Patent ID: 7984682

Claim:
A multiple needle sewing machine for sewing large-area sewing material which consists of at least two layers, wherein at least one layer is formed of an elastic material, said multiple needle sewing machine comprising a sewing unit, a supply device for the layers to be sewn together, a storage device for withdrawing and receiving the sewn layers from the sewing unit, as well as a device which is arranged upstream of the sewing unit and by which the layer of elastic material is supplied to the sewing unit in a non-stretched condition or tendentiously in the region of the device in a tendentiously compressed condition, together with said layers, while retaining the compression, characterized in that the device which is arranged upstream of the sewing unit includes cylinders which guide the layers to be sewn together and which are adapted for being automatically driven, the rotational speeds of the cylinders capable of being adjusted independently from each other.