Knitting machine for producing programmed designs
    1.
    发明授权
    Knitting machine for producing programmed designs 失效
    针织机生产编程设计

    公开(公告)号:US3983718A

    公开(公告)日:1976-10-05

    申请号:US612815

    申请日:1975-09-12

    IPC分类号: D04B7/08 D04B15/66 D04B7/24

    CPC分类号: D04B15/66 D04B7/08

    摘要: The carriage of a home knitting machine is provided with a reader operable independently of any movement of the carriage of the machine for reading out patterning instructions on a programmed card prior to knitting, an electronic memory for storing the signals read from the card, and means for recalling the stored signals from the memory in synchronization with movement of the carriage during knitting and for causing the operation of needle selectors on the carriage in accordance with the recalled signals to provide for the formation in a fabric of a pattern defined on the card.

    摘要翻译: 家用针织机的托架设置有读取器,该读取器可独立于用于在编织之前读出编程卡上的图案化指令的机器托架的任何运动,用于存储从卡读取的信号的电子存储器和装置 用于在编织期间与托架的移动同步地从存储器中调出所存储的信号,并根据所召回的信号使得针架上的针选择器的操作,以提供在卡片上定义的图案的织物中的形成。

    Positioning control for programmable knitting machines
    2.
    发明授权
    Positioning control for programmable knitting machines 失效
    可编程针织机的定位控制

    公开(公告)号:US4006611A

    公开(公告)日:1977-02-08

    申请号:US699734

    申请日:1976-06-24

    CPC分类号: D04B15/66 D04B7/08

    摘要: A home knitting machine is provided with a reader for reading out patterning instructions on a programmed card, an electronic memory for storing signals read from the card, means enabling an operator to select a needle to knit a particular column of a design unit and to thereby fix the overall position of a design in a width of fabric to be knit, and means for recalling the stored signals from the memory in synchronization with movement of the carriage during knitting and for causing the operations of needle selectors on the carriage in accordance with the recalled signals.

    摘要翻译: 家用针织机设置有用于读取编程卡上的图案化指令的读取器,用于存储从卡读取的信号的电子存储器,使得操作者能够选择针来编织设计单元的特定列的装置,从而 将织物宽度的设计的整体位置固定为针织物,以及用于在编织期间与托架的运动同步地从存储器调出所存储的信号的装置,以及用于使针架上的针选择器的操作根据 召回信号。

    Automated home knitting machine with program card reader
    3.
    发明授权
    Automated home knitting machine with program card reader 失效
    自动针织机带程序读卡器

    公开(公告)号:US4040277A

    公开(公告)日:1977-08-09

    申请号:US627173

    申请日:1975-10-30

    CPC分类号: D04B15/66

    摘要: An electronic home knitting machine which functions pursuant to patterning instructions on a program card and in response to the operation of control devices by an operator causing needle actuators on the carriage of the machine to be selectively operated and fabric unit in a prescribed manner on the machine is provided with an acutely discriminating adaptive card reader for detecting instruction marks on the card and means operable to indicate to an operator an error in the reading of the card.

    摘要翻译: 一种电子家用针织机,其能够根据程序卡上的图案化指令,并且响应于操作者的控制装置的操作,使得机器的滑架上的针致动器被选择性地操作,并且织机在规定的方式在机器上 设置有用于检测卡上的指示标记的锐度自适应读卡器,以及可操作以向操作者指示读卡的错误的装置。

    Automated home knitting machine with means for controlling the knitting
of design rows
    4.
    发明授权
    Automated home knitting machine with means for controlling the knitting of design rows 失效
    自动针织机,用于控制设计行编织

    公开(公告)号:US4015445A

    公开(公告)日:1977-04-05

    申请号:US627178

    申请日:1975-10-30

    CPC分类号: D04B15/66

    摘要: A home knitting machine is provided with electronic control means which function pursuant to patterning instructions on a program card and in response to the operation of row controlling switch means by an operator causing needle actuators on the carriage of the machine to be selectively operated and fabric knitted in a prescribed manner on the machine.

    摘要翻译: 家用针织机设置有电子控制装置,其根据程序卡上的图案化指令和响应于操作者的行控制开关装置的操作使得机器的滑架上的针致动器被选择性地操作和织物编织 以规定的方式在机器上。

    Bobbin thread run-out detectors
    5.
    发明授权
    Bobbin thread run-out detectors 失效
    线轴跳线检测器

    公开(公告)号:US4188902A

    公开(公告)日:1980-02-19

    申请号:US040022

    申请日:1979-05-18

    申请人: William Kahan

    发明人: William Kahan

    IPC分类号: D05B59/02 B65H63/02 D05B69/00

    CPC分类号: D05B59/02

    摘要: A bobbin thread run-out detector having a light source and means for directing a beam of light toward a set of retro-reflecting reflectors on the bobbin and toward a reference reflecting spot on the loop taker. Bobbin thread wound around the bobbin is interposed between the light source and the retro-reflecting reflectors. When a sufficient quantity of thread has been consumed to expose the indentations to the source of light, the light is reflected to a photodetector. Light from the source is also intermittently reflected onto the photodetector by the reflecting spot on the loop taker during each revolution of the loop taker. An electronic circuit compares the light received by the photodetector from the bobbin with the light received from the reflecting spot on the loop taker. When the quantity of light reflected from the bobbin changes relative to the quantity of light reflected from the loop taker a low bobbin thread alarm is activated to warn the operator of the impending exhaustion of bobbin thread.

