detail rotating the control disk 17 by approximately 75 u00b0 causes the transporter 11 to be transferred form the operational position into a resting position in which its teeth cannot extend beyond the surface of the stitching plate at the lower arm 7 for clarification purposes in fig1 a conventional device for lowering the transporter 11 is shown in a perspective representation the same reference characters are used as in the device according to the invention using a rotational knob 83 with either a lever drive or a sprocket drive being arranged at its rear end not shown the lifting rod 49 at its one end is moved in the direction of the arrow q at which the sensor finger 47 is arranged according to the invention this movement causes a curved disk 87 to be displaced axially by a fork 85 formed at the opposite end of the lifting rod 49 and thus it is guided out of the area of the sensor finger 89 which is supported on the curved disk this way the transporter can pivot in the clockwise direction by a pivotal motion around a rotary axis x and thus arrives under the stitching plate at the lower arm 7 of the sewing machine in fig8 it is further discernible how a drive sprocket 61 below the sprocket 21 engages which is supported on a drive motor 63 see fig7 using this drive motor 63 e g a stepper motor the control disc 17 is controlled by the sewing machine control via the sprocket 21 and can be set in motion in the positive or negative rotational direction on the control disk 17 on the second face 65 visible.