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6295940 System and method for processing workpieces  
One or more workpieces are positioned on the outer surface of a mandril which has a first longitudinal slot oriented in a longitudinal direction. A lift finger is disposed in the first longitudinal...
6209469 Apparatus and process for producing pillow shams  
An apparatus and method are provided for converting one or more rolls of material into a pillow sham. In one embodiment, three rolls of material are overlapped and fed to a sewing and cutting...
6168496 Fabric-covered spring toy and method for producing  
A method is provided for producing a fabric-covered spring toy having a helical body which is decorated both on its outside and on its confronting helical surfaces. In the method, a fabric tube is...
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...
5850792 Method and apparatus for sewing sleeves on shirt bodies  
A sewing machine in combination with a work piece control and advancing mechanism and a microprocessor for setting sleeves in shirt bodies. A sleeve and shirt body are manually loaded on the work...
5743198 Sewing machine having cylinder bed  
A sewing machine having a cylinder bed feeds cloth in the direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the cylinder bed, with a main feed dog and differential feed dog provided in the...
5727487 Combining and binding conveyor system  
A combining and binding conveyor system which combines a first fabric piece and a second fabric piece to form a combined fabric piece, such as a men's brief and applies binding to the fabric piece....
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...
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...
5570647 Automatic attachment of a rib knit band to a shirt body  
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...
5568780 Combining conveyor system with combining fixture  
A combining conveyor system for combining a first fabric piece and a second fabric piece to form a combined fabric piece, such as a men's brief. The apparatus includes an unique combining fixture....
5520774 Ultrasonic cylinder arm machine  
The present invention is an ultrasonic cylinder arm machine which includes a combination of the use of ultrasonics with a cylindrical arm that extends out from the ultrasonic unit and back toward...
5458073 Cylinder-bed type sewing machine  
In the cylinder-bed type sewing machine of the invention, a cylinder unit is provided. A feed base support, a feed base, and a feed dog which are disposed in the cylinder unit are reciprocally...
5454335 Apparatus for joining front and rear fabric panels  
An apparatus for sewing two fabric panels together along the edges thereof. The apparatus includes a combining fixture for holding the panels such that the edges to be joined hang freely in the...
5429555 Endless flat band and process for producing it  
An endless flat band has a spirally placed, straight pulling element in the form of a thread or a wire extending in the direction of movement. A transverse connection is generated by loops and at...
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...
5379708 Method and device for forming three-dimensional envelopes  
For forming three-dimensional envelopes of at least two blanks (11, 13) which are to be sewn together, the first blank (11) is laid on a first support surface of a carrier body (14) in such a...
5367965 Forming a rug from a sewn tubular braid  
An apparatus for sewing a tubular braid with an internal seam and simultaneously filling it with the required filler. A strip of covering fabric is fed to a sewing area from a first direction and...
5271347 Process and associated apparatus for joining automatically the beginning and the end of a hem in a circular textile material  
A process and associated apparatus for joining automatically the beginning and the end of a hem in a circular textile material is disclosed. The material is fed on to an entry roller which receives...
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...
5232429 Method and apparatus for making a continuous tube of flexible sheet material  
Method and apparatus for making tubes from flexible textile sheets by which a sheet is helically wound around two or more non-rotatable support bars. Feed rollers contacting two or more helical...
5224832 Method of fabricating a multilayer insulation blanket  
An improved multilayer insulation blanket for insulating cryogenic structures operating at very low temperatures is disclosed. An apparatus and method for fabricating the improved blanket are also...
5163376 Tubular seaming system  
A tubular seaming system for stitching workpieces into tubular shapes. The tubular seaming system comprises a sewing head which is pivotally mounted on a support in operative reltionship with a...
5152235 Sewing apparatus for manufacturing a tubular piece  
A sewing apparatus for forming cuffs for sweat jackets or anklets for sweat pants or the like. The apparatus includes a movable table carrying an end of an elastic tape continuous to a supply...
5134947 Method and apparatus for forming and everting a work product  
An overlock stitch is formed by sewing machine (11) (FIG. 1) into a work product (34) and the work product is accelerated away from the sewing machine so as to stretch the thread chain (FIG. 5)....
5125351 Thread trimmer system for in-line chain stitch cylinder bed sewing machine  
Apparatus and method for severing the needle and looper threads of a chain stitch formed by a cylinder bed sewing machine having an in-line looper system is disclosed. The cylinder bed sewing...
5088425 Comforter assembly apparatus  
A comforter assembly apparatus includes a frame with first and second rolls of fabric associated therewith for supplying an upper sheet and a lower sheet to the apparatus. A pair of sewing machines...
5060587 Method and apparatus for changing the spiral stitch path in a tubular fabric  
A tubular fabric (4) is withdrawn from a supply roll (3), over a spreader (5), by means of a support band (11) and a pressure band (14). The spreader (5) comprises an inner longitudinal guide...
