Patent ID: 7082885

Claim:
A sewing machine comprising: a needle bar supporting a sewing needle; a thread take-up lever; a needle thread supply; a thread tension regulator; a plurality of thread hooking sections including the thread take-up lever and the thread tension regulator; a needle threading mechanism to automatically pass a needle thread through an eye of the sewing needle; a thread transferring mechanism having a thread transferring member to retain and transfer the needle thread extending from the thread supply, wherein the thread transferring member is moveably arranged to operate up to the vicinity of the eye of the sewing needle and hook the needle thread on the thread take-up lever in the process of the transfer of the thread transferring member as well as having the capability of passing the needle thread through the eye of the sewing needle in co-operation with the needle threading mechanism when transferred to the vicinity of the eye; a needle bar thread guide provided on the lower end of the needle bar; and a thread guide thread hook mechanism having a thread hook member that is moveable in a vertical plane substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the needle bar, that is movable along a vertical surface of the needle bar from the stand-by position to the thread hooking position and that hooks the needle thread in the extent from the thread transferring member moved to the vicinity of the eye to the thread take-up lever to hook the needle thread onto the needle bar thread guide.