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(11) | EP 0 978 582 A3 |
(12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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(54) | Method of and apparatus for controlling a knitting machine |
(57) An apparatus for controlling a knitting machine (10) includes an plurality of needle
selecting devices (20) for selectively actuating knitting needles of a circular machine.
Each of the needle selecting devices (20) is provided with a drive circuit (25) for
driving a pattern finger and a shift register (26). Knitting data a is sequentially
supplied from a controller (30) to the shift register (26) in one of the needle selecting
devices and then serially from this shift register to the remaining needle selecting
devices (20). At the time the transfer of the knitting data completes, the knitting
data is latched and retained in each of the shift registers (26) and the drive circuit
(25) is activated based on the retained knitting data. |