Embroidery hoop support apparatus
OwnerDavid Gulottainventor
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Abstract
A hoop support attachment for a computerized embroidery sewing machine for adaptation to existing embroidery machines of a particular type not normally designed for tubular good embroidery and thereby improving sewing quality when used to embroidery designs directly onto tubular goods such as shirt sleeves, pants legs, sports bags etc. the attachment provides hoop support on all sides of the machine's needle plate thereby reducing needle drag, needle breakage and thus reducing nesting The hoop support is fitted with a removable extension member thereby providing elongated hoop support.
Claims9
A tubular goods, hoop support frame attachment for an embroidery machine comprising:
- a) a bifurcated, elongated, hoop support shelf said hoop support shelf being a cantilever beam having a smooth upper face;
- b) a U-shaped support member secured to a face of said hoop support member opposite said smooth upper face, spanning said bifurcated portion;
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- c) a pin means slidable in an opening in said U-shaped support member for cooperative engagement with said embroidery machine.
An embroidery machine hoop support attachment for tubular goods comprising;
- a) an elongated, mainframe member having distal and proximate ends and a smooth upper face, said mainframe member having a slot therein open at said distal end;
- b) a step located along each said distal end and at said proximate end;
- c) a ledge located along a portion of each linear, inner edge of said slot nearest said smooth face;
- d) a U-shaped support member perpendicularly attached to said mainframe member located opposite said smooth face, thereby forming an arch across said slot;
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- e) a pin, slidable through a hole in said U-shaped support member, having head and notched portions.
A method for adapting an embroidering machine to sew tubular goods comprising the steps of:
- a) removing said embroidery machine's flat goods support table thereby exposing said machine's sewing arm, needle and bobbin plate;
- b) Installing a hoop support attachment comprising;
- i) a bifurcated, elongated, hoop support member said hoop support member being a cantilever beam having a smooth upper face;
- ii) an attachment member secured to a face of said hoop support member opposite said smooth upper face, spanning said bifurcation portion;
- iii) a pin means slidable within an opening within said attachment member, for cooperatively, securing said hoop support member to said embroidery machine;
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- iv) an extension member contiguous and attached to said hoop support member;
- c) attaching said hoop support attachment to said embroidery machine in a manner whereby said attachment is slidably engaged along said machine's exposed, sewing arm thereby providing a hoop support surface surrounding said sewing arm's needle and bobbin plate;
- d) supporting said hoop attachment by inserting one end of said hoop attachment under a cooperative ledge located adjacent said sewing arm exposed as a result of removing said flat goods support table;
- e) Inserting said pin means into a receiving sleeve normally provided on such embroidery machines for receiving attachments, and
- f) securing said pin means to said receiving sleeve in a manner whereby said pin means, overrides sewing field sensors located in said embroidery machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.