Apparatus for recording pattern information and producing a knitting control program

An apparatus for recording pattern information, comprising display means for pattern information which, when pattern information on a fabric to be knitted on a V-bed flat knitting machine, is entered thereinto in terms of units of pattern information one unit representing one or two stitches formed on one pair of opposed needles, front and back, in coded color or color code for each respective unit pattern information and according to a color code table, display

• in coded colors on a graphic color monitor individual units of patterns information for each wale of stitches and individual units of pattern information for each course of stitches, with said information units for each wale arranged in dots on one of X and Y coordinates axes and said information units for each course arranged in dots on the other coordinate axis, each unit pattern information being represented by one dot, pattern information storage means for storing pattern information input into said display means, interpreter means for reading the pattern information stored in said storage means in the sequence of knitting and for translating the pattern information for each course of stitches into pattern data and control data for a required number of knitting courses and write means for writing said pattern data and control data for each knitting course onto a desired recording medium.