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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4467624 | Flat knitting machine with spool shelf A flat knitting machine has a spool shelf arranged above and behind the nle bed or beds and carriage, the shelf carrying yarn spools and a yarn guide mechanism. In order to make the yarn spools and yarn guide mechanism more easily accessible, the spool s... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4440353 | Textile machine arrangement The invention comprises a textile machine arrangement comprising a multiplicity of yarn sources adapted to supply yarn for each feed station on said machine, said yarn sources being located adjacent to the machine, and a yarn feed mechanism adapted to dra... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4426855 | Yarn feeder mechanisms A yarn feeder mechanism for circular knitting machines has a plurality of feed fingers with yarn feed extremities at the front thereof and movable between a low feed position and a high inactive position, means for selectively lowering the feed fingers, a... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4413483 | Control mechanism for circular knitting machine The invention provides a circular knitting machine having a control mechanism with a rackable cam drum. A rackable timing drum carrying control elements for the speed of progress of the timing drum and activation of the cam drum racking, and a quick re-ze... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4391105 | Yarn feed unit in a single-cylinder circular knitting machine A yarn feed unit for a single-cylinder circular knitting machine comprises a plurality of yarn feeding fingers independently journalled to a common axis and independently movable between an inoperative and an operative position. The axis is supported by a... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4364246 | Knitting machine Knitting machine for performing knits having a beginning and an end, which has at least one needle bed in which knitting needles are mounted for extension and retraction, which has a plurality of thread carriers running successively along an endless path ... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4363225 | Creel for circular knitting machines The frame of a creel includes vertical support columns rigidly interconnected at their upper ends by a framework arranged so as to permit the frame to be positioned astride a circular-knitting machine with the columns disposed around the machine itself an... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4338799 | Thread guidance system A thread guide system for feeding a plurality of threads to a plurality of thread carriers moving in tandem in an endless circuit.... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4328685 | Knitting machines having improved yarn supply arrangements A circular knitting machine, especially of body garment knitting type, has drive arrangements for a pair of rotary cam carriers of conventional lay-out involving a motor, drive shafts and upper and lower gears for the respective cam carriers. Instead of m... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4287728 | Thread guidance in mesh-forming machines with rotating thread guides An apparatus for feeding a plurality of threads to a knitting machine wherein the thread guides are moving in endless path about the needle bed one after the other in one direction.... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4271686 | Thread or yarn supply apparatus with movable thread supply guide means, particularly for circular knitting machines The supply portion to a thread supply drum is pivotally located on the holder for the drum, to pivot about an axis transverse to the axis of rotation of the drum; this supply portion carries a thread brake 24, an inlet eye 27, and a further inlet guide el... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4199965 | Yarn feed control system A method and apparatus for feeding yarn to a knitting machine having needle selecting means so that the length of yarn required to be knitted into each sequence of a small number of stitches is not constant. The length of yarn as actually fed to the knitt... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4196601 | Endless track rotating thread guide Apparatus for feeding a plurality of yarn, sliver or fibrous materials to a textile machine, comprising: a plurality of stationary supply packages on which said materials are wound; a stationary endless track having at least a working and a return section... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4173873 | Apparatus on a textile machine for feeding yarn, sliver or fibrous materials An apparatus for feeding yarn, or the like vice yarn guides which travel on an endless O-shaped floating-mounted track to present the yarn, or the like to the instrumentalities of a textile machine.... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4173874 | Apparatus on a textile machine for the feeding of yarns, slivers or other fibrillar materials Apparatus for feeding yarn, sliver or fibrous materials wound on stationary supply packages to a texile machine, comprising a plurality of movable material transporting elements and a plurality of movable material laying-in elements for feeding the materi... