Patent ID: 7191718

Claim:
An apparatus for quilting a multilayered fabric comprising: a pair of chain stitch forming heads moveable parallel to a fabric to be quilted on opposite sides of the fabric, the heads including a needle head including a needle reciprocatable through the fabric and a looper head including a looper reciprocatable proximate the needle and adjacent the fabric to quilt; a needle drive linear servo motor having a stationary portion fixed to the needle head and a moveable portion mounted to reciprocate on the stationary portion and having a needle fixed thereto to reciprocate therewith through the fabric; a looper drive servo operable including a stationary portion fixed to the looper head and a moveable portion having the looper fixed thereto and operable to reciprocate the looper proximate the needle adjacent the fabric; and a controller programmed to control the linear servo motors to reciprocate the needle and looper in programmed cyclic motion and in synchronized cycles to quilt the fabric with series of chain stitches in accordance with a programmed quilt pattern.