| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 112117000 | Quilting | 20 |
| 20080289550 | Quilt blank, method of making a quilt using a quilt blank and quilt kit including quilt blank - The disclosure is directed to a quilt blank, a quilt kit including a quilt blank and method of making a quilt using a quilt blank. The disclosure describes a quilt blank including a partially completed quilt having a quilt top, backing and batting material interposed between the quilt top and the backing, all of which are secured together via a sewing or quilting pattern. The quilt top of the quilt blank includes at least one predetermined blank portion sized to receive a fabric swatch or other material selected by a user. Alternatively, the quilt blank may simply be a quilt top having a predetermined blank area to be filled with a fabric swatch or other material. The disclosure also describes a quilt kit including a quilt blank and a method of making a quilt using a quilt blank. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090183662 | Panel quilt machine with feeder providing reduced downtime - Panel quilting machines having an in-line splicing tool capable of splicing a new supply of fabric into a web of material being provided to a panel quilting machine while allowing for continuous operation of the panel quilting machine. The systems and methods described herein include, in certain embodiments, an in-line accumulator for creating a temporary in-line supply of material for use by the panel quilting machine while an exhausted supply of material is replaced with a new supply of material. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090199752 | THREAD CONTROL IN MULTI-NEEDLE CHAIN STITCH QUILTING - A multi-needle chain-stitch quilting machine and method of operation thereof are provided that imparts relative motion between the needles and the material that is controlled so as to pull needle thread tails from the needle side of the quilted material. The feature of controlling thread tails may be optional to provide selection of either a high speed mode of operation without thread tail control or a quality mode of operation with reduction or removal of needle thread tails from the face of the quilted material. Thread trimmers may be included at each needle location on the looper side of the material to cut both needle and looper threads. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20100206205 | MATERIAL SHEET ATTACHMENT DEVICE AND METHODS - A device for attaching a fabric layer of a quilt to a leader that, in turn, attaches to a rail on a quilting machine so that the quilt may be pulled allowing the quilting machine to stitch the entire quilt. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20110005441 | Quilting and Embroidery Method - The present invention provides an improved method and computer program product for quilting and embroidering fabric. The method comprises securing a quilt sandwich of top layer fabric, batting and backing fabric in an embroidery hoop and attaching said embroidery hoop to an embroidery machine. The user retrieves a digitized embroidery file that is fed into the embroidery machine. The digitized file instructs the embroidery machine to stitch the quilt layers together according to a predetermined stippling pattern and to stitch an outline for an appliqué. After an appliqué fabric is placed over the outline, the digitized file sews a tackdown stitch, after which appliqué enhancements or additional layers of appliqué may also be stitched. The quilt is then removed from the embroidery hoop and the appliqué and quilt are trimmed. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110079172 | QUILT ATTACHMENT DEVICE FOR MAKING MULTIPLE PATTERNS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - A quilting device secured to fabric rollers of a sewing table. The quilting device has a crossbar adjustably attached to the rollers. A base having a rotatable baseplate is attached to the crossbar, the rotatable baseplate having a periphery with a plurality of notches. A spiro attachment connected to the baseplate wherein the spiro attachment has a plate having internal teeth. The quilting device connected to a sewing machine by way of a stylus arm such that the quilting device controls the movement of the sewing machine. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110094425 | Quilting tool - A quilting tool for use with commercial quilting machines with a base, a pair of handles and a narrow strip of the hook portion of hook and loop type fastener. The base is planar and rectilinear and has a plurality of spaced apart grooves that are defined on the bottom surface. The first grooves on each long edge of the base are spaced one quarter of an inch from the long edge. The second grooves from each edge are spaced one half of an inch from the first grooves. The two medial grooves are spaced apart one inch. The handles are dowel-like and extend upwardly from the top of the base and are spaced apart from each other by approximately two and three quarter inches. The hook strip portion adhesively attached between the grooves on the underside of the base and aligned to be directly under the handles. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110100276 | Quilting machine hopping foot navigation system - A quilting machine sewing head navigator useful in generating directional travel in the sewing head of a quilting machine in relation to a stitchable material. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20120000406 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING NATURAL FIBER STRIPE-QUILTED FABRIC HAVING PROTRUDED WRINKLE PATTERNS ON ITS SURFACE - The method for manufacturing a natural fiber stripe-quilted fabric having protruded wrinkle patterns on its surface is disclosed, in which a quilting machine is installed by fixing a sewing machine support member in a diagonal direction at 70˜85° with respect to a running direction of a quilted fabric on an upper plate | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120097083 | MULTI-NEEDLE QUILTING MACHINE AND NEEDLE AND LOOPER DRIVE MECHANISM THEREFOR AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME - A multi-needle quilting machine is provided with a common drive that drives the needles and loopers. It may also drive the presser foot assembly. In the illustrated embodiment, a drive motor drives a rotating drive shaft. The drive shaft has an off-center drive assembly connected to it that rocks a needle rocker shaft as well as looper rocker shafts, and also a presser foot shaft. The off-center drive includes a pair of eccentrics on the drive shaft at each side of the machine. Each eccentric oscillates a linkage plate that is fixed to a shaft such as the needle rocker shaft and is also linked to the looper rocker shafts and the presser foot shaft. The eccentric thereby reciprocates the needles and oscillates the loopers, as well as reciprocates the presser foot plate, in permanent synchronization. