Embroidery machine with center drive
AssigneeSaurer Sticksysteme AG
InventorsJurg Henz, Hans Abegglen, Manfred Zesch
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Abstract
The invention pertains to an embroidery machine with a plurality of embroidery stations provided with corresponding embroidery tools which are attached to shafts that oscillate during the operation of the machine and extend along the embroidery machine. The shafts are actuated via corresponding drives. To reduce the torsion as well as the torsional oscillation of long shafts which leads to a distortion of the movement of the embroidery tools and to a chronological phase displacement between the front and the rear portion of the machine, the drives for the needles and for the other embroidery tools are arranged approximately in the center of the embroidery machine.
Claims8
An embroidery machine comprising a plurality of embroidery stations, each embroidery station being provided with embroidery tools, wherein said tools comprise a needle, a borer and a thread guide on one side of material being embroidered and a shuttle on an opposite side of the material being embroidered, said plurality of embroidery stations being arranged horizontally next to each other, said needles, borers, thread guides and shuttles of each embroidery station being driven by shafts corresponding to each of said tools, said shafts extending horizontally between all said embroidery stations, wherein each of said shafts is driven by its own drive unit wherein said drive units are arranged substantially in a center portion of the embroidery machine, along a length thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.