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Class Number: 66 Class Title: TEXTILE: KNITTING Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 R MISCELLANEOUS 1 A .Hand knitting and crotcheting aids 1.5 REKNITTING 2 DARNING 3 LOOPER PIN AND HOOK 4 .Hand 5 UNITED NEEDLE KNITTING AND INDEPENDENT NEEDLES 6 .With independent needle knitting 7 INDEPENDENT-NEEDLE MACHINES 8 .Circular 9 R ..Incorporating unknit or fleece-type materials 10 ...Warp and weft type 11 ...Laterally displaceable needle 12 ...Varied needle 9 A ...Core covering 9 B ...With carding 13 ..Special-type machines 14 ...Double-ended needle 15 ...Swing jack needle, dial and cylinder 16 ...Axially reciprocating actuator 17 ..Multiple-needle bank 18 ...Opposed conical 19 ...Dial and cylinder 20 ....Varied needle, frequently with special stitch 21 ....Pocket welt, frequently with special stitch 22 .....Two-ply simultaneously knit 23 .....With stitch-length variation 24 ....To or from rib or rib change 25 ....Special stitch 26 .....Racking 27 ....Stitch-length variation 28 ....Dial and cylinder connections 29 ...To or from rib or rib change 30 ...Narrowing and widening 31 ..Dial 32 ...Narrowing and widening 33 ....Laterally displaceable needle 34 ..Conical 35 ..Laterally displaceable needle 36 ...Special stitch 37 ...Narrowing and widening ..Varied needle 38 ...Separate cam paths 39 ....Narrowing and widening 40 ...Special stitch 41 ....Welt or antiravel 42 R ....Multifeed 43 .....Suture forming 42 A .....Eyelet prevention 44 ....With varied latch 45 ...Hand coverings, forming 46 ...Narrowing and wideningg 47 ....With needle-actuated pickers 48 .....Rotary needle carrier 49 ...Splicing 215 ..Special stitch 216 ...Having butt selection means 217 ....Control of sinkers 218 ....Electrical control type 219 .....Magnetic 220 ......Butt translation 221 ......And pivoted butt-engaging member 222 ....Simultaneous control of multiple butt levels 223 .....Including permanent selection means 224 .....Including drum having integral plural level pattern 225 ......Selection by axial movement of element with multiple butt levels 226 ......Drum contact with butts 227 ......Having additional butt-engaging member control means 228 ....Having pattern at rotating member engaging butts at single level 229 .....Inclined rotating member with integral pattern 230 ....Having butt-engaging members limited to other than rotary motion about the periphery and longitudinal axis of the needle cylinder 51 ..Narrowing and widening 52 ...With needle-actuated pickers 53 ....Needle-actuated pickers 54 ..Stitch-length variation 55 ...Axial cylinder adjustment 56 ..Cylinder movement or speed change 57 ..Needle-cam construction 58 ..Preparing for transfer 59 ...Including axial cylinder movement 60 R .Straight 61 ..Incorporating unknit or fleece-type materials 62 ..Special-type machines 63 ...Double-ended needle 64 ..Multiple-needle bank 65 ...Hand coverings, forming 66 ...Laterally displaceable needle 67 ....Narrowing and widening 68 ...Varied needle 69 ...Racking 70 ...Narrowing and widening 71 ...With stitch-length variation 72 ..Laterally displaceable needle 73 ...Narrowing and widening 74 ..Varied needle 75.1 ..Special stitch 75.2 ...Fluid pressure, electric or magnetic stitch selector control means 76 ..Narrowing and widening 77 ..With stitch-length variation 78 ..Needle-cam construction 60 H ..Manually operated knitting machine * UNITED NEEDLE MACHINES 79 .Circular 80 ..Incorporating unknit or fleece-type materials 81 ..Warpp 82 R .Straight 83 ..Incorporating unknit or fleece-type materials 84 R ...Warp 85 R ....Crotchet type 85 A .....Quilting 84 A ....Mechanism for incorporating unlooped weft extending from selvage to selvage 203 ..Warp 204 ...Means to control