Patent · US Expired

Flat-bed knitting machine

US4711101A · kind A · utility

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24Claims

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Assignee

H&S Toll, Inc. · DE

Inventors

Ernst Goller · Reutlingen, DE
Adam Muller · Annweiler am Trifels, DE
Udo Hermann · Burgstetten, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 29, 1986
Grant date	Dec 8, 1987
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 29, 2006

Classification

Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
CPC primaryD04B37/02
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A flat-bed knitting machine having a needle bed apparatus and an associated carriage apparatus movable longitudinally thereon and having a data processing unit which controls the cams and/or selector units among others and store pattern information in memory and which has an input keyboard is described. To make the input keyboard accessible to the operator of such a machine during observation of the knitting process, yet not have this keyboard hinder access to the essential parts of the machine, the input keyboard is disposed, from the standpoint of the machine operator, at the level of and in an area in front of the needle bed and carriage apparatus in the longitudinal direction of the machine, in front of a transparent cover, which is also movable in the longitudinal direction of the machine, keyboard being movable parallel to and independently of this cover.

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