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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1989
Abstract
A sewing system for substantially automatically producing a stitched textile articles by employing a plurality of sewing machines arranged at every manufacturing step. The sewing system includes a holder for holding a workpiece, a plurality of sewing machines capable of performing programmed sewings, a holding member releasably holding the holder, and driving means effecting relative movement between a needle and the holding member in accordance with a sewing program for the programmed sewing, a transferring unit for selectively moving the holder to one of the sewing machines, identification means for identifying a kind of the holder, a memory unit storing therein the sewing programs and data indicative of transferring destinations of the holder transferred by the transferring unit, the sewing programs and the destination data being stored with respect to every kind of one of the holder and the workpiece, and a control unit for reading the sewing program and the destination data from the memory unit in accordance with a result of identification by means of the identification means, and for transmitting the read sewing program to the sewing machine toward which the holder is transferred, as well as for driving the transferring unit in accordance with the destination data.