The Singer Company

Ronald C Iannarone

John Blackwood

A convertible sewing machine bed lid and hinge arrangement includes a lid that may be pivoted downwardly to expose an elongated arm for sewing tubular garments. The lid has depending pivot bosses and the bed has a web casting that includes legs connected to the bosses by the hinge pins fitted into apertures in the bosses and slots in the legs. A pair of leaf springs held by projections that interlock with the casting entrap the pins within the slots and urge them toward a closed extremity of the slots. Latching projections on the free side of the lid are resiliently forced into recesses in the arm to retain the lid in a horizontal position to provide an expansive work supporting surface.

Lid and hinge arrangement for a convertible sewing machine

A sewing machine handle is provided with depending legs which terminate in eccentric pads that are insertable in holes in the casing of the machine at the top of the bracket arm and are caused to engage the inside of the casing and support the machine when the handle is lifted.

Carrying handle for a sewing machine

A latch mechanism for a sewing machine bed extension including a spring biased latch button contained on the surface of the bed extension. The latch button actuates one extremity of a pivotally mounted lever having a tang at the locking extremity. The bed extension has a guide stud which engages an aperture in the base of the sewing machine. The tang passes through the guide stud to lock the bed extension to the base. The bed extension may be removed from the base by actuation of the latch button which causes the tang to disengage from the base.

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Hillside, NJ, United States of America

Ronald C Iannarone