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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6105402 | Design of sinker and sinker cam shape for a circular knitting machine and method for patterning fabric with the combination of an actuator and these newly designed tools A knitting machine has multiple stage sinkers which have multiple stages of butts in the rear part. A cam track fashions complicated patterns using the multiple stage sinkers. A mechanical or electronic device is installed to a top plate on an upper porti... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6101850 | System for the selection of needles for a circular knitting machine Needle selection system for a circular machine for knitted fabrics, constituted by an assembly which comprises a series of movable elements correspondingly related to respective stationary elements, the movable assembly including a cylinder (2) with numer... | 08/15/2000 |
| 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 |
| 4580420 | Selection device for a circular knitting machine For controlling selection of needles, intermediate jacks or pattern jacks in a circular knitting machine there is provided a stepwise advanced pattern drum selectively acting on selection slides which interfere with butts of needles, intermediate jacks or... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4180991 | Method and double-cylinder circular knitting machine for manufacturing patterned knitted fabrics There is disclosed a method of manufacturing patterned knitted fabrics on a double cylinder knitting machine, in which the pattern jacks associated with needles in the lower needle cylinder having already picked up a yarn at any of the feeds but one there... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4099390 | Selection device for the needles of a knitting machine Electrically actuated jack selectors for a knitting machine which are normally positioned out of engagement with the needle jacks or pattern jacks of the knitting machine. When each of the jack selectors is actuated, either by a perforated tape loop or by... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4068497 | Circular knitting machine A circular knitting machine having a novel jack and presser arrangement to prevent the jack from engaging the cam track at certain pre-selected times to prevent the cylinder needles from knitting in order to provide an area in the fabric being knit which ... | 01/17/1978 |
