System for supplying and setting materials in a condition to be sewn by a sewing machine

A system for supplying and setting two separate base materials in a condition to be sewn by a sewing machine, said system comprising:

• a table adapted to mount said sewing machine;
• a movable guide means which is slidably mounted on said table;
• a supplying mechanism for supplying said two separate base materials to said movable guide means, said supplying mechanism being provided at said table and including:
• a first storage means in which a plurality of one of said two base materials are stored in a piled-up manner;
• a second storage means in which a plurality of another of said two base materials are stored in a piled-up manner;
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• a robot-hand means displaceable between a selected one of said first and second storage means and said movable guide means, said robot-hand means including a pair of catching means for releasably engaging and catching a selected one of said two base materials and a pair of pressing means for applying a pressure to said selected one of said two base materials;
• and
• a setting mechanism for setting said two separate base materials and juxtaposing them together at a predetermined position upon said movable guide means, said setting mechanism including:
• a setting means arranged at and adjacent said movable guide means, said setting means being operable to act on said two base materials which are supplied to and juxtaposed on said movable guide means by means of said supplying mechanism, such that both said two separate base materials may be neatly set at said predetermined position on said movable guide means;
• a partition means extendable over said movable guide means and retractable therefrom, an arrangement of said partition means being such as to partition one of said two separate base materials which is directly placed by said supplying mechanism on said movable guide means, from another of said two separate base materials which is to be juxtaposed on the thus-placed one of said two base materials by said supplying mechanism;
• and
• a retaining means for pressingly retaining said another of said two separate base materials which is juxtaposed on and partitioned via said partition means, from said another of said two separate base materials.