means or an auxiliary pitman 22 which is parallel to pitman 17 and whose opposite end is articulated to a connecting rod 23 connecting rod 23 is pivotably held at the articulated junction between pitman 17 and link 19 together with the connecting rod 23 and support 15 pitman 17 and auxiliary pitman 22 form a parallel link drive 24 also connecting rod 23 is articulated to an auxiliary pitman 25 which at its opposite end pivotably engages at a fixed bearing 26 the imaginary bar between the two fixed bearings 21 26 on table 1 forms together with link 19 auxiliary pitman 25 and connecting rod 23 a parallel link drive 27 the links 18 and 19 are drivable by a rotatable control disc 28 which is connected with a motor not shown and in which guide grooves 29 30 are cut the links 18 19 have pins on which guide rollers 31 32 are seated these guide rollers 31 32 protrude into the guide grooves 29 30 shown in fig2 simply as dash dot circles as a whole the feed device according to fig2 is formed by the control disk 28 the parallelogram pitman drive 20 the two auxiliary pitmans 22 and 25 as well as the connecting rod 23 and the support 15 of the work holder 10 the feed device operates as follows the sewing arrangement 2 serves for example to sew pockets on garments the work holder 10 detached from the support.