Image Number 2 for United States Patent #3983370.
A controller for instructing a knitting machine or the like to make a patterned fabric stores data representing stitch types comprising a subpart of the pattern. The controller determines the location of each stitch on the fabric and relates each such stitch to an equivalent location on the pattern subpart. Data representing the stitch type for the equivalent location is retrieved and instructions issued based thereon which cause the machine to form the retrieved stitch type at the determined location.
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