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4137732 | Yarn feed and yarn change mechanism Pneumatic yarn feed and yarn change mechanism has a plurality of yarn feed paths and a plurality of control elements for controlling passage of yarn for each of these paths independently. Flow of fluid through selected yarn feed passage when the control e... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4134433 | Apparatus for producing knit-woven fabric selvage structure There is disclosed an apparatus for producing a selvage structure of a knit-woven fabric. The knit-woven fabric is produced in a warp-knit structure from weft thread loops and comprises spaced apart stitch wales with warp thread groups disposed therebetwe... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4118955 | Yarn feed arrangements for knitting machines A flat knitting machine has a bobbin carrier rotatably supporting yarn bobbins from which yarns are led off to a rotary carriage through a protective device in the form of a channel member or tube for each yarn, to reduce the effects of air resistance and... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4111007 | Yarn changing device in a flat-bed knitting machine A yarn changing device for use in a flat-bed knitting machine having a carriage. The yarn changing device provides a relatively simple but effective arrangement for repetitive, alternating selection of any one of three or more yarns for knitting operation... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4109491 | Thread guidance in mesh-forming machines with rotating thread guides An apparatus for feeding a plurality of threads to a knitting machine wherein the thread guides are moving in endless path about the needle bed.... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4080808 | Pneumatic feed A high speed knitting machine and method, in which yarn is fed to the needles of the knitting machine by fluid under pressure in a feed conduit, in such a way that it is directed into the hooks of the needles tangentially to the stems of the needles.... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4044574 | Method of closing the toe opening of a knit stocking or the like Closing the toe opening of a stocking, or the end of a tube by providing a two ply welt defining the toe pocket, and constricting the fabric of at least one of said plys about the axis of the toe opening to obstruct the same. The constriction or gathering... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4043154 | Spool rack A spool frame adapted for transmission of thread to a circular knitting machine comprising a framework subdivided into open section areas with each open section area provided with superposed tiers of semi-circular supporting elements on which are rotatabl... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4027505 | Circular knitting machine with disengaging positive yarn feeding means A cylinder and dial circular knitting machine is provided with: 1. a positive feed means that feeds a yarn and a striping box that may feed a draw thread or yarn, 2. adjustable placer and raise cams, and 3. means for controlling the operation of such striping box a... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4020656 | Method of warp knitting A warp-knitted fabric with surface interest patterning is formed from two full sets of warp threads being fed to each position of two separate guide bars of a warp knitting machine then to each needle of the warp knitting machine and from a partial set of... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4020654 | Method of warp knitting A two-bar warp-knitted fabric with surface interest patterning is formed from two sets of threads being fed to separate guide bars of a warp knitting machine then to a single needle bed for knitting by crossing at least one of the threads from one set of ... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4003223 | Replacement knitting machine feed wheel As a replacement for a worn out embodiment of a knitting machine feed wheel, the invention contemplates only a partially complete feed wheel construction which is completed using a bearing salvaged from the worn out wheel, thus saving the expense of two b... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3962890 | Straight knitting machine comprising rotating sliding heads A straight knitting machine includes a plurality of sliding heads 1 driven around a guide track 2 by chain and sprocket means 3, 5. A plurality of holders 8 for yarn spools 9 are positioned above their associated sliding heads and are driven around guide ... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3943733 | Method and apparatus for producing a knitted fabric interlaced with insert elements An improved circular weft knitting machine is of the type that directs warp insert elements inwardly and outwardly of the needle row in coordination with alternating interior and exterior knitting feed stations. The warp insert element is thereby woven to... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3939671 | Machine for knitting cord-like structures A knitting machine is provided having one or more needles for knitting from one or more strands a variety of cord-like structures formed of one or more wales of knitted stitches. The machine is particularly useful for the manufacture of knitted yarns, eit... | 02/24/1976 |
| 3930385 | Self balancing table In a circular knitting machine, a self-balancing, circular bobbin table which has formed therein a circular groove within which a plurality of balls freely roll to dynamically balance the table as it is rotated during the knitting operations.... | 01/06/1976 |
