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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7218988 | Yarn feeding apparatus of weft knitting machine A carriage which completes one course of knitting to the knitting end of a fabric is stopped. Knitting in a next course is performed when the carriage reverses its moving direction and re-starts its movement. Since the knitting yarn is not knitted to the fabric unti... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7155941 | Knitting machine having variable rate-changing mechanism There are provided a stitch cam including a first cam in which a stitch size determining cam surface for a large-sized stitch and a receiving cam surface are formed in the same phase, and a second cam which has a common retracting cam surface and in which a receivin... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7113844 | Method and device for controlling length of yarn of weft knitting machine An object of the invention is to control the yarn length as appropriate in a tubular knitted fabric including a drop loop, regardless of the presence of crossover. For front and back needle beds, ones of those indicated by capitals ABC . . . among odd-numbered or ev... | 09/26/2006 |
| RE38853 | Substantially seamless brassiere, and blank and method for making same A brassiere fashioned from a circularly knit fabric blank has a central panel between the breast cups that has a greater resistance to stretching than the remainder of the body of the brassiere. The brassiere preferably is formed from a blank that is knit to have tw... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6176105 | Widening method for a rib knitted fabric and a widened rib knitted fabric thereby For preventing holes from occurrence at an internally widened area of a rib knitted fabric, at the area, two needles, one on the front needle bed, the other on the back needle bed, are made empty. Then, a stitch held by an adjacent needle to one of the tw... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6147517 | Voltage comparator circuit Control circuit for providing the greater of a supply voltage VCC and a battery voltage VBATT. A comparator compares VCC and VBATT, and provides output signals to an inverting gain stage. A switch receives outpu... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5606875 | Yarn length control system for a flat knitting machine In a flat knitting machine wherein a plurality of knitting locks work on a single needle bed to knit, the consumption of each yarn is measured and compared with the standard yarn length, and the stitch cam adjustment values of the respective knitting lock... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5367892 | Stitch increasing for flat knitting machines A stitch increasing needle operating cam for a flat knitting machine having stitch increasing function. The needle operating cam for operating needle bodies and sliders of compound needles separately from each other, in which in relation to a lowering fac... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5255538 | Fabric and knitting A method of knitting an upholstery fabric having at least two adjoined regions of different knitted structures located side-by-side in a wale-wise direction and having courses extending continuously through both regions in which the fabric is knitted with... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5251462 | Knit run cam A knit run cam for vertically moving a needle when fabrics are knitted. There is provided a knit run cam comprising two cams having a needle butt lowering bevel overlapped in a range of at least a part of the same phase in a moving direction of a carriage... | 10/12/1993 |
| 4787217 | Cam carriage for flat-bed knitting machine A cam carriage for flat-bed knitting machines has at least one leading and trailing draw-down element, having a drive top plate and a bottom plate with a draw-down track located at opposite sides of a cam plate in which a draw-down element is placed movab... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4774818 | Device for determining the position of the draw-down elements in flat-bed knitting machines A device for the determination of the position of leading or trailing draw-down elements which can be shifted to operated in opposite directions in flat-bed knitting machines has a single step motor for shifting the draw-down elements, a position sensor a... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4723423 | Flat-bed knitting machine having an electronic control for the movement of the needle sinker A flat-bed knitting machine has been described which is provided with needle sinkers arranged in a knitting cam system of a cam box carriage featuring several cams adjustable by means of stepping motors and having an electronic control unit, which feature... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4686838 | Device for regulating the stitch density or automatic flat knitting machines A device is designed to operate two slides to which corresponding stitch regulation cams are bound, and it includes: a plate, mounted on the carriage and located below the slides, that is able to be moved by means in relation to the carriage in the direct... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4679412 | Method for determining and correcting the length of a piece of knitting produced on a flat knitting machine In a method of determining and correcting the length of a piece of knitting eing produced on an electronically controlled flat knitting machine, the particular length of the piece of knitting which is being produced is continuously monitored by means of a ... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4554802 | Adjustment of stitch cams in a knitting machine A carriage 14 is reciprocable along a needle bed of a flat knitting machine and carries a needle cam. A pair of stitch cams 12 and 13 are adjustably supported by the carriage 14 and are disposed so as to trail behind the needle cam in alternate strokes of... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4526017 | Knitting density adjusting method A method of adjusting the knitting densities of respective courses when a flat knitted fabric is to be produced. The knitted yarn length having been used in the reference section is compared in the subsequent knitting operation with the reference yarn len... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4502300 | Tension adjusting device for flat knitting machines A flat knitting machine includes a device for adjusting the retractor elets for the needles in the cam systems on the carriage of the machine for the setting of the stitch tension. In order to simplify the tension adjusting mechanism and simultaneously t... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4004437 | Flat knitting machine A flat knitting machine comprises a needle bed and a carriage traversible along the needle bed. Stitch cams presettable in a plurality of different positions according to a desired knitting pattern are provided, and an adjustably positioned ramp in the ne... | 01/25/1977 |
