Superba (sa)

Alfred Marcel Gloeckler

(a) A programmable knitting machine (b) Machine comprising a matrix formed of conductors (A.sub.1) intersected by conductors (B.sub.j) at a point of intersection (T.sub.ij), display means (4), means (11, 12, 15, 16) for bringing the conductors (A.sub.i and B.sub.j) into contact, and a microprocessor. (c) The invention concerns the programming of knitting machines.

Programmable knitting machine

This invention concerns a home knitting machine comprising at least one straight needle bed member provided with grooves slidably receiving the knitting needles, a carriage which is movable on the needle bed member and which is provide with selection units and cam tracks for actuating and displacing the needles of the needle bed member, a programming installation comprising reading means which are electrically connected to the selection units and which are relatively movable with respect to a program card, means for relatively displacing, from one row to the next, the reading means with respect to the program card, mechanical means for connecting the programming installation to the carriage for successive reading of the rows of the program card by the reading means in synchronism with the movement of the carriage, this machine being characterized in that the means for relatively displacing from one row to the next the reading means relative to the program card comprise means for adjusting the pitch of the scanned rows of the card.

Home knitting machine

This invention is relative at domestic knitting machine consisting of at least one needle board supporting slidingly in grooves the knitting needles and a movable carriage parallel above the needle board, the carriage being provided with a lock fitted with an electromagnetic needle selection component, which machine is characterized in that the electromagnetic component is mounted on the lock with the aid of a guiding means ensuring free movement in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the needle board.

Domestic knitting machine

A hand knitting machine having a single or double needle bed is provided with a device for selecting needles. This device includes an electromagnetic means located on a movable carriage which is electrically and mechanically connected to a program matrix by an endless metallic ribbon tensioned between two rollers over the width of the needle bed. The selected needles are controlled by an assembly of fixed and movable cams, the active and inactive positions of the latter being determined by a knob and lever assembly.

Growing community of inventors

Mulhouse, France

Alfred Marcel Gloeckler