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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7392755 | Sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing A sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing is configured to specify a type of embroidery frame by shooting an embroidery frame placed on an upper surface of the bed by a CCD or a CMOS image sensor disposed in an underside of an arm from an obliquely upward direct... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7303063 | Sequential stepped movement staging device A sequential stepped movement staging device comprises six legs 70 of equal length extending radially from a central sphere 46 in an X-Y-Z orthogonal relationship. The sphere 46 and legs 70 are held in a horizontally fixed position relati... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7258071 | Embroidery frame transfer device and attachment An attachment 52 comprises: a carriage connecting section 74 connected to a carriage 12 of an embroidery frame transfer device 4; and a metal fastener fixed to an attaching block 32 at the right-hand end portion of the carriage con... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7210419 | Sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing and display control program therefor A sewing machine includes an embroidery stitching data storage storing embroidery stitching data of a plurality of divided patterns with respect to large-size embroidery patterns, a pattern display data storage storing pattern display data for displaying each large-... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7185597 | Method for manufacturing a medical implant A method for stitching thread onto the wall of a tubular medical implant (preferably a graft) employs a sewing machine with an elongate bobbin or a needle on an elongate element, depending on whether it is desired to sew from the outside-in or the inside-out. A moto... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7100523 | Embroidery frame for caps An embroidery frame for a cap includes a cap support having a pair of side walls capable of being disposed at both sides of a cylinder bed so that the side walls are parallel to a direction of extension of the cylinder bed, a pair of body supports mounted on the upp... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7089079 | Sewing machine and computer program A sewing machine of the present disclosure is provided with a sewing device capable of pattern sewing by controlling a needle swinging mechanism that swings a vertically reciprocating needle bar in a horizontal direction and a cloth feeding mechanism having a feed d... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7056402 | Technical production method, tension module and sewing material holder for creating textile preforms for the production of fibre-reinforced plastic components A ready-made technical process for manufacturing fiber-reinforced plastic building components envisions the use of a link and, optionally, a flange and/or a base using textile blanks as starting material. Initially, at least two layers of the textile blanks are posi... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7017504 | Method for cutting out a cutting from a web of endless textile fabric for producing workpieces from a fiber/plastic composite A method for cutting out a cutting (13) from a web (1) of endless textile fabric for producing workpieces from a fiber/plastic composite is described, with the web (1) of endless fabric made up of fiber strands (2, 3) being stitched at fi... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6955132 | Method and apparatus for splicing indeterminate length fiber tow ends Indeterminate length fiber tows ends are joined by overlapping end portions of the first and second fiber tows. The first and second tows are secured in a clamp with a portion of the overlapping area exposed. The overlapping area of the tows is positioned on a sewin... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6748886 | Workpiece formed with pattern and method and apparatus for manufacturing the same A patterned cloth is made by which a pattern is formed on a surface of a work cloth by passing a thread through the work cloth a number of times and forming a plurality of free loops on the reverse side of the work cloth. A double-sided adhesive tape is provided to ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6722299 | CNC controlled buttonhole sewing machine A CNC controlled buttonhole sewing machine comprises work piece clamps with sliding drives for displacement from an initial position of spread, by a length of spread, into a final position of spread. The sliding drive is an electric positioning motor that is allocat... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6708076 | Sewing apparatus management system In a sewing apparatus management system of the invention, a management computer is connected to each terminal provided to a plurality of embroidery sewing machines via a network line. In a memory of the management computer, classification information classified into... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6647908 | Microprocessor-assisted sewing machine control equipment A microprocessor-assisted sewing machine control equipment is flexibly applicable for controlling the sewing machine driving motor and further electric motors which are controlled independently of or in dependence on the rotary position. To this end, a co... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6567721 | Automatic sewing machine controller An automatic sewing machine control apparatus having a machine needle 8 which is interlocked with a motor for use in sewing cloth 12, a biaxial driving mechanism 20 allowing a cloth hold-down portion 10 to be manually moved in both X- and Y-axis direction... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6401641 | Apparatus and method for producing a pattern on a piece of material An apparatus for stitching a penetrable material. The apparatus has a support for material to be stitched and a head assembly with a stitching head capable of directing a thread carrying needle through the material to be stitched that is in an operable po... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6356648 | Embroidery data processor An embroidery data processor includes: a thinning unit that reduces thickness of lines in the image data to produce thin-line image data including at least one thin-line outline defining a bounded region corresponding to a region of the embroidery pattern... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6189467 | Sewing machine having a display device In a sewing machine, a CPU reads a color display data of an embroidery pattern selected by a user from a ROM and generates a subtractive color data by subtracting colors included in the color display data. The CPU then writes the subtractive color data in... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6098556 | Apparatus for altering length of trousers Apparatus for altering length of trousers, including a controller including an input device for inputting customer-dictated parameters for altering a leg of a pair of trousers after manufacture thereof, and a cutting head in electrical communication with ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5974996 | Electronically controlled sewing system A sewing system including a stitch-forming device including at least one sewing needle, for forming stitches on at least one workpiece; a feeding device which feeds at least one of the stitch-forming device and the workpiece relative to the other of the s... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5960731 | Control method of contour sewing machine and control apparatus thereof The object of the present invention is to provide a sewing movement control method and a contour sewing machine wherein sewing data can be shared. To achieve the above object, the contour sewing machine according to the present is provided with sewing hol... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5941185 | Optical filament insertion apparatus Apparatus and a method for producing articles in which ends of optical filaments are inserted in a fabric; trailing lengths of filament are drawn from the inserted ends, and are captive in a terminal block; many inserted ends form one or more display patt... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5934213 | Process for accurately determining the zero point of the needle of the sewing machine of an automatic sewing unit A process for accurately determining the needle zero point of the sewing machine (4) of an automatic sewing unit (1) in relation to a positioning opening (12) of a fabric holder (10). The fabric holder (10) is connected to two feed parts (13, 14) displace... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5915316 | Embroidering and laser processing machine An embroidering and laser processing machine including at least one sewing head, one laser head and one laser generator, a work holder mounted on a machine table capable of movement in an X-axis and Y-axis direction according to predetermined movement dat... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5867391 | Sewing data processor for preparing sewing data for use in sewing machines A sewing data processor including input unit for inputting a sewing pattern to be sewn on a cloth using a sewing machine; sewing data preparation unit for preparing sewing data to be used in the sewing machine for sewing the sewing pattern, the sewing dat... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5865135 | Method and apparatus for producing a hemmed folded and seamed finished workpiece A hemming and seaming machine is disclosed, the machine having a hemming conveyor on which a workpiece is moved along a first leg of a U-shaped path of travel toward and through a hemming station which sews a hem in the workpiece. Thereafter, the hemmed w... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5839382 | Electronically geared sewing machine This invention relates to a method and apparatus for electronically gearing the sewing parts of a sewing machine, and more particularly it relates to electronically gearing the bobbin to the needle to eliminate the necessity of their physical coupling thr... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5839379 | Apparatus for making a pillow or blanket case An apparatus for making a pillow or blanket case from a textile strip has a vertically movable gripper engageable with one of the end edges of the strip, a support surface generally below the movable gripper, a conveyor defining a horizontal transport dir... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5790687 | Method and apparatus for the optical determination of the orientation of a garment workpiece An improved method and apparatus for optical determination of the orientation of a garment workpiece by locating a seam on a stationary workpiece formed from at least two sub-pieces sewn together along that seam. The device consists of a light emitting su... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5778807 | Eyelet-end buttonhole sewing machine wherein stitching data is compensated according to a designed one of compensation data sets A buttonhole sewing machine including stitching instrumentalities for forming zigzag stitches defining an eyelet-end buttonhole having an eyelet end portion at one end of a foot portion, by operations of a driving mechanism for operating a needle and loop... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5777880 | Method and apparatus for correctively guiding a cutting device on a predetermined path along a sheet material A method and apparatus for correctively guiding an item on a desired path along a material is provided wherein a guide path matching a desired path for an item to be guided along a material and a plurality of templates containing images of the material ar... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5755171 | Control apparatus and method for sewing machine A control apparatus for a sewing machine in which a microcomputer in the control unit of the sewing machine is provided with a sequence control function, and an on-signal for setting and removing a workpiece is incorporated into the sewing data, whereby n... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5752456 | Eyelet-end buttonhole sewing machine wherein tacking data for bar tack are generated based on operator-specified characteristics of the bar tack A buttonhole sewing machine including stitching instrumentalities for forming zigzag stitches defining an eyelet-end buttonhole having an eyelet end portion at one end of a foot portion, by operations of a driving mechanism for operating needle and looper... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5748480 | Embroidery data processing apparatus A system for processing embroidery data which are used to control a sewing machine to form stitches filling an embroidery area and thereby produce an embroidery on at least one work sheet, the system including an outline-data obtaining device which obtain... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5740057 | Embroidery data creating device There is provided an embroidery data creating device, in which image data is obtained by scanning a figure, and then closed areas surrounded by a connected line are determined in accordance with the image data. The closed areas are displayed on a screen o... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5657710 | Automatic garment manufacture An apparatus for automatically forming a finished sleeve or pant leg for a sweat suit or the like is disclosed. The invention consists of six sub-assemblies: 1) a garment piece positioner and seamer; 2) a cuff making apparatus; 3) a cuff inserting apparat... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5649497 | Sewing apparatus A sewing apparatus is provided with an X-Y unit 4 for horizontally moving a cassette in relation to a sewing machine 3, memory 23 for holding sewing data for driving the X-Y unit 4 in accordance with a sewing pattern and feeding data for feeding only the ... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5648908 | Computer-aided embroidery machine for pattern and data preparing and testing and method of using the same A computer-aided embroidery method for preparation and testing of a predetermined pattern is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of (a) comparing the size of said pattern with an embroidery table device to determine if an intended embroidery operati... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5632214 | Workpiece pallet having a detachable workpiece holder A workpiece pallet for transporting and holding one or more workpieces to be sewn in a programmable sewing machine. The workpiece pallet comprises a frame member having a locator which can be removably secured to the frame member. In a preferred embodimen... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5611468 | Folding device for an automatic sewing machine Above a workpiece-receiving plate for an lower workpiece, a folding device for an automatic sewing machine comprises two swords, namely a lower sword and an upper sword for receiving an intermediate workpiece and an upper workpiece, respectively. For the ... | 03/18/1997 |
