Sewing machine
AssigneeJuki Corporation
InventorTakashi Watanabe
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Abstract
A sewing machine includes a feed dog partially protruding out up and down from a throat plate to feed a workpiece, a sewing needle configured to perform stitch points on the workpiece by moving up and down, and a shuttle configured to capture an upper thread passed through the sewing needle below the throat plate to be entwined with a lower thread. The feed dog includes a top plate having teeth formed on an upper surface thereof, and a support portion to which a feed operation relative to the top plate is input. The top plate includes an insertion hole that the sewing needle penetrates up and down, and a pair of wall portions extending in an up-and-down direction respectively on one side and another side in a feed direction of the workpiece relative to the insertion hole on a lower surface side of the top plate.
Claims5
A sewing machine comprising:
- a feed dog partially protruding out up and down from a throat plate to feed a workpiece;
- a sewing needle configured to perform stitch points on the workpiece by moving up and down;
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- a shuttle configured to capture an upper thread passed through the sewing needle below the throat plate to be entwined with a lower thread,
- wherein the feed dog includes:
- a top plate having teeth formed on an upper surface thereof, and
- a support portion to which a feed operation relative to the top plate is input, and
- wherein the top plate includes:
- an insertion hole that the sewing needle penetrates up and down,
- a pair of wall portions extending in an up-and-down direction respectively on one side and another side in a feed direction of the workpiece relative to the insertion hole on a lower surface side of the top plate,
- each wall portion on a lower thread feed port side of the shuttle of the pair of wall portions has an inner side surface on an insertion hole side inclined in a direction away from the insertion hole as approaching downward, and
- the inner side surface is separated from an inner wall of the insertion hole as approaching downward.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.