Device for making braid openings in cuts of garments

摘要

A two-needle sewing machine includes a machine casing having a sewing head mounting the needles, a work support plate, and a ripping knife supported in the sewing head and working between the needles to form an elongated slot of a braid opening in a cut garment piece. A supporting bar is guided in the machine casing for longitudinal displacement perpendicular to the work support plate, and is rotatable into different angular positions. A single angular cross-section cutting knife is mounted on the supporting bar and serves as a tool for making diverging corner cuts at the opposite ends of the elongated slot. Air-operated piston-cylinder actuators are provided to rotate the supporting bar between two positions spaced angularly by 180 DEG , and to displace the supporting bar longitudinally to effect the diverging corner cuts. The sewing head mounts a sliding foot arrangement for moving the work in a direction opposite to the normal work feeding direction.