Patent GB-624834-A (GB)
Title: Sewing machine for attaching buttons or other articles
IPC: D05B3/14
Filed: 1947-07-11
Abstract: 624,834. Sewing-machines. SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. July 11, 1947, No. 18447. Convention date, Dec. 12, 1946. [Class 112] In an article-attaching machine, particularly for flat buttons, with a member having a loopseizing beak movable in a plane for taking thread loops from the needle in the formation of stitches, the needle-bar and the loop-seizing member are moved bodily relatively to the frame in that plane during each reciprocation of the needle-bar. A needle-bar take-up and an additional thread-controlling arm are provided, and a thread-nipper actuated at the end of each stitching operation to allow a pull-off arm actuated by the work clamp to draw thread from the supply for the next operation. A loop-deflector to position one thread loop for the looper to carry the next loop throught it, and a needle guide are provided beneath the work plate. Both arms of the frame are largely divided, one part of each being in the form of a removable cover for the mechanism, and the standard is also provided with a cover for the stop-gear. Braking and stopping gear are provided. Button-attaching machines; needles, vibrating laterally. The work-clamp comprises a plate 99, secured on the forward end of a bar 100 longitudinally slidable on the work-arm 1a, and a button-clamp j, pivoted at 108 to a block on the rear end of the bar 100 and lifted against spring pressure by a rod 112 actuated by a treadleoperated lever 115. The bar 100 is moved longitudinally between groups of stitches when a fourhole button is being sewn, by a link 129 adjustably connected to a slotted lever actuated by a cam-groove in the control cam 13 ; the adjustment may be made to give zero movement when a two-hole button is being attached. The needlebar 19 reciprocates in a sleeve 18 on the end of a crank lever 17 which is oscillated about a vertical pivot 16 by an adjustable link 53 from an arm on a vertical shaft 46. The looper shaft 67, which is driven through a universal joint at its rear end, is carried in bearings 74, 75 on a frame 76 laterally slidable and oscillatable in the work-arm la and shifted in unison with the needle-bar by an arm 94 on the shaft 46 ; a loopdeflector and needle-guide are carried by a rockshaft 82 in the bearing 75 and are thus also moved in the same way. The shaft 46 is oscillated by an arm 44 adjustably connected by a link 40 to a lever 34 which is actuated by a groove in the cam 13; the cam-groove is formed to give the stitch-forming devices two groups of lateral vibrations, to form stitches alternately in two holes of a button, each group being followed by a dwell during which a tying stitch is made by a second descent of the needle in the same position. The cam 13 is secured to a disc 62 on the shaft of its worm gear, so that it can be readily adjusted or removed and replaced by a cam of different form. Loop-stitching; needle-guides; threads, controlling otherwise than in stitch-forming. The needle-bar is reciprocated in a sleeve 18, which is vibrated laterally as described above, by a crank 31 on the shaft 6 connected by a link 28 to a member 22 which slides on a guide-bar 21 and has a lateral fork slidably embracing a block carried by a collar 24 on the needle-bar. Co-operating with the needle, beneath the workplate, are an ordinary rotary chain-stitch looper 66, Fig. 15, and an oscillating loop-deflector 93; the latter element is carried on an.arm 90, which also carries a needle-guide 91, and serves to place each thread loop so that the looper can carry the next loop through it. The arm 90 is carried on a rock-shaft 82, Fig. 2, actuated by a cam 87 on the looper shaft, these shafts being mounted for lateral movement with the needle, as stated above. The thread to the needle passes through an intermittent-tension device 141, actuated by a cam on the needle-bar shaft 6, a constant-tension device 143, an eye 149 on the top of the machine head, a take-up eye 27 on the needle-bar collar 24, and an eye in a control arm 131 carried by a rock-shaft 132 which is actuated through an arm 137 by a triangular cam on the needle-bar shaft 6 to give additional slack in the thread when the loop is being formed and deflected. It also passes through a pull-off arm 144, connected -to the work-clamp lifting lever 115 to provide thread for the first stitch of the next cycle, and a nipper 145, actuated through a crank 147 by a lug 148 on the periphery of the cam 13 to prevent the pull-off from drawing thread back from the needle. Each stitching cycle comprises a. number of stitches placed in alternate holes of a pair, finishing with two stitches in the same hole to secure the thread: Frames. The body of the machine is hinged at x to a base X, to which is also pivoted, at y, a guard Y for the driving pulleys and the stopmechanism. The bracket-arm 4 is divided longitudinally between the front and rear bearings of the needle-bar shaft 6, one half being formed as a detachable cover; the face-plate of the head 5 is also detachable. The work-arm 1a is of - section, closed by a cover 1b with a spring- pressed hinged end 1c. Stopping-gear. A stop-motion similar to that described in Specification 21128/12, [Class 112], is used, released by a treadle and held by a latch which is tripped at the end of a cycle by a lug 12 on the cam 13, the speed of the machine being previously reduced by a brake B acting on the fast pulley. The brake mechanism is similar to that described in Specification 206,374, [Class 112], with modified means for adjusting the spring tension.