Improvements in Quilters or Quilter Guides for Sewing Machines.
Year: 1888

page_text: [Communicated from abroad by THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, of New
York, in the United States of America, Sewing Machine Manufacturers.]
Improvements in Quilters or Quilter Guides for Sewing Machines.
I, ALEXANDER ANDERSON, Manager of the Singer Manufacturing Company's
Works Kilbowie, Dumbartonshire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
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The object of my Invention is to provide a convenient "quilter or quilter guides
for sewing machines adapted to be readily secured in operative position or removed
from the machine, and also adapted to be used as a quilting guide or as an ordinary
edge guide.
To this end I provide a bracket or support (which is adapted to be secured to an
attachment holding bar) with a notched or forked portion to embrace a tenon on
said bar. The said bracket is also provided with ears through which is passed the
guide-carrying bar, and between the said ears is arranged a clamping device to secure
the said guide-carrying bar in any position to which it may be adjusted. The guide
has square corners on one side and rounded corners on the other and is pivoted
on its holding or carrying bar so that it may be turned either side downwards.
When it is to be used as a quilting guide the side with the rounded corners is turned
downwards so that the work, passing beneath same, will not catch thereon; but
when it is to be used as an edge guide the side with the square corners is turned
downwards so that the edges of the fabric to be guided cannot get under it.
In the drawings figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of my improved
device with the guide arranged for quilting, and figure 2 is a sectional view of
the same through the clamping screw and showing the guide arranged for use as an
edge guide. Figures 3 and 4 are views, similar to figures 1 and 2 illustrating
another form of my invention and figures 5 and 6 are like views illustrating still
another modification.
A. denotes the bracket or support having a forked portion a by which it may be
attached to an attachment holding bar and having also perforated ears a¹ through
which passes the bar B the latter being bent around to forin an arm 6 to the end of

page_text: which the guide is somewhat loosely rivetted so that it may be turned either side
up, the said arm thus serving as a pivotal support for the said guide, and the corners
of the latter being square on one side or edge and rounded on the other.
In the forms of my invention shown in figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 the guide carrying rod
or bar B is held in place in the bracket A by a clamping device consisting of a
screw d placed between the ears a¹ and having a perforated head or loop d' through
which the said rod or har passes, the said screw being furnished with a set nut e
which may be tightened to draw the said head or loop firmly against the said rod and
hold the latter in place. In the form of my invention shown in figures 1 and 2 the
set nut impinges against a cup or housing plate f which, in connection with the
ears a', completely encloses the loop or head of the screw and forms a neat finish to
the bracket, the end of the head or loop entering a slot in the front of the bracket to
hold the screw from turning or from lateral displacement when the rod is adjusted.
In the form of my invention shown in figures 3 and 4 the set nut bears against the
back of the bracket.
In the form of my Invention shown in Figures 5 and 6 the screw d is riveted into
the front of the bracket and the latter has, between the ears a', an upturned
portion a² against which the set nut impinges and which, when the said nut is
tightened, is forced against the rod B to secure the latter in place. In all of these
forms of my Invention the rods or bars B will be free to be adjusted through the
cars of the brackets, to bring the guide C nearer to or farther from the needle, when
the set nuts are loosened, but will be held securely in place when the said set nuts
are tightened as will be obvious.
When the device is to be used as a "quilter" or quilting guide the guide proper C,
is turned so that its rounded corners will be downward, as shown in Figures 1, 3
and 5; so that the work passing beneath said guide will not catch thereon; but
when it is desired to employ the said guide C as an edge guide it will be turned so
that its square corners are down, as in Figures 2, 4 and 6; and when in this position
it will be adjusted close to the work plate of the machine and the square corners will
prevent the edges of the fabrics to be guided from getting under the said guide.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me
I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination with the supporting bracket having the perforated ears, of the
rod passing through said cars a guide carried by said rod, and a clamping device,
comprising a screw and set nut, arranged between said ears and constructed to
impinge against said rod to secure the latter in any position to which it may be
adjusted.
2. The combination with the supporting bracket having the perforated ears, of the
rod passing through the said ears a guide pivotally attached to said rod and having
square corners on one side or edge and rounded corners on the other, and a clamping
device, comprising a screw and set nut arranged between said ears and serving to
secure the said rod and the guide carried thereby in place.
3. The combination with the supporting bracket, having the perforated ears; of the
rod passing through said ears, a guide carried by said rod, a screw having a perforated
head or loop arranged between said ears and surrounding said rod, a set nut on the
said screw, and a cap or housing plate against which said nut impinges.
Dated this Twenty fourth day of December 1888
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agents.