D04B 9/20
Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles: with provision for narrowing or widening
Official title: with provision for narrowing or widening; with reciprocatory action, e.g. for knitting of flat portions
D04B9/20 (Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles: with provision for narrowing or widening) appears on 24 US grants and 13 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D04B- Granted patents
- 24
- Published applications
- 13
- Assignees
- 16
- Inventors
- 32
- Latest grant
- 14 Oct 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Circular machine for hosiery and knitwear and process for closing an end of a tubular manufactured article directly on a circular machine14 Oct 2025US 12,442,114 B2Sgm Automazioni S.R.L.
- Process for realizing an upper for shoes and an upper for a shoe4 Mar 2025US 12,241,188 B2Jvc Holding Srl
- Sock with tab2 Aug 2022US 11,401,636 B2NIKE, Inc.
- Circular knitting machine and a method for moving the needles of a circular knitting machine4 Jan 2022US 11,214,899 B2Santoni S.P.A.
- Machine for making an upper for a shoe and an upper for a shoe13 Jul 2021US 11,060,218 B2Jvc Holding Srl
- Improved circular machine for hosiery and knitwear and process for closing an end of a tubular manufactured article directly on a circular machine15 May 2025US 2025/0154697 A1Sgm Automazioni S.R.L.
- Process for realizing an upper for shoes and an upper for a shoe20 May 2021US 2021/0148018 A1Jvc Holding Srl
- Sock with tab2 Jul 2020US 2020/0205481 A1NIKE, Inc.
- A circular knitting machine and a method for moving the needles of a circular knitting machine25 Jun 2020US 2020/0199794 A1Santoni S.P.A.
- Machine for making an upper for a shoe and an upper for a shoe25 Jul 2019US 2019/0226130 A1Jvc Holding Srl
Most cited
By later US patents
- Footwear garment, method of manufacture and knitting machine14US 6,457,332 B12002
- Multiple system circular knitting machine for knitting stockings6US 4,644,762 AFred Vatter Strumpffabriken Schongau-Altenstadt GmbH · 1987
- Endoscopic apparatus for flaw detection on a circular knitting machine6US 5,133,198 AInstitut Textile de France · 1992
- Sock with tab5US 11,401,636 B2NIKE, Inc. · 2022
- Procedure for processing with circular knitting machines and circular machines adopting said procedure5US 4,541,253 AOfficine Savio S.p.A. · 1985