Patent ID: 7293514
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: D05B

Abstract:
1. An embroidery unit detachably attached to a sewing machine bed provided with a cloth feed mechanism including a feed dog and having an X-transfer mechanism and a Y-transfer mechanism that carries an embroidery frame in an X-direction parallel to a lengthwise direction of the sewing machine bed and a Y-direction perpendicular to the X-direction, the embroidery unit comprising: an embroidery unit main body attached to the sewing machine bed either in an embroidery attachment position for performing embroidery sewing with an embroidery frame or in a normal sewing attachment position for performing a sewing operation by the feed dog of the cloth feed mechanism; and an auxiliary cover that is selectively placeable above the embroidery unit main body and selectively placeable below the embroidery unit main body.