Improvements in Button-hole Sewing Machines.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 16th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 20th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Button-hole Sewing Machines.
We JOHN REDMAN, JONATHAN REDMAN, and RICHARD REDMAN all of the firm of
Messieurs Redman Brothers, of Hebden Bridge in the County of York, Clothing
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to apply attachments to any suitable tailors button
hole sewing machines, by which the tacking off by hand is dispensed with, the button
holes being finished or tacked off with the machine, and any size or length can be.
done in the same machine.
We employ on each side of the plate of the clamp, an arm or projection, to each
arm is attached an adjustable wing with a slot.
Upon the plate of the machine is a fixed stud and runner. The button of the
machine is reduced upon one side, to allow sufficient play in the groove of the
clamp.
The needle commences in the centre at one end of the button hole, forming one
half of the tack, one wing of the finger being in contact with the runner, as soon as it
is liberated, it moves to the ordinary position, so that the needle operates along the
side, and round upon the other side, until the other wing comes in contact with the
runner, and it draws it to the centre, and the other half of the tack is completed.
By adjusting the wings in their slots so as to come in contact with the runner and
studs sooner or later, any length of tack can be made.
Dated this Fourth day of November 1889.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Button-hole Sewing Machines.
We, JOHN REDMAN, JONATHAN REDMAN, and RICHARD REDMAN, all of the firm of
Messieurs Redman Brothers of Hebden Bridge, in the County of York, Clothing
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner
the same is to be perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
The object of our invention is to apply attachments to button hole sewing machines,
by which the tacking off by hand is dispensed with, the button holes being finished or
tacked off with the machine; and any size or length can be done in the same
machine.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, is a plan of plate or table in button hole sewing machines with our
improvements applied.
Fig. 2, is a side elevation of Fig. 1, through the line A. B.
We employ on each side of the plate of the clamp C, an arm or projection D, to
each arm D is attached an adjustable wing E and E', with a slot and set screw F.
Upon the plate G of the machine is a fixed stud and runner H. The button J of
the machine is reduced upon one side J¹, to allow sufficient play in the groove K, of
the clamp (
The needle commences in the centre at one end of the button hole, forming one
half of the tack; one wing E of the finger being in contact with the runner, as soon
as it is liberated it moves to the ordinary position, so that the needle operates along
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page_text: the side and round upon the other side, until the other wing E' comes in contact with
the runner H, and it draws it to the centre, and the other half of the tack is
completed.
By adjusting the wings E and E' in the slots F, so as to come in contact with the
runner and stud H sooner or later, any length of tack can be made.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The use and employment in button hole sewing machines, of button J, with
reduced side J', as and for the purposes such as shown and described.
2. In button hole sewing machines, the use and employment of a button J, arms or
brackets D, with adjustable fingers E and E', and fixed stud and runner H, operating
in the manner and for the purposes, such as shown and described.
Dated this 1st day of August 1890
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicants.