Sewing inventions 10/06

20060231002 - Seam ravel preventing apparatus and ravel preventing method: A looper is brought into an advance state at the end of sewing, and a looper thread hanging hook arranged on the right rear side of a needle drop position is forced to advance and retreat to catch a looper thread running to the rear side of the looper and...

20060225630 - Gate apparatus for tufting loop and cut pile stitches: A gated looper apparatus has an array of individually mounted pressurizable air cylinders with piston rods acting against biased slider bars in communication with looper gates. Baising elements are mounted external of pneumatic cylinders about slider bars with protective ferules to provide greater responsiveness and ease of maintenance....

20060225631 - Roller type hemming apparatus: A roller type hemming apparatus includes a support member having a slide bore. A compressible fluid shock absorber is disposed in the support member and is extendable into the slide bore. A guided slide member is received in the slide bore and the slide member contacts the shock absorber. The...

20060225632 - Hand stitching tool and method for using the same: A hand-held stitching tool for forming decorative patterns of yarn on mesh materials has a stitching needle with a blunt end and an elongated handle having a top surface and a bottom surface and sized for holding between the thumb and the index finger with the index finger resting along...

20060219140 - Embroidery unit and auxiliary cover for sewing machine: An embroidery unit of the present disclosure is detachably attached to a sewing machine bed including a feed dog mechanism having a feed dog. The embroidery unit includes an X-transfer mechanism and a Y-transfer mechanism moving an embroidery frame to an X-direction parallel to a lengthwise direction of the sewing...

20060219141 - Sewing machine to which embroidery frame moving device is detachably attachable: A sewing machine includes an embroidery frame moving device detachably attachable to a sewing machine body and a control device. An embroidery sewing operation is executable when the embroidery frame moving device is attached to the body, and a normal sewing operation is executable when the moving device is detached...