    摘要翻译: 一种具有光源的底线漏光检测器和用于将光束引导到绕组上的一组回射反射器并朝向环形接收器上的参考反射点的装置。 缠绕在线轴上的绕线线介于光源和反光反射器之间。 当已经消耗足够量的线以将凹痕暴露于光源时,光被反射到光电检测器。 来自源的光也在环路接收器的每转一周期间被环路接收器上的反射点间歇地反射到光电检测器上。 电子电路将来自线轴的光电检测器接收的光与从接收器上的反射点接收的光进行比较。 当从筒管反射的光量相对于从回路接收器反射的光量变化时,启动低底线报警器以警告操作者即将消耗底线。

    Automated home knitting machine
    6.
    发明授权
    Automated home knitting machine 失效
    自动针织机

    公开(公告)号:US4036035A

    公开(公告)日:1977-07-19

    申请号:US627431

    申请日:1975-10-30

    CPC分类号: D04B15/66

    摘要: A home knitting machine is provided with electronic control means which function pursuant to patterning instructions on a program card and in response to the operation of control devices by an operator causing needle actuators on the carriage of the machine to be selectively operated and fabric knitted in a prescribed manner on the machine.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the InventionThe invention relates to automatic knitting machinery and has particular application to home knitting machines which can be programmed to produce prescribed patterns on a fabric.2. Description of the Prior ArtAutomated home knitting machines are now well known and are exemplified by the machines of the following Patents and applications:U.s. pat. No. 3,885,405 -- issued May 27, 1975French Pat. No. 2,212,830 -- Reg. July 23, 1972Japanese Application No. 85853, laid open Nov. 13, 1973Although such machines can be programmed to produce various patterns in knitted fabric, there are a variety of desirable control functions pertaining to the formation of patterned fabric which the existing machines can not be programmed to perform automatically. Furthermore, existing machines do not permit the operator to exercise a large measure of control over the knitting of the fabric after the initial programming.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONIn order to remedy the deficiencies of the prior art machines, electronic control means are provided in a home knitting machine enabling the machine to perform automatically a variety of control functions which an operator may prescribe by suitably marking a program card to be read by the machine and/or by operating various control instrumentalities, preferably located on the carriage of the machine, and enabling the operator after the machine has been programmed to exercise easily close control over the knitting of fabric on the machine.More particularly, the machine of the invention is rendered capable of reading and executing instructions which an operator may prescribe by marking the card, including instructions defining a design configuration for fabric to be knit on the machine, size delineating instructions for a unit design area to be formed repetitively in the fabric, instructions specifying that each unit design area be expanded an integral number of times, either horizontally or vertically or in both directions in the fabric, instructions directing that in conjunction with the unit design areas, mirror images thereof also be formed in courses or wales or in both courses and wales of the fabric, and an instruction directing a particular number of wales to be knit as selvedge without the design configuration at opposite side edges of the fabric. The machine is also provided with switches which offer an operator an alternative to the use of certain instructions on the program card. With such switches he can cause the machine to expand the unit design areas, produce mirror images, knit a selected number of wales of selvedge, invert the design configuration and background specified on the card, reverse the left-right orientation of a design configuration as prescribed on the program card and repeat a design row in fabric being knit. In addition, the machine is adapted to execute supplementary and/or modifying instructions in response to the actuation of switch means by an operator including instructions specifying the placement of a pattern between the side edges of a fabric to be knit on the machine, and an instruction directing the formation of selvedge in punch lace fabric with both the yarn and thread used in knitting the punch lace construction.The machine includes a liquid crystal display which provides an operator with meaningful information enabling him to better control the knitting of designs and to prevent defects due to operating error. The display informs an operator of the row of the program card being knit, of the number of times a given row has been selected for vertical multiplication, of the fact that the machine has been readied for automatic knitting before a card has been read properly where such is the case, of a failure by the operator to select a particular needle for a wale corresponding to an end column of a designated unit design area on the program card, and of the condition of the power supply.

    摘要翻译: 家用针织机设置有电子控制装置,其根据程序卡上的图案化指令起作用,并响应于操作者控制装置的操作,使得机器的滑架上的针致动器被选择性地操作并织成针织物 在机器上规定的方式。

    Pocket button attaching device
    7.
    发明授权
    Pocket button attaching device 失效
    袖扣附件

    公开(公告)号:US4361101A

    公开(公告)日:1982-11-30

    申请号:US275576

    申请日:1981-06-22

    IPC分类号: A41H37/00 D05B3/14 D05B85/00

    CPC分类号: A41H37/005

    摘要: A button attaching device is provided with a bifurcated needle holding member which can be utilized to adjust the spacing between a pair of needles, and with a needle cover which attaches to the bifurcated member to protect one from injury by the needles and form a unit that can be conveniently carried on the person of a user.

    摘要翻译: 按钮安装装置设置有分叉的针保持构件,其可用于调节一对针之间的间隔,并且具有连接到分叉构件的针罩,以防止针受到针的伤害,并形成单元, 可以方便地携带在用户的身上。