Improvements relating chiefly to Machines for Sewing Beads on Fabrics and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 10th July, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating chiefly to Machines for Sewing Beads on
Fabrics and the like.
I, HENRI ANDRE DOMENGET, of 1 rue des Buchettes Argenteuil, (Seine & Oise)
France, 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:-
This invention relates to machines for embroidering and for sewing-on beads,
and it has for its object to construct a machine of this kind, having a universal
feeding-device capable of sewing beads firmly in regular order on a fabric or any
article of clothing either with two-thread chain-stitch, or with one-thread
chain-stitch, or with shuttle-stitch, although I actually prefer the two-thread
chain-stitch for the sake of the elasticity combined with the strength afforded
thereby.
The machine, although more particularly designed for sewing-on loose beads,
is quite suitable for sewing-on beads which have been previously fixed on a core
or thread in the braiding loom so as to form a kind of chain or string of beads
By loose beads I mean beads which are simply placed on a thread and are not
individually attached, as a preliminary, to the thread carrying them, as has been.
generally the case heretofore.
Whether the work is done with two-thread chain-stitch or with one-thread
chain-stitch, or with shuttle-stitch, the work with a slight modification is done by
using a sewing-machine needle having an eye and not a hooked needle, which is
usually employed in existing machines--such as in the Cornely machine and other
machines for making embroidery-stitch-and which in working in the fabrics
or tulle net etc., becomes caught therein and tears and makes holes in it. With
a needle having an eye this serious drawback does not exist.
In order to make two-thread chain-stitch, the sewing device consists of a
circular needle known as Grover-Baker's, which is enabled (independently of its
own alternating circular movement) by means of a mechanism provided for that
purpose, as in all embroidering machines having a universal feed, to have imparted
to it by hand, a movement in all directions in order to follow the feed of the fabric
according to the design to be reproduced.
One of the main difficulties heretofore met with in attaching beads by means of
sewing-machines has been to obtain a uniform feed of the fabric to which the
beads are to be attached. Of all the arrangements invented for that purpose:
heretofore, none has given really satisfactory results, either because the feeding
mechanism has been required to exert a greater effort than it has been able to
exert; or because, as with the usual feed-dogs, the bead has been broken or
crushed when during the feed it has become located between the feed-dog and the
needle-plate; or, finally, because in portions which have been thickly studded
with beads as, for instance, in making spiral ornaments, macaroons," etc.
lipping has taken place whereby the feed has been rendered faulty and
rregularities have occurred in the placing of the beads.
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In a machine according to this invention, this difficulty is sui mounted by using

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feeding device which has a universal movement and which, instead of acting as
the ordinary feed-dog, by pulling the fabric so as to cause it to slide along the plate,
seizes the fabric, grips it, and feeds it along in positive manner in all directions,
thus obviating all danger of slipping and always presenting for sewing and the
attachment of the beads. braiding, cords, etc. an even fabric without any possible
cumpling, a result that cannot be effected by means of the usual rubber-covered
feed-dog which in falling upon the irregular moving surface (which from its nature
and its shape constitutes a moving" attachment) that is presented to it by the
material which has already been attached, produces a faulty feed.
In order to ensure the regular placing of the loose bead as it is brought into
place to be sewn on, the needle-carrier receives at the proper moment and before
the needle enters the fabric to make a stitch, a motion which has the result of
causing the needle to move behind the bead to drive the latter in the guide into
the proper position for being placed.
For attaching the bead-thread and the bead to the fabric, the machine comprises
a rotary bobbin carrying an attaching-thread which is twisted at each stitch around
the needle-thread and the bead-thread, immediately behind the bead that is to be
sewn on by that stitch-that is to say, in a manner analagous to that which obtains
in Cornely and other embroidering-machines.
The machine is also provided with a device for distributing the beads, which
causes a bead to move forward at each stitch automatically and with certainty, in
such a manner as to effect a regular feed of the beads to the guide and to the
needle.
In order that all these improvements may be clearly understood, I will proceed
to give a detailed description thereof, referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. thereof is a front elevation of the machine, partly in section on the
line of Fig. 3: in this figure the plate that closes the front of the framing is
not shown, it being assumed to have been removed; also certain parts which do
not relate in any way to the invention, and the construction of which is
well-known, have been intentionally omitted.
Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the machine, in which the receiver that contains the
beads is shown broken off in order to show the inside thereof.
Fig. 3 is an end view of the head of the machine, also showing the device for
feeding the fabric, and the device for supplying the beads.
Fig. 4 shows a detail-section on the line y y of Fig. 3, as seen towards the left
in that figure.
Fig. 5 is an end view, drawn to a much larger scale, and corresponding to Fig. 3
of a detail of the device for feeding the fabric, showing also the manner in which
the motion is transmitted to the circular needle working under the needle-plate.
Fig. 6 is an underside view drawn to the same scale and corresponding to Fig. 5.
Fig. 7 shows also to a larger scale and in vertical section, a detail of the central
tube in which the needle-carrier works.
Fig. 8 is a partial end view, drawn to the same scale as Fig. 5, of a modification
of the sewing-mechanism for making one-thread chain-stitch.
1 is the framing of the machine, and 2 is the table thereof. 3 is the driving
pulley mounted on the main shaft 4, to which the motion is transmitted from the
usual fly-wheel which is not shown and which is operated by means of a treadle
or of a motor. Upon the shaft 4 is arranged the usual clutch, whose position is
indicated by 5 (Fig. 1) and which enables the machine to be stopped and restarted
a will by means of a treadle or any other known device.
6 is the needle-carrier, which carries the needle 7 and to which an alternating
vertical movement is imparted from the shaft 4 by any usual or convenient
mechanism: the drawing shows, but by way of example only, for the purpose of
imparting the said notion to the needle, a driving mechanism which is similar to
that of the Deshayes machine. The needle-thread is unwound from a bobbin
mounted on the upper part of the front end of the machine on a plate 9 to which
rotary motion is transmitted from a crank-handle 10 (actuated by the hand of the

page_text: operator) through the medium of bevel pinions 11 and 12, a shaft 13, bevel
pinions 14 and 15, a shaft 16, bevel pinions 17 and 18, a shaft 19, bevel pinions 20
and 21, a shaft 22, bevel pinions 23 and 24, spur wheels 25 and 26, a shaft 27,
and toothed wheels 28 and 29, in the ordinary way. On leaving the bobbin 8,
the needle-thread, after having passed through an eye or thread-guide 30, passes
through the plate 9 and under a tension roller 31 mounted on the lower end of an
arm 32 which acts as a spring, after which the thread enters a central tube 33 and
passes down longitudinally through the tubular needle-carrier 6 to the needle 7,
in the ordinary way.
The Grover-Baker circular needle marked 34, is mounted on the end of a vertical
shaft 35 on which is keyed a pinion 36 gearing into a similar pinion 37 mounted
on the upper end of a helix 38 to which there is imparted an alternating circular
movement for the purpose of forming a two-thread chain-stitch by means of a
roller 39 mounted on a rod 40 having an alternating vertical movement imparted
to it by means of an arm 41 keyed on one of the ends of a shaft 42, on the other
end of which there is keyed an arm 43 which receives its motion through a
connecting rod 45 and a crank-disc 46 from a shaft 44. The shaft 14 receives the
motion of the main shaft 4 through the medium of similar toothed wheels 47 and 48
which gear into each other and are mounted respectively on the said shafts. In
this manner the shaft 44 is caused to make one revolution for every revolution of
the shaft 4 that is to say, one revolution for every stitch made by the machine.
Upon the shaft 44 there is mounted a bevel pinion 49 which, as shown in Fig. 2,
may form one piece with the toothed wheel 47 and which gears into a bevel
pinion 50 mounted on the upper end of a vertical shaft 51 that, through the
medium of toothed wheels 52 and 53, transmits the rotary motion to the bobbin 54
carrying the attaching-thread in such a manner as to cause the said bobbin to
rake one revolution around the central tube so as to twist the attaching-thread 55
around the needle-thread and the bead-thread, as above stated, at each stitch made
by the machine. The under thread is unwound from a .obbin 120 mounted in a
bobbin-carrier 121, and, after having passed over tension-devices 122 (Fig. 3),
and 123 (Fig. 5), it reaches the circular-needle 34, as will be readily understood.
All these parts and mechanisms are and may be of any suitable construction and
it is useless to expatiate more fully on their construction and their mode of
operation, which are known.