motion of needle, or needle cooperating element 205 ....Individual transducer for particular element 206 ....Presser means 207 ....Guide bar 208 ....Needle bar 209 ...Let off 210 ....Means controlling rate of let off 211 .....By means sensing strand tension 212 .....By means responsive to radius of beam 213 ....Strand-tensioning means 214 ...Yarn guides 87 ...Multiple-needle bank 88 ..Multiple-needle bank 89 ..Narrowing and widening, frequently with loop traversing 82 A ..Motor control 82 S ..Stitch length control 90 NEEDLE COOPERATING ELEMENTS 91 .Pile loop formers 92 ..For needle dial and cylinder machines 93 ..Radially slidable 94 .Wheels, nonlooping, fleece type 95 .Loop traversers or holders 96 R ..For straight machines 96 W ...Welt turners 97 ..Wheel 98 .Beard pressers 99 ..With press-off preventers 100 ..Needle displacement 101 ..Individually movable 102 ...Sliding 103 ..Special stitch wheels 104 .Sinkers or web holders 105 ..Wheel 106 ..Pivoted 107 ..Radially slidable 108 R ...Movable cam sections 108 A ....Knitting above nebs 109 ..For straight machines 110 ...Transversely slidable 111 .Pivoted latch actuators 112 ..Gap closers 113 .Wheel 114 NEEDLE BEDS 115 .Independent needle 116 NEEDLES 117 .Hand 118 ..Crochet 119 .Spring beard 120 .Sliding latchh 121 .Pivoted latch 122 ..Latch pivots 123 .Shanks 124 ..Self-frictioning 125 R FEEDING 126 R .Traversing guides, straight machine 127 ..Alternately idled guides 128 ..Partial traverse 129 ...With additional strand 130 ..Shock reducers 126 A ..Feed fingers 131 .Close-feed devices 132 R .Positive 132 T ..Tape 133 .Additional strand idled guide 134 ..With clamp or cutter 135 ..Needle-wrapping type 136 .Plating 137 ..Reversible 138 .Alternately idled guides 139 ..Sliding 140 R ..With clamp or cutter 140 S ...With suction 141 .Nonidling or nonplating guides 142 ..With clamp or cutter 143 ...Starting by strand interengagement 144 ....Uniting 145 R .With clamp or cutter 145 B ..For straight machine (i.e., straight bar) 145 S ..With suction 146 .Strand tensions 125 A .With yarn treatment 125 B .Throat plates 147 FABRIC MANIPULATION 148 .Transferring fabric 149 R .Take-ups 150 ..Special-shape work 151 ..Winding, from rotary needle bank 152 ..Continuous 153 ...From rotary needle bank 149 S ..Suction take-ups 231 PATTERN SYSTEM 232 .Electrical signal type 233 .Flexible member type 234 ..Chain 235 ...Chain being horizontally fed to drive sprocket 236 ...Having coaxial pattern member 237 .Multiplier or divider 238 PATTERN STORAGE DEVICE 239 .Drum type 240 ..Having removable pin 241 ..Having jack 242 .Flexible type 157 STOPPING 158 .Strand controlled 159 ..With strand severing 160 ..With tension relieving 161 ...Electricall 162 ...Moving actuator 163 ..Electrical 164 ..Moving actuator 165 .Needle cooperating element controlled 166 .Fabric controlled 167 .Length control 168 CLEANING ATTACHMENTS 169 R FABRICS OR ARTICLES 170 .Articles 171 ..Garments 172 R ...Border or antiravel portions, frequently hosiery 173 ....Pocket welt 172 E ....Elastic 174 ...Hand coverings 175 ...Union, trunk, and nether 176 ...Trunk 177 ...Nether 178 R ....Hosiery 179 .....Suture seam 180 .....Ornamental stitch 181 ......With mock seam 182 .....Reinforced 183 .....Combined foot structure and fashioned calf 184 ......With heel or toe 185 .....Foot structure 186 ......With heel or toe 187 .......Heel or toe 188 .....With rib leg and foot 178 A .....Stretch and support hosiery 189 ...Fashioned 190 .Incorporated unknitted materials 191 ..Fleece or pile type 192 ..Warp 193 ...With crochet stitch 194 .Fleece or pile type 195 .Warp 196 .Multi-ply 197 ..Rib 198 .Traversed or doubled loop 199 ..To or from rib or rib change 200 .Rib 201 .Strand change 202 .Materials 169 A .Run resistant fabric