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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 1977
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1976
Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Tokyo, JA;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for knitting patterns with a circular knitting machine provided with an annular array of knitting needles and groups of needle actuators. Pattern signals in binary notation are read out of a memory device and written into first one and then the other of a pair of counter stages. While pattern signals for a given course of knitting are being read out from one counter stage and forwarded to the corresponding actuators, pattern signals for the next course of knitting are written into the other counter stage from the memory device. The pattern signals alternately read out from first one and then the other counter stage are forwarded to the corresponding actuators by means of selection circuits to thereby produce a knit fabric having a continuous colored pattern.