Improvements in Combined Fabric and Threads in Overseam Work.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Fabric and Threads in Overseam
Work.
I, HENRY HOWELL FEFEL, of 163rd Street and College Avenue, near Fleet-
wood Avenue, in the City, County and State of New York, United States of
America, Mechanist, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a new combination of cloth and threads
in overseam work composed of three threads so applied that double the length of
overseam work may be produced in a given amount of time, as compared with
stitches heretofore employed for overseam work.
One of the threads, which constitute my improved combination, is made to form
a loop which passes over the edge of the cloth or other material to be stitched and
through a previously formed loop of the same thread and also through a loop of
each of the other two threads on the under side of the fabric; the other two
threads are each made to form a loop, the loop of one thread passing down through
the fabric ahead of the loop of the other thread, but both loops being brought into
position to allow the descending loop of the first mentioned thread to pass through
them on the under side of the fabric, just previous to passing through the previously
formed loop of said first thread, thereby locking the three threads together on the
under side of the fabric. The three threads are also locked together on the upper
side of the fabric, by reason of the fact that the second and third threads are
thrown around the first thread as it passes downward over the edge of the fabric,
while said second and third threads are moving into position to descend again
through the cloth in the form of successive loops, as above mentioned.
My invention consists in a combination of cloth or other suitable material with
the three threads thus looped and locked together.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 is a top view of a seam made with my improved combination.
Fig. 2 is an end view.
Fig. 5 is a view of the under side.
It is obvious from the drawings that the threads may be associated together to
form the same combination, whether the first thread descends over the edge of the
fabric or through the same. The drawings, therefore, show both forms of
application of the first thread.
Same letters indicate similar parts in the different figures.
A represents the first thread, B, the second thread C, the third thread.
This combination may be made by hand or by machine. It will be noticed from
Fig. 3 that the loops of all three of the threads, A, B and C, are to be so held on
the under side of the fabric that their bights lie over each other sufficiently to
allow the descending thread A. (see Fig. 2). to pass through all three of said loops.
Fig. 5 IS a view of the under side.
It is obvious from the drawings that the threads may be associated together to
form the same combination, whether the first thread descends over the edge of the
fabric or through the same. The drawings, therefore, show both forms of
application of the first thread.
Same letters indicate similar parts in the different figures.
A represents the first thread, 'B, the second thread C, the third thread.
This combination may be made by hand or by machine. It will be noticed from
Fig. 3 that the loops of all three of the threads, A, B and C, are to be so held on
the under side of the fabric that their bights lie over each other sufficiently to
allow the descending thread A. (see Fig. 2). to pass through all three of said loops.
It will also be noticed that by reason of the thread B being slightly in advance of
the thread C, (see Fig. 1), these two threads lie across each other at regular
intervals, as shown in Fig. 1, on the upper side of the fabric.
This improved combination of fabric and threads has this great advantage over
other overseam stitches that it can be made by any suitable given method so
quickly that double the amount of overseaming is done in a given time.

page_text: This extraordinary quickness in producing overseam work arises from the fact
that the two threads B and C can be manipulated simultaneously in the same time
that would be required for the manipulation of either one of them, while their
alternate descent through the cloth enables the thread A to be thrown on the
under side of the cloth double the usual distance attainable in perfect overseam
work. This will be readily understood, I believe, by persons familiar with over-
seam work and its requirements, without further explanation. It is, of course,
understood that while the threads are associating together, the tension is com-
paratively loose and that after the association takes place, the threads are drawn
taut to make a firm overseam.
Having now particularly described the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :
The combination with a piece of cloth or other suitable material of a thread
lying along one side of said material and passing over the edge thereof in the form
of a loop which passes through a previously formed loop of said thread and also
through loops of two other threads; and two other threads which pass alternately
down through said cloth to the under side thereof, where they are looped with said
first thread, and which are thrown around said first thread on the upper side of the
cloth, before again descending in the form of a loop, all arranged substantially as
shown and for the purposes specified.
Dated at New York this 9th day of July 1895.
HENRY HOWELL FEFEL.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.