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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
May. 21, 1998
Akira Nishio, Aichi-ken, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for supplying, to a sewing device, a connected belt-loop material including at least one connection portion where two long materials are connected to each other, the connection portion having a width greater than a substantially constant width of a remaining portion of the belt-loop material, the apparatus including a feeding device which feeds the belt-loop material toward the sewing device, and a positioning device which positions, in a direction extending parallel to the width of the belt-loop material, at least the remaining portion of the belt-loop material being fed by the feeding device, so that the remaining portion takes a reference position in the direction of width, the positioning device including a permitting device which permits the connection portion of the belt-loop material to be fed through the positioning device by the feeding device, without lowering an accuracy with which the remaining portion of the belt-loop material is positioned by the positioning device in the direction extending parallel to the width.