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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:
Oct. 22, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Koji Tsuchiya, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
66151 ; 6614 / ; 2425251 ;
Abstract
A circular knitting machine and take-up mechanism therefor includes a knitting unit for forming a tubular knit fabric, a first set of let-off rolls for flattening the tubular fabric into a double-layer web and delivering the web from the knitting unit, a slitter for slitting the flattened tubular fabric longitudinally along a predetermined line, a spreader for spreading the slit fabric into a single layer web, the spreader being extendable and contractible to spread fabrics of varying widths, a second set of let-off rolls for drawing the fabric across the spreader and a fabric take-up for taking-up the single layer web for storage and subsequent use.