Title: Automated home knitting machine with program card reader

Abstract: An electronic home knitting machine which functions pursuant to patterning instructions on a program card and in response to the operation of control devices by an operator causing needle actuators on the carriage of the machine to be selectively operated and fabric unit in a prescribed manner on the machine is provided with an acutely discriminating adaptive card reader for detecting instruction marks on the card and means operable to indicate to an operator an error in the reading of the card.

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Inventors: Kahan, William (New York, NY, US)
Rupinski, Fredrick Alexander (Lyndhurst, NJ, US)
Wagner, John Francis (Garden City, NY, US)
Peer, Thomas Richard (Glenwood, NJ, US)

Application Number: 627173
Filing Date: 1975-10-30
Publication_date: 1977-08-09
Assignee: The Singer Company (New York, NY)
Primary Class(es): 66/232 66/75.2
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US Patent Ref:

1571765	Feb, 1926	Fels	66/75.
3035426	May, 1962	MacQueen	66/75.
3783642	Jan, 1974	Hadam	66/75.
3786655	Jan, 1974	Krause	66/154.
3805558	Jan, 1974	Protti	66/75.
3885405	May, 1975	Bartels	66/154.
3896297	Jul, 1975	Ploppa	66/154.
3896638	Jul, 1975	Morat et al.	66/50.
3913353	Oct, 1975	Spencer	66/75.
3913354	Oct, 1975	Kohler et al.	66/75.
3924244	Dec, 1975	Morat	66/154.

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Primary Examiner: Feldbaum, Ronald
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Bell; Edward L., Smith; Robert E., Ebs; William V.