Janome Sewing Machine Company Limited

Koichi Watanabe

Susumu Hanyu

Kazumasa Hara

Noboru Kasuga

A lock stitching and overlock stitching machine has a primary driving means, a lock stitching device including a drive shaft, an overlock stitching device including a separate drive shaft and being spaced apart from the lock stitching device, the drive shafts of respective stitching devices being coupled to the primary driving means by a clutch means which is operable to rotate the drive shaft of the lock-stitching device in one direction relative to the user and the drive shaft of the overlock-stitching device in an opposite direction relative to the user.

Lock stitching and over-lock stitching sewing machine

A sewing machine having lock stitching device incorporated in a frame and driven by a primary driving member comprising a detachable overlock stitching device having its own needle bar driving mechanism spaced apart from the stitch forming part of the lock stitching device and driven by the same primary driving means. Preferably, a switching mechanism provides for the actuation of one stitching device while the other is at rest.

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Fussa, Japan

Koichi Watanabe