DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY FEEDING CURTAIN HOOKS TO A SEWING MACHINE
For feeding curtain hooks, each consisting of a strip (1) and the hook (5) connected thereto, to a sewing machine which can sew the strip of an infed curtain hook onto a curtain pleat, use is made of a device comprising a storage holder (12) for the curtain hooks, and movement means (9) for moving one curtain hook at a time from the storage holder (12) to a desired position for sewing on the strip of that curtain hook. According to the invention, the movement means (9) move the curtain hooks only in one straight line, the storage holder (12) is in the form of a vertical tube in which the curtain hooks can be stored stacked on top of one another, the bottom end of the storage holder (12) lies in or just above the straight movement path of the moving part (25) of the movement means (9), so that said moving part (25) can pick up the bottom hook in the storage holder (12), and the moving part (25) of the movement means (9) can return to the initial position during sewing on of the strip of the curtain hook held in position by the pressure foot of the sewing machine.