Patents by Inventor Franz Schmid

Franz Schmid 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).

  • Patent number: 6415633
    Abstract: A flat knitting machine has at least two oppositely located needle beds provided with stitch formers and/or comb gap plates, one of the needle beds having a wire which forms a knocking off base for stitches, so that for changing a comb gap width of the stitch formers and/or of the comb gap plates they are arranged jointly adjustable on the at least one needle bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Hans-Guenther Haltenhof, Stefan Mayer
  • Publication number: 20020000105
    Abstract: A flat knitting machine has at least two oppositely located needle beds provided with stitch formers and/or comb gap plates, one of the needle beds having a wire which forms a knocking off base for stitches, so that for changing a comb gap width of the stitch formers and/or of the comb gap plates they are arranged jointly adjustable on the at least one needle bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Hans-Guenther Haltenhof, Stefan Mayer
  • Patent number: 6240749
    Abstract: A flat knitting machine has at least one needle bed, a carriage which slides along the needle bed which has at least one cam with needle section means and stitch cams, a sinking element which cooperates with the stitch cams and is arranged movably on the stitch cams, the sinking element being controllable independently from the stitch cams and together with the stitch cams forms sinking surfaces of different size and/or form depending on its position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Thomas Stoll, Franz Schmid
  • Patent number: 6170300
    Abstract: A flat knitting machine has a needle bed support, a machine base, the needle bed support and the machine base being formed as a single assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Winfried Kapitel
  • Patent number: 6170301
    Abstract: For producing a knitted product on a flat knitting machine with simultaneous supply of two threads of different elasticities to needles of the machine, for each stitch to be formed the length of the thread of the higher elasticity to be supplied to a needle is calculated from the supplied length of a thread of the lower elasticity and the data about the material property of the thread of the higher elasticity, and a feeding device is controlled for the thread of the higher elasticity in correspondence with the calculated thread length to be supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Thomas Stoll, Franz Schmid
  • Patent number: 6105397
    Abstract: A knitted article is produced on a flat knitting machine with a carriage and at least one cam system, wherein the carriage speed is controlled within a knitting row in dependence on pattern types produced by individual needles or needle groups, as well as on the properties of knitting thread or threads continuously so that the carriage at each location of the knitting row is moved with a maximum possible speed at which it is guaranteed that no knitting thread is torn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Thomas Stoll, Franz Schmid, Wolfgang Rempp
  • Patent number: 6092396
    Abstract: A knitting machine has a needle bed, a plurality of needles, plates arranged between the needles, each of the plates having a front operational part provided with edges engaging in a loop forming region and displaceable about an axis extending along the needle bed between a front position and a rear position, and a shaft part arranged substantially parallel to the needles and longitudinally displaceable for driving the plates, the operational part and the shaft part being connected by an elastic springy web to form a one-piece element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Martin Wornle
  • Patent number: 5998157
    Abstract: The invention addresses protein aggregates that are acylated with --CO-- R groups, wherein R is a branched or non-branched C1-C4 alkyl residue which can be substituted with hydroxy, carboxy, SO.sub.3 H or PO.sub.3 H.sub.2 groups. These protein aggregates can be used to increase the intensity of signals and avoid false-positive results in immunoassays for the detection of antibodies. The inventions also adresses a reagent with a buffer and a binding reagent with an immunological binding partner containing said protein aggregate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics GmbH
    Inventors: Urban Schmitt, Dittmar Schlieper, Franz Schmid
  • Patent number: 5960646
    Abstract: A fabric take-off roller arrangement for flat bed knitting machines is provided with two driven and parallel arranged fabric take-off rollers, between which a fabric web is tangentially guided, wherein at least one of the fabric take-off rollers is made up of roller elements, which are arranged next to each other in the axial direction and are coupled, fixed against relative rotation. The rollers are rotatably maintained on one bearing support, which is pivotable in a direction vertically to the orientation of the roller elements, and which are hingedly seated in relation to each other as well as to the bearing support and are pressed against the other fabric take-off roller in an individually adjustable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Armin Diebold
  • Patent number: 5918483
    Abstract: The flatbed knitting machine includes opposing needle beds (V,H) with longitudinally movable needles (11,12); a carriage provided with cams (14,15,16) and sinkers (17,18; 17',18'; 17",18") having a closed position (S1), an end position (S2) and an open position (S0) and movable between the needles (11,12) with the help of the cams (14,15,16) in the carriage. The sinkers (17,18; 17',18'; 17",18") each have a hook-shaped projection (25, 26; 25', 26') that occludes or encloses from above a side of a loop on an adjacent needle in the needle beds when the sinkers are in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Gerhard Goetz
  • Patent number: 5752396
    Abstract: A thread control device for a flat knitting machine having a housing and at least one thread brake arranged on the housing, has a spring acting on the thread brake, a flat spring web supported at one side, and a slider movable in a recess of the housing and having a foot which slides on the spring web so that a free end of the flat spring changes a force of the spring which acts on the thread brake in correspondence with a position of the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Fritz Walker
  • Patent number: 5658725
