Knitting machine for producing programmed designs
AssigneeThe Singer Company
InventorsWilliam Kahan, Howard D. Rogers, Frederick A. Rupinski
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Abstract
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.
Claims10
In a knitting machine, the combination comprising a needle bed supporting a plurality of needles in side by side relation, a carriage mounted on the bed for movement traversing such needles, a program card bearing patterning instructions, means on the carriage operable independently of movement of the carriage for reading out the patterning instructions on the card, a memory on the carriage connected with the reading means for storing signals representing said patterning instructions, needle selecting means on the carriage operably connected with the memory, and sequencing control means operably connected with the memory for causing said signals representing the patterning instructions to be recalled from the memory whereby they may be utilized to control the operation of the needle selecting means when the carriage is moved on the bed of the machine for the purpose of knitting fabric, the sequencing control means including a pulse generator on the carriage operable in timed relation to movement of the carriage.
The combination of clam 7 wherein said switch means is on the carriage.
In a knitting machine, the combination comprising a needle bed supporting a plurality of needles in side by side relation, a carriage mounted on the bed for movement traversing such needles, a program card bearing patterning instructions, means operable independently of movement of the carriage for reading out the patterning instructions on the card, a memory connected with the reading means for storing signals representing said patterning instructions, needle selecting means on the carriage operably connected with the memory, and sequencing control means operably connected with the memory for causing said signals representing the patterning instructions to be recalled from the memory whereby they may be utilized to control the operation of the needle selecting means when the carriage is moved on the bed of the machine for the purpose of knitting fabric, the sequencing control means including a pulse generator on the carriage operable in timed relation to movement of the carriage.
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