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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7762106 | Internally guided needle For longitudinal shifting, a needle in accordance with the invention is provided with a longitudinal slit 14 that is disposed to accommodate a bearing element (19), for example, having the form of a strip (20). Whereas known needles are set in a... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7596971 | Circular knitting machine with a replaceable needle cylinder The invention relates to a circular knitting machine with a replaceable needle cylinder (7). According to the invention, two or more eccentrics (19) are disposed to be rotatable in a support ring (3) for the needle cylinder (7) or in the ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7555919 | Needle bed with cooling channel A needle bed (1) of a knitting machine has a segmented configuration. The segments (5, 6) border against each other via the abutment surfaces (10, 8). Extending from at least one of the boundary surfaces (10, 8) are cooling channels that ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7469561 | Needle bed with discontinuous needle guides A needle bed (2) in accordance with the invention for a knitting machine comprises guide channels for knitting tools that are interrupted, in particular, in the region of the knitting lock, so that each needle is only guided laterally in the region of its foo... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7055346 | Circular knitting machine for hosiery or the like, with device for actuating the knockover sinkers A circular knitting machine for hosiery or the like, with a device for actuating the knockover sinkers, comprising a sinker cover, arranged in an upward region and coaxially to the sinker ring and supporting at least one cam and one complementary cam arranged outsid... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6176107 | Circular knitting machine with replaceable member for restricting vertical movement of sinkers A readily replaceable restricting member is within an annular receiving channel that is defined by a cylindrical portion of a circular knitting machine, and the restricting member is operative to restrict at least upward or downward movement of the sinker... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6131418 | Needle bed for knitting machine A metallic needle bed having a multiplicity of needle sliding grooves which are formed in parallel so as to slidably support a knitting needle on a surface thereof. Two or more short needle plates are removably fixed in a successively detachable/attachabl... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5806347 | Modified sub-needle with associated actuation elements for circular knitters A modified sub-needle with associated actuation elements for circular stocking machines, which is constituted by a lower sub-needle provided with a selection heel and by an intermediate sub-needle provided with an upper heel and a lower heel; the top of t... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5609044 | Durable knitting machine cylinder assembly and method of making same A durable cylinder assembly for a circular knitting machine is described. The cylinder assembly includes a cylinder body including an upper face and an outer cylindrical face and having a plurality of spaced-apart, substantially radial slots. A plurality ... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5546770 | Knitting parts of knitting machine In knitting parts (a guide, needle, tongue, sinker, separator, jacquard guide needle and the like) of a knitting machine, a covering of a hard carbon film 15 of a preset film thickness d on a surface of a portion of a parts base material 10 frequently con... | 08/20/1996 |
| 4905484 | Multisystem circular knitting machine having electromagnetic needle selection In a multiple system circular knitting machine having an electromagnetic needle selection, the needle and jack cam races are supported on a stationary support ring which rests on a plurality of radially directed and mutually spaced ribs. To improve operat... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4866954 | Flat knitting machine In a flat knitting machine, the segments (10.1,11.1), of any desired width, which make up the needle beds (10, 11), are designed to be used with needles of different gauges, i.e. are formed with a different needle separation, so that needles of different ... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4862709 | Stitch-forming knitting machine On a stitch-forming machine having knitting needles, knocking-over sinkers and controlling sinkers, in addition to their mutual articulated connection, the knocking-over and controlling sinkers are also connected to each other for mutual longitudinal disp... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4741181 | Circular knitting machine with needles and holding-down plate members A knitting machine for producing mesh products has a needle carrier provided with a plurality of guiding grooves having an upper groove end and a base, a plurality of needles and a plurality of plate members alternatingly arranged in the guiding grooves s... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4739636 | Circular knitting machine A circular knitting machine for hosiery includes an electromagnetic needle selection system. This selection system includes pivotal selector devices which act on resilient pushers and which are pushed indiscriminately or selectively against the resilient ... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4738123 | Circular weft knitting machine Improved methods for circular weft knitting of variegated articles and selectively programmable circular weft knitting machine apparatus for carrying out such methods including means for effecting selective, controlled two dimensional displacement of comp... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4719768 | Circular knitting machine, in particular for hose knitting, with continuous cycle lubrication The machine comprises: a space defined between the needle cylinder and cylinder holder, and in communication with the delivery conduit of a feed pump, delivery ports defined on the needle cylinder for connecting the space to the outside, a collector pan l... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4712391 | Flat knitting machine A flat knitting machine has a needle selection arrangement movable along needle bed, knitting needles arranged in needle channels of the needle bed and selector drivers or a tandem arrangement of working drivers and selector drivers adjoining the knitti... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4697439 | Device for the disengageable locking of the last rows of knitted fabric in the needle working area of an automatic flat knitting machine A device consists of equidistant rods, located below the needle bed of a machine, perpendicular to the traverse direction of movement of a carriage, with the upper ends bent downwards to form a corresponding number of latch sections, and directed towards ... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4649721 | Knitting instrument carrier for knitting machines A knitting instrument carrier (10), having grooves which are confined by alternate demarcation strips (27) and bearing strips (28) following one after the other, which are in rows on common anchor bars (29-31). An accurate division of the knitting instrum... