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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. 12, 1980
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ralph A Koegel, Brookfield, WI (US);
Assignee:
Borg Textile Corporation, Oak Brook, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
66111 ; 66 / ;
Abstract
An improved latch guard having a forwardly extending deflector arm integrally associated therewith. When the improved latch guard is incorporated into a deep pile fabric circular knitting machine, the deflector arm eliminates the problem of stray fiber build-up on the front edge of prior art latch guards during operation of such knitting machine.