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7350472 Work positioning device  
A work positioning device for a computer sewing machine includes an auxiliary table and a positioning arm having one end removably and turnably connected to the auxiliary table. The positioning arm...
6533267 Method and apparatus for the alignment of textile material sections  
A method of aligning a portion of textile fabric, whereby at least two movable gripping elements of a display device are brought alongside one another into contact with and fastened to a front edge...
6481362 Orbital motion device for seaming garments  
A panel positioning system can be used to position side panels during manufacture of a pant. As a pant is transported in a machine direction, the panel positioning system moves a pant side panel in...
6158366 Printing and quilting method and apparatus useful for automated multi-needle quilting and printing onto webs  
A quilting machine is provided having a first station and a second station, one being a printing station and one being a quilting station. The printing station is located either in line and...
6035794 Automatic collar loading system and method  
A collar attachment station having an automatic collar loading system that includes a pair of guide rollers about which a circular collar is received. The guide rollers have a substantially conical...
5941187 Device for guiding a sewn material perpendicularly to a presser foot, automatic sewing method and sewing machine  
A device and method of guidance equipping a sewing machine provided with a work carrier plate, and a presser foot (5) for driving the material to be sewn, associated with at least one needle...
5908004 Method and apparatus for manipulating and sewing flexible fabrics  
Sewing apparatus for joining a first panel and a second panel and having an arm that is rotated about an axis normal to the surface of the first panel to rotate the first panel, a shoe biased to...
5899159 Method of forming a folded hem and system for guiding a multiple ply seam of a textile work piece  
A guiding system for use with translucent textile work pieces is disclosed. A free edge (52) of a tubular work piece extends along a continuous processing path and is folded under the work piece to...
5829375 Cloth end position control apparatus for a sewing machine  
The cloth end position control apparatus for a sewing machine of the present invention functions to control the end portion of the cloth to a specified sewing position. A cloth end control roller...
5769017 Sewing apparatus of tubular cloth  
The sewing apparatus of the invention is applied, for example, in sewing of a tape-form circular rib to the end portion of a tubular cloth such as the waist portion of briefs. A cutter 19 disposed...
5765495 Method for sleeve alignment prior to sewing  
A machine for automatically aligning cut sleeve blanks after they are manually placed on the conveying surface by the operator. A material presence sensor is provided that recognizes the leading...
5743202 Elastic waistband attachment system  
A looped elastic waistband (14) is positioned along a circular sewing path (12) with the waist edge (21) of a pair of pants (12) in straddling relationship thereover. The garment parts are advanced...
5709162 Semi-automatic method to attach circular collars to T-shirts  
A sewing machine in combination with a workpiece control and advancing mechanism for automatically forming a seam along the aligned edges of a two ply waist band and a shirt body. The mechanism...
5687661 Fabric piece conveying system  
A binding conveyor system for applying binding to a fabric piece. The apparatus includes an unique binding fixture for holding the fabric piece. The fixture includes: a base; a support attached to...
5687660 Cloth edge control device for a sewing machine  
A cloth edge control device for a sewing machine includes a pair of rollers, an optical sensor, and controller. The pair of rollers are arranged near a needle location in such a manner that the...
5657711 Waist band attachment system  
A waist band (18) is placed in straddling relationship about spindles (11-14). The waist edge (24) of the garment body (19) is telescoped about the waist band (18), also in straddling relationship...
5626091 System for supplying and setting materials in a condition to be sewn by a sewing machine  
A system for supplying and setting two separate base materials in a neat condition ready to be sewn by a sewing machine, which includes a supplying mechanism and a setting mechanism. A first one of...
5622125 Automatic coverstitch on circular garment bands  
A sewing machine in combination with a workpiece control and advancing mechanism for automatically forming a coverstitch over an existing overedge stitch. The workpiece control and advancing...
5582122 Feed system for a sewing machine  
An apparatus for automatically feeding one edge of a textile article to a sewing machine. The apparatus includes a first gripper adjacent to the sewing machine for gripping the leading portion of...
5568778 Apparatus for feeding a workpiece including a rotor and endless belts  
An apparatus for feeding a workpiece in a machine tool, particularly in a sewing machine, comprises a main conveyor for longitudinally conveying the workpiece in a feeding direction and an...
5560309 Material handling system  
A material handling system for forming an air bag in a plurality of workstations. The system includes a pallet for holding a workpiece in a predetermined orientation and a locator for locating the...
5553561 Sleeve insertion system with edge guide feature  
An apparatus for high production assembly and sewing of tubular sleeve sections to shirt bodies. Tubular sleeve sections are loaded onto sleeve cones, preferably of cylindrical or frusto-conical...
5540164 Workpiece positioning apparatus  
Two workpiece portions (30, 32) that are to be stitched together along a stitching path (28) each have a stitching region (24, 26) which corresponds to the stitching path (28), but which is so...
5540166 Edge steer finishing device and method  
A fabric conveying, aligning and fabricating system comprising a table having a support surface having a length over which fabric blanks are conveyed with continuous and uninterrupted movement....
5497720 Device for guiding a cover member to a sewing machine  
A device for guiding a cover member to a sewing machine, which basically includes a control arm supported pivotally on the table of sewing machine, a guide roller assembly mounted rotatably to the...
5461999 Edge guiding apparatus for sewing machines  
Edge guiding apparatus for a sewing machine that controls the position of a fabric ply edge relative to a reference line. A friction wheel feeds a fabric ply toward a sewing station. If the fabric...
