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US 5,671,614 AGranted
Apparel system and a lily yarn machine usable to it
AssigneeShima Seiki Manufacturing, Ltd.
InventorMasahiro Shima
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Abstract
An apparel system includes a lily yarn machine for knitting lily yarns, and a flat knitting machine having at least two needle beds for knitting according to knitting data. A controller is connected to the lily yarn machine and the flat knitting machine for controlling the lily yarn machine to produce a lily yarn in a quantity which is required by the flat knitting machine according to the knitting data for the flat knitting machine.
Claims9
An apparel system comprising:
- a lily yarn machine for knitting lily yarns;
- a flat knitting machine having at least two needle beds for knitting according to knitting data;
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- a controller connected to said lily yarn machine and said flat knitting machine for controlling said lily yarn machine to produce lily yarn in a quantity required by said flat knitting machine according to said knitting data for said flat knitting machine.
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An apparel system comprising:
- a lily yarn machine for knitting lily yarns;
- a flat knitting machine having at least two needle beds for knitting according to knitting data;
- a controller connected to said lily yarn machine and said flat knitting machine for controlling said lily yarn machine to produce lily yarn in a quantity required by said flat knitting machine according to said knitting data for said flat knitting machine;
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- means for controlling texture provided to said lily yarn machine to control the texture of said lily yarn,
- wherein said lily yarn machine comprises a conical cylinder, plural sinkers and needles being arranged along an outer surface thereof, a sinker cam coupled to said sinkers and a needle cam coupled to said needles for controlling said sinkers and needles, respectively, and wherein said means for controlling texture comprising a means for vertically moving said sinker cam and said needle cam along said outer surface of said cylinder.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.