The present invention relates to devices for manufacturing draperies and, more particularly, to a device which enables the drapery to be firmly held at the lower end of the upstanding drapery frame while the drapery is cut across the bottom of the panel.
The present invention more particularly relates to improvement of a device such as that described in detail in U.S. Pat. No. 3,439,438,--Tuskos, issued Apr. 22, 1969 and U.S. Pat. No. 3,738,007--Tuskos, issued June 12, 1973.
Heretofore, certain drapery manufacturing devices have been provided with a cutting means attached to an upstanding drapery device. Although such devices are a vast improvement over prior art such as tabling, where drapery panels were measured and cut on large tables, the present invention greatly improves the cutting technique now existing in the upstanding frame drapery devices.
Such prior upstanding drapery cutting devices have certain disadvantages in that the drapery or curtain is still susceptible to moving by a pushing motion for example the movement of the cutting means which causes the drapery to gather while the adjustable cutter means and marker means are moving along the horizontal carriage means at the lower end of the upstanding drapery device. Said movements while the drapery or curtain is being cut and marked creates an uneven hem line and bottom edge along the bottom of the drapery panel. The leading edge of the drapery is thereby cut or marked longer than required while the trailing edge of the drapery is cut and marked accurately. When the drapery is folded back along the hem line an uneven hem line is created which is unattractive and may even cause excessive wearing of the drapery or curtain if the drapery or curtain has areas that hang on the floor. The uneven bottom edge which is folded back and sewed may be unattractive where the drapery or curtain is of a material wherein light may be seen through it.