Patent ID: 6151925
Filing Date: 2000-11-28
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
A method for feeding yarn to a circular knitting machine comprising:(a) activating a circular knitting machine to knit a product;(b) driving an input shaft of a variable drive mechanism using a main drive of the circular knitting machine;(c) driving an output shaft of the variable drive mechanism using the input shaft;(d) driving a plurality of positive feed units for feeding yarn to the circular knitting machine with the output shaft;(e) feeding the yarn from the plurality of positive feed units at a uniform rate relative to each other; and(f) while the circular knitting machine is operating, varying, from a single location, the rate for positively feeding yarn from the plurality of positive feed units to the circular knitting machine by adjusting the rate of rotation of the input shaft with respect to the output shaft.