Circular Patents (Class 66/8)
  • Publication number: 20040200242
    Abstract: A knitting machine and a method to be accomplished on said machine are described, which are suitable for the production of knitwear from hard, inelastic thread material, e.g. from metal threads. According to the invention, at knitting systems (8a, 8b) provided for this purpose, knitting needles (2) are raised to pick up threads, which are then preformed over the upper edges of knocking-over/holding-down sinkers (3) to form loops. Thereafter the stitch formation takes place by needle and sinker movements directed in opposite directions in the manner of the relative technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Rolf Willmer, Hermann Stauss
  • Publication number: 20040172981
    Abstract: An intarsia pattern knitting fabric which is not likely to cause thread jamming, eliminates the need of divided knitting, and provides a good productivity even when a cylindrical knitting fabric is to be knit. A two-piece-bed flat knitting machine, wherein a carriage and an intarsia carrier capable of knitting by two sets of cams are used to knit two courses of knitting fabric by moving a carriage six courses. An intarsia pattern is knit at a front needle bed (FB), and a knitting yarn between the intarsia carrier at rest near an interface portion and a knitting needle (F) is used to kick back the intarsia carrier by means of the third-course moving of the carriage, and a rear body is knit while the yarn is hooked on an unused knitting needle (F) in a rear needle bed (BB). The sixth-course moving of the carriage releases a knitting yarn from the knitting needle (F) in the rear needle bed (BB) while the rear body is being knit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20040172982
    Abstract: A fabrics for producing jeans, in particular, a knitted fabric for producing indigo-dyed cotton denim jeans, which is suitable for producing four-season type jeans, is provided. Here, raw yarn obtained by dyeing 100% cotton yarn with natural indigo dyestuffs is knitted by a ring-type knitting machine, to thus provide a knitted fabric for producing four-season type indigo-dyed cotton denim jeans which possesses color tones such as blue and black peculiar to jeans as well as possesses functions such as flexibility, ventilation, warmth-keeping performance, and elasticity, and which can be also put on in midsummer and midwinter. Cotton denim jeans are not knitted by a cotton knitting machine which discriminates warp and weft to thus cause skin friction and creases, but are knitted with the knitted fabric by a ring-type knitting machine without discrimination of warp and weft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventor: Jang Choul Shin
  • Publication number: 20040168477
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a circular machine for manufacturing socks with closed toes with the use of picking-up means placed on several linked sectors, which are movable between an annular position corresponding to the cylinder with needles of the machine and a linear position on two parallel touching lines. The sock is picked-up from the cylinder by the pick-up means in the first position and transferred away from the machine, and while the machine can be restarted, the sock is turned upside down, the linked sectors supporting the pick-up means closed to form to parallel rows and the ends of the sock joined so as to close the toe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventor: Fulvio Sangiacomo
  • Publication number: 20040171324
    Abstract: A knitted fabric having moisture management properties. The fabric is formed from filamentary yarns and spun yarns, both the filamentary and spun yarns having substantially the same weight per unit of length. The fabric is knitted with so that the courses alternate between a filamentary yarn and a spun yarn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Robert A. Miller, Jill B. Cravotta
  • Patent number: 6776014
    Abstract: Circular-knit, elastic, single-knit jersey fabric, of spun and/or continuous filament hard yarns with bare spandex plated in every course, has a cover factor in the range of 1.3 to 1.9, a basis weight from 140 to 240 g/m2, an elongation of 60% or more and low shrinkage. The circular knit, single-knit jersey fabric is produced by maintaining the draft of the spandex at or below 2× (100% elongation) and maintaining the finishing and drying temperature(s) below the spandex heat set temperature. The knit fabric meets the end-use specifications without heat setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Invista North America S.a.r.l.
    Inventors: Graham Laycock, Raymond S. P. Leung, Elizabeth T. Singewald
  • Patent number: 6755051
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a garment comprising the steps of knitting a tubular preformer having at least one band of edging material circumferentially and integrally knitted therewith, and continuing knitting the knitted tubular preformer to fabricate a knitted fabric section from which a garment body section having apertures may be cut, then cutting the band of edging material and the garment body section having at least one aperture from the preformer, and attaching the band of edging material to the garment body section around the perimeter of the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Delta Galil Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Rachel Israel
  • Publication number: 20040099016
    Abstract: A jacquard pattern, weft knitted spacer fabric is knitted on a double jersey circular knitting machine having a rotatable needle cylinder and needle dial. The cylinder and dial of the machine are adjusted to knit in an interlock gating mode in which the cylinder and dial needles reciprocate between welt, tuck and knit positions respectively in substantially common planes. A jacquard pattern layer is weft knitted on the needle cylinder, a plain layer is weft knitting on the needle dial, and the two layers are coupled together with spacer yarn connected in each layer on alternate needles of the cylinder or dial, as the case may be, traveling to the tuck position for capturing the spacer yarn, thereby to hook the spacer yarn about the necks of cooperating stitches of the weft knitted layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventor: Adrian M. Shepherd
  • Patent number: 6739158
    Abstract: The invention relates to tubular knitwear items (1) suitably shaped or modeled without the usual cutting/sewing operations, characterized by dimensionally little or non elastic fabric zones, said zones being structurally and functionally connected as a textile frame for anatomic support and control. According to the jacquard design and to the work cycle of the textile machine, the invention enables the production of differentiated-growth fabric in specific areas or zones by means of the programmed exclusion of stitches or knitted courses and the simultaneous production of exceeding stitches or three-dimensional inner frills (Bi), structurally having lower elasticity, thus also obtaining a programmed deformation of the knitted tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Inventor: Franco Sciacca
  • Patent number: 6739159
    Abstract: The invention relates to tubular knitwear items provided with suitable openings or holes (H) automatically obtained for shoulder straps (SS, SD), neck portions (GC), belts, strings, stripes, knots (K), loops and the like, i.e. for various applications and purposes, such as anatomic support, and for aesthetic and functional connections and weavings also with other manufactured items. The invention coordinates the suitable needle (A) selection according to the jacquard design and to the work cycle of the knitting machine and enable, for definite fabric areas and needles (A), the temporary stop of the knitting process and the subsequent stitch discharge, followed by the production of new fabric stitches, also with needle discard and floating yarns (FF) so as to obtain transparent effects and the production of fringes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Inventor: Franco Sciacca
  • Patent number: 6735987
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circular knitting machine with knitting needles (4) and sinkers (25) for the production of plush fabrics. Each of a plurality of knitting systems has a means (71) for controlling the knitting needles (4) into a knock-over position and pattern devices arranged in front of this means (71). According to the invention, a first pattern device provided with a ground-thread guide (38) serves for selectively controlling the knitting needles (4) into a knitting or tucking position intended for the pick-up of ground thread (39) or a non-knitting position intended for the non-pick-up of ground thread (39). A second pattern device provided with a plush-thread guide (40) serves for selectively controlling the knitting needles (4) into a pick-up position intended for the pick-up of plush thread (41) or an intermediate position intended for the non-pick-up of plush thread (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: SIPRA Patententwicklungs-und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Ernst-Dieter Plath, Erich Bizer
  • Publication number: 20040089027
    Abstract: A circular knitting machine is described which has a needle cylinder (1), at least one cylinder cam segment (6), a dial arrangement (9) having a dial (10) and at least one dial cam segment (11), an axis of rotation (7), which is coaxial with the needle cylinder (1) and the dial arrangement (10), and at least one thread guide element (25) intended to guide a thread (20). The cylinder cam segment (6) together with the thread guide element (25), and the dial cam segment (11) are rotatable about the rotational axis (7) relative to one another. The needle cylinder (1), and the dial arrangement (9) together with the thread guide (25) are moreover disposed displaceable relative to one another and parallel to the rotational axis (7). According to the invention, the thread guide element (25) is mounted moveable on the cylinder cam segment (6) (FIG. 2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Dietmar Traenkle, Harald Rehmann
  • Patent number: 6701755
    Abstract: A knitted textile articles and a preform forming a panty, pantyhose or similar article. The preform includes a tubular knit body and a pair of opposed longitudinal segments extending the length of the tubular body. The longitudinal segments include both complete and partially omitted courses, which produces a unique shape suitable as a preform for subsequently forming other useful textile articles. In the preferred embodiment, the longitudinal segments further include elastic yarn, which aids in forming the shape of the preform. Also, in the preferred embodiment, elastic end bands are formed during knitting to each end of the knitted article. These end bands then become a part of the final textile article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Henderson Machinery, Inc.
