US1539381A - Embroidering device - Google Patents

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May 26, 1925.

M; S. BASSISTY EMBROIDERING DEVICE uvvmv 7'05 Original Filed Oct, 11, 1920 Patented May 26, 1925.

UNITED STATES 1,539,381 PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL s. BASSISTY, or new YORK, N. Y.

EMBRGIDERING DEVICE.

Application filed October 11, 1920, Serial No. 416,269. Renewed April 14, 1925.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat 1, MICHAEL S. BASSISTY, a citizen of Russia, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Embroidering Devices of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to embroidering devices and has particular reference to portable tools adapted for inserting thread or string loops into a fabric.

My invention has for an object to provide a device of the character above indicated capable of operation with one hand, and characterized by simplicity of construction.

My invention is more fully described in the following specification, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. l is a longitudinal sectional view of my improved device.

Fi 2 is a similar view, but showing the need e engaged with a fabric.

Fig. 3 is a front elevational view of the device.

Fig. 1 is a detail front elevation of the outer sleeve.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the presser foot.

Fig. 6 is a front view thereof.

Fig. 7 is a horizontal sectional view of the device, taken on the line 77 of Fig. 1, certain parts being omitted.

Referring now to Figs. 1 to 7 my improved device comprises a bar fixed in the lower end of a tube 11. A space is provided between one side of the bar and the adjacent wall of the tube to receive a rigid strap 21 having a horizontally projected offset at its lower end, these parts being hereinafter referred to as the presser foot. The strap 21 is secured adjustably in place by means of a headed screw 33 passing freely through a suitable aperture in the tube 11 and through a vertical slot 31 in the strap, and threaded into the bar 20, the wall of tube 11 possessing sufiicient resiliency to cause it to bind on the strap when the head of the screw is tightened against such wall.

A needle 2 of ordinary construction is fixed at its butt end in a suitable socket in the bar 20 by means of a set screw 3, the needle projecting downwardly from said bar and passing through an aperture 62 in the presser foot element 30.

Loosely surrounding the tube 11 is a sleeve This tongue extends loosely through a suitable slot in a lateral offset 60 formed on the lower portion of the bar 20, and is formed at its lower end with an aperture 17 through which the thread is passed. The tongue 14 is somewhat longer than said offset; the end of the sleeve 12 and the lip 16 on the tongue being adapted to engage upper and lower ends respectively of said offset to limit the sliding movement of the sleeve.

My improved device may be operated by one hand only, the thread being alternately caught between the lip 16 and the base of offset 60 as the device is moved upward, and freed from the Tip of said parts as the sleeve is moved ownward, forming a row of loops 36 in the fabric, as indicated in Fig. 2.

As indicated at 28 I may provide an expansion spring in the upper end of the tube which bears at one end on an offset on the strap 21 and at its opposite end on a cap 13 on the sleeve 12 and automatically returns the latter to raised position.

WVhile I have illustrated and described a preferred embodiment of my invention it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction herein disclosed and various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. An embroidering device comprising a bar, a needle and a presser-foot fixed to said bar, a sleeve slidable on said bar, and cooperating thread-gripping elements on said sleeve and bar adapted to grip the thread when the sleeve is moved upwardly on the bar, the thread gripping element on the sleeve comprising a tongue projected downwardly from one side thereof and having a lip formed on its lower end adapted to engage the bottom of the said bar, said tongue having a thread receiving aperture in its lower end.

2. An embroidering device comprising a bar, a needle and a presser-foot fixed to said bar, a sleeve slidable on said bar, and cooperating thread-gripping elements on said sleeve and bar adapted to grip the thread when. t l eve is m d upward y on th bar, and a spring bearing between said sleeve and bar to move the former upwardly.

3. An embroidering device comprising a bar, a tube fixed to said bar and-projecting upwardly therefrom, a presser-toot element in the form 01 a longitudinally slotted strap engaging one face of the bar. and projecting freely upward in the said tube at one side thereof, a set screw passing through the slot in said strap and securing said strap to said bar, said strap having a horizontally projected offset at its lower end formed with an aperture, a needle fixed in said bar and extending through said aperture, a laterally through said last offset and having a lip on its lower end, said tongue being formed at its lower end with a thread receiving aperture, and a spring in said tube and bearing between said bar and sleeve to raise the latter.

Signed at New York in the county of New Yorl; and State of New York this 30th day of September A. D. 1920.

AHGHAEL S. BASSISTY.

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