Method for knitting a crossing pattern and an apparatus for knit

Details Method for knitting a crossing pattern and an apparatus for knit Method for knitting a crossing pattern and an apparatus for knit

1993-12-20

1995-11-28

Calvert, John J.

Textiles: knitting

Independent-needle machines

Straight

66 64, 66148, D04B 700

Patent

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054697174

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for knitting a cross pattern texture on a flat knitting machine comprising front and rear needle beds, each needle bed having a plurality of needle grooves parallel and equally spaced along a length of the needle beds and each of such grooves having a needle therein, needle cams for selectively advancing and retracting the needles in the needle grooves transverse the needle beds for forming knit stitches on the needles in yarn fed to the needles as such needles are advanced and retracted in the needle grooves, a transfer jack supported above each of the needle beds and each moving transverse of the jack beds in jack grooves in the jack beds, a transfer cam for selectively moving each of the transfer jacks in the jack grooves, a lift cam protruding into a cam groove of the transfer cam and means for moving the lift cam into and out of the cam groove, wherein each of the transfer jacks is retracted in the jack groove or remains forward depending on the lift cam's position in the cam groove of the transfer cam.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3446042 (1969-05-01), Fontaine
patent: 3841114 (1974-10-01), Vandermeirsch
patent: 4905483 (1990-03-01), Shima
patent: 5365756 (1994-11-01), Nakamori et al.

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