The Singer Company

John Anthony Raudonis

Henry Schaeflern

Richard Mead

Rogers, Howard D

An automated flat bed knitting machine including a stationary programmable device with electrical lines corresponding to rows and columns of a fabric producible on the machine is provided with means for extracting information from said device on a row by row basis including switch means operable by the carriage of the machine, motor means controlled by the switch means, and movable contact means controlled by the motor means for sequentially contacting the row lines of the programming device.

Row advancing arrangement for a programmable flat bed knitting machine

A flat bed knitting machine having a motor driven carriage is provided with control means which counts needle slots as the carriage moves beyond working needles at one end or the other of the bed of the machine, and is effective when a predetermined count is attained to cause the motor to reverse the direction of movement of the carriage.

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Union, NJ, United States of America

John Anthony Raudonis