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4610150 | Knitted fabric, method of knitting same and machine for the same A knitted fabric provided with piles formed between the face and back side structures which are stitched to each other. The knitted fabric is manufactured by a way of knitting a bulky knitted fabric while forming piles and using a pile forming yarn double... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4607504 | Needle dial for a single-cylinder circular hosiery knitting machine for producing ribbed knitting A needle dial for single-cylinder circular hosiery knitting machines for producing ribbed knitting includes a disc having a plurality of radially extending angularly equidistantly spaced dividing walls. Each adjacent pair of dividing walls sets-off thereb... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4584851 | Knitting machine for producing mesh products A knitting machine has plate members and needles movable opposite to one another during sinking of the threads. The plates are of a short length and located between guide webs of a separate plate carrier, whereas the needles are longitudinally displaceabl... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4574596 | Stitch-forming machine A stitch-forming machine which has needles guided on a needle support for displacement in the longitudinal direction and controlled by needle cams and also has holding-down and knocking-over sinkers which are adapted for displacement between the needles i... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4571957 | Device for compensating for differences in thermal expansion in circular knitting machines The invention relates to a device for compensating the differences in thermal expansion of the needle cylinder and sinker ring in a circular knitting machine, with which the sinker ring is supported on projections of webs inserted into axially extending g... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4546623 | Knitting machine with controllably rockable knock-over bits To permit independent adjustment of movement of knock-over bit - jack sinker elements (3) having knock-over or casting-off heads (7), a cam box (22, 23) has an individually adjustable raising and lowering cam track (26, 28), engaging a butt (6) on the sin... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4542632 | Hand-operated knitting apparatus A pair of flat needle beds are disposed in a V-configuration on a frame. Each needle bed includes a plurality of needles which can be extended and retracted by manually grasping butts thereof. When the needles of both beds are extended, a generally V-shap... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4532781 | Knitting machine In order to increase the operating speed of the knitting machine and to attain a fine needle cut, sinkers (7), with their shaft (12), are guided on a needle carrier (1), and simultaneously forming guide ribs for adjacent needle shafts (3). A projection ca... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4414827 | Collapsible knitting machine A collapsible flat bed knitting machine has a foldable needle bed having a multiplicity of sinker elements and latch needles. The needle bed is divided along its length three parts which we foldably connected together at the mutually opposite longitudinal... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4398401 | Straight knitting machine A straight knitting machine having two needle beds with knocking-over combs isposed in an inverted V-shaped configuration and a sliding carriage located above said needle beds is further provided with horizontal stop edges on said combs beneath the crossov... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4327564 | Collapsible knitting machine A collapsible flat bed knitting machine having a foldable needle bed and a carrying case for receiving therein the folded needle bed and other instrumentalities of the machine to facilitate transportation of the machine as of a portable sewing machine. Th... | 05/04/1982 |
| 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 |
| 4178780 | Needle bed for flat knitting machine A needle bed for flat knitting machines is provided wherein the needle bed is assembled from a plurality of firmly compressed, plate-like webs arranged in a regularly alternating manner so that webs having the smaller height and forming the base of the ne... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4122690 | Method and means for transferring knit loops between cylinders of a double cylinder knitting machine Method and means for transferring knit loops from single-hook needles on one cylinder to single-hook needles on the other cylinder of a double cylinder circular knitting machine. In the method and needles are displaced at an inclination outwardly of their... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4111006 | Apparatus for producing patterned deep pile circular knitted fabrics A pile fabric knitting apparatus has controllable means, several representative embodiments of which are disclosed, separate from fiber supply means and responsive to dynamic control means, i.e., transducer, control tape, etc., functioning during operatio... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4080807 | Needle bed assembly incorporating arcuately shaped needles A needle and needle bed assembly for flat and circular knitting machines for making right-right and left-left knitted articles, includes at least one horizontally-disposed needle bed having a generally concavely-shaped upper surface which has formed there... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4041734 | Device for supporting and guiding knitting needles for knitting machines A device for supporting and guiding knitting needles for use in a knitting machine having a needle bed with needle grooves for receiving the stems of knitting needles and to guide advance and retraction movements of the needles. The needle grooves are arr... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4003220 | Knitting machine including rotatable hold down ring A circular knitting machine of the type providing a reinforcement of knit tubular fabric for flexible hose including a plurality of circumferentially spaced, vertically reciprocating needles. A yarn guide holder is rotatable with the machine relative to t... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3977214 | Angularly offset needle knitting machine In a circular knitting machine of the type designed to knit a tubular fabric, a plurality of circumferentially spaced knitting needles are reciprocal in an inclined mode between a latch clearing position and a stitch forming position. The needle cylinder ... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3974664 | Method and device for electronic scanning of control-fields of a control member on cylinder and straight bar knitting machines A method of and apparatus for electronic scanning of control-fields of a control member on cylinder and straight bar knitting machines, in which the boundaries of the control-fields coincide with the boundaries of the needle pitches of the machine and ele... | 08/17/1976 |
