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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 1977
Filed:
Sep. 12, 1975
Yutaka Kagaya, Musashi-Murayama, JA;
Silver Seiko Co., Ltd., Kodaira, JA;
Abstract
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.