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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 1980
Filed:
Jun. 19, 1978
Denis Matthews, Sutton-in-Ashfield, GB;
Mathbirk Limited, Sutton-in-Ashfield, GB;
Abstract
A fabric guide device for a linking machine having a rotatable circle of radially extending points. The device guides fabrics, which are to be joined by a chain stitch, onto the points so that the fabric edges are located at a predetermined height relative to the points. The device includes at least one pair of opposed guide surfaces for engaging slidingly opposite sides of a fabric adjacent an edge thereof. Adjustable reference surfaces locate selectively the height of the fabric edges relative to the points. The device is particularly useful in the joining together of patterned fabrics. It permits fabrics which are to be joined to be held in correct pattern position relative to each other, so that adjacent parts of the pattern are impaled upon the same points. When the seam is made, the pattern shows a correct join.