    Inventors: Bobby L. Irvin, Leonard E. Russell, Stephen B. Collins
  • Publication number: 20040011085
    Abstract: The invention relates to tubular knitwear item provided with suitable openings (H) or holes automatically obtained for shoulder straps, neck portions, belts, strings, stripes, knots, loops and the like, i.e. for various applications and purposes, such as anatomic support, and for aesthetic and functional connections also with other manufactured items. The invention co-ordinates the suitable needle selection according to the jacquard design and to the work cycle of the knitting machine and enable, for definite fabric areas and needles (A), the temporary stop of the knitting process and the subsequent stitch discharge, followed by the production of new fabric stitches, also with needle discard and floating yarns (FF) so as to obtain transparent effects and the production of fringes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventor: Franco Sciacca
  • Publication number: 20040000172
    Abstract: A method of forming an openwork knitted fabric formed of closely knitted, fine gauge yarns formed into knitted loops utilizing at least 11 needles per inch and having at least 25 courses per inch. The fabric is formed by using needles having a hook formed in a top end of a needle shank and a latch pivotally mounted on the needle shank below the hook for opening and closing the hook, and including a deflector for deflecting a loop of yarn being formed by a needle into the vertical plane of an adjacent needle, and a needle cam mounted for reciprocal movement between first and second vertically-spaced positions. The fabric is characterized by having a fine, dense background with small, closely-spaced holes which enable a highly-detailed pattern suitable for a wide range of undergarments and hosiery products. The density and fineness of the fabric provides both the comfort and lack of show through necessary for many garments of this type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: Lonati S.P.A.
    Inventor: Francesco Gavagnin Apollonio
  • Publication number: 20030226379
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circular knitting machine with a protective cover (17) at least partially surrounding a take down and/or winding up device (15) on the outside. The cover (17) which includes a guide fixed on the machine frame and segments (18 to 23) movably mounted on this. In accordance with the invention the segments (18 to 23) are so arranged at different radial distances from a machine axis (11) that they are movable relative to one another at least partially with mutual overlapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Bernhard Schaut, Dietmar Traenkle
  • Patent number: 6651463
    Abstract: This knitted boxer comprises a shorts part (3) forming two leg openings and a crotch part; the crotch part is made of a knitted part of two adjacent pieces of different tension, with a pinched piece (25) sewn onto a front seam (10) connecting the two leg openings and a non-pinched part sewn onto a rear seam connecting the two leg openings, the rear seam being longer than the front seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Sara Lee Corporation
    Inventor: Michel Andre Bonnin
  • Publication number: 20030182974
    Abstract: The method comprises using a set of contiguous needles of the needle cylinder; actuating the needle cylinder with an alternating rotary motion about its own axis, through a rotation angle making the knitting needles to pass in front of n feeds or drops of the machine which are used to form the pouch; gradually decreasing the needles made to knit at at least one of the n feeds, excluding every time needles located at the lateral ends of the set in at least one step of the knitting process; and gradually increasing, at the lateral ends of the set, the needles that are made to knit at at least one of the n feeds in at least one other step of the knitting process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Applicant: MATEC S.p.A.
