Cloth folding and stitching device

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR FOLDING CONTINUOUSLY RUNNING CLOTH COMPRISING A METAL FRAMEWORK, MEANS FOR CONTINUOUSLY FEEDING SAID CLOTH INTO SAID APPARATUS FROM A ROLL SUPPORTED BY SAID FRAMEWORK, SELVAGE GUIDE MEANS FOR DIRECTING THE TRAVEL OF SAID CLOTH, A FOLDING FRAME DISPLACED LATERALLY FROM THE NORMAL PATH OF TRAVEL OF SAID CLOTH AND ARRANGED TO RECEIVE SAID CLOTH SLANTWISE FROM SAID GUIDE MEANS, SAID FRAME COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SMOOTH CYLINDRICAL BARS FORMING A GENERALLY TRAPEZOIDAL STRUCTURE ENCOMPASSING A SMALLER TRIANGULAR STRUCTURE AT ONE END THEREOF, SAID CLOTH BEING DIRECTED TO PASS AROUND ONE ANGLE AND ONE RECTILINEAR SIDE OF SAID TRAPEZOIDAL STRUCTURE, WHEREBY THE OPPOSITE EDGES OF SAID CLOTH ARE DIRECTED TO TRAVEL PERPENDICULARLY TO EACH OTHER, A PORTION OF SAID CLOTH BEING SUBSEQUENTLY DIRECTED AROUND THE INNER LEG OF SAID TRIANGULAR STRUCTURE, WHEREBY THE EDGE THEREOF TRAVELS PARALLEL TO THE OPPOSITE EDGE OF SAID CLOTH, SAID CLOTH BEING DIRECTED BY SAID FRAME THROUGH A TOTAL PATH SUCH THAT THE LOCUS OF POINTS PERPENDICULAR TO THE SELVAGE THEREOF TRAVEL AN EQUAL DISTANCE THERETHROUGH, A SECOND SELVAGE GUIDE ARRANGED TO RECEIVE SAID CLOTH FROM SAID FOLDING FRAME AND TO DIRECT THE TRAVEL OF SAID CLOTH, A SECOND FOLDING FRAME DISPLACED LATERALLY FROM THE NORMAL PATH OF TRAVEL OF SAID CLOTH ARRANGED TO RECEIVE SAID CLOTH SLANTWISE FROM SAID SECOND SELVAGE GUIDE MEANS, SAID SECOND FRAME COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SMOOTH CYLINDRICAL BARS FORMING A GENERALLY TRAPEZOIDAL STRUCTURE ENCOMPASSING A SMALLER TRIANGULAR STRUCTURE AT ONE END THEREOF, SAID CLOTH BEING DIRECTED TO PASS AROUND ONE ANGLE AND ONE RECTILINEAR SIDE OF SAID TRAPEZOIDAL STRUCTURE AND SUBSEQUENTLY AROUND THE INNER LEG OF SAID TRAPEZOIDAL STRUCTURE, SAID FRAME BEING ARRANGED TO TURN AN EDGE OF SAID CLOTH AND FORM A FOLD IN THE EDGE THEREOF OPPOSITE TO THAT IN WHICH A FOLD WAS FORMED BY SAID FIRST FOLDING FRAME BY DIRECTING SAID CLOTH THROUGH A PASS SUCH THAT THE LOCUS OF POINTS PERPENDICULAR TO THE SELVAGE THEREOF TRAVEL AN EQUAL DISTANCE THROUGH SAID FRAME, AND MEANS DISPOSED ADJACENT SAID SECOND FOLDING FRAME FOR GUIDING SAID FOLDED CLOTH OUT OF SAID APPARATUS.