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US 6,925,946 B1Granted
Embroidery machine
AssigneeSunstar Precision Co., Ltd.
InventorDoo-Hwa Kang
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Abstract
An embroidery machine can simultaneously embroider sewing objects having various shapes, including a flat object, an object having a shape of a usual processed cloth, an object having a shape of a cap, etc. The embroidery machine comprises a plurality of sewing heads grouped into at least two working groups, and the embroidering frames, each of which is arranged for one of the working groups. The embroidering frames have structures either identical to each other or different from each other. Therefore, one conventional embroidery machine can simultaneously embroider more than one kind of sewing objects, including at least two of a flat sewing object, a tubular sewing object, and a cap-shaped sewing object.
Claims34
An embroidery machine comprising:
- a plurality of sewing heads installed at an upper portion of a working table while being spaced a predetermined distance apart from each other;
- a plurality of shuttle beds being located at positions vertically corresponding to the sewing heads, the shuttle beds being arranged in a line;
- a plurality of embroidering frames installed between the sewing heads and the shuttle beds while being movable in X- and Y-axis directions;
- a plurality of X-axis, drivers for moving each of the embroidering frames in the X-axis direction;
- a plurality of Y-axis drivers for moving each of the embroidering frames in the Y-axis direction;
- controller for controlling driving of the X and Y axis drivers;
- operating panel for displaying all information required for an embroidery pattern and an operation of embroidering and enabling input of the information;
- and
- embroidering frames having at least two different structures, which each of the embroidering frames is arranged for one of at least two working groups which the sewing heads are grouped into;
- and
- wherein each of the embroidering frames includes at least one of a border frame unit, a tubular frame unit, and a cap frame drive unit, and a plurality of units corresponding to the plurality of heads are installed at each of the work groups are integrally formed on each other when the embroidery frame is the tubular frame unit or the cap frame drive unit.
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An embroidery machine comprising:
- a plurality of sewing heads installed at an upper portion of a working table while being spaced a predetermined distance apart from each other;
- a plurality of shuttle beds being located at positions vertically
- corresponding to the sewing:
- heads, the shuttle beds being arranged in a line;
- a plurality of embroidering frames installed between the sewing heads and the shuttle beds while being movable in X- and Y-axis directions;
- a plurality of X-axis drivers for moving each of the embroidering frames in the X-axis direction;
- a plurality of Y-axis drivers for moving each of the embroidering frames in the Y-axis direction;
- controller for controlling driving of the X and Y axis drivers;
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- operating panel for displaying all information required for an embroidery pattern and an operation of embroidering and enabling input of the information;
- embroidering frames having at least two different structures, which each of the embroidering frames is arranged for one of at least two working groups which the sewing heads are grouped into;
- and
- wherein the operating panel be located at a boundary between two working groups when the two working groups are used.
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An embroidery machine comprising:
- a plurality of sewing heads installed at an upper portion of a working table while being spaced a predetermined distance apart from each other;
- a plurality of shuttle beds being located at positions vertically corresponding to the sewing heads, the shuttle beds being arranged in a line;
- a plurality of embroidering frames installed between the sewing heads and the shuttle beds while being movable in X- and Y-axis directions;
- a plurality of X-axis drivers for moving each of the embroidering frames in the X-axis direction;
- a plurality of Y-axis drivers for moving each of the embroidering frames in the Y-axis direction;
- controller or controlling driving of the X and Y axis drivers;
- operating panel for displaying all information required for an embroidery pattern and an operation of embroidering and enabling input of the information;
- and
- embroidering frames having structures identical to each other, which each of the embroidering frames is arranged for one of at least two working groups which the sewing heads are grouped into;
- and
- wherein each of the embroidering frames includes anyone of a border frame unit, a tubular frame unit, or a cap frame drive unit, and a plurality of units corresponding to the plurality of heads are installed at each of the work groups are integrally formed on each other when the embroidery frame is the tubular frame unit or the cap frame drive unit.
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An embroidery machine comprising:
- a plurality of sewing, heads installed at an upper portion of a working table while being spaced a predetermined distance apart from each other;
- a plurality of shuttle beds being located at positions vertically corresponding to the sewing heads, the shuttle beds being arranged in a line;
- a plurality of embroidering frames installed between the sewing heads and the shuttle beds while being movable in X- and Y-axis directions;
- a plurality of X-axis drivers for moving each of the embroidering frames in the X-axis direction;
- a plurality of Y-axis drivers for moving each of the embroidering frames in the Y-axis direction;
- controller for controlling driving of the X and Y axis drivers;
- and
- operating panel for displaying all information required for an embroidery pattern and an operation of embroidering and enabling input of the information;
- embroidering frames having structures identical to each other, which each of the embroidering frames is arranged for one of at least two working groups which the sewing heads are grouped into;
- and
- wherein the operating panel be located at a boundary between two working groups when the two working groups are used.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.