Heat Cutting Device For Embroidery Sewing Machine

A heat cutting device for an embroidery sewing machine which performs desired processing on a workpiece, held on an embroidery frame, by partly heating the workpiece, said heat cutting device comprising:

• a heat cutter having a heatable heating distal end section, said distal end section being movable among a processing position where said heating distal end section is kept pressed against the workpiece, a standby position located away from the workpiece and a retracted position located farther away from the workpiece than the standby position;
• a pressing member for pressing down the workpiece on the embroidery frame, said pressing member being movable between an operating position where said pressing member presses down the workpiece and a non-operating position where said pressing member does not press down the workpiece;
• an interlocking drive device for effecting movement of said pressing member between the operating position and the non-operating position and movement of said heating distal end section between the standby position and the retracted position in interlocked relation to each other;
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• a heating-distal-end-section driving device for, while said pressing member is in the operating position, driving said heating distal end section to move between the standby position and the processing position.