Patent ID: 7934461

Claim:
A sewing machine comprising: a plurality of machine heads; at least one sequin feeder apparatus provided for each of said machine heads; grouping means for grouping a desired number of machine heads of said plurality of machine heads into a group, in order to sew a sequin-contained embroidery pattern; setting means for variably setting a sequin feed pitch independently for each of said sequin feeder apparatus of the machine heads grouped into the group, wherein, in the group, a selected one of said sequin feeder apparatus performs a sequin sewing operation, the selected sequin feeder apparatus feeding out a sequin toward a needle drop location in accordance with the feed pitch set for the selected sequin feeder apparatus via said setting means, each of said machine heads is a multi-needle head arranged to selectively set any one of a plurality of needle bars at the needle drop location to perform the sewing operation, and said sequin feeder apparatus is provided in correspondence with a position of at least one of the needle bars in the multi-needle head, said sawing machine further comprising a number-of-rotation setting means for setting a number of machine rotations for use when the needle bar corresponding to said sequin feeder apparatus has been selected in the multi-needle head, independently of a number of machine rotations for use when other of the needle bars has been selected in the multi-needle head.