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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 1976
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1973
Applicant:
Inventor:
Giorgio Billi, Florence, IT;
Assignee:
Billi, S.p.A., Florence, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D04B / ; D04B / ; D04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
66 56 ; 66155 ;
Abstract
Rotations of a circular knitting machine are counted and encoded into electrical signals. After a prescribed number of revolutions a programmer and program indicating disc signal a switching mechanism to shift a cam drum to the next position in the pattern. A first circuit is provided for operating the needle cylinder at a slower speed during the aforesaid shifting operation, and a second circuit is provided for running the machine at maximum and intermediate speeds during the knitting operation in response to a preselected pattern. The programmer includes two types of output signals for controlling the production of fabric according to type or size.