5031551 Sewing machine attachments  
Apparatus and method for sewing a length of fabric into seamed tubing that has a consistently uniform diameter and cross-sectional configuration along substantially its entire length, wherein...
5027988 Process for the production of pleated fabrics, and new pleated fabrics from a spiral tube  
A process for the production of a pleated textile fabric, which comprises first forming a spiral tube from a plane fabric by joining together the two selvedges of said fabric; then in known manner...
4989525 Sewing apparatus and method for manufacturing vehicular air bags  
A sewing apparatus is provided for sewing vehicular air bags. Each air bag includes first and second side panels and a main body panel extending therebetween. First and second sewing machines are...
4967674 Sewing machine for sewing on a tape  
A sewing machine for the controlled sewing on of a tape from a tape supply onto a tubular edge region of an elastic workpiece thus forming a band, which is provided with an additional feed dog in...
4957054 Method for three dimensional sewing of suit coat body and sleeves therefor  
A method for three dimensional sewing of sleeves to a suit coat body, constituting providing a suit coat body support member which supports a suit coat body turned inside out thereon, positioning a...
4915040 Suit material support device  
A suit material support device which comprises a center suit coat body support member and a pair of suit sleeve support members disposed on the opposite sides of the suit body support member. The...
4883005 Sewing machine with a tensioning device having a plurality of tensioning rollers  
In order to permit a reliable alignment, in the direction transverse to the direction of rotation, of the edge 5 of the opening of a tubular workpiece 4 of medium-heavy to heavy sewing material...
4848252 Automatic machine for sewing different kinds of articles, especially articles made of leather  
The machine includes a fixed guide that defines two longitudinal work tops, first and second work tops, which support and guide the edges of leather articles to be sewn together. A curved needle,...
4834010 Reciprocating thread cutter for multi-needle looper thread type sewing machine  
A thread cutter for an interlock sewing machine wherein the sewing machine has a small diameter cylindrical arm and the cloth being sewn is fed along the axis of the arm. A plurality of needles are...
4827856 Alignment device for a sewing machine  
An alignment device for the automatic adjustment of the edge of a tubular workpiece to be sewn on a sewing machine having, a presser foot, a feed dog operating on the presser foot, a sensing device...
4685407 Method for sewing together a tubular workpiece and a pocket-shaped workpiece and automatic sewing device for carrying out the method  
In an automatic sewing device for sewing together tubular workpieces such as sleeves, and pocket-shaped workpieces, such as cuffs, there are provided an inner clamp, a central clamp and an outer...
4530294 Tubular-goods holder for sewing machine  
An apparatus for holding tubular goods for stitching at the station of a sewing machine has a support adjacent the sewing station, a drive for rotating the support about a horizontal support axis,...
4512268 Method and apparatus for tensioning and sewing a tubular workpiece  
An apparatus for supporting and tensioning a tubular workpiece edge such that the edge may be linearly advanced beneath the stitch forming instrumentalities of a sewing machine. The tensioning...
4506611 Three-dimensional thick fabrics and methods and apparatus for making same  
Three-dimensional thick fabrics are made from a laminate of fabric plies by first inserting pointed rods through the laminate to form rows of holes after which needles are reciprocated through the...
4479447 Method and apparatus for sewing on a tubular workpiece edge  
The disclosed invention describes an automatic sewing machine adapted to sew along a tubular workpiece edge. Upon insertion, the workpiece is tensioned and the marginal edge thereof is arranged in...
4467733 Device for working the hem of tubular pieces of garment  
A device for sewing tubular material workpieces comprises a sewing machine mounted in a fixed location adjacent a workpiece holder which, for example is shaped to hold a cylindrical workpiece such...
4467734 Automatic apparatus for conjointly supporting and guiding a tubular workpiece  
A sewing machine apparatus including a work support assembly and a positioning assembly that cooperate in moving a workpiece edge through the sewing station of the machine. The workpiece support...
4406233 Apparatus for converting web material into tubular form  
A sewing unit for withdrawing web material, of the knitted type, from a source, folding it and then seaming one side to place it in tubular form. The apparatus includes a triangle unit for folding...
4401041 Apparatus for making helically wound tubular articles  
Apparatus for making tubular articles formed of a length of material wound in helical form with contiguous edges of successive convolutions of the material joined with one another comprises a...
4370936 Fabric tube forming methods and apparatus  
A web of fabric material is fed flat along a substantially horizontal table. The web is continuous and is marked and then partly cut just short of its edges while in the feeding plane. The edges of...
4198916 Process and apparatus for making garments formed of helically joined pieces  
Strips of material fed from a supply roll are propelled helically around a cylindrical form with edges of adjacent convolutions of the material contiguous with one another and the contiguous edges...
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