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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7213422 | Needle selection device for weft knitting machine A needle selecting apparatus for a weft knitting machine capable of performing a needle selecting position locking function without moving a selecting jack forward and backward is provided. In the needle selecting apparatus, an initial position of the selecting jack... | 05/08/2007 |
| 6609397 | Method for forming new stitches on a knitting machine New stitches on knitting machines are formed by producing two stitches from one stitch suspended on a knitting needle, in that the stitch suspended on the knitting needle is transferred by a transfer element associated with the knitting needle and subsequ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6318131 | Method of knitting 3-d shape knit fabric A three-dimensional shape fabric is knitted by the method in which after a setup portion of the three-dimensional shape fabric is formed by use of needles of the both front and back needle beds, a non-rectangular front fabric and a non-rectangular back fa... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6138482 | Method of knitting a knitwear forming therein a connecting part A knitting method that can permit the forming of a connecting part of the knitting fabric overlapped in front and back, such as a pleat or fly, even when the knitting fabric is knitted in a double jersey stitch structure. The method comprises the steps th... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6119487 | Method for knitting double jersey fabric including rib knitting and fabric knitted by the method To provide improved beauty of an double jersey fabric at its side edge portion and improved productivity, the present invention provides a method for knitting the double jersey fabric including rib knitting such as Milano rib by a knitting equivalent to o... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6116056 | Method of knitting an improved comfort selvage A method of knitting an improved comfort selvage on a V-bed flat knitting machine by manipulating the front and rear needles independently at the selvages. By using an asymmetrical knitting pattern at the selvage, a knitted double-lock selvage is produced... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6109068 | Method of producing spacial, single- and multi-layer knitted articles on flat knitting machine A method of producing of spacial, single or multi-layer knitting articles on a flat knitting machine having at least two needle beds and a loop transfer device, has the steps of knitting of knitting rows with a number and width a corresponding to a spacia... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6018966 | Stitch forming method and a flat knitting machine therefor When a new yarn is received by a hook to form a new stitch loop, to prevent old stitch loops from going beyond the top end of the slider and being knocked over, the advanced position of the slider into the trick gap is maintained, and the new stitch loops... | 02/01/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5694792 | Needle selection device of flat knitting machine Needle beds are provided with needles, needle jacks and select jacks and selectors, and the selectors are provided with three butts. The front butt is made to contact the reference plane of the carriage to serve as the fulcrum of rocking. The second butt ... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5520020 | Method of forming piping at an end of a knitted fabric and knitted fabric having piping formed at a fabric end A method of forming piping at an end of a knitted fabric for a knitted garment by using a flat knitting machine. At a point at which piping is to begin loops which compose the knitted fabric are held on the front or rear needles and the other needles are ... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5456096 | Method for processing end portion of fabric A method for processing end portion of fabric knitted by a flat knitting machine wherein integration of fabrics and the anti-raveling of end portion at the completion of knitting are carried out and the joined portion is not projected out of the surface o... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5343719 | Method of transferring loops integrated with a flat knitting machine The invention hereby provides a novel flat knitting machine which is furnished with a pair of needle beds in the front and rear positions each having a plurality of knitting needles aligned in parallel in such a condition in which respective knitting need... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5321959 | Method of knitting a pocketed fabric with rib knit portion Method of knitting a pocket on a knitted garment and reinforcing the upper portion of the pocket by rib knitting. Front and rear knitting needles are provided and the yarn is fed to the rear and front knitting needles as necessary and the stitches are tra... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5255537 | Flat-bed knitting machine A flat-bed knitting machine has sprung shank needles (N) arranged one behind the other in the needle channels of the needle beds with first and second needle ends (1, 2) and sliding lifting plates (H) with an operative end (3) and a hinge system with at l... | 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 |
| 5237840 | Electromechanical device for selecting the needle actuating sinkers in an automatic flat knitting machine In a selection device there is an electromagnet, secured to a plate integral with a carriage of an automatic knitting machine, and the mobile armature of the electromagnet carries a cylindrical element having a free headrounded and inserted in a concave s... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5125246 | Knitted elastic lock pile fabric An elastic knit fabric has pile loops on its back surface which are aligned in rows along the linear axis of the fabric and across the transverse axis of the fabric, the loops being disposed in standing relation with the openings in successive transverse ... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5072603 | Knitting machine with needle control device for the knitting of pattern stitches The machine has a needle holder element which has a plurality of grooves. Each groove accommodates at least one needle and one selector which faces, with one of its longitudinal ends, the base of the needle. Each needle has at least one heel which protrud... | 12/17/1991 |
