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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5647230 | Needle selection mechanism for circular knitting machine Spring jacks are supported for vertical movement in the grooves of the needle cylinder below the needles and select the needles for the control cam to move from the welting position to the knitting or tucking position and to return the needle to the welti... | 07/15/1997 |
| 4793160 | Device for controlling thread guides of circular knitting machines Device for controlling the thread guides in a circular knitting machine, particularly for manufacturing hosiery and similar goods. The machine has a grooved needle cylinder, the grooves containing needles and needle jacks. The machine also has a control d... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4604877 | Needle selection device for knitting machines The present unitary needle selection device is operable to selectively position the knitting needles of a circular knitting machine in either knit, tuck or welt positions. The needle selection device includes a pair of side-by-side stacks of selector slid... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4538431 | Circular knitting machine incorporating a device for renewing a needle selection at at least one yarn feed A single or double cylinder circular knitting machine is adapted to effect renewal of a needle selection at one or more successive yarn feeds without requiring a respective pattern selection device therefor. The pattern jacks which have been selected, by ... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4389859 | Knitting machine A knitting machine for knitting tubular knitted wear such as socks, which includes a needle knitting cylinder, yarn cutters, a number of pattern drums, a number of needle selector bars adapted to be operated by the pattern drums and in turn being adapted ... | 06/28/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4226096 | Pattern drum control device in a circular knitting machine For stepwise advancing a pattern drum in a circular knitting machine there is provided a device comprising a peripheral tooth formation on the pattern drum, a pawl capable of engaging the tooth formation and pivotally supported on a support which is cause... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4106312 | Method and apparatus for selecting needles in a circular knitting machine A method and apparatus providing for the selection of certain selector jacks in circular knitting machines, in response to and according to a given recorded program as on a patterning drum or electromagnetic patterning system. These chosen selectors are c... | 08/15/1978 |
| 3991591 | Pattern drum for circular knitting machines A circular knitting machine in which the pattern drum has cams shiftable between operative and inoperative positions about a pivotal axis, the movement between the positions being less than 90° and there being locking means which is effective to secure t... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3987647 | Pattern drum The pattern drum for circular knitting and hosiery machines comprises a tubular body with stacks of discs at each end and a plurality of leaf-like fingers slidable along grooves for the positioning thereof at predetermined places so that changes in patter... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3975925 | Apparatus for positioning needle selecting cylinders in a circular knitting machine An automatic positioning device for the control cams of the needle selecting cylinders on a circular knitting machine. According to the invention, the device comprises a portion fixed to the machine frame and a portion movable and rotating with the needle... | 08/24/1976 |
