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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4633914 | Take-up tension control Apparatus and method to detect high tension in a web material being taken-up and cutting off the take-up device upon such detection to prevent stretching and necking of the fabric being handled. The detection device provides a time delay between detection... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4592214 | Fabric draw-off roller on flat-bed knitting machines A fabric draw-off roller (11) is described for flat-bed knitting machines equipped with individual roller elements (14, 14') situated side-by-side in line on a shaft (12), the rollers being allowed to turn relative to each other, but preferably restricted... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4549412 | Fabric take-down device for knitting machines This describes a fabric take-down device (11) for flat knitting machines which is provided with a driving motor (12) and an associated adjusting device (13) to set the torque of the driving motor (12) which determines the take-down pull through the motor ... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4516410 | Knitwork drawing device in a double cylinder circular knitting machine A knitwork drawing device which has a hollow piston rod movable axially through one of the needle cylinders in a double cylinder circular knitting machine, and a knitwork retaining member arranged at the height of the stitch-formation area and rotatable w... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4503689 | Fabric take-down mechanism for flat knitting machines The fabric take-down mechanism for flat knitting machines has an auxiliary take-down roller (22) following the main take-down roller (10) and extending over the whole length of the needle beds, this auxiliary roller having edges (24) and being grounded th... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4503690 | Fabric take-down mechanism for flat knitting machines In a fabric take-down mechanism for a flat knitting machine provided with stitch strippers, the edge of the fabric disposed in front of the stitch strippers is engaged by a plurality of take-down hooks (27) of a hook bar (28) located beneath the comb gap ... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4488416 | Set-up means in a flat knitting machine In a V-bed flat knitting machine, a set-up comb having a plurality of teeth which are hook shaped at their upper ends is up and down movably disposed beneath a gap between a pair of needle beds. When the set-up comb is elevated until the tooth ends thereo... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4478058 | Take down mechanism for flat knitting machines In the take-down mechanism the plurality of coaxial roller sections (14.1 . . . 14.x) of the take-down roller are moveable on a common shaft (16) and adapted to be coupled separately and selectively with a driving means (17/18) that is to say independentl... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4454731 | Knitted fabric spreader device for flat knitting machines This invention relates to a knitted fabric spreader device for flat knitting machines which have spiked rotatable rollers (14) disposed beneath the comb gap (12) of the needle beds of the machine. The spiked rollers (14) are mounted over the full length o... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4407145 | Knitwork drawing device in a double cylinder circular knitting machine A knitwork drawing device which has a hollow piston rod movable axially through one of the needle cylinders in a double cylinder circular knitting machine, and a knitwork retaining member arranged at the height of the stitch-formation area and rotatable w... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4359881 | Drawing device for a straight knitting machine A drawing device for a straight knitting machine comprises two belts capable of being continuously driven in opposite directions by respective drive shafts over two pulleys of small diameter. The pulleys are located in the area in which the stitches are f... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4273163 | Fabric take-off device The fabric take-off device comprises a fabric take-off roller mounted to be movable transversely of its longitudinal axis and two associated rod-shaped fabric guide elements which are mounted on fixed axes for supplying the fabric to the take-off roller a... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4236390 | Knitting machine Apparatus for controlling the material tension in a knitting machine, particularly a circular knitting machine, by employing a permanent magnet-excited d.c. motor and an associated circuit to drive a motor torque-dependent material take-off mechanism thro... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4233825 | Knitting machine Disclosed is an improved knitting machine in which special steps have been taken to provide for close correlation of the operation of the knitting filament in-feed equipment and the knitted fabric out-feed equipment with the speed of the knitting head its... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4192353 | Cloth take-up system The cloth take-up system is provided with an additional deflecting element which is disposed in the path of travel of the cloth between a first deflection element and the take-up roller in order to increase the wrapping angle of the cloth about the take-u... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4047399 | Knitting braids The invention relates to a method and apparatus for knitting a narrow band in which a special effect yarn for use in the band and the band itself, are knitted simultaneously on one machine and the special effect yarn is taken off and guided directly to th... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4036266 | Take-up motion for looms This invention relates to an improvement in a cloth take-up motion for looms with gradual or intermittent taking-up of cloth in which a take-up roller is adapted to be driven by drive shaft means and gear system means, and wherein the drive shaft executes... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4028912 | Fabric take-up mechanism A drawing-off mechanism having at least two driven rollers for drawing off knitted fabric in which the rollers are positively driven at the same peripheral speed while being resiliently pressed against each other to permit drawing off fabrics of varying t... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4027506 | Draw-off and take-up arrangement for circular knitting machines A knitted fabric draw-off and take-up arrangement for circular knitting machines, including an idle take-up roller and at least one driven draw-off roller. The tubular knitted fabric is passed from the draw-off roller to the take-up roller and is then ret... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4003411 | Device for withdrawing fabrics from looms Device for withdrawing fabrics from looms, particularly hydraulic jet looms. The loom has a hauling beam and at least two pressure beams, brackets carrying the pressure beams being mounted by means of eccentrics on the journals of the hauling beams. At le... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3998075 | Circular knitting machine quick drive disconnect An improved circular knitting machine which provides for semiautomatic doffing of large diameter rolls of knit fabric. The doffing of the fabric can be accomplished by a woman operator without strain. The improved circular knitting machine provides a quic... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3985001 | Take up and doffing apparatus for a circular knitting machine An improved circular knitting machine which provides for semi-automatic doffing of large diameter rolls of knit fabric. The doffing of the fabric can be accomplished by a woman operator without strain. Further, the improved circular knitting machine provi... | 10/12/1976 |
| 3956907 | Take up Apparatus for tensioning textile material as the material is knitted from a strand of yarn into an elongated sock by a circular knitting machine includes a first roller over which the sock is passed and a second roller which urges the sock into engagement... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3955604 | Deflecting device for flat textile structures An endless belt is disposed between the cloth take-off roller of a weaving machine and the pressing roller in order to press a cloth passing between the belt and the take-off roller or between the belt and each of the take-off roller and pressing roller. ... | 05/11/1976 |
