Improvements in straight bar point gender machines (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

摘要

Perfections in straight bar knitting machines, especially a device for increasing or reducing, respectively, automatically, the number of operating needles and displacement of the needle back plate characterized by comprising two pairs of reducing units close to each other. the ends of the needle beds, which are actuated in accordance with the automatic program in order to detach a given number of meshes from the needles and displace them internally by at least one point, using the driving members of the reducing units in part to Increase the number of operating needles and move the rear needle bed. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)