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US 11,851,790 B2Granted
Knitting needle
AssigneeGroz-Beckert KG
InventorsAnte Milicevic, Juergen Schick
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Abstract
A knitting needle includes a hook point having an upper face, lateral portions, and a rear portion. The knitting needle has an at least approximately oval cross section, at least in portions, at the hook point, in order to improve the knitting needle in terms of structure and/or function.
Claims16
A knitting needle, comprising:
- a hook point opposite a shank of the needle;
- the hook point having an upper face, a rear portion on a side opposite the upper face, and oppositely disposed lateral portions extending between the upper face and the rear portion;
- a planar cover surface at the upper face, the planar cover surface parallel to and extending along a longitudinal axis of the knitting needle;
- the rear portion angled toward the longitudinal axis and converging with the planar cover surface at the longitudinal axis to define a point portion at a distal end of the hook point;
- a hook protrusion opposite the point portion in a direction toward the shank;
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- a hook throat extending from the hook protrusion in a direction toward the rear portion and terminating in a hook base;
- the knitting needle having an elongated, obtuse-angled polygon cross-sectional shape, at least at a section delimited by the hook throat of the hook point.
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