Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 4369637 | Circular knitting machines A circular knitting machine comprises a base framework and a frame forming a seat for a rotatable assembly of the needle cylinder and a support for other members connected therewith. The frame is constituted by a single block with its surfaces machined by... | 01/25/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4267708 | Circular hosiery machine and the like, having simplified program control means A circular knitting machine for knitting hosiery has a program drum which can be advanced through short or longer-pitch movements in dependence on an arrangement of removable pins located in seats around the drum. The presence, absence, and length of the ... | 05/19/1981 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
