Forming a rug from a sewn tubular braid

摘要

An apparatus for sewing a tubular braid with an internal seam and simultaneously filling it with the required filler. A strip of covering fabric is fed to a sewing area from a first direction and folded over so that its lateral edges meet in the sewing area of a sewing machine. Immediately after sewing, the tube is inwardly inverted and pulled toward the direction from which the fabric came, thus being pulled through the folded but unsewn portion of the strip. A core filler material is fed from the opposite direction into the interior of the inverted tube as it is inverted to form the finished braid. The finished braid may then be coiled into a rug shape. Adjacent sections of the braid are then sewn together using dual stitches on the upper and lower surfaces of the rug, to ensure that the surfaces remain flat.