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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2008
Nobuaki Matsumoto, Nagoya, JP;
Yasuhiro Watanabe, Tokoname, JP;
Kazutoshi Hayashi, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A circular stitcher for a sewing machine having a bed and a needle plate, and a feed dog includes a base attachable to an upper surface of the bed or the needle plate; a pin support seized movably in a predetermined direction by the base and having an engagement subject; a pin having an engagement engagable with the engagement subject of the pin support and a needle that pierces a workpiece cloth from an underside of the workpiece cloth at a laterally spaced position from a needle drop point, the needle assuming a center of rotational cloth feed executed by the feed dog during circular stitching; and a lock mechanism provided in the pin support and releasably locking the engagement and the engagement subject together.