PURPOSE: To select a frame kind only from frames possessed by an user, namely, registered frames by memorizing the embroidery frame limit data of all embroidery frames, registering embroidery frames possessed by the user from the data or also registering originally produced embroidery frames (custom frames).
CONSTITUTION: A frame kind can be selected from frames registered by registering possessing frames from a memory MEM 1 memorizing frame limit data and a memory MEM 2 memorizing the limit data of originally produced frames, and the selection is easy, because the inputted frame limit data, the registered frames and the selected frames are memorized, after the electric source is switched off. The safety of the selection is checked by comparing the frame data with the data of pattern outer appearances so that the needles are not moved out from the frame.
SASAKO HIDENORI
OGAWA YASUO