I shall now proceed to describe the improvements and novel devices applied to
the machine.
The device for feeding the fabric consists essentially in the combination of two
feed-dogs, one arranged above the table in the position occupied by the ordinary
feed-dog of an embroidering machine with universal feeding-motion, and the
other arranged under the table in position to co-operate with the former.
56 is the upper feeding-foot mounted in the ordinary manner by means of a
universal joint at 57 and receiving in addition to its vertical to and fro movement
(which may be imparted to it by any suitable or known mechanism which does
not form part of the present invention), a well known universa: feed-motion which
is imparted to it in the ordinary manner by a lever 58 which is pivoted at 59 and
one arm of which works on an inclined plane 60 formed on a sleeve 61. The latter
has imparted to it, by the usual means employed for this purpose, a vertical
to-and-fro motion on the central tube 33, upon which the double pinion 24, 25, is
mounted, and which consequently revolves at the same time as the other parts
actuated by the hand of the operator by means of the above described connexions
letween the handle 10 and the double pinion 24, 25, which will effect the feed in
all directions, as will be readily understood.
The lower feed-dog 62 is mounted at 63 by means of a universal joint in the
same manner as the feed-dog 56 is pivoted at 57; but it has not like the latter, a
vertical to-and-fro movement. It has a bearing surface 64 flush with the
cover-plate 65 or projecting slightly above the sanie. It is between the claw of
the feeding-dog 56 and the claw 64 (which is annular and has the needle-plate 66

page_text: working at its centre) that the fabric is gripped on the descent of the upper feed-dog
and is consequently drawn or (to speak more correctly) carried along in a positive
and certain manner without any possible slipping, by the combined universal
feed-motions which are effected in strict conjunction at the same time by the two
feed-dogs, when once the descent of the upper feed-dog has been produced.
The universal feed-motion in all directions is transmitted to the lower
feeding-dog 62 as will be now stated:-
Upon the shaft 16 there is mounted a bevel-pinion 67 wearing into another
pinion 68 mounted on a vertical shaft 69 which is carried in a suitable manner and
carries a spur wheel 70. This wheel 70 gears into a wheel 71 of the same diameter.
mounted centrally under a plate 72 which carries a casing 73 in which are mounted
the helix 38 and the circular needle 34. The universal movement imparted by the
hand is thus imparted to this plate and to the parts carried by it, as well as to the
needle-plate 66, which is mounted on the casing 73 (Fig. 5). Into the wheel 71
there gears another wheel 74 of the same diameter as the former, which gears also
into a similar wheel 75 mounted on a vertical shaft 76 suitably supported under the
table of the machine.
Upon this shaft there slides a sleeve 77 which is similar to the sleeve 61, and has
imparted to it a vertical to-and-fro movement from a lever 78 which is pivoted at 79
and the opposite end of which is jointed to the lower end of a sliding vertical rod 80
which a spring 81 (Fig. 2) has a constant tendency to raise and whose upper end
works against the periphery of a cam 82 mounted on the shaft 44. An adjustable
stop 83 enables the raising movement and, consequently, the travel of the said rod
and of the lever actuated thereby to be regulated. It will be readily understood
that at each revolution of the shaft 44, which makes one revolution for each stitch
made by the machine, the sleeve 77 makes a vertical to-and-fro movement. Upon
an inclined plane 84 of this sleeve there works one end of one of the arms of a
lever. 85, which is similar to the lever 58 and, which, through the medium of an
eccentric-strap 86 and of an eccentric working therein, operates the feed-dog 56 in
the well known manner.
From this it will be seen that as the shaft 76 receives the universal movement
imparted by hand, at the same time as the central tube 33, through the medium
of the described connexions, the feeding movements of the two feed-dogs in all
directions are strictly synchronous and agree absolutely as regards extent and
direction, the result being that when quce the upper feed-dog is moved down upon
the work, the latter is gripped firmly between the two dogs and is thereby fed or
carried along without slipping by the combined movement of the feeding device
thus constituted.
In order to ensure that the bead which arrives in position to be sewn on, shall
assume a proper position in the guide 87, the needle-carrier 6 makes in its descent
a lateral deviation which has the effect of driving the bead into the place it ought
te occupy in the guide.
