Patent · US Expired

Method for producing a knitted article on a flat knitting machine

US6170301A · kind A · utility

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7References

12Claims

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Assignee

H&S Toll, Inc. · DE

Inventors

Thomas Stoll · Reutlingen, DE
Franz Schmid · Bodelshausen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 13, 1999
Grant date	Jan 9, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 13, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB65H2701/319
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

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.

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