A safety system for garment pressers which have a head movable against a buck with a garment therebetween and steam vents opening through the head and buck, the safety system being operable to deactivate the press and raise the head in the event the operator's hand or arm should be caught in the press, and including an involuntary safety comprising a bar movable relative to the press during normal operation to engage a portion of the operator's hands or arms, if caught in the press, regardless o...

A pair of golf gloves is provided to facilitate the gripping of a golf club. One of the pair of gloves has a compartment for maintaining the middle, ring and little fingers of a first hand together when gripping a golf club and the other glove has a compartment for maintaining the index, middle and ring finger of the other hand together when gripping a golf club.

A looping machine wherein a sewing needle engages in a groove on the underside of the row needles on the side corresponding to the downwardly hanging section of material into the looping material for the purpose of stitch formation. The entire drive for the sewing needle is disposed below the crown of the row needles.

A tool for turning tubular fabric belts, piping and the like inside out comprises first and second separable cylindrical elements which meet endwise to clamp fabric between their ends. Secure clamping of fabric is insured by the engagement of screw threads in the respective elements.

A nest plate assembly for an apparatus for forming fabric blanks comprising a nest plate having two end portions and a removable intermediate portion which may be made in various lengths for forming blanks of various sizes. The nest plate is supported by a carriage assembly including two separate supporting structures holding the end portions of the nest plate, and means are provided for moving the supporting structures for sliding the two end portions of the nest plate towards or away from each...

A drying hanger assembly is provided for supporting garments, such as woolen sweaters, and the like, which absorb relatively large amounts of water when washed, and which are relatively heavy when wet. The assembly of the invention is constructed so that the garment is supported essentially along its entire length so that there is no tendency for the fabric to stretch, as would otherwise be the case, due to the weight of water absorbed into the material. The assembly, in one of its embodiments i...

A buttonhole opener for button sewing machines, using air operation to automatically open a buttonhole in a garment to which a button is to be attached and thereby eliminate the necessity of pulling back of a garment pocket and the like prior to tacking on of the button. A series of valves and air cylinders in operation automatically actuate the opener to open the buttonhole when the button sewing machine is operated through a series of air switches.

A glove made from a suitable flexible, resilient material has a plurality of cavities or pockets to receive the hands and fingers of both hands of a golf player. The pockets are so arranged as to dispose the fingers in interrelating and interdigitating juxtaposition, and are molded to conform with the form of a golf club handle.

The present invention provides improvement in a drapery manufacturing device of the type including: an upstanding frame having first and second spaced, vertical plane defining, parallel guide tracks; a trolley transversely spanning the tracks and movably connected thereto for vertical movement with respect to the frame and including a transverse member; means on the transverse member of the trolley to grasp an edge of a panel to be formed into a drapery to hold the panel in a vertically extendin...

An expander presser apparatus for short sleeve shirtlike garments is provided having a pair of telescopic spring-tension-expanded sleeve-pressing assemblies that are retractably mounted to extend from armpit positions of a garment-receiving upright frame of a finishing machine that has a permeable fabric form into which steam and dry air are introduced.