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US 2012/0234223 A1Published application
Sewing bobbin assembly and method thereof
OwnerGeoff McCueinventor
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Abstract
A sewing bobbin assembly and method that provides access of a sewing machine, and particularly a bobbin in the sewing machine, to a larger supply of thread with automatic reloading of the bobbin during use thereof.
Claims19
A bobbin assembly comprising:
- a bobbin;
- a thread support element for supporting a spool of thread;
- and
- an elongated tube for receiving thread from the spool and routing the thread through a sewing machine and to the bobbin.
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A method of sewing using a bobbin assembly, the method comprising:
- installing a spool having a thread on a thread support element;
- and
- feeding the thread from the spool into an elongated tube.
A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer instructions stored therein for causing a computer processor to perform the steps of:
- monitoring a condition of a bobbin;
- and
- executing a refilling process when the condition indicates that the bobbin is at least partially depleted of a thread,
- wherein the refilling process includes feeding the thread from a thread supply into an elongated tube.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.