| 4827740 | Device for controlling the knitting positions of the needles in a knitting machine In a knitting machine, a needle position control device comprises knitting needles each having five butts, of which one is fixed and the four others are secured in pairs to two needle latches mounted for oscillation in two recesses formed in the stem of t... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4819455 | Flat knitting machine A flat knitting machine has in the needle grooves of the needle beds (31) ccessively arranged spring shaft needles (32) with needle butts (35, 36), slide jacks with butts and displaceable jacquard jacks (34) having respectively two butts as well as a cam ... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4766742 | Perfected automatic flat knitting machine An automatic flat knitting machine needle beds feature equidistantly spaced slots, perpendicular to the direction of travel of a carriage, inside each of which is inserted a needle and a sinker for selecting the latter, the needle featuring a butt that is... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4693093 | Cam system for knitting machines A cam system for a flat knitting machine having a knitting carriage running in one direction, comprises knitting and loop-transferring cam elements. To expand possibilities of the flat knitting machine of the foregoing type to produce a plurality of speci... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4667488 | Device for the selection of the sinker and needle assemblies of an automatic flat knitting machine A device made in a carriage of an automatic flat knitting machine, consists of a plurality of identical consecutive units 100, each of which is located between a plane of symmetry of two groups of movable cams and a plane of symmetry of two first fixed ca... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4662192 | Flat knitting machine A flat knitting machine comprises flexible shank needles arranged in the dle channels of the needle bed, and, arranged behind these, jacquard jacks as well as a cam system which is movable over the needle bed and which comprises interengageable needle, j... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4637227 | Flat knitting machine having compound needles A plurality of compound needles 1 are arranged in corresponding needle tricks 20, their butts 11, 14 being selectively caused to sink into the needle tricks during the movement of a carriage. A stitch receiving course raising cam 41 which acts on the butt... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4637228 | Flat knitting machine having compound needles A plurality of compound needles 1 are arranged in corresponding needle tricks 20, their butts 11, 14 being selectively caused to sink into the needle tricks during the movement of a carriage. A stitch receiving course raising cam 41 which acts on the butt... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4621506 | Knitting machine Each needle groove formed in the needle bed of the knitting machine for slidably receiving the corresponding needle comprises a first dip registering with the major portion of the needle in the longitudinal direction, as well as a second, deeper dip engag... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4584850 | Flat-bed knitting machine A knitting machine, in particular a flat-bed knitting machine with a plurality of needle beds in each of which longitudinally extending needle tricks are formed in which a knitting needle moves longitudinally. The knitting needles comprise two parts, with... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4571955 | Automatic straight knitting machine Inserted is each slit of the needle bed of this machine is a needle underneath which is placed a blade element that is provided with three butts, namely a first butt at the top, a second butt below, and a third butt at the bottom. The said third and last ... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4559791 | Flat knitting machine with selective needle selection In a flat knitting machine with knitting needles which have flexible shanks nd which are arranged in the needle channels of the needle beds, the flexible shanks of the knitting needles are each engaged from below in the region of an operating butt of the n... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4516412 | Cambox for a flat knitting machine The invention is concerned with a knitting cambox system for a flat knitting machine with front and rear needle beds arranged gable-fashion and adapted for the production of multicolor knitted fabric a single pass of the machine carriage. An improvement i... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4490994 | Flat knitting machine having needle selector device In a flat knitting machine having a needle selector device and selector jacks (50), which can be acted on by press cam parts, and needles (42) with a butt (47) which can be disconnected from the cam parts, there are arranged, in the direction of movement ... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4470274 | Flat knitting machine In a flat knitting machine wherein needles or jacks connected thereto, each has two butts, front and rear and wherein there is provided a space below a center cam and between a pair of raising cams in a knitting lock, there is disposed in the space a loop... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4463578 | Single or multiple cam unit for knitting machines A single or multiple cam unit for knitting machines, with needle feet of knitting needles selectively lowerable by means of a needle selector device into the needle channels of the needle beds, comprises fixed and movable cam elements of the cam units (... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4463579 | Double cam unit for knitting machines A double knitting cam unit for knitting machines, with working jacks arrad in the needle channels of the needle beds behind the knitting needles and Jacquard jacks arranged behind these, includes superposed needle cam units (AD), jack cam units (BD) and ... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4413482 | Cam-support for a knitting machine A cam-support for a knitting machine for the entrainment of the push-rods, respectively of the needles, according to the so-called "three-way" technique, having first, second and third lifting cams intended to entrain the abutment surfaces of the push-rod... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4409801 | Needle selecting method and apparatus in flat knitting machine The present invention relates to a needle selecting method and needle selecting apparatus in a flat knitting machine. For electrically selecting the three needle positions, that is, the knit, tuck and welt positions, by using an electromagnet, needle sele... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4294085 | Flat bed knitting machines In a flat bed knitting machine, needles are selected for tucking in either direction of traverse by jacks selected by an actuator bank, preferably electronically controlled, located below a clearing cam. The jacks may themselves carry pattern butts as mea... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4227384 | Knitting-machine patterning system A cam carriage, provided with a jack-filled pattern wheel followed by a knitting cam system, travels along a needle bed of a flat-bed knitting machine. Those pattern-wheel jacks which are selected for operation by a jacquard mechanism cause selected needl... | 10/14/1980 |
