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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 5812110 | Method of displaying knit fabric and stitched structure A method of displaying a stitching image particularly for a plating stitch. A screen of a display unit displays a stitch structure including a type of thread for each stitch of a knit fabric. The display area of each stitch is divided into a ground yarn d... | 09/22/1998 |
| 4541254 | Needle selector device for multi-system knitting machine A needle selector device for a multi yarn feed knitting machine comprises a stack of angularly movable sliders mounted about a common axis, the sliders being selectively movable between three positions, namely the knitting, tucking and floating positions.... | 09/17/1985 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 3981160 | Needle selecting means The invention relates to a control system for the selection of knitting needles in a multi-feed circular knitting machine with the aid of jacks and means for selectively activating and inactivating desired jacks. A removable stand having holes for the rec... | 09/21/1976 |
| 3973415 | Pattern mechanism In a circular knitting machine, needle selection is controlled by pattern keys mounted on a pivoted pattern key carrier and having patterning butts which are selectively engageable with vertically stacked selector slides. The selector slides are engageabl... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3969912 | Patterning memory for circular knitting machine A circular knitting machine having a patterning means with finite means for storage of a knitting pattern less than the number of needles, and means for controlling the knitting needles in response thereto. Counters for determining the passage of the need... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3945222 | Apparatus for setting a pattern to a pattern wheel in a circular knitting machine A pattern for a pattern wheel used in a circular knitting machine is set by detecting a blade of the pattern wheel to actuate a tape reader which has been patterned in advance, and pushing a jack of the pattern wheel in response to the signal from said ta... | 03/23/1976 |
