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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
EDWIN W. HEACKER, OF IDA, TEXAS.
QUILTING-FRAME FOR SEWING-MACHINES.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,523, dated November 9, 1897.
Application filed January 29, 1897. Serial No. 621,182. (No model)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, EDWIN W. HEACKER,
a citizen of the United States, residing at Ida,
in the county of Grayson and State of Texas,
5 have invented certain new and useful Im-
provements in Quilting-Frames for Sewing-
Machines; and I do hereby declare the fol-
lowing to be a full, clear, and exact descrip-
tion of the invention, such as will enable
'o others skilled in the art to which it appertains
to make and use the same.
This invention relates to quilting-frames
for sewing-machines, and has for its object to
provide a simple, cheap, and efficient quilt-
I5 ing-frame adapted to be suspended from an
overhead support and to be used in connec-
tion with an ordinary sewing-machine, the
frame being detachably mounted, so that it
may be set up in any room regardless of the
20 height of the ceiling and adjusted to the
proper level for enabling the same to be
passed across the bed of the sewing-machine.
One of the chief aims of the present inven-
tion is to provide proper means whereby the
25 quilting- frame proper may be readily ad-
justed relatively to its suspension-bar in or-
der to properly balance the frame as the quilt
is shifted from one roller or pole to the other.
Other objects and advantages of the inven-
30 tion will appear in the course of the subjoined
description.
The invention consists in certain novel fea-
tures and details of construction and arrange-
ment of parts, as hereinafter particularly set
35 forth, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed
out in the claim.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a
perspective view showing the improved quilt-
ing-frame and the manner of suspending the
40 same from an overhead support. Fig. 2 shows
one of the end bars of the frame in elevation.
Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail section showing
the adjustable connection between one of the
end bars of the frame and the longitudinal
45 brace.
Similar numerals of reference designate
corresponding parts in the several figures of
the drawings.
Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an
So overhead track of any suitable length, the
same consisting, preferably, of a wooden rail
provided on its upper edge with a centrally-lo-cated and-longitudinally-extending rounded
bead 2. Each end of said track is supported
upon a bracket 3, the same being secured to 55
the ceiling and depending sufficiently there-
from to locate the track 1 at a distance from
the ceiling sufficient to provide for the move-
ment on the track of a carrier 4. The carrier
4 comprises a block having secured to its op- 6o
posite ends forked frames 5, in which are
mounted pulleys or rollers 6, the rims of
which are exteriorly grooved to engage and
travel upon the bead 2 of the track 1. Secured
to one side of the block or carrier 4 is a sus- 65
pension-bar 7, provided with a longitudinal
slot 8 of approximately one-half the length
of the bar. 9 designates a similar bar, from
which the quilting-frame is suspended, the
bar 9 being provided with a plurality of open- 70
ings 10 for the passage of one or more bolts
11, adapted to pass also through the slot 8 in
the upper bar 7 for securing the two bars
rigidly together and at the same time en-
abling said bars to be ad justed longitudinally 75
upon each other for varying the distance be-
tween the quilting - frame hereinafter de-
scribed and the overhead track, thus adapt-
ing the quilting-frame to be maintained at
any desired elevation according to the height 8o
of the sewing-machine in connection with
which the device is to be used.
The quilting-frame 12 comprises end bars
13, which are located at a distance apart
equal to or slightly greater than the length 85
of the quilt and provided at corresponding
points with holes 14, through which screws or
other suitable fasteners pass for entering the
ends of the rollers or poles 15. The outer
rollers 15 are permanently connected to the 90
end bars 13 and need not be made remov-
able. The intermediate roller, however, is
provided with end bearings which are re-
movably fitted in openings 16 in the end bars
13, said openings 16 being in communication 95
with angularly and obliquely disposed slots
17, opening out of the top edge of the end
bars 13. By this means the intermediate
roller or pole can be detached from the frame
for allowing the batten to be placed between 10o
the thicknesses of the quilt. The end bars 13
are further connected by means of a longitudi-
nal brace 18, preferably made thicker or
heavier at its central portion than at its ends,
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Heacker, Edwin W. Quilting - Frame for Sewing - Machines, patent, November 9, 1897; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510311/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.