MICHAEL L JAMES
Medical Practice at Bel Aire Dr, Hollywood, FL

6170414, Jan 9, 2001

Mar 2, 2000

9/517239

Jeff Kaetterhenry - Davie FL
Glenn Leavis - Hollywood FL
Michael James - Davie FL
James Bondanza - Sunrise FL
Richard N. Codos - Warren NJ

L&P Property Management Company - South Gate CA

D05B 1100

112117

A quilting apparatus is provided with a computer controlled presser plate adjusting mechanism. A presser plate rocker shaft is separate from and mechanically connected to a needle rocker shaft and imparts a reciprocating motion to the presser plate. The presser plate rocker shaft is adjustable to vary the range of its output link to the presser plate, thereby changing the endpoints of its reciprocating path of travel. Certain embodiments have an output end of the presser plate rocker shaft adjustable relative to the input end through a coupling to different angular positions relative to an input end in order to change the upper and lower ends of the range of reciprocation of the pressure plate relative to the needle plate. Alternatively, the length of a link between the needle and pressure plate rocker shafts is variable to make the presser plate adjustment. A motor or other actuator changes the coupling or link in response to a signal from a quilting machine controller, which can be made instantly, either manually by an operator at a controller interface terminal, by a batch mode program run by the controller to set the machine to the parameters required by products on a product schedule, or automatically in response to measurements from sensors that are interpreted by the controller in determining optimal pressure plate setting.

7617751, Nov 17, 2009

Jan 25, 2006

11/339602

Michael A. James - Davie FL, US
David Brian Scott - Carthage MO, US
Terrance L. Myers - Coral Springs FL, US

L&P Property Management Company - South Gate CA

B26D 5/00, B26D 5/34, B26D 11/00

83 33, 83 39, 83302, 83286, 83289, 83371

An apparatus for cutting a quilted material web having a quilted patterns thereon into panels having a desired length and width with respective quilted patterns centered therein. A first detector detects a center of a quilted pattern on the quilted material web; and in response thereto, a cutting apparatus cuts the quilted material web to form edges of a panel equidistant from the quilted pattern center. The cutting apparatus includes a pair of trim blades that cut opposite side edges of the panel equidistant from the quilted pattern center and a cross cutting apparatus that cuts end edges of the panel equidistant from the quilted pattern center.

2005021, Sep 29, 2005

Oct 12, 2004

10/963300

Michael James - Davie FL, US
David Scott - Carthage MO, US
Terrance Myers - Coral Springs FL, US

L&P Property Management Company - South Gate CA

B26D001/00

083013000

An apparatus for cutting a quilted material web having a quilted patterns thereon into panels having a desired length and width with respective quilted patterns centered therein. A first detector detects a center of a quilted pattern on the quilted material web; and in response thereto, a cutting apparatus cuts the quilted material web to form edges of a panel equidistant from the quilted pattern center. The cutting apparatus includes a pair of trim blades that cut opposite side edges of the panel equidistant from the quilted pattern center and a cross cutting apparatus that cuts end edges of the panel equidistant from the quilted pattern center.

2012009, Apr 26, 2012

May 16, 2011

13/108602

Michael A. James - Davie FL, US
Jeff A. Kaetterhenry - Algonquin IL, US

L&P PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY - South Gate CA

D05B 11/00, D05B 69/30, D05B 1/10

112117, 112166, 112220, 11247517

A multi-needle quilting machine is provided with a common drive that drives the needles and loopers. It may also drive the presser foot assembly. In the illustrated embodiment, a drive motor drives a rotating drive shaft. The drive shaft has an off-center drive assembly connected to it that rocks a needle rocker shaft as well as looper rocker shafts, and also a presser foot shaft. The off-center drive includes a pair of eccentrics on the drive shaft at each side of the machine. Each eccentric oscillates a linkage plate that is fixed to a shaft such as the needle rocker shaft and is also linked to the looper rocker shafts and the presser foot shaft. The eccentric thereby reciprocates the needles and oscillates the loopers, as well as reciprocates the presser foot plate, in permanent synchronization.

