Anne Fields Macdonald

US Patent:

45480559, Oct 22, 1985

Filed:

Feb 21, 1984

Appl. No.:

6/581893

Inventors:

Anne L. Macdonald - Bethesda MD

International Classification:

D04B 110
D04B 306

US Classification:

66 1A

Abstract:

A method whereby patterned fabrics are knitted from plural sources of colored yarn without tangling of the yarn strands or need for repositioning the yarn sources during knitting by providing a yarn source holder for disposing a plurality of yarn balls in a linear array wherein the yarn strands are twisted during the knitting of the knit row and untwisted during the knitting of the purl row while maintaining the holder in a substantially stationary position.