Embroidery unit and auxiliary cover for sewing machine
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroaki Fukao
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Abstract
An embroidery unit of the present disclosure is detachably attached to a sewing machine bed including a feed dog mechanism having a feed dog. The embroidery unit includes an X-transfer mechanism and a Y-transfer mechanism moving an embroidery frame to an X-direction parallel to a lengthwise direction of the sewing machine bed and a Y-direction perpendicular to the X-direction respectively. The embroidery unit further includes an embroidery unit main body attached to the sewing machine bed either in an embroidery attachment position for performing embroidery sewing with an embroidery frame or in a normal sewing attachment position for performing a sewing operation by the feed dog of the cloth feed mechanism.
Claims20
An embroidery unit detachably attached to a sewing machine bed provided with a cloth feed mechanism including a feed dog and having an X-transfer mechanism and a Y-transfer mechanism that carries an embroidery frame in an X-direction parallel to a lengthwise direction of the sewing machine bed and a Y-direction perpendicular to the X-direction, the embroidery unit comprising:
- an embroidery unit main body attached to the sewing machine bed either in an embroidery attachment position for performing embroidery sewing with an embroidery frame or in a normal sewing attachment position for performing a sewing operation by the feed dog of the cloth feed mechanism.
An embroidery unit detachably attached to a sewing machine bed provided with a leftwardly extending free arm and having an X-transfer mechanism and a Y-transfer mechanism that carries an embroidery frame in an X-direction parallel to a lengthwise direction of the sewing machine bed and a Y-direction perpendicular to the X-direction, the embroidery unit comprising:
- an embroidery unit main body including the X-transfer mechanism and the Y-transfer mechanism and attached detachably to the sewing machine bed and having a main portion, when attached to the sewing machine bed, is located below an upper surface thereof, the main portion being provided with the X-transfer mechanism and the Y-transfer mechanism;
- a Y-carriage mechanism provided on the Y-transfer mechanism so as to protrude above the main portion and moved in the X-direction in a position further left from a left end of the free arm;
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- an auxiliary lid attached detachably to an upper surface of the embroidery unit main body so as to cover the Y-carriage mechanism such that an upper surface of the auxiliary lid and an upper surface of the sewing machine bed is substantially at level.
An auxiliary cover attached to an embroidery unit detachably attached to a sewing machine bed having an X-transfer mechanism and a Y-transfer mechanism that carries an embroidery frame in an X-direction parallel to a lengthwise direction of the sewing machine bed and a Y-direction perpendicular to the X-direction, the auxiliary cover comprising:
- a cover main body placed above the embroidery unit and attached to the sewing machine bed with the embroidery unit, at which point an upper surface of the auxiliary cover is substantially level with an upper surface of the sewing machine bed.
A sewing machine having a sewing machine bed provided with a cloth feed mechanism including a feed dog, the sewing machine comprising:
- an embroidery unit having an X-transfer mechanism and a Y-transfer mechanism that carries an embroidery frame in an X-direction parallel to a lengthwise direction of the sewing machine bed and a Y-direction perpendicular to the X-direction wherein the embroidery unit is capable of being detachably attached to the sewing machine bed in an embroidery attachment position for performing embroidery sewing with an embroidery frame and a normal sewing attachment position for performing a sewing operation by the feed dog of the cloth feed mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.