    Inventor: Jan Ando
  • Publication number: 20030172684
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing socks with a circular knitting machine having at least two feeds or drops, consisting in producing the sock starting from its opposite end with respect to the toe. The toe is produced by using at least two feeds simultaneously and by actuating the needle cylinder with an alternating rotary motion so that two sets of needles, arranged on mutually opposite sides, are made to knit respectively at one of the at least two feeds and at the other one of the at least two feeds, forming stitches simultaneously, and gradually decreasing, for a preset number of rows of stitches, the needles of the two sets that are made to knit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventor: Jan Ando
  • Publication number: 20030154747
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circular knitting machine with knitting needles (4) and sinkers (25) for the production of plush fabrics. Each of a plurality of knitting systems has a means (71) for controlling the knitting needles (4) into a knock-over position and pattern devices arranged in front of this means (71). According to the invention, a first pattern device provided with a ground-thread guide (38) serves for selectively controlling the knitting needles (4) into a knitting or tucking position intended for the pick-up of ground thread (39) or a non-knitting position intended for the non-pick-up of ground thread (39). A second pattern device provided with a plush-thread guide (40) serves for selectively controlling the knitting needles (4) into a pick-up position intended for the pick-up of plush thread (41) or an intermediate position intended for the non-pick-up of plush thread (41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Ernst-Dieter Plath, Erich Bizer
  • Publication number: 20030150243
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circular knitting machine for multicoloured plush. A plush sinker (113) is provided with at least two planes (90, 91) for kinking loop threads of different loop length. The knocking-over sinker (112) has a bill comprising at least two webs (96, 97) for restretching pile loops of different loop length. Plush knitted goods having plush loops of different heights and different colours can be produced by means of said circular knitting machine. Knitted goods being combined of epinglé and velour can thus be produced by shearing the longer plush loops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: Mark Pot d'Or
  • Publication number: 20030101775
    Abstract: In a double-cylinder circular stocking knitting machine, an actuation element, composed of a slider (5) and a sub-slider (6), is arranged, at least in the lower needle cylinder (1), below each needle (3), inside the same axial slot (2) of the curved surface of the lower needle cylinder (1). The sub-slider (6) has an actuation element (8) provided with two heels (8a, 8b) which oscillates to assume a first, a second, or a third position, in which the heels assume different positions. A cam box (10) is arranged around the curved surface of the needle cylinders (1) and comprises a plurality of cams (11, 22), which define paths (13, 14) for actuation of the sub-slider (6) and of the overlying slider (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventor: Jan Ando
  • Publication number: 20030097859
    Abstract: Outerwear garment made of circularly knitted fabric in which two flattened circularly knitted tube portions (1, 2) are slitted open by a predetermined length, commencing from one end, along a longitudinal edge and in which the slitted edges, beginning at the end, are sewn together by a length less than the slitted open length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventor: Josef Metzler
  • Publication number: 20030097860
    Abstract: The invention relates to tubular knitwear items (1) suitably shaped or modeled without the usual cutting and sewing operations and preferably without using elastic yarns. According to the jacquard design and/or to the work cycle of the textile machine, the invention enables the production of differentiated-growth fabric in specific areas or zones by the programmed exclusion of loops or knitted courses and the simultaneous production of exceeding stitches or inner frills (Bi), thus obtaining a programmed three-dimensional deformation of the knitted tube according to manufacturing needs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventor: Franco Sciacca
  • Patent number: 6568221
    Abstract: A circular knitting machine with a frame (1) having a plurality of feet (2, 3, 4), a needle carrier (7), a cam box ring and a take-down and/or winding-up device (14) mounted in the frame (1), wherein at least one of the feet (3, 4) is adjustable for altering the machine width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: SIPRA Patententwicklungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschatt mbH
    Inventors: Stefan Seeger, Dietmar Traenkle