    Abstract: Subject matter of the invention are protein-containing interference-reducing agents for immunoassays consisting of protein aggregates that are acylated with --CO--R groups, wherein R is a branched or non-branched C1-C4 alkyl residue which can be substituted with hydroxy, carboxy, SO.sub.3 H or PO.sub.3 H.sub.2 groups. These interference-reducing substances can be used together with a buffer as an interference-reducing agent or together with an immunological binding partner as a binding reagent to reduce non-specific interactions in immunoassays. Another subject matter of the invention is an immunological testing method wherein said interference-reducing substances are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Boehringer Mannheim GmbH
    Inventors: Dittmar Schlieper, Franz Schmid, Martin Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 5495728
    Abstract: In an adjusting device for opposite adjustment of drawing off cam parts of a cam system of a flat knitting machine carriage, with a common stepper motor moving with the machine carriage and providing a rotary movement which is converted into a longitudinal movement of a carriage running direction and transferred to cam parts to be adjusted, with at least one control curve transferring the rotary movement of the stepper motor the cam parts to be adjusted, and with two first control sliders adjustable in the carriage running direction and provided with a toothed strip, a driven pinion of the stepper motor acts simultaneously and oppositely directly on the first control sliders, and at least two second control are each connected with a cam part to be adjusted, with which the first control sliders are drivingly coupled through the control curve in a drawing manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Martin Wo/ rnle
  • Patent number: 5475990
    Abstract: In a two-bed flat knitting machine separate sinker control devices are provided for controlling sinkers arranged between needles and have a device body laterally releasably mountable on a machine carriage. They extend only over an operating region of a cam system and their control parts are formed so that they are displaced during a carriage stroke return automatically to an operative position or a rest position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: S. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Reiner Haas
  • Patent number: 5425251
    Abstract: A fabric take-off roller arrangement for flat bed knitting machines is provided with a driven fabric take-off roller that has roller elements disposed next to each other in the axial direction. To ensure that, even with irregular thickenings of the fabric to be taken off, engagement of the fabric take-off roller arrangement is provided both in the region of the thickening and in the adjacent region(s) of the fabric to be taken off, it is provided that the roller elements engage one another in a co-rotational manner at their ends facing one another and are rotatably held on respectively one support carrier, that the support carriers are pivotably held in a direction perpendicular to the orientation of the roller elements that the ends of the roller elements facing each other are flexibly seated against each other as well as in the support carrier, and that the fabric take-off roller is pressed against a counter-roller, between which rollers the fabric run is taken off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Gunther Kazmaier
  • Patent number: 5379612
    Abstract: A method of knitting a multi-dimensional fabric for use in upholstery is accomplished by simultaneously knitting rib and jersey wales. The resultant fabric creates a layered or convex pocket appearance similar to that of pleated fabric formed by sewing. The method uses movement of the rib forming carriage to form pockets that are connected by the jersey stitches on the rear face and rib stitches on the face of the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Thomas Stoll, Wolfgang Rempp, Franz Schmid
  • Patent number: 5369967
    Abstract: The draw-off mechanism for a flat bar knitting machine having needle beds includes a pair of driven feed rollers arranged axially parallel to each other and located adjacent to the needle beds under a gap between the needle beds; a pair of pivoting levers, each pivoting lever being two-armed and having a feed roller mounted at one end thereof and an adjustable stop device for setting a minimum spacing between the feed rollers located at another end of each pivoting lever remote from the feed rollers; and a device for adjusting an initial tension on at least one of the pivoting levers to urge the pivoting levers closer together, so that the driven feed rollers can cooperate with each other and act on a workpiece running between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Winfried Kapitel
  • Patent number: 5320294
    Abstract: In the yarn-delivery device having at least one friction cylinder (11, 12) and at least one pivoting arm (15, 16) for each yarn (20) to be delivered, the pivoting arms having at least one deflecting roller for the yarn are mounted pivotably outside the friction cylinder and are so curved that they are pivotable to behind a friction cylinder (11, 12) and a plurality of pivoting arms (15, 16) for separate yarns (20) can be arranged next to one another. (FIG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Fritz Walker
  • Patent number: 5284030
    Abstract: In a flat knitting machine equipped with a manually movable handlebar (11) which is oriented parallel to a needle bed, the eccentrically mounted handlebar (11) is connected to a pivoting lever (15) which is the carrier of an armature (19) for a stationarily arranged electromagnet which can be excited via a control device and which, in the excited state, keeps the handlebar in an end position. The arrangement is such that, when the handlebar (11) is struck from above, the magnetic coupling can be released and it is also thereby possible to switch off the machine drive by hand in the quickest way possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Jurgen Ploppa, Heinz Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 5241841
    Abstract: In a knitting take-off device provided with gripping elements (14) movable through the comb gap of a flat bed knitting machine, the plane of the gripping elements (14) is directed perpendicular to the hooking planes of the knitting needles (13) mounted in the needle beds. As a result, the dimensions of the gripping elements are no longer limited by the width of the comb gap, and the gripping elements (14) can be coupled to additional elements, such as a cover stop rod (16). By means of the cover stop rod (16), the opening (14.2) of the gripping element (14) can be closed and a thread take-up space (20), closable by the head (14.1) of the gripping element (14), can be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: H. Stoll GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Franz Schmid, Thomas Stoll