controlling the delivery of pressurized air from a source to said cylinder means to thereby bring said needle and thread means proximate said rotating shuttle means to perform a stitching operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.