5415118 Alignment device for a sewing machine  
A device for aligning a garment for a sewing machine provided with a device for moving the garment towards the sewing machine, and a device for aligning the garment to a lateral window along the...
5383410 Automatic apparatus for hemming a tubular workpiece  
An automatic hemming apparatus for supplying a tubular workpiece in an adequate attitude to a sewing machine (4) is disclosed. The apparatus has a workpiece position control device (21) and a guide...
5370072 Automatic alignment of material and positioning at the stitch forming location  
A device for aligning the margin and leading edges of plies of material to be sewed and locating the aligned edges at the stitch forming location of a sewing machine. A first sensor for detecting...
5289788 Method of controlling fabric edge position and apparatus thereof  
A method and an apparatus for controlling the fabric edge position wherein a fabric fed to the needle location of a sewing machine is fed downstream, feeding distances per unit time at two feeding...
5282433 Device for applying fabric webs or lengths of fabric  
A device for applying fabric webs includes upper and lower runners each formed with a respective edge facing a pile edge of the web and provided with respective first, second and third segments...
5271345 Device for optically scanning the material being sewn in a sewing machine  
To scan the material being sewn (30, 31) in a sewing machine in an annular area around the presser foot, an annular lens system (25) is provided, which images a circle (33) concentrically...
5269257 Method and apparatus for sewing tape in a sewing machine  
A method and apparatus is disclosed for attaching a continuous tape to a circular edge of a tubular workpiece with a sewing machine, and cutting the tape so that an overlapping length of the tape...
5269239 Automatic attachment of pre-closed elastic waistbands  
An apparatus for and method of attaching an elastic band to the body of a garment is provided. The workpieces are monitored and aligned during the attachment process by sensors and guide...
5255619 Process for making looped textile sleeves having transverse seams for driving belts  
In a process and apparatus to automatically make textile sleeves for toothed belts, a continuously fed fabric 4a is cut to obtain a plurality of cloths 7 of predetermined sizes. The cloths 7 are...
5251557 Sewing machine with an edge guiding device to guide one or more plies of material  
A workpiece guide device on a sewing machine serves for the automatically controlled alignment of a workpiece, with respect to its edge, for the purpose of sewing along the edge of the workpiece at...
5226378 Automatic sewing apparatus for forming a tubular sleeve by hemming and closing a blank of the sleeve  
An automatic sewing apparatus for hemming and closing a sleeve is used for making a tubular sleeve a short-sleeved T-shirt. After placing the sleeve blanks on a conveyor only, subsequent operations...
5203268 Apparatus for sewing elastic hems on fabric pieces  
An apparatus for sewing elastic hems on fabric pieces is designed as a tandem machine. In a first sewing machine (26a), an elastic band (6) is prefixed at the edge of a fabric piece (8). During...
5189970 Cross-seam alignment apparatus  
An apparatus for aligning the cross-seams of similar lateral edges of two composite limp material segments, where each composite limp material segment includes two panels joined at a cross-seam...
5189969 Device for processing sheet material with colored pattern  
A processing device for processing a sheet material with a pattern of the present invention is such as a sewing machine with pattern matching operation. The processing device has a detecting unit...
5188045 System for joining limp material segments with easing  
The invention includes in one form a sewing machine, two trackers (mice) to track the ends of material-to-be-joined, and a controller for controlling stitch formation to achieve precise control of...
5186115 Fabric guiding device and process of automatic sewing  
A process and device are disclosed for automatic sewing of a piece of fabric along its edges. The process is of the type in which a rolling element (12) orientable by pivoting around a vertical...
5161476 Pattern matching system  
A sewing machine has a pattern matching system for matching patterns on two fabric pieces to be sewn to each other, based on detected hues of the patterns. Any mismatch between the patterns is...
5159874 Aligning device for sleeve  
A method and apparatus for aligning and transporting workpieces from a pickup location to a seaming location on a worksurface. Workpieces are rotated through a user-determinable seaming angle so as...
5120952 Device for detecting and counting warp and weft threads in a feed device of an industrial sewing machine  
In a device for ascertaining the actual feed transmittted by an feed device f an industrial sewing machine to a material to be sewn, in which the number of the threads moved across a sensor...
5103749 Process and sewing machine for sewing together layers of fabric according to a pattern  
Patterns of two fabric layers are each recognized by a camera and the fabric layers are aligned to make these patterns agree in the transverse and longitudinal directions. According to the...
5097777 Method and apparatus for preloading material to be sewn into a sewing machine and for compensating for uneven lengths of such materials  
An improved method and apparatus is provided for use in a sewing machine. The improvements include preloading two pieces of material which are to be sewn together. The preloading is accomplished by...
5069148 Trouser-fly piece serging apparatus  
A trouser-fly piece serging apparatus includes a guide unit disposed upstream of a serging station and composed of a first elongate guide member extending at an angle relative to the path of...
5054409 Apparatus for laterally aligning a fabric edge during sewing  
For laterally aligning a fabric web edge during sewing with a sewing machine (4, 6), a guide means (2) is used which can be moved perpendicularly to the conveying direction of the fabric web (S) in...
5042409 Edge tracing sewing machine  
An edge tracing sewing machine includes a reciprocable needle bar having a needle at a lower end, a forward feed driving device for feeding a work fabric in a sewing direction, a lateral feed...
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