Sewing – Elements – Thread cutting – severing or breaking
Patent
1990-08-20
1992-01-14
Nerbun, Peter
Sewing
Elements
Thread cutting, severing or breaking
112237, 11212111, 112300, D05B 6500
Patent
active
050800310
ABSTRACT:
A sewing machine having a needle thread cutting unit and a needle thread holding device for holding a cut leading end portiion of the thread drawn from an eye of a needle. The needle thread holding device includes a holding means provided at the pressure foot. The holding means is movable between a needle thread clamping position and a needle thread releasing position. The holding device also includes drive means connected to the holding means for selectively moving the holding means to one of the needle thread releasing position and the needle thread clamping position, pressure foot position detection means for detecting a position of the pressure foot, needle position detector for generating a needle position signal indicative of the upper needle position and the lower needle position, and control means connected to the pressure foot position detection means the sewing machine energization signal generating means and the needle position detector. The controlling means maintains the holding means at its thread clamping position when the pressure foot is at its non-operative position after cutting the needle thread. The controlling means also maintains the holding means at its clamp position during a predetermined number of stitches at a starting phase of a next sewing operation.
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Ito Kazuhisa
Suzuki Hajime
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Nerbun Peter
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