Needle plate
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTomoyasu Niizeki, Hiroshi Yamasaki
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Abstract
A needle plate includes a first needle plate fixed to a sewing machine bed and having a needle hole through which a sewing needle is penetratable and a square hole through which a feed dog for feeding a workpiece cloth is projected and retracted; a second needle plate positioned in front of the first needle plate and above a horizontal hook mechanism and detachably attached to the first needle plate; an engagement mechanisms in which the second needle plate is slid into engagement with the first needle plate; and a disengagement mechanism for disengagement of the engagement mechanisms.
Claims9
A needle plate for a sewing machine placed on a sewing machine bed having a horizontal hook mechanism therein, the needle plate comprising:
- a first needle plate fixed to the sewing machine bed and having a needle hole through which a sewing needle is penetratable and a square hole through which a feed dog for feeding a workpiece cloth is projected and retracted;
- a second needle plate positioned in front of the first needle plate and above the horizontal hook mechanism and detachably attached to the first needle plate;
- an engagement mechanism in which the second needle plate is slid into engagement with the first needle plate;
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- a disengagement mechanism for disengagement of the engagement mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.