  • Publication number: 20030094018
    Abstract: The invention relates to a double cylinder circular knitting machine which comprises at least one nozzle (18) providing a blast of air close to a yarn cutting-and-locking unit (13) to divert the ends of yarns cut and held by the said unit towards the interior of the cylinder, that is towards the reverse side of the item being manufactured. At the same time each cam (14, 21) for moving the needles where the yarns are picked up from the yarn guides is located and configured to move the needles at a predetermined distance from the yarn cutting-and-locking unit so as to leave a space for diverting the end (20) of the cut yarn towards the interior of the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventor: Fulvio Sangiacomo
  • Publication number: 20030089135
    Abstract: The invention concerns a circular hosiery machine with vertical needles on the cylinder and horizontal needles in the bed plate for knitting terry fabric. Mono sinkers are inserted between the vertical needles on the cylinder, each having a hook for forming terry fabric stitches. The external diameter of the bed plate is noticeably reduced, at least in the area on a level with said hook of the sinkers to enable radial work movements of said sinkers without interference either with the bed plate or with the horizontal needles it carries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventor: Fulvio Sangiacomo
  • Patent number: 6550287
    Abstract: Shirts may be fabricated with a minimal number of sewn seams utilizing a first circularly knitted fabric tube forming a shirt body and a second circularly knitted fabric tube forming shoulder portions and sleeves by orienting the tubes essentially transversely to one another and sewing one axial end of the tubular fabric of the shirt body to a side portion medially along the length of the tubular fabric of the shoulders and sleeves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Speizman Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Sherrill
  • Patent number: 6519978
    Abstract: A circular knitting machine has sinkers arranged for radially reciprocating around an upper portion of a cylinder, and latch needles arranged around the upper portion's perimeter for reciprocating along the axis of the cylinder. Selected ones of the needles draw down a lay-in yarn while the sinkers between the selected needles remain in a pushed forward position, so that the lay-in yarn overrides the nibs of the sinkers. In a preferred embodiment, each forth needle, and only each fourth needle, is selected to draw down a lay-in yarn, and four sinkers are positioned between each adjacent pair of the selected needles so that the lay-in yarn overrides four nibs between each draw down. The selected and non-selected needles engage jersey yarns at other knitting stations. This circular knitting machine can be adapted from existing knitting machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Monarch Knitting Machinery Corp.
    Inventors: Bruce Pernick, Philip Renda, James A. Renda
  • Patent number: 6490890
    Abstract: A knitted textile articles and a preform forming a panty, pantyhose or similar article such as a footie. The preform includes a tubular knit body and a longitudinal segment extending the length of the tubular body. The longitudinal segment includes partially omitted courses which produces a unique shape suitable as a preform for subsequently forming other useful textile articles. In the preferred embodiment, the longitudinal segment further includes elastic yarn, which aids in forming the shape of the preform. Also, in the preferred embodiment, elastic end bands are formed during knitting to each end of, the knitted article. These end bands then become a part of the final textile article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Henderson Machinery, Inc.
    Inventors: Bobby L. Irvin, Leonard E. Russell, Stephen B. Collins
  • Publication number: 20020166347
    Abstract: A circular knitting machine for producing circular knitwear (15) is described, which is slit at one side, spread out with the aid of V-rolls (17) and then taken down and wound up in the spread out state. In accordance with the invention a guide element (44) if fitted at one end (33) of a fabric spreader (25) and extends up to a junction point (43) of the V-rolls (17). The knitwear (15) is guided by means of the guide element (44) in a controlled manner before running on to the V-rolls (17), such that backing-up and warping during its further transport are avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventors: Andreas Thoman, Pierre Jaeger
  • Publication number: 20020166346
