Brother KE-430F Brochure page 3

Clean Sewing with Semi-dry Type
All bar tacker and button attaching models are semi-dry type. They supply constant
clean oil only to the rotary hook, there is no concern of oil staining. The direct drive
system, having no belt shavings can keep products clean.
User-friendly Operation Panel
The operation panel is designed to be user-friendly
and to improve the ease of operation.
SD card slot
SD card slot is equipped on the operation panel as
standard. Sewing patterns can be added and copied
easily.
Easy-setting Digital Tension
Digital Tension is easily set by the dedicated key. You can
check the setting every time on the dedicated window.
Production counter
It can count how many articles are sewn up to 9999999.
Lower thread counter
If you use the bobbin thread counter to set the number of
articles which can be sewn with the amount of bobbin
thread available, you can stop the bobbin thread running
out in the middle of sewing pattern.
Sewing start speed
Nine steps sewing start speed can be selected. It can select
suitable speed for sewing materials, contributing to
preventing the thread cast-off at sewing start.
Environment-conscious
Brother has established its original "Brother Green Label" for the products, in
conformity with ISO 14021 and JIS Q14021. The KE-430F and BE-438F are
certified as environment-conscious sewing machines according to the
"Brother Green Label" standard.
The machines are compliant with the RoHS Directive*1. The use of the
restricted substances such as lead, cadmium, hexavalent chromium is
absolutely within the regulation values. Brother has been providing all its
products in accordance with the RoHS Directive for all market areas
(excluding machine tools).
The RoHS Directive (the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and
electronic equipment) came into effect in the EU in July 2006.
Program setting
Sewing patterns, X-scale, Y-scale, sewing speed and upper
thread tension can be memorized as user programs.
Program No.1-89(BE-438F:No.1-64) have been preset into
the sewing machine. Up to 512 kinds of patterns can be
added and all items can be set freely to program No. 200-
999.
The number of memorized patterns can be less than 512 depending on
the number of stitches.