Sewing machine
AssigneeJanome Sewing Machine Co., Ltd.
InventorTakeshi Kongo
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Abstract
A sewing machine includes a embroidery frame that moves horizontally while stretching and supporting a sewing object, a needle bar that supports a needle that penetrates a needle thread in the sewing object, and that reciprocally moves relative to the sewing object stretched by the embroidery frame, and a control device that controls the horizontal movement of the embroidery frame and the reciprocal motion of the needle bar. This control device includes a line input unit that accepts selection of the motif and input of a line which the motifs are arranged on in sequence. In addition, the control device horizontally moves the embroidery frame a way that the motifs selected using the line input unit are arranged in sequence on the sewing object along the line.
Claims8
A sewing machine comprising:
- an embroidery frame that moves horizontally while stretching and supporting a sewing object;
- a needle bar that supports a needle that penetrates a needle thread in the sewing object, and that reciprocally moves relative to the sewing object stretched by the embroidery frame;
- a control unit that controls the horizontal movement of the embroidery frame and the reciprocal motion of the needle bar;
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- an input unit that accepts selection of a motif and input of a line which the motifs are arranged on in sequence,
- wherein the control unit horizontally moves the embroidery frame in way that the motifs are arranged in sequence on the sewing object along the line, and
- wherein the control unit horizontally moves the embroidery frame and reciprocally moves the needle bar so as to arrange the motifs in sequence on the sewing object along a shape of the line extended toward an additional point, the input unit accepts designation of the additional point while arranging the motifs on the sewing object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.