Abstract:
A machine has been disclosed which produces from a facing patch blank and a stiffener blank for it a facing patch used for a welt defining the outlines of a pocket. The machine performs the feeding of each individual patch, a patch inverting, the patch mating as well as sews the facing patch and its stiffener together, severs one sewn patch from the other, marks two successive, correctly related patches with the same number and stacks the patches with the same number into two different receptacles. The machine is automatically operated and sequentially interlocked; a circuit with an operating mode and an alarm mode is provided for the machine. As a result, numerous manual steps have been eliminated, better workpieces obtained, as well as sequentially more correct lots of the facing patches obtained.