Knitting machine for knitting double face jacquard pattern material

Claim 1

Knitting arrangement in a circular knitting machine having a dial, a cylinder, needles located in dial and cylinder needle rows, a plurality of knitting feeds, arranged around said dial and cylinder, and Jacquard-type pattern means controlling operation of the needles of the feeds in the dial and in the cylinder in accordance with a preselected Jacquard pattern; said Jacquard-type pattern means comprising a pair of similar Jacquard-type pattern controllers at a feed, one each being associated with the dial needle row and the other with the cylinder needle row, respectively, said pattern controllers being located with respect to each other in radially aligned position, and located with respect to the dial and cylinder needles for simultaneous selection of respective dial and cylinder needles; said Jacquard-type pattern controllers alternatingly activating to knitting position selected needles first of one of said rows only, and then of the other of said rows only, to control knitting operation of the needles of said rows alternatingly and in accordance with a selected pattern; including slots formed in the dial; needle jacks; and selector jacks, said needles located in said dial needle row being in said slots, the selector jacks being engageable by the Jacquard-type pattern controllers, and the selector jacks and needle jacks being guided in said slots; each said needle jack being pivotally mounted on an associated needle for swinging movement, one of said Jacquard-type pattern controllers selectively operating selector jacks to cause swinging movement of needle jacks to move associated needles to knitting position.