    Abstract: A circular knitting machine has sinkers arranged for radially reciprocating around an upper portion of a cylinder, and latch needles arranged around the upper portion's perimeter for reciprocating along the axis of the cylinder. Selected ones of the needles draw down a lay-in yarn while the sinkers between the selected needles remain in a pushed forward position, so that the lay-in yarn overrides the nibs of the sinkers. In a preferred embodiment, each forth needle, and only each fourth needle, is selected to draw down a lay-in yarn, and four sinkers are positioned between each adjacent pair of the selected needles so that the lay-in yarn overrides four nibs between each draw down. The selected and non-selected needles engage jersey yarns at other knitting stations. This circular knitting machine can be adapted from existing knitting machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventors: Bruce Pernick, Philip Renda, James A. Renda
  • Publication number: 20020157427
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circular knitting machine with a frame (1) having a plurality of feet (2, 3, 4). A needle carrier (7), a cam box ring and a take-down and/or winding-up device (14) are mounted in the frame (1). At least one of the feet (3, 4) is adjustable for altering the machine width (FIG. 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Stefan Seeger, Dietmar Traenkle
  • Patent number: 6457332
    Abstract: A sock type garment adapted for wearing on a wearer foot including a sole (3), partial upper foot (5), a heel (8, 9) and a toe (11, 12) wherein said heel and toe are shaped to assist accommodation of the respective parts of the wearers foot characterised in that an opening (4) for insertion of the wearers foot is provided intermediate of said heel and toe in the region of the partial upper foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Inventor: Oreste Schiavello
  • Patent number: 6393870
    Abstract: A circular knitting machine with support disk (2) and a needle cylinder (4) fixed onto it with screws is described. According to the invention, an intermediate ring (17), elastically deformable in the radial direction, is arranged between support disk (2) and needle cylinder (4), through which the stresses that develop from different heat expansions are avoided between these two components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Sipra Patententwicklungs-und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Hans Martin Eppler, Stefan Seeger, Dietmar Traenkle
  • Patent number: 6360566
    Abstract: A household circular knitting machine includes a casing body having a central hollow interior having a circular section, the casing body including a bottom, a cylindrical holder rotatably mounted in the hollow interior of the casing body, the holder having an outer wall on which a first bevel gear is mounted, a ring cam fixed on the casing body so as to be coaxial with the holder, a rotational shaft rotatably mounted on the casing body and having one of two ends on which a second bevel gear is mounted and the other end on which a handle is mounted, the second bevel gear having a smaller diameter than the first bevel gear and meshing with the first bevel gear. Wool yarn is hooked on a hook of every second needle and the handle is operated to rotate the holder so that the knitting needles attached in the vertical grooves respectively are moved up and down by cam action, whereupon the wool yarn is knitted into a fabric, which is discharged out of the casing body through the hollow interior of thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignees: Hamanaka Co., Ltd., Royal Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fuji Koike
  • Patent number: 6330814
    Abstract: A circular knitted double fabric having an inner and outer layers which are basically separated from each other. At first group of yarn feeder knitting only by dial needles is done, while at second group of yarn feeder knitting only by cylinder needles is done. A stitching between the inner and outer layers by using both of the dial and cylinder needles is done along a closed outline of a garment. A cutting of the fabric along the closed outline is done in such a manner that the stitched parts are, at least partially left. As a result, a cutting of the fabric along the closed outline allows a garment to be separated from the fabric, which fabric has a front and back bodies, which are along its outline firmly connected with each other by the stitched parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Miyake Design Jimusho
    Inventor: Toshio Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 6308535
    Abstract: A method for the manufacture of designed knitwear on circular stocking knitting and knitting machines is provided using one or more feed stations, starting from a first base yarn (13) and from a second base yarn (14) for the manufacture of a basic knit fabric and from at least one dyed yarn (15) to create a design in the basic knit fabric. Some needles (11) are selected to pick up and knit the dyed yarn (15) and the first base yarn (13) without picking up the second base yarn, while the remaining needles pick up and knit the second and first base yarns (13, 14), excluding the dyed yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Sangiacomo S.p.A.
