Patents Assigned to Wildt Mellor Bromley Ltd.
  • Yarn end collection
    Patent number: 4164856
    Abstract: A circular knitting machine includes a cylinder with knitting instrumentalities and a cam arrangement for operating the instrumentalities, the cylinder and the cam arrangement being relatively rotatable, a striper associated with the cam arrangement and having a yarn cutting mechanism, an aperture in the cylinder for propelling air outwardly of the cylinder past the instrumentalities to carry yarn ends cut off by the yarn cutting mechanism outwardly of the striper and a means for collecting yarn ends carried outwardly by the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1979
    Assignee: Wildt Mellor Bromley Ltd.
    Inventor: Arthur R. Smith