8TBAW BEWIN0 MACSINiS CO. V. BAMES. 183 �further front, the surface of a roller. In the drawings, the fly- wbeel of the machine is shown at a', the needle-bar at a, the needle a,ig, the take-up apparatus at b\ and the table or surface upon which the goods to be sewed are supported at c; and the machine bas a feed apparatus of any known kind which ia capable of advancing braid, etc., to be stitched, between a pressei'-foot, such as b, and a table, and also a shuttle carrying a bobbin of second or under thread, colored blue in the drawings, so moved and operated as to confine loops of needle thread passed through braid by the piercing needle. The distinguish- ing peculiarity of the stitch made by the use of my improve- ments is this, namely : that the piercing-needle [with] and the thread it carries enters a piece of braid from the side that is iiearest to the other piece of braid to which it is to be sewed,, and leaves that first piece of braid on the same side at which it entered. This is the leading idea on which my invention i"s based, and the improvements oarry this idea into practice. There is, therefore, attached to the presser-foot bar, or to some other convenient part of the machine, a frame, c', which carries a relier, e, whose axis is at right angles, or nearly so, with tho Une of progression of the [work] cloth. The upper of the two pieces of braid to be stitched together, k', passes over this '•oller, then under it, and thence over the other piece of braid, k, and the roUer holds one piece down upon the other. In order to keep the upper braid in position sidewise, there is au adjustable gauge, d, which may be attached to the frame, c', [and operates upon one edge of the braid, and I hav& repre- sented another 'gauge, l, which operates at the opposite edgo of the braid,] and, in order to make the upper braid apply 'tself olosely to the roUer, there is supported in the frame, or attached to the presser-foot, another bar or roUer, «', which rests upon the surface of the braid. I prefer to attach this bar to a slide, e', clasping the presser-foot rod, and adjust- able thereon by a set-screw, so that the bar or relier may be set to adapt itself to different thicknesses of braid. In order to guide the under piece of braid, there may be attaqhed to the table a guide, j. In sewing with the contrivance as thus lar described, a single, piece of braid, or the braid on the edge ��� �
