Patents by Inventor Franz Radl

Franz Radl has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Tension adjusting device for flat knitting machines
    Patent number: 4502300
    Abstract: A flat knitting machine includes a device for adjusting the retractor elets for the needles in the cam systems on the carriage of the machine for the setting of the stitch tension. In order to simplify the tension adjusting mechanism and simultaneously to produce a sensitive setting mechanism, there is provided on the carriage a single electrical stepping motor, with position sensor, for counterbalanced adjustment of the leading and of the trailing retractor elements of each cam system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1985
    Assignee: Universal Maschinenfabrik Dr. Rudolf Schieber GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Reinhold Schimko, Franz Radl, Max Fuchs
  • Flat knitting machine
    Patent number: 4004437
    Abstract: A flat knitting machine comprises a needle bed and a carriage traversible along the needle bed. Stitch cams presettable in a plurality of different positions according to a desired knitting pattern are provided, and an adjustably positioned ramp in the needle bed fixed to a slide is adapted to displace a cooperating stitch cam into a selected position. Means are provided on the carriage for clamping the stitch cam in the position to which it has been displaced by the ramp and a slide to which the ramp is attached is raisable by control cam means preceding knitting cams in the carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1977
    Assignee: Universal Maschinenfabrik Dr. Rudolf Schieber KG
    Inventors: Hans Schieber, Franz Radl, Erich Krause, Reinhold Schimko