Device and method of designing knit products to be manufactured on a knitting machine

US6611730B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• H&S Toll, Inc. · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Stoll · Reutlingen, DE
• Juergen Hermann · Kirchentellinsfurt, DE
• Helmut Bruendl · Reutlingen, DE
• Horst Fries · Reutlingen, DE
• Hermann Weiss · Hamburg, DE
• Michael Haug · Stuttgart, DE
• Karsten Stello · Reutlingen, DE
• Gerhard Ertl · Graz, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 14, 2000
• Grant date: Aug 26, 2003
• Expiry date: Jan 14, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D04B7/28
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for designing knit products to be manufactured on a knitting machine includes at least one storage device for storing data required for the production of the knit products on the knitting machine; at least one display device for displaying design images for the knit products; and at least one input device for altering the design images. Data to be exchanged between the storage, input and display devices is processed to generate at least one knit image presentation and at least one corresponding thread course presentation for display as the design images on the display device, and one of the presentations is simultaneously correspondingly altered as the other is being altered by using the input device.