US Patent Issued to SANTONI on Jan. 20 for "Drive chain for stitch formation members of a circular knitting machine and a circular knitting machine comprising such drive chain" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,173, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SANTONI S.P.A. (Brescia, Italy).

"Drive chain for stitch formation members of a circular knitting machine and a circular knitting machine comprising such drive chain" was invented by Stefano Rizzi (Brescia, Italy), Marco Andreoli (Castegnato, Italy) and Andrea Lonati (Brescia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive chain for stitch formation members of a circular knitting machine includes an element coupled or to be coupled with a stitch formation member and an oscillating lever connected to said element on a junction area. The oscillating lever is configured for interacting with selectin...