Sewing cartridge
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuhiro Shimizu, Toshiyuki Mamiya
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Abstract
A sewing cartridge includes a housing case and an openable cover. The housing case has a housing area for accommodating a thread therein, and the openable cover has a thread holding mechanism for holding the thread supplied from the housing area. In the sewing cartridge, the housing case is movable with respect to the openable cover. While the thread supplied from the housing area is hold, the sewing cartridge is attached to a sewing apparatus. In this state, when the housing case is moved up and down with respect to the openable cover, a predetermined length of the thread can be drawn from the housing area while the thread holding mechanism holds the thread with an adequate holding strength.
Claims26
A sewing cartridge having a cartridge body and detachably attached to a sewing apparatus that performs sewing on a workpiece, comprising:
- a first portion having a thread holding member that holds a thread;
- and
- a second portion having a thread supply portion that supplies the thread to the thread holding member, wherein the first portion and the second portion form the cartridge body, and the first portion and the second portion are movable in relation to each other toward directions distant from and close to each other.
A sewing cartridge having a cartridge body and detachably attached to a sewing apparatus that performs sewing on a workpiece, comprising:
- a first portion having a thread holding member that holds a thread;
- and
- a second portion having a thread supply portion that supplies the thread to the thread holding member, wherein the first portion and the second portion form the cartridge body, and the first portion and the second portion are movable in relation to each other toward directions distant from and close to each other, and the first portion and the second portion have a first engagement portion and a second engagement portion, respectively, that are engaged with different portions of the sewing apparatus, wherein the first portion and the second portion are moved relative to each other by the sewing apparatus via the first and second engagement portions.
A sewing cartridge having a cartridge body and detachably attached to a sewing apparatus that performs sewing on a workpiece, comprising:
- a first portion having a thread holding member that holds a thread;
- and
- a second portion having a thread supply portion that supplies the thread to the thread holding member;
- and
- a needle passing through the workpiece for sewing on the workpiece, wherein the first portion and the second portion form the cartridge body, and the first portion and the second portion are movable in relation to each other toward directions distant from and close to each other, and the sewing cartridge is structured from the first portion provided away from the workpiece and the second portion provided adjacent to the workpiece with a plane including a boundary dividing the sewing cartridge into the first and second portions transversing a direction that the needle passes through the workpiece, and each of the first and second portions can take an open position in relation to each other where each of the first and second portions locates distant from each other and a closed position in relation to each other where each of the first and second portions locates close to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.