Patent ID: 6223667
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: D05B

Abstract:
A belt-loop sewing machine having a belt-loop supply unit structured to cut an elongated tape into sectioned tapes, each having a predetermined length, and incorporating paired forks which fold back the two ends of the sectioned tape toward the center of the tape to form and hold a belt loop so as to supply the belt loop held by the forks to a sewing position so that the two folded portions of the belt-loop are sewn on a workpiece at the sewing position, said belt-loop sewing machine comprising:movement-locus control means for controlling the movement locus of said forks such that a forward movement locus of said forks which move from a retracting position to the sewing position via a belt-loop forming position and backward movement locus of said forks which move from the sewing position to the retracting position are different from each other.