    Inventor: Fulvio Sangiacomo
  • Publication number: 20010022095
    Abstract: A circular knitting machine for hosiery, with a device for producing tubular items closed at an axial end, and relative method. The machine has a diverter accommodated inside the needle cylinder disengaged from the rotation of the needle cylinder about its own axis with respect to the needle actuation cams and to the lowering sinker actuation cams. The diverter has a profile which protrudes from an internal region of the needle cylinder gradually toward the wall of the needle cylinder. The profile is engaged by an end portion of the item lying inside the needle cylinder between two needles mutually angularly spaced around the axis of the needle cylinder in order to achieve sliding of the item portion along the profile following rotation of the needle cylinder with respect to the diverter. The machine has sinkers for retaining the item portion against the profile during its sliding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: MATEC S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gianfranco Truffelli, Stefano Gabbrielli
  • Patent number: 6279355
    Abstract: A convertible circular knitting machine having mechanical main body, cylinder mechanisms, yarn feeders, and a fabric winding system. The cylinders are mounted on the top of the base of the main body. The upper and lower cylinder mechanisms are driven by synchronous shafts. The yarn is transmitted from yarn feeders to cylinders and then knitted to clothes and wound by the fabric winding system. The apparatus is characterized in that upper and lower cylinder mechanisms are all interchangeable so that the upper cylinder can be replaced with radial dust cleaning system. In addition, an upper support rack and a set of rings for feeding thread can be mounted on the base. Therefore, the present invention has multi-functions, wherein the upper and lower cylinders can be adjusted or replaced, or added with optional elements such as an upper support rack, rings for feeding thread and radial dust cleaning system in order to convert the model of producing fabric and offer a wide range of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Inventor: Chin-I Chiang
  • Patent number: 6269664
    Abstract: An improved structure of press ring and steel ring for adjusting steel ring wearing to enable a circular knitting machine to function normally. The transmission mechanism of the circular knitting machine includes a frame, a lower transmission gear, a steel ring set, a press ring, a needle drum seat and a spindle. The frame has an adjustment element located therein and a bulged ring at the outer side. The press ring is located above the bulged ring and with a washer interposed therebetween. The adjustment element may be unfastened to release pressing force of the press ring against the steel ring set for replacing the washer with a new and thinner washer, then the adjustment element may be fastened again to press the steel ring set to eliminate the gaps between the steel ring set and the frame, lower transmission gear and press ring whereby the spindle may drive the lower transmission gear smoothly for the circular knitting machine to operate normally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Pai Lung Machinery Mill Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ping-Shin Wang
  • Patent number: 6250113
    Abstract: An improved structure for adjusting the gap between an anchor seat and a needle drum seat of a circular knitting machine, and particularly an anchor seat coupled with a cam, has a fine tune bore and a positioning bore formed in the anchor seat, and a slide trough formed at the bottom side of the anchor seat for housing a slide block. A positioning bolt is provided to fasten the slide block to the anchor seat, and a fine tune bolt is provided to fasten the anchor seat and slide block to a lower lozenge ring. Through a lightly tapping on the anchor seat and fastening and unfastening the fine tune bolt and positioning bolt, the gap between the anchor seat and needle drum seat may be adjusted precisely thereby to prevent the needles located in the needle drum seat from hitting the cam or dropping, and enable the circular knitting machine to perform knitting operation smoothly and precisely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Pai Lung Machinery Mill Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ping-Shin Wang
  • Patent number: 6230523
    Abstract: An array of alternating needles and sinkers for performing a transfer stitch operation, each of said needles having an elongate shank having a hook formed on a top end thereof and a butt formed on a bottom end thereof, a latch pivotally mounted on the shank below said hook and reciprocally moveable by a yarn being formed into a loop between an open position wherein the latch resides generally alongside the shank of the needle and a closed position extending between the shank and an end of the hook, and a loop-enlarging deflector positioned on the needle shank between the latch and the butt and shaped to extend laterally into a plane defined by the hook of an immediately adjacent needle without interfering with the sinker between the needle and adjacent needle for receiving the adjacent needle through the loop whereby the loop is transferred laterally to the adjacent needle to thereby form an opening in a fabric being formed on the needles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Inventor: Francesco Gavagnin Apollonio
  • Patent number: 6227011
    Abstract: An ear-covering band is provided which is formed by a straight, tubular knit manufactured article having at least one shaped intermediate part, and in which the edges of the ends of the said tubular knit element are brought together and joined by means of sewing in order to form an annular knit article. A method is provided for manufacturing the ear-covering band on a circular stocking knitting machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Sockwise, Inc.
