Tenter frame, guide and drive for embroidery machines
AssigneeSaurer Sticksysteme AG
InventorsJurg Henz, Hans Abegglen, Xueliang Yu
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Abstract
An embroidery machine having horizontally parallel fabric shafts for the vertically arranged embroidery fabric. A plurality of upper and lower horizontal guides are distributed over the length of the machine. One upper and one lower horizontal guide are each connected to a horizontal guide element by vertical connection elements, the horizontal guide elements and the fabric shafts each being vertically adjustable by a positioning drive in guides mounted on the machine.
Claims11
An embroidery machine to embroider a fabric mounted in a vertical plane, said machine having fabric shafts for mounting said embroidery fabric, said fabric shafts being arranged in parallel horizontally with respect to the ground, wherein said embroidery machine comprises:
- a machine frame;
- a plurality of upper and lower horizontal guides fixed to said machine frame and distributed along said embroidery machine;
- elongated vertical connection elements connecting one of said upper horizontal guides to one of said lower horizontal guides respectively to form several horizontal guide elements;
- several vertical positioning drives, one vertical positioning drive for each of said horizontal guide elements;
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- a plurality of vertical guides mounted stationarily on said machine frame, each of said horizontal guide elements being vertically adjustable in said vertical guides by one of said positioning drives, respectively.
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