Control arrangement for a flat knitting machine

Claim 1

In a flat knitting machine having a plurality of electrically actuated different operating elements including setting means for setting a needle cam, shifting means for shifting a needle bed, adjusting means for adjusting a yarn guide stop, positioning means for varying the vertical position of a drawing-off comb, reading means, a multiple-track record carrier arranged for movement relative to said reading means, said reading means including a plurality of sensing means respectively associated with the tracks of said record carrier for generating sequential control signals in response to the record of the associated track during said movement, and circuitry connecting said sensing means to said operating elements, the improvement in said circuitry which comprises: a. logic means including a plurality of gate circuits, each gate circuit having a plurality of inputs connected to a group of respective ones of said sensing means different from the group of sensing means connected to each other gate circuit, the number of said gate circuits bieng substantially greater than the number of said sensing means, each sensing means being common to a plurality of said groups; b. first actuating means for simultaneously actuating said shifting means and said adjusting means, said actuating means being connected to the output of a first one of said gate circuits for operation in response to control signals simultaneously generated by the sensing mesns of the group of sensing means associated with said first gate circuit; c. second actuating means for actuating said positioning means, said second actuating means being connected to the output of a second gate circuit for operation in response to control signals simultaneously generated by the sensing means of the group of sensing means associated with said second gate circuit; and d. third actuating means for actuating said setting means, said third actuating means being connected to the output of a third gate circuit for actuation in response to control signals simultaneously generated by the sensing means of the group of sensing means assoCiated with said third gate circuit.