Patents by Inventor Holger Scheffler

Holger Scheffler 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).

  • Method and arrangement for needle selection in knitting machines
    Patent number: 4312194
    Abstract: In a flat-knitting machine having a needle bed and a plurality of carriages which orbit the needle bed in a predetermined path, the needles which are to knit in accordance with a predetermined pattern are selected by advancing electromechanical controllers in a path other than the predetermined path and transmitting activating signals to them via trailing cables from a stationary control unit when the controllers move in the same direction as and parallel to the carriages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1982
    Assignee: VEB Wirkmaschinenbau Karl Marx Stadt
    Inventors: Dietrich Cotte, Holger Scheffler, Gunter Beyer, Dietmar Bugge, Manfred Kuhn
  • Pattern drum for circular knitting machines
    Patent number: 3991591
    Abstract: A circular knitting machine in which the pattern drum has cams shiftable between operative and inoperative positions about a pivotal axis, the movement between the positions being less than 90.degree. and there being locking means which is effective to secure the cams in one of the two positions. The selector members which are operated by the cams have associated with them means by which they may be disengaged from the cams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1976
    Assignee: VEB Wirkmaschinenbau Karl-Marx-Stadt
    Inventors: Dietrich Cotte, Holger Scheffler, Claus Kertzscher