US 2013/0092067 A1Published application

Fly Sewing Machine

AssigneeYKK Corporation

InventorsToshiaki Sawada, Yoshifumi Nakata

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Abstract

There is provided a fly sewing machine. A fly supply unit is configured to supply flies to a transfer passage. A fly transfer unit is configured to transfer and send the fly supplied by the fly supply unit toward the downstream side thereof. A chain feed unit is configured to feed a slide fastener chain onto the flies sent by the fly transfer unit. An auxiliary conveyance unit is configured to press the flies and the slide fastener chain which are overlapped by the chain feed unit from above or below, and to send the flies and the slide fastener chain toward the downstream side thereof. A sewing machine part is configured to stitch together the flies and the slide fastener chain sent by the auxiliary conveyance unit.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A fly sewing machine configured to continuously stitch a plurality of flies each made of a piece of cloth to an elongated slide fastener chain, the fly sewing machine comprising:

a fly supply unit configured to supply the flies to a fly transfer passage;
a fly transfer unit disposed downstream of the fly supply unit and configured to transfer and send the flies supplied by the fly supply unit to a downstream side thereof;
a chain feed unit disposed downstream of the fly transfer unit and configured to feed the slide fastener chain onto the flies sent by the fly transfer unit;
an auxiliary conveyance unit disposed downstream of the chain feed unit and configured to press the flies and the slide fastener chain which are overlapped by the chain feed unit from above or below and to send the flies and the slide fastener chain to a downstream side thereof;
and
a sewing machine part disposed downstream of the auxiliary conveyance unit and configured to stitch the flies to the slide fastener chain.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.