This movement is effected by forming on the needle-carrier 6 (see Figure 7)
two cam-like surfaces S8 and 89 against which there act during the descent of the
needle-carrier, two small rollers 90 and 91 mounted in the central tube 33 at the
lower end of which the said guide 87 is fixed. This has the result of moving the
needle-carrier 6 laterally as is clearly shown in Fig. 7, for the purpose of causing
the needle to move down behind the bead and to push the latter into the correct
position in the guide 87.
Finally, in order to ensure the regular feeding of the beads, the machine is
provided with an automatic feeder of any suitable kind comprising essentially a
suitable receptacle 92 mounted on the framing I and containing the thread 93
upon which the beads are threaded. This thread, which is free in the receptacle 92
passes out at the upper part of the latter and, after having passed over a small
grooved pulley 94, passes between two rollers 95 and 96 mounted, as is the roller 94,
in a small frame 97 fixed to the main frame 1 of the machine (see Figs. 1, 2, and 3).
The roller 96 is rigidly mounted in the frame 97, whilst the roller 95 is mounted

page_text: in the latter in any suitable or known manner so as to exert an elastic pressure
upon the roller 96 and thereby grip gently between them and carry along the beads
and the thread on which they are placed. This thread then descends perpen-
dicularly to the centre of the plate 9. and passes in the central tube 33 in front
of the needle-carrier 6 in order to reach the guide 87. Upon the axle. of the
roller 96 there is keyed a small chain-wheel 98 over which there passes an endless
chain 99 which passes also over a chain-wheel 100 keyed on one of the ends of a
horizontal shaft 101, which is suitably carried in a frame 102 formed on the arm
of the frame 1 of the machine.
On the other end of the shaft 101 there is fixed a toothed wheel 103 in the
recessed central part of which there turns a ratchet-wheel 104 keyed on the
shaft 101 and co-operating with a spring pawl 105 pivoted at the bottom of
the recess of the toothed wheel 103. The toothed wheel 103 gears into a toothed
sector 106 formed on the end of a lever which is pivoted at 107 on the frame 102
and the tail 108 of which carries a small roller 109 which works in the groove 110
of a cam 111 keyed on the shaft 44, the arrangement being such that at each
revolution of the shaft 44 (that is to say, at each stitch made by the machine)
the sector 106 makes an oscillatory movement about its axis 107, and, by the
intermediary of the pawl 105 and of the ratchet-wheel 104, causes the shaft 101
to rotate in the direction of the arrows a to an extent such that the motion
transmitted by the said shaft through the chain-wheel 100 and the chain 99 to
the chain-wheel 98 and the roller 96, pulls the bead-thread 93 (whether looso
beads or a string of beads to an extent corresponding be employed) to the length
of the stitch made by the machine-that is to say, to the amount of feed of the
two feed-dogs.
A ratchet-wheel 112, which is keyed on the shaft 101 and with which
co-operates a detent 113 kept in gear with the ratchet by a spring 114 (Fig. 4),
prevents the shaft 101 from moving in the opposite direction to that indicated
by the arrows a.
It is quite evident that instead of transmitting the motion of the shaft 101 to
the roller 96 by means of chain-wheels and a chain, as shown, the same result
night be obtained by means of bevel-wheels and shafting, and my invention is
rot strictly limited, in that respect, to the arrangement shown here by way of
example only for transmitting the motion of the said shaft to the said roller,
what is essential being that the motion is transmitted in such a manner as to draw
or pull at each stitch, a length of head-thread that is equal to the length of the
stitch. It will further be understood that this length varies with the length of
the bead to be sewn on, and that when once the machine has been adjusted to a
determined length of bead, it is necessary, in order to sew on beads of appreciably
different length, to proceed to adjust the stitch anew and consequently to vary
the amount through which the axle 101 turns at each stitch; this may be done
either by changing the cam 111 so as to vary the extent of oscillation of the
sector 106 at each revolution of the shaft 44 or by any other suitable means
I shall not dilate here on the formation of the stitch itself which is the ordinary
two-thread chain-stitch, applied to an embroidering-machine with universal feed,
with the application of a twisting thread as in two-thread and three-thread
embroidering-machines.
