Abstract:
A collapsible flat bed knitting machine having a foldable needle bed and a carrying case for receiving therein the folded needle bed and other instrumentalities of the machine to facilitate transportation of the machine as of a portable sewing machine. Three parts or sections constituting the needle bed are foldably connected by an improved connector assembly having three plate members fixed respectively to the bed parts. The assembly connects the bed parts in their assembled position in sufficiently exact alignment to assure smooth traverse of a carriage on the thus completed needle bed.
Abstract:
A hand knitting machine having a needle bed, a series of sinkers extending from the front edge of the needle bed, a series of corresponding number of latch needles alternated with the sinkers, an actuator movably supported on the needle bed, and needle selecting means. The needle selecting means has a central sinker on the actuator and at either side of the sinker a selecting cam having a duplicatedly inclined acting cam face inwardly backwardly of the actuator. The needle selecting means further has a control means to selectively restrain the needles from being subject to the selecting cam, whereby all the needle are divided into two groups each time the actuator travels in either direction on the needle bed.
Abstract:
This disclosure relates to a knitting machine which includes a needle bed having a plurality of needles mounted thereon in sideby-side relation. Also mounted on the needle bed for traversing movement is a carriage. The carriage is provided with a pair of mechanical data storage dials one of which has needle setting arms thereof set in accordance with the pattern of a data carrier and the other of which has the arms thereof already set with the arms set in needles as the carriage traverses the needle bed. The data carrier may either be in the form of a preprinted program sheet or a base sheet adapted to have placed thereon by the individual the desired pattern data.
Abstract:
1,150,486. Needle beds. EMPISAL (PROPRIETARY) Ltd. 10 April, 1967 [19 April, 1966; 9 Jan., 1967], No. 16311/67. Heading D1C. A box-form needle bed has an upper plate with double thickness metal which is slotted to guide the slider butts 11. As shown in Fig. 2 the box section 6, 7, 8 is of pressed metal and a hardened steel plate 9 is fixed to the top. Alternatively the upper plate may comprise two overlapped L-shaped sections secured together.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for providing patterning instructions in a knitting machine by reading a program carrier and converting the readings to digital signals to be stored in a memory means. A manually operable member cooperating with the reading means allows the instructions to be recalled from memory to be selectively determined for controlling for the knitting operation.
Abstract:
A patterning system for use with a hand-operated flat-bed knitting machine of the type wherein a carriage is mounted for reciprocative sliding movement along the needle bed, comprising a program providing means for providing a unit number of signals representative of data for needle selection for a course of knitting, a pair of needle selecting means mounted on said carriage at its opposite end portions for engagement with needles on the needle bed to select them in accordance with the pattern program, switch means for detecting the sliding direction of the carriage, control circuit means for controlling the needle selecting means so as to alternatively operate in response to the detection of the sliding direction of the carriage, thereby to carry out the needle selection in order to obtain the pattern on a knitted fabric according to the pattern program provided by the program providing means, without getting into confusion upon reversing of the sliding direction of the carriage.
Abstract:
An electric device selects the needles of a rectilinear knitting machine. A carriage which moves in front of the needles is provided with an electro-magnetic member which successively operates the needls during its displacement. The device includes a memory member containing data for activating the electromagnetic member to operate the needles required for making a determined width of a knitting. A scanning installation scans the memory member synchronously with the displacement of the carriage.
Abstract:
A hand-operated knitting machine having a pattern device attached to the carriage and acting upon the switches for the needle butts, a coupling device actuated by control means mounted on the needle bed being provided between parts of the transmission rod assembly connecting the pattern device to the needle butts for rendering the pattern device temporarily inoperative.