Electronic sewing machine with pattern elongation system

Claim 1

An electronic sewing machine with a pattern elongation system of the type having a housing, stitch forming instrumentalities, a needle vertically and laterally reciprocated by rotation of an upper drive shaft and a fabric feeding device for transporting a fabric to be sewn with respect to the needle, a combination comprising pattern elongation selecting means operated to produce a pattern elongation signal designating the stitches of a selected pattern to be enlarged or reduced in a fabric feeding direction; a memory connected to the stitch forming instrumentalities and operative for storing stitch control data optionally addressed to read out to control at least the positions of the needle, said memory storing a discriminating signal in pair with each of the stitch control data in response to the enlarging or reducing designations of a pattern so that the stitch control data may be optionally read out; pulse generator means operated in synchronism with rotation of the upper drive shaft to produce a timing pulse per rotation of the upper shaft; addressing means including an oscillator operated in relation with the timing pulse of the pulse generator means to address the memory per stitch of the pattern and to thus progressively scan the locations of the stitch control data per stitch of the selected pattern; and comparator means for comparing the discriminating signal and the pattern elongation signal to cause the addressing means to determine the addresses of the stitch control data optionally addressed.