Instead of sewing with a two-thread chain-stitch, I might equally well sew
with a single-thread chain-stitch, by employing, instead of a Grove-Baker
circular needle such as that shown at 34 and hereinbefore referred to, a vertical
hook 115, as shown in Fig. 8, which illustrates this modification of the arrange-
ment of the sewing mechanism. The hook 115 is mounted on the end of a
horizontal shaft 116 carried in a bracket 117 fixed to the casing 73. Upon the
shaft 116 there is mounted a bevel-pinion 118 gearing into a similar pinion 1.19
keyed on the upper end of the helix 38 to which there is imparted a to-and-fro
movement; as in the previously described arrangement, by means of the spur 39
mounted on the rod 40, in the well known manner.

page_text: It is evident that the sewing might equally well be effected with a shuttle-stitch,
if in the casing 73 there were arranged a cradle for the reception of a stationary
shuttle around which a hook (mounted concentrically to it on the upper end of
the shaft 35 of the arrangement first hereinbefore described) would rotate for the
purpose of drawing the loop of the needle-thread and passing the same around
the shuttle.
It is further to be understood that the above described improvements relating
to the feeding of the fabric are equally applicable to machines other than
embroidering and bead-attaching machines, and, generally, to all machines that
sew with a shuttle-stitch or chain-stitch, with or without a hook, making stitches
of whatever kind and sewing in a straight line, and also to all machines for
embroidering with two or three threads, and to all other machines of the same
kind having a universal feed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
1 claim is:-
1. In a sewing-machine, the combination with the sewing or stitch-forming
mechanism, its actuating means, and the ordinary feed-dog, of a second feed-dog
arranged under the table of the machine in such a manner that its annular claw
or bearing surface is under the claw of the former and co-operates with it to effect
the feeding of the fabric, the two feed-dogs having at the same moment, identical
feeding movements in the same direction, substantially as described.
2. In a sewing-machine, the combination with the sewing or stitch-forming
mechanism and its actuating means, of a device for feeding the fabric comprising
a feed-dog arranged above the work and means for actuating the same, a feed-dog
arranged underneath, and means for actuating the latter in synchronism with the
former, in consequence of which the work, which is gripped at the proper time
between the two feed-dogs, is drawn or fed in a positive manner, substantially as
and for the purposes described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. In a machine for sewing beads on fabrics, the combination with the
stitch-forming mechanism and its actuating means, the mechanism for imparting
to the sewing devices a universal movement in all directions, the upper feed-dog
and the means for imparting a vertical to-and-fro movement thereto and for
imparting to it a universal feed-movement in all directions, of a second or lower
feed-dog arranged under the table of the machine underneath the first feed-dog in
such a manner that their two claws are opposite to each other, and means for
imparting to the lower feed-dog a universal feed-motion, substantially as herein-
hefore described, for ensuring the synchronism of the simultaneous movements
of the two feed-dogs.
4. A fabric-feeding arrangement for sewing-machines comprising an
feed-dog with its fabric-pressing claw, means for imparting to this feed-dog a
upper
vertical to-and-fro movement for engaging with the fabric and rising therefrom,
means for imparting to this feed-dog a feeding movement in the desired direction,
a lower feed-dog not possessing vertical movement and having its annular claw,
which is always displaced in the same plane and on which bears the annular claw
of the said upper feed-dog in order to grip the work or fabric between the two,
and means for imparting to the said lower feed-dog a feeding-movement in the
same sense and of the same amplitude as the movement of the said upper feed-dog
and simultaneous with this movement, substantially as and for the purposes
described.
5. A fabric-feeding arrangement for universal feed
comprising in combination with an upper feed-dog and means for communicating
sewing-machines,
to it a universal feeding-movement in all directions a lower feed-dog co-operating
with the former and means for imparting to it a universal feeding movement in
all senses,
simultaneous with the movement of the upper feed-dog in consequence

page_text: of which the fabric is fed in a positive manner by the co-operative movements of
the two feed-dogs, substantially as herein before described.
6. In a fabric-feeding mechanism for sewing-machines, the combination with
an upper feed-dog and means for actuating it and a lower feed-dog co-operating
with the former for feeding the fabric, of a cam mounted on a shaft directly
connected to the main shaft of the machine and operated by the latter at the same
speed as itself, a slide-rod on one of the ends of which the said cam works, a spring
for returning the said rod after being moved downward by the cam, a stop for
limiting this return movement, a pivoted lever jointed at one of its ends to the other
end of the said slide-rod and means, between the other end of this lever and the
lower feed-dog, for transmitting the movement of the lever to the latter, in
consequence of which the said feed-dog effects at each revolution of the main shaft
a feeding-movement in synchronism with the co-operative movement of the upper
feed-dog, substantially as and for the purposes described and as represented in the
accompanying drawings.
