Patent ID: 7267063

Claim:
An embroidery presser for an embroidery machine, comprising: a sewing machine frame; a presser bar having a lower end; a presser-lifting operation lever operated so that the presser bar is vertically moved; a needle bar movable vertically; a holder attached to the lower end of the presser bar; a presser foot supported by the holder so as to be vertically movable and having a lower end provided with a cloth pressing portion intermittently pressing workpiece cloth by a vertical movement of the needle bar; a biasing member normally biasing the presser foot relative to the holder member elastically downward; a presser lifting mechanism abutting the sewing machine frame when the presser bar is lifted by operation of the operation lever, thereby lifting the presser foot relative to the holder; a moving mechanism capable of moving the cloth pressing portion from a lowered position where the cloth pressing portion is located below the holder by a biasing force of the biasing member so that the cloth pressing portion is movable further downward by downward movement of the needle bar; and an elastic member for returning the cloth pressing portion to the lowered position by lifting movement of the needle bar.