Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha

Koya Kimura

Shinji Machi

Takao Manabe

Shigetugu Matunaga

Kunitaka Maeda

A sheet having marks corresponding to stitch positions along a sewing pattern curve is mounted on a programmer table. A stylus to be positioned at the mark is removably mounted on a movable member which is moved on the table in orthogonal directions by a pair of pulse motors. There are provided memory medium having a memory area for storing pulses applied to the pulse motors between two adjacent marks along the sewing pattern curve corresponding to at least one address, first control means including a ROM writer for transferring the content of the memory medium to a nonvolatile memory means such as ROM or PROM, second control means for reading the content of the memory medium or of the nonvolatile memory means for producing an instruction pulse train for moving the movable member by the pulse motors, and a cutting tool for forming a groove of said pattern curve through a cloth clamping plate mounted on the movable member by the second control means. The first and second control means are constituted by a microcomputer system.

Programming apparatus of automatic sewing machines

In an automatic sewing machine of the type comprising a memory device storing a predetermined sewing pattern, a movable head including a cloth clamping member for clamping a piece of cloth to be sewed to a movable head, a pulse motor controlled by an electric signal read out from the memory device for moving the movable head at a predetermined speed thereby sewing the piece of cloth according to the sewing pattern, a working tool is mounted on the sewing machine, and a blank of a cloth clamping member is mounted on the movable head at a position to be worked by the working tool. At this time the pulse motor is driven at a speed lower than the predetermined speed, thereby working the blank to have a profile corresponding to the sewing pattern.

Automatic sewing machine

A speed detector for detecting the speed of a moving body is of the type including a magnetic core, a detection coil wound about the core, a magnet with one pole thereof faced toward the periphery of the detection coil with a definite air gap therebetween, and means for relatively moving the magnet with respect to the core and the coil in accordance with the movement of the moving body. the magnet is arranged such that the magnetic flux produced thereby crosses the detection coil two times, thereby inducing a direct current voltage in the detection coil having a magnitude proportional to the speed of movement of the moving body and a polarity depending upon the direction of movement thereof.

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Numazu, Japan

Koya Kimura