7. In a machine for sewing beads on fabrics and the like, having a sewing-
mechanism co-operating with the needle for the formation of the stiten, and a
needle-carrier pivoted at its upper end and carrying the needle, the combination,
with the means for communicating to the needle its to-and-fro movement, of
means for constraining this needle-carrier and the needle carried by it to execute,
during its descent and before penetrating the fabric, a movement of lateral
displacement to cause the needle to pass behind the bead and drive it to the place
that it ought to occupy in the guide in order to be sewn in the desired position,
substantially as described.
8. In a machine for sewing beads on fabrics and the like, the combination,
with the needle-carrier, the needle carried by it, the means for imparting to the
needle-carrier its vertical to-and-fro movement and means for causing the
needle-carrier to be displaced in all directions to follow the universal feeding
movement effected by the hand of the operator, of surfaces forming cams formed
on the said needle-carrier and rollers or their equivalents mounted in fixed
positions on a part of the machine participating in the said universal movement,
which rollers, or equivalent devices, co-operate with the said cam-forming surfaces
during the descent of the needle-carrier, to cause the needle to execute a
movement of lateral displacement, in order to drive the bead into place in the
guide, substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in the accompanying
drawings.
9. A bead-supplying mechanism for machines for sewing beads on fabrics and
the like, comprising a receptacle in which the beads threaded on a thread are
contained loosely, a grooved roller over which the beaded thread passes, two
rellers one of which is pressed against the other elastically between which the
beaded thread passes and between which it is carried along, one of these latter
rollers having its shaft connected by chain-wheels and a chain, or otherwise, with
a shaft put into step-by-step movement at each stitch made by the machine in
order to cause to advance or to carry along the beaded thread for a length equal
to the length of the said stitch, substantially as and for the purposes described
10. In a bead-distributing mechanism for machines for sewing beads on fabrics
and the like, the combination, with the receptacle containing the beads threaded
on a thread or core and the feeding rollers between which the beaded thread passes
and by which it is carried along, a shaft suitably supported parallelly to the
axes of the said feeding-rollers, means, such as chain-wheels and a chain, for
transmitting the movement of this shaft to the axle of one of the said rollers in
order to cause it to rotate step-by-step, a ratchet-wheel keyed on the said shaft,
a pawl engaging in the teeth of the ratchet-wheel and mounted on the face of a
toothed wheel loose on the shaft, a pivoted sector which gears into the said loose
toothed wheel and whose tail carries a roller, and a cam which is mounted on a
shaft connected directly to the main shaft of the machine and operated by it at

page_text: the same speed as itself, and in a peripheral groove of which the said roller works,
in consequence of which the said feeding rollers execute, at each stitch made by
the machine, a partial rotation for the purpose of causing the beaded thread to
advance a distance equal to the length of the stitch, substantially as hereinbefore
described-and-as-represented-in-the-accompanying drawings.
11. In a machine for sewing beads on fabrics and the like, the combination,
with the sewing and stitch-forming mechanism, the arrangements for transmitting
to this mechanism a universal movement in all directions, and the rotary bobbin
causing a twisting or attaching thread to make at each stitch a turn around the
needle-thread and the beading-thread, in order to connect them together, of a
fceding-arrangement comprising an upper feed-dog and a lower feed-dog and means
for communicating to them simultaneously, in synchronism, a universal feeding
movement, means for transmitting to the needle-carrier, in its descent, a lateral
displacement in order that the needle may drive the bead into desired position in
the guide, and a bead-supplying mechanism causing the beaded thread to advance
automatically, at each stitch made by the machine, a distance equal to the length
of the stitch, substantially as and for the purposes described and as represented in
the accompanying drawings.
12. A bead-attaching sewing-machine constructed, arranged, and operating
substantially as herein before described with reference to and shown in
Figs. 1 to 7 inclusive, or as modified according to Fig. 8, of the accompanying
drawings.
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.