Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7330772 | Knit design method and apparatus An object of the invention is to display an image having the feeling close to that of a knitted fabric actually knitted with a fuzzy knitting yarn. At least part of knitting yarn image data (1) on a knitting yarn with much fuzz (2) is divided into cert... | 02/12/2008 |
| 6945282 | Method and device for forming a shed in a weaving machine A shed-forming device and a method for using it are provided for creating a shed of warp yarns in a weaving machine. The shed-forming device includes a plurality of yarn separating elements operably disposed to one another within the weaving machine. The yarn separa... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6857294 | Method for knitting intarsia pattern knitting fabric and knitting program producing device therefor An object of the invention is to obtain an intarsia pattern fabric which is not likely to cause yarn entanglement, eliminates the need for divided knitting, and provides good productivity even when a cylindrical knitting fabric is to be knitted. in a double bed flat... | 02/22/2005 |
| 5987931 | Knit design apparatus A tubular knitted fabric is broadened while fully preventing generation of open gap. Yarn is hooked on a needle of a second needle bed and twisted to form a loop, and this loop is transferred onto a first needle bed to become a broadening loop. A subseque... | 11/23/1999 |
| 4502299 | Yarn feeder mechanisms and double cylinder knitting machines having such mechanisms A double cylinder knitting machine has a plurality of pivotable feeders with yarn feeding ends movable through arcs from a trap position, through a feed position to a cross-over park position upstream of the feed position. Movement is imparted to the feed... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4364244 | Memory controlled electromagnetic passive controllers In flat-bed knitting machines and the like, where a plurality of machine levers are used to determine the type of stitch and pattern of the fabric being produced, the positioning of these levers is determined by solenoid-operated elements providing progra... | 12/21/1982 |
| 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 |
| 4147042 | Selection mechanism of circular knitting-machine Mechanism for selecting and controlling needles of circular knitting machine wherein, at each feed of the knitting machine, there is provided a cam path in which is engageable an outwardly projecting butt on an axially reciprocable needle to reciprocate t... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4077238 | Needle selecting device in a circular knitting machine Needle selecting device in a circular knitting machine of the type having oscillating needle pusher jacks. The selection is effected by engaging teeth of a toothed selection disk with corresponding pattern butts of respective needle pusher jacks. The jack... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4072029 | Racking mechanisms A racking mechanism for a circular knitting machine includes at least four pawls drivable in succession in synchronization with needle cylinder movement on the knitting machine, and an evenly cut rack wheel which may be attached to a pattern drum of the k... | 02/07/1978 |
| 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 |
| 3939672 | Clutch device for knitting machines A quick connection or clutching device is positioned between a continuously rotating drive member and a driven member which assures, upon disengagement, an accurate angular positioning of the driven member. In use the device is applied to a circular stock... | 02/24/1976 |
