Row advancing arrangement for a programmable flat bed knitting machine

摘要

An automated flat bed knitting machine including a stationary programmable device with electrical lines corresponding to rows and columns of a fabric producible on the machine is provided with means for extracting information from said device on a row by row basis including switch means operable by the carriage of the machine, motor means controlled by the switch means, and movable contact means controlled by the motor means for sequentially contacting the row lines of the programming device.