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120318181 | QUILTING MACHINE AND IMPROVED DRIVING SYSTEM FOR SUCH QUILTING MACHINE - An improved quilting machine, with a housing made by a C-shaped frame that has upper and lower arms, wherein the needle structure at the front end of the upper arm have conventional design (as used in commercial sewing machines) and the bobbin is placed to an elevated height by providing an upwardly extended end portion of the lower arm, wherein an offset shaft transmission means is be provided in the upwardly extended portion that acts as a power transmission towards the bobbin driving axle from the lower driving axle extending in the lower arm, wherein the upper and lower driving axles comprise of hollow drive shafts connected via flexible coupling means to half-shafts mounted on plates that are integral parts of the C-frame by dual ball bearing mounts. By such a simple design the reciprocating mass of the needle structure and the mass of the torque transmission means are reduced, conventional needle moving structures can be used and owing to the lighter load, the dimensions of the drive train can be less massive and heavy. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20150299922 | ERGONOMIC PANTOGRAPH HANDLES - The present invention relates to a quilting machine and more specifically a long-arm stitching machine, or stitcher. The stitcher includes handles that are used to trace a laser dot on a pantograph pattern located in front of the fabric being quilted. Tracing the laser dot ensures that the needle and thread associated with the sewing machine head duplicates the pattern being traced. In the present invention, the handles are placed to one side of the sewing machine head to allow an operator to remain upright when watching the laser trace the pattern or the needle and thread quilting the fabric. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150299923 | SWIVELING TABLET MOUNT - The present invention relates to a quilting machine, or stitcher, further including a centrally located swiveling tablet mount for securing a tablet that is used in the quilting process. The mount is positioned such that a user may access the mount from either side of, or the rear or front of the stitcher. The mount is one capable of swiveling so that the user does not have to move the tablet between front and rear mounts of the stitcher or buy separate tablets for a front and rear mount. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20160108572 | VIBRATION REDUCTION MECHANISM FOR A SEWING MACHINE - Vibration reduction mechanism for a sewing machine. In one example embodiment, a vibration reduction mechanism for a sewing machine includes a rotational counterweight and a reciprocating counterweight. The rotational counterweight is configured to be coupled to a driveshaft of a sewing machine and is configured to be rotated by rotation of the driveshaft. The reciprocating counterweight is coupled to the rotational counterweight. A first portion of the reciprocating counterweight is configured to be rotated by the rotation of the rotational counterweight. A second portion of the reciprocating counterweight is configured to be substantially reciprocated along a length of a structure by the rotation of the rotational counterweight. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160376739 | QUILTING DEVICE - A quilting device ( | 12-29-2016 |
| 112118000 | Fabric shifting | 5 |
| 20090272304 | QUILTING MACHINES - A quilting machine including a roller frame ( | 11-05-2009 |
| 20120272882 | Fabric Handling Device for Quilting - A fabric handling device for quilting used to aid in the handling of fabric during free motion quilting and sewing and the method for using the device. The device includes a gripping member, a strap, and a fastener. It allows the wearer greater control over the fabric and still allows the full dexterity of the fingers so that it does not need to be removed to manipulate small sewing instruments or items such as needles, bobbins, scissors, and thread. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20130055938 | FREE MOTION SEWING DISK SET - A set of sewing disks for controlling the movement of a piece of fabric over the free arm and under the needle of a sewing or quilting machine Each disk is flat and has an oval or circular configuration and comprises three registered, stacked adhesively attached layers—a first contact layer made of an open cell foam, a semi-rigid intermediate stiffener member, and a second contact layer made of close cell foam. When each disk is placed over a piece of fabric with the lower contact layer is placed adjacent thereto, the individual's fingers are exposed at all times and placed over the opposite contact layer. The intermediate stiffener layer spreads and evenly dissipates the forces exerted by the fingers to the top contact layer to the lower contact layer. Because, the finger tips are not in contact with the fabric, soiling of the fabric by the finger tips is prevented. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130276685 | SEWING MACHINE TAKE-UP RAIL ASSEMBLY - A take-up rail assembly including a fixed idler rail and a longitudinally movable take-up rail. The fixed idler rail is attached to a quilting frame or other sewing frame and the position of the fixed idler rail may be longitudinally and vertically adjustable with respect to the sewing frame. The take-up rail is movably attached to the sewing frame and a take-up rail control mechanism moves the take up rail longitudinally forward and rearward with respect to the fixed idler rail as the sewing machine moves with respect to the sewing frame, thus providing full utilization of the throat length of the sewing machine. | 10-24-2013 |
| 112119000 | Frames | 1 |
| 20150315733 | SEWING MACHINE TAKE-UP RAIL ASSEMBLY - A take-up rail assembly including a fixed idler rail and a longitudinally movable take-up rail. The fixed idler rail is attached to a quilting frame or other sewing frame and the position of the fixed idler rail may be longitudinally and vertically adjustable with respect to the sewing frame. The take-up rail is movably attached to the sewing frame and a take-up rail control mechanism moves the take up rail longitudinally forward and rearward with respect to the fixed idler rail as the sewing machine moves with respect to the sewing frame, thus providing full utilization of the throat length of the sewing machine. | 11-05-2015 |
