The Singer Company

Martin David Brennan

Barney D Hunts

William Kahan

John Vernon Landau, Jr

Howard David Rogers

Fredrick Alexander Rupinski

Thomas Richard Peer

A plurality of capacitive switches, which are actuated by the touch of a user, are coupled to unique pairs of conductors. The conductors are sequentially actuated, or interrogated, and simultaneously coupled to a charge rate detector that compares the capacitance associated with each conductor to a reference capacitor. Storage means coupled to the output of the charge rate detector stores an indication of whether the capacitance associated with each conductor is greater or less than the reference capacitor such that the stored indications constitute a two of N code that identifies an actuated capacitive switch.

Charge rate, capacitive switch system

A home knitting machine is provided with electronic control means which function pursuant to patterning instructions on a program card and in response to the operation of control devices by an operator causing needle actuators on the carriage of the machine to be selectively operated and fabric knitted in a prescribed manner on the machine.

Automated home knitting machine

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Flanders, NJ, United States of America

Martin David Brennan