Silver Seiko Ltd.

Silver Seiko Co., Ltd.

Yutaka Kagaya

Shigeo Kamikura

Hideaki Itagaki

Kensuke Uemura

Ryoiti Kawaoka

A program reading apparatus in a knitting machine including a movable reading head adapted to scan a program carrier having thereon patterning instructions for control of the pattern to be knitted on the machine. Means are provided therein for preventing rebound of the reading head upon arrival at or return to its starting position, such means being operated by the momentum of the reading head upon reading head arrival or return to momentarily arrest the reading head at the starting position.

Program reading apparatus

A new type of hand-operated knitting machine having a device for reading knitting programs is provided. Unlike the conventional reading device-equipped knitting machine, the reading device is not mounted on its carriage. Therefore, although the scanning operation of the reading device is associated with the start of the carriage movement, it is not disordered by irregular carriage handlings, thus realizing proper reproduction of the knitting pattern.

Knitting machine coupled with the program reading device

A method and apparatus for providing patterning instructions in a knitting machine by reading a program carrier and converting the readings to digital signals to be stored in a memory means. A manually operable member cooperating with the reading means allows the instructions to be recalled from memory to be selectively determined for controlling for the knitting operation.

Method and apparatus for providing patterning instructions in a knitting

A patterning system for use with a hand-operated flat-bed knitting machine of the type wherein a carriage is mounted for reciprocative sliding movement along the needle bed, comprising a program providing means for providing a unit number of signals representative of data for needle selection for a course of knitting, a pair of needle selecting means mounted on said carriage at its opposite end portions for engagement with needles on the needle bed to select them in accordance with the pattern program, switch means for detecting the sliding direction of the carriage, control circuit means for controlling the needle selecting means so as to alternatively operate in response to the detection of the sliding direction of the carriage, thereby to carry out the needle selection in order to obtain the pattern on a knitted fabric according to the pattern program provided by the program providing means, without getting into confusion upon reversing of the sliding direction of the carriage.

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Kodaira, Japan

Yutaka Kagaya