    Inventor: Giulio Cortinovis
  • Patent number: 6223564
    Abstract: A method for producing tubular items, such as hosiery items and the like, which are closed at an axial end, using a single-cylinder circular knitting machine provided with a half-dial which faces, in an upward region, a first half of the needle cylinder and has hooks which can move in a radial direction with respect to the axis of the needle cylinder, each hook being arranged between two contiguous needles of the half of the needle cylinder that it faces. The half-dial can turn over about a diametrical axis of the needle cylinder so that its hooks face the needles of the second half of the needle cylinder. The hooks can move in a radial direction with respect to the axis of the needle cylinder in order to engage portions of loops of knitting formed by the needles of the first half of the needle cylinder before the half-dial turns over and in order to release the portions of loops of knitting to the needles of the second half of the needle cylinder after the half-dial has turned over.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Lonati S.p.A.
    Inventors: Francesco Lonati, Ettore Lonati, Tiberio Lonati, Fausto Lonati
  • Patent number: 6205821
    Abstract: A circular stocking knitting machine, in which, in addition to the knitting cams, two ascent and descent cams alternating depending on the direction of rotation are provided for the knitting operations with reciprocating motion. Two selection units, which select the needles during a same forward stroke of the cylinder, are additionally provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Sangiacomo S.p.A.
    Inventor: Fulvio Sangiacomo
  • Patent number: 6199408
    Abstract: A needle-selecting actuator (5) is surrounded by an intermediate ring (7) at the top, a lower ring (9) at the bottom, a needle cylinder (2) inside, and a cover (12) outside. A cylindrical chamber (13) is formed between the needle-selecting actuator (5) and the cover (12). The cover (12) is equipped with a ventilator fan (17) for feeding the air into the cylindrical chamber (13). The cylindrical chamber (13) has an opening (14, 15; 18) through which the air passes. The outside air is fed into the cylindrical chamber (13) through the means of ventilation/suction (17), and passes through said opening (14, 15; 18) to cool the needle cylinder (2) and its peripheral working components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Precision Fukuhara Works, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takao Shibata
  • Patent number: 6178781
    Abstract: A process of rotary knitting a tubular blank with a knitted pocket or pockets such as a heel or toe portion on a multi-feed circular knitting machine and products made by the process. The blank is preferably first knit with continuous courses of stitches on all needles, then with rotary knitting continuing on partial courses to form a pocket on one side of the blank while no other knitting on the blank is taking place. Each partial course has at its start a selected number of yarn end securing stitches such as tuck stitches, then a selected number of stitches to substantially form the partial course, and then a selected number of securing stitches at the end of the partial course, the purpose of the securing stitches being to lock in the yarn at the beginning and end of the partial course.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Sara Lee Corporation
    Inventor: Jonathan M. Myers
  • Patent number: 6164093
    Abstract: A knit necktie which is entirely formed from a tubular knit fabric knitted continuously and has a triangular apron tipping portion which is formed from a triangular bag-shaped knit fabric formed by raising needles in a semicircle of a circular knitting machine to a non-knitting level and starting semicircle knitting by forward and reverse rotation of a cylinder, decreasing stitches one by one stitch on each of the opposite left and right sides for each one forward and reverse rotation, repeating the decreasing step until only two central stitches remain, thereafter increasing the stitches one by one stitch on each of the opposite left and right sides for each one forward and reverse rotation of the cylinder, and repeating the increasing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Tokyo Knitting Machine Supply Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akiyoshi Seki
  • Patent number: 6148642
    Abstract: The machine comprises in combination: two side units (1, 3) each having its own fabric forming cylinder (1C, 3C) with a plurality of needles and needle operating elements (1F, 3F, A1-A8), the cylinders being parallel with each other and close together and, in an intermediate position between said two cylinders (1C, 3C), two rectilinear beds (11A, 11B) next to each other, each with its own needles and elements (17A, 17B, A9, A17) for operating the needles of said beds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Golden Lady S.p.A.
    Inventor: Paolo Conti