Automated home knitting machine
AssigneeThe Singer Company
InventorsWilliam Kahan, Fredrick Alexander Rupinski, Barney Dean Hunts, Howard David Rogers, John Francis Wagner, John Vernon Landau, Jr.
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Abstract
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.
Claims18
In a programmable 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 the needles, a program card, a card reader for reading design defining instructions on the card, switch means, electronic control means responsive to the card reader and switch means for controlling the knitting of fabric on the machine, and a mode switch for placing the electronic control means in a program mode or a knit mode, the said switch means including one or more switches operable during at least one such mode for prescribing design instructions other than instructions prescribable on the card.
In a programmable 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 the needles, means for designating a particular needle to knit a particular wale of a prescribed unit design which is to be knit repetitively on the machine, and a device operable to display a meaningful symbol whenever the position of the carriage is such that a defined location on the carriage is in alignment with the designated needle or another needle disposed to knit the same wale of the unit design.
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