Silver Seiko Ltd.

Yoshimasa Yamaguchi

Akira Iino

Each of a plurality of sinker elements on a needle bed having a plurality of knitting needles of a hand-operated knitting machine has a vertically extending, endwise open slot formed at its forward end. For casting on, an end segment of a knitting yarn is successively passed through the respective slots of the sinker elements to twist the end segment with another segment of the yarn forming a first row. Needle loops in the first row are drawn from between the twisted yarn segments, thereby providing a knit article with a closed edge which will not be loosened by a pull at the edge of the article.

Hand-operated knitting machine, method of casting on and knit article

A small table-top hand operated weaving apparatus on is disclosed upon which various patterned fabrics can be woven by extremely simplified operations thereof. In the disclosed apparatus, each heald member is mounted for movement along an inclined path with let-off and take-up rollers located on the same side relative to the path of the healds so that the warp yarns turn their direction at an angle, such as a right angle, at the healds. The heald members are automatically positioned selectively to either of the two end positions of their paths in accordance with a heald selection program by a manual reciprocating movement of a heald selection carriage movable transversely along the apparatus in order to form a desired shed with the warp yarns.

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Kodaira, Japan

Yoshimasa Yamaguchi