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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7810357 | Knitting machine without holding-down sinkers A knitting machine in accordance with the invention includes a thread guide that is associated with a runner. The runner is disposed to hold open the latches of driven out needles of a first group while the needles of a second group are being driven out. Due to the ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 6907758 | Circular knitting machine having at least one moveable thread guide A circular knitting machine is described which has a needle cylinder (1), at least one cylinder cam segment (6), a dial arrangement (9) having a dial (10) and at least one dial cam segment (11), an axis of rotation (7), whic... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6182475 | Knitting machine yarn guiding device and its method of manufacture A yarn guiding device for a knitting machine to guide a yarn unreeled from a creel located above the knitting machine before feeding the yarn to a knitting needle. The device includes a rectangular main body including a supporting member with a slot and c... | 02/06/2001 |
| 4916925 | Needle latch cushioning member for circular knitting machines The needle latch cushioning member is formed of resilient material and includes an elongate body portion with a free end portion. The elongate body portion is supported in a groove on a yarn feed finger so that the free end portion is positioned to be eng... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4688401 | Yarn feeding and guide device for a knitting machine A yarn feeding and guide device for knitting machines has at least one yarn feeder, which delivers the yarn arriving from a yarn package and being supplied as needed at a predetermined tension by a yarn delivery unit or fournisseur to the needles of a row... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4441339 | Two-piece yarn carriers for circular knitting machines Two-piece yarn carrier for feeding yarn to the circle of cylinder latch needles of multi-feed circular knitting machines, the carriers comprising a yarn guide having a yarn feeding aperture therein and a guard plate secured to the yarn guide, the guard pl... | 04/10/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4328686 | Auxiliary yarn feed finger and pattern drum sleeve for circular knitting machines and method of knitting therewith An improvement for knitting pattern areas with hosiery knitting machines having a rotatable cylinder carrying latch needles therein, a knitting station at which a plurality of yarn feed fingers are independently movable into and out of yarn feeding positi... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4321806 | Method and apparatus for opening the latch of the needles in double-cylinder knitting machines In a double cylinder knitting machine the grooves in which the needles and the sliders are displaced are provided with corner edges on which the latch of the needle rests. Prior to hooking the needles onto their respective sliders and while the needles ar... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4290277 | Air-controlled needle latch closing for knitting machine An air blast is utilized to close the latch of a dial needle carrying a loose loop of yarn on its shank portion. Such latch closing precludes possible snagging of the needle hook on the loose loop as it is cast off. The air blast does not directly impinge... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4282725 | Circular knitting machine with latch detector The knitting machine is provided with latch detector means for detecting a latch improperly positioned in a closed position and for signaling when such a condition occurs. A trigger lever (30) having a free inner end (31) is normally positioned in an oper... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4233823 | Double-cylinder circular knitting machine A double-cylinder circular knitting machine with latch needles and a device for automatically causing the latches of the needles operating in the upper needle cylinder to open before knitting. The device comprises cams defining a path for the needle-free ... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4187700 | Latch guard and deep pile fabric circular knitting machine fitted therewith An improved latch guard having a forwardly extending deflector arm integrally associated therewith. When the improved latch guard is incorporated into a deep pile fabric circular knitting machine, the deflector arm eliminates the problem of stray fiber bu... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4169363 | Latch opening means for warp knitting machine with latch needles There is provided an improved warp knitting machine utilizing latch needles. The improvement comprises the provision of a latch opening means operating in conjunction with the guide bars. The latch opening means may be brush formed when used with latch ne... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4161109 | Latchguards A latchguard member is mounted on a rib needle bar assembly of a straight bar knitting machine of the Cotton's Patent type. The rib needles have latches which are pivotable between an open and closed attitude and the latchguard member is actuated to lie o... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4120179 | Yarn cutting device for a circular knitting machine A circular knitting machine having a program or pattern drum coaxial and underlying the needle cylinder. The pattern drum is advanced intermittently and selectively by pawls engaging ratchet wheels of different pitch on the drum, with the pawls driven wit... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4073163 | Circular knitting machine There is disclosed a circular knitting machine of the type including an upper and a lower needle cylinder and comprising a safety device for opening the latches of the double-hooked needles which are to be transferred from one needle cylinder to the other... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4033149 | Latch closer in combination with a closed latch detector A device to stop a knitting machine when a needle hook has broken. The device consists of a directed blast of air at the needles of a knitting machine as the needles pass the point on the machine where an existing electronic detector device stops the mach... | 07/05/1977 |
| 4010626 | Hosiery machine with terry forming apparatus Knitted underwear, such as panties, panty hose, leotard and the like formed with a terry patch simultaneously knitted with the fabric at the crotch or other areas. The garment is made on a circular seamless hosiery knitting machine. The resulting tube is ... | 03/08/1977 |
| 3977216 | Knitting machines and methods for knitting fabrics having terry loops on both sides thereof The invention comprises an improved apparatus and method for producing knit fabrics having terry loops on both the technical front and technical back sides of a ground fabric in which the terry loops are interconnected or knitted jointly with the ground y... | 08/31/1976 |
