Improvements in Appliances or Devices for Use in connection with. Embroidery Machines.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 14th Apr., 1894
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Improvements in Appliances or Devices for Use in connection with.
Embroidery Machines..
A communication from JAQUES RUTZ, of 16, Postgasse, Saint Gall; Switzerland,
Manufacturer.
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I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E. of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester,
both in the County of Lancaster, and. 323, High Holborn, in the County of
Middlesex, Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
By this invention it becomes possible to fasten different loose patterns on one
another by the embroidery machine itself, instead of having to fasten them with
the sewing machine.
The apparatus consists of two, three or more frames, in which the material is
held, and which may vary in size, and which may be applied directly to the frame
work by means of suitable fixing devices arranged partly on the frame work, and
partly on the frames, in such a way that the materials fastened on the same lie on
one another.
The drawing shows for example a series of bars A the upper, and lower halves
of which each carry an appliance consisting in this case of three frames a, b, c
and a, b, c. In each of these frame-works there are at top, and bottom four
holes Fig. 1, in which the slide d, Figs. 2, 3 & 4 is fitted. There are pins e,
Fig. 2 upon all four sides of the frame. These pins serve for the attachment of
the material to be embroidered. At the parts of the frame-work A. where the
holes i of the frames occur, fittings g. f Figs. 5 and 6, are applied consisting of a
plate f. with a head g. In order to attach the frames on the framework, the
former are laid in such a manner on the framework that the heads g. pass through
the holes ; the slides d. are then so adjusted that the heads g. are held tightly,
whereby the frames are held fast on the board (see Figs. 2 to 6, Fig. 3 being a
section on the line m of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 a section on the line n).
The following is how the foregoing appliance is made use of :-
The material to be first embroidered is caught on the pins e, Fig. 2, of the
frames c or c¹, Fig. 1, and the embroidery is done as usual with embroidery
machines. This frame is then removed from the machine, and the frame b b Fig. I
inserted. The second piece of material to be embroidered is then stretched on
this frame in a similar manner to the former one. When this material has been
embroidered the frame bor b' is also removed from the machine and the frame a a',
Fig. 1, applied to the board, and the third piece of material to be embroidered is
stretched on this as in the case of the first two. When this has been embroidered
this frame a or a', Fig. 1, is also removed and the frames c c¹ and bb, Fig. 1, are
inserted and the upper material connected with the lower by means of embroidering
a figure. Afterwards the frame a a', Fig. 1, is inserted, and this embroidered
material No. 3 is likewise connected with the other two embroidered materials
by embroidering a suitable pattern, whereupon the entire embroidery is
finished.
The device may of course have more than three frames in case more than three
loose patterns are to the worked together.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
-claim is:-
An appliance or device for use in connection with embroidering machines, and
for use with two or more materials to be embroidered, characterised by having two
or more frames of varying size, and having fixing-devices, applied partly on the
framework or board itself, and partly on the frames, by means of which the frames
are applied directly to the framework or board, so that the materials stretched
thereon may lay on one another, for the object of allowing the materials to be
connected together with the aid of the embroidery machine itself, after having
been individually embroidered in their own frames.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.