Patent ID: 6725791
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: D05B

Abstract:
A fabric guide device for a sewing machine used at sewing overlaid portion together by overlaying over-edge chain stitching portion face to face after opening a body (W) obtained by executing over-edge chain stitching to two fabrics, comprising an upper plate (9) disposed on the sewing machine bed (B) at the fabric feed side from a presser foot (5) in a state of keeping a certain clearance from the sewing machine bed (B), said upper plate (9) having a warped portion (9a) of the upward warp at fabric feed side portion thereof, and a middle plate (12) disposed beneath said warped portion (9a) for guiding an upper body (W) by the upper surface and a lower body (Wa) by a lower surface, said middle plate (12) being free to project and retreat from and into the sewing machine bed (B),wherein upper and lower bodies (W, Wa) having mutually projecting over-edge chain stitching portions (Wc, Wc) are disposed above and beneath the middle plate (12), and said bodies (W, Wa) are pulled in the state of the over-edge chain stitching portions (Wc, Wc) positioned at the fabric feed side from the middle plate (12), so that the over-edge chain stitching portions (Wc, Wc) are tilted to the fabric feed side at the middle plate (12).