US Patent Issued to SANTONI on Jan. 27 for "Circular knitting machine with assembly for needle and sinker selection" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,833, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SANTONI S.P.A. (Brescia, Italy).

"Circular knitting machine with assembly for needle and sinker selection" was invented by Lionello Spada (Brescia, Italy), Maurizio Lodrini (Brescia, Italy) and Andrea Lonati (Brescia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circular knitting machine for knitwear, comprising a needle-holding cylinder, having longitudinal grooves housing a plurality of needles, and a needle-holding ring, having radial grooves housing a plurality of holding-down sinkers, and wherein each needles is paired with an adjacent sinker to form a needle-sinker assembly; the knitting machin...