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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 1977
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Kahan, New York, NY (US);
Howard D Rogers, Fanwood, NJ (US);
Fredrick A Rupinski, Lyndhurst, NJ (US);
Assignee:
The Singer Company, New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D04B / ; D04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
66 752 ; 6615 / ;
Abstract
A home knitting machine is provided with a reader for reading out patterning instructions on a programmed card, an electronic memory for storing signals read from the card, means enabling an operator to select a needle to knit a particular column of a design unit and to thereby fix the overall position of a design in a width of fabric to be knit, and means for recalling the stored signals from the memory in synchronization with movement of the carriage during knitting and for causing the operations of needle selectors on the carriage in accordance with the recalled signals.