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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7765836 | Circular knitting machine for hosiery or the like A circular knitting machine for hosiery or the like, comprising a needle cylinder with vertical axis and multiple axial surface slots, each of which accommodates a needle and an actuation element for the needle. The actuation element comprises at least one connectin... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7685845 | Circular knitting machine for hosiery or the like A circular knitting machine for hosiery or the like, comprises at least one needle cylinder with vertical axis and has, on its lateral surface, a plurality of axial slots, each of which accommodates a needle and an element for actuating the needle. The actuation ele... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7213422 | Needle selection device for weft knitting machine A needle selecting apparatus for a weft knitting machine capable of performing a needle selecting position locking function without moving a selecting jack forward and backward is provided. In the needle selecting apparatus, an initial position of the selecting jack... | 05/08/2007 |
| 6408657 | Method for selecting the needles in circular stocking knitting machines and knitting machines, and machine for carrying out the method A method for selecting the needles in the production of a held stitch and a dropped stitch on circular stocking knitting machines, knitting machines and the like with one or more feed stations and selection units which operate the needles by use of jacks.... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6397642 | Automatic device for the selection of needles in a circular knitting machine for knitted goods Automatic device for needle selection in a circular knitting machine, having at least one needle bed (1) with needles (3) each of which is related to a first jack (8) movable from a position of cancellation of the corresponding needle (3) to a loop positi... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6145349 | Method and equipment for Jacquard selection in a textile machine The invention relates to Jacquard selection in a textile machine characterized by a selection jack (1) provided with a spring (M1) by which, after the preselection phase in which the jacks are guided by a cam inside the cylinder, they move out under the p... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6053015 | Control jack for knitting machines A control jack for a knitting machine has at least one selector device for knitting implements, having a front side, a rear side, a first lower lever arm having a controllable raising butt and an armature surface, a second upper lever arm having a rocking... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5983677 | Jacquard pattern control mechanism for a circular knitting machine A jacquard pattern control mechanism for a circular knitting machine is provided in which a plurality of rocker bar supporting members are each slidable in one of the grooves along which one of the knitting elements move, a plurality of elongate rocker ba... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5960645 | Device for selecting needles in circular stocking knitting machines A device for the selection of needles in circular stocking knitting machines, comprising a lower needle (or jack) having radial deflection for each needle on the cylinder of the said machine. Selection actuators are provided for the control of the lower n... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5775135 | Circular knitting machine with jacquard pattern control mechanism for cylinder needles, sinkers or dial needles A jacquard pattern control mechanism for a circular knitting machine in which knitting instrumentalities are selected in accordance with a jacquard pattern and are moved between three positions, namely, welt, tuck and knit positions, by a selector jack, a... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5367893 | Selecting device with swingable selecting jack A selecting device for needles of a circular knitting machine for the production of hosiery goods includes swingable selecting jacks having two guiding butts, one guiding butt at each end, alternately selectable for engagement with cam paths of a needle c... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5275021 | Circular knitting machine A circular knitting machine for manufacturing hosiery comprises a lower needle cylinder (1) having a cam section arrangement (5, 6, 7, 8, 9) and a verticle trick (2) grooved on the needle cylinder (1) near the arrangement (5, 6, 7, 8, 9). The cam section ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5222380 | Pneumatic service circuit for circular knitting machine service devices The circular knitting machine has a pneumatic service circuit with pneumatically actuated service devices arranged around the needle cylinder. An annular body surrounds the needle cylinder, and a main duct is defined in the annular body. The main duct is ... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5184485 | Circular knitting machine for producing sports hosiery of floated pattern A circular knitting machine for floated pattern hosiery with false rib stitches in which the courses of floated pattern knitting are produced in a single knitting position by radially withdrawing in the pattern yarn feed stations the knitting cams and the... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5165259 | Method and device for needle-by needle selection in a circular knitting machine by means of elastic selectors A circular knitting machine in which the inactivation or activation of a vertical jack below each needle is determined by a flexible fork located radially of the cylinder within a ring structure completely surrounding the machine cylinder and rigid therew... | 11/24/1992 |
| 4615187 | Needle selection device on a knitting machine, particularly a flat knitting machine In the needle selection device on a knitting machine there are provided knitting needles and jacks arranged to be displaceable in needle channels, and flexible selection shanks with operating butts mounted on the knitting needles or jacks. The selection s... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4592215 | Circular-knitting machine A thread guide has a front edge that is inclined relative to the running direction of the needles, a first thread guide hole for a thin back thread and a second thread guide hole for a thick pattern thread. The needles are movable along a knitting curve w... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4151729 | Circular knitting machine having a pattern drum coaxial and underlying the needle cylinder 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... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4112712 | Rocking jack safety device A circular knitting machine has rocking selector jacks, selected ones of which are raised in a raising zone by means of a raising cam. A cam is provided in correspondence of the raising zone with a lower profile extending parallel to the intended trajecto... | 09/12/1978 |
| 3930384 | Compound needle for circular knitting machine Compound knitting needles are operatively mounted in a circular knitting machine and coact with a special simplified cam system. Each of the compound needles has a butt-free hook part and a latch. The latch has a first butt and is shiftable relative to the hoo... | 01/06/1976 |
