US Patent Issued to JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY on July 1 for "Fully automatic method for handling yarn knots in a continuous flat knitting process" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,973, issued on July 1, was assigned to JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY (Wuxi, China).

"Fully automatic method for handling yarn knots in a continuous flat knitting process" was invented by Honglian Cong (Wuxi, China), Gaoming Jiang (Wuxi, China), Zhijia Dong (Wuxi, China), Chaoyu Chen (Wuxi, China) and Yuxian Li (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes the following steps: A knot alarm detects knots and triggers an alarm; the machine automatically loads and runs a preset knot handling program; the machine pulls out the yarn segment containing the knot from the knitting area and secures the knot; the machine reinserts the su...