7789028, Sep 7, 2010

May 4, 2007

11/744389

Michael James - Davie FL, US
Jeff Kaetterhenry - Davie FL, US
David Brian Scott - Carthage MO, US

L&P Property Management Company - South Gate CA

D05B 69/14, D05B 11/00

112117, 112220

A chain-stitch multi-needle quilting machine and method provide for driving needles and loopers independently or out of phase, particularly during the starting of stitching sequences. Separate drive motors drive needles separately from their loopers. Alternatively, a single motor drives needles and loopers linked through a differential drive or variably-controllable linkage. At the beginning of a stitch sequence, needles and loopers are separately driven in a split start manner by which stitches can be reliably formed by advancing the loopers ahead of the needles so the looper enters a needle thread loop before the needle enters a looper thread loop. Then the needle and looper can be brought into phase later in the first stitch cycle. The split drive can solve other stitch or thread control problems.

7073453, Jul 11, 2006

Mar 19, 2004

10/804833

James T. Frazer - N. Olmsted OH, US
Jeff Kaetterhenry - Davie FL, US
Michael A. James - Davie FL, US
Terrance L. Myers - Coral Springs FL, US
Richard Villacis - Miami FL, US
Roland Keller - Arbon, CH
David Brian Scott - Carthage MO, US

L&P Property Management Company - South Gate CA

D05B 11/00

112117, 11247001

A multi-needle quilting machine () and method are provided, in most embodiments of which needles () reciprocate horizontally through material () supported in a vertical quilting plane (). Two or more bridges () are provided having separate motion control. Each bridge () has a row of selectively operable stitching element pairs (), which may be fixed to or transversely moveable on the bridges (). Either the material or the bridges may be moved relative to the frame. The bridges () each move transversely and vertically with the stitching elements () on each bridge can operate at different speeds. Each of the needle drives () and, in some embodiments the looper drives (), can be selectively activated and deactivated. Control schemes are provided to quilt continuous patterns, discrete patterns, linked multiple patterns, 360 degree patterns, closely spaced patterns. A plurality of small presser feet () are provided, each for one or more needles ().

7143705, Dec 5, 2006

Jan 21, 2005

11/040499

James T. Frazer - N. Olmsted OH, US
Jeff Kaetterhenry - Davie FL, US
Michael A. James - Davie FL, US
Terrance L. Myers - Coral Springs FL, US
Roland Keller - Arbon, CH
David Brian Scott - Carthage MO, US

L & P Property Management Company - South Gate CA

D05B 11/00

112117, 112227

A multi-needle quilting machine () and method in which provided bridges () are provided having selectively operable stitching element pairs (). Either the material or the bridges or both may be moved relative to the frame. Control schemes are provided to quilt continuous patterns, discrete patterns, linked multiple patterns, 360 degree patterns, closely spaced patterns. A plurality of small presser feet () are provided, each for one or more needles (), with a wide spacing for material passage between the needle and looper plates. Combinations of intermittent and continuous feed and feed transition are employed during tack sequence sewing and other direction reversals in sewing, as well as double needle guards and thread deflection.

7770530, Aug 10, 2010

May 4, 2007

11/744561

Michael James - Davie FL, US
Josh Carrier - Joplin MO, US
David Brian Scott - Carthage MO, US

L&P Property Management Company - South Gate CA

D05B 11/00, D05B 55/14

11247508, 112117, 112439

Combination quilted patterns of which at least one component pattern is continuous are sewn on a multi-layered web of material with the sewing heads on one bridge as the material is advanced longitudinally. The bridge might or might not also move longitudinally. Simultaneously, different patterns, either continuous or discontinuous, are sewn with another independently moveable bridge. The continuous patterns extend substantially the lengths of quilted panels on a web, and may extend without thread cuts or tacks along the web across the lengths of more than one panel. One pattern can be changed while the other pattern continues along the web. New patterns, intermediate quilted products and methods for quilting them are provided.

8061288, Nov 22, 2011

Feb 16, 2009

12/371738

Michael A. James - Davie FL, US
Jeff Kaetterhenry - Davie FL, US

L&P Property Management Company - South Gate CA

D05B 11/00, D05B 65/00

11247508, 112117, 112197, 112286

A multi-needle chain-stitch quilting machine and method of operation thereof are provided that imparts relative motion between the needles and the material that is controlled so as to pull needle thread tails from the needle side of the quilted material. The feature of controlling thread tails may be optional to provide selection of either a high speed mode of operation without thread tail control or a quality mode of operation with reduction or removal of needle thread tails from the face of the quilted material. Thread trimmers may be included at each needle location on the looper side of the material to cut both needle and looper threads.