The pattern drum for circular knitting and hosiery machines comprises a tubular body with stacks of discs at each end and a plurality of leaf-like fingers slidable along grooves for the positioning thereof at predetermined places so that changes in patterns may be had without either disassembling the machine or discarding pattern toothed elements.

A knitting unit selection device for a knitting machine includes a plurality of pivotable knitting unit actuators which are aligned in one level of the machine and which cooperate with guiding cams to be brought into the influence of a single magnetic actuator at each of a pair of selection positions of the machine. The magnetic actuator includes a permanent magnet and a field-weakening electromagnet disposed at each of the selection locations of the machine. A pair of spaced cam-lifting arrange...

A precursor for preparing a resist pattern comprises an imageable layer which includes a relatively volatile compound that can be volatilized by application of heat, wherein imaging radiation can be applied to the precursor to heat areas thereof and volatilizes said compound so that properties, for example, the ink accepting abilities of heated and non heated areas, are different.

Bonded composites, and absorbent articles made with such bonded composites. The bonded composites have first and second thin-section elements bonded to each other by bonds defining a bond pattern.

A method of cutting pattern pieces from a continuous roll of material comprising the steps of unrolling said material unto a rotating cylindrical cutting surface, and then cutting said material while said material is in rolling contact on said cylindrical surface during rotation of said cylindrical surface. Furthermore this invention describes a method and apparatus for producing vinyl pool covers.

A surface pattern (18) is in the form of a visually visible mosaic comprising a number of surface portions (8; 9; 15; 16; 17) and is embedded in a laminate (1) comprising at least a transparent cover layer (2) and a protective layer (5). The surface portions (8; 9; 15; 16; 17) are transparent, scatter or reflect incident light (10) or diffract the incident light (10) at microscopic relief structures (4). The surface portions (8; 9; 15; 16; 17) are at least partially covered with a reflection lay...

Generating a target image having a target palette from a source image. In general, in one aspect, a technique for generating from a source image a target image comprising target pixels having colors limited to colors found in a target palette includes: determining a source color of a region of the source image corresponding to a location of a target pixel; generating two or more candidate colors for the source color, where the candidate colors are in the target palette; selecting one candidate c...

A display arrangement for a digital wrist watch LED face or a computer cathode ray tube face provides for ornamental and coded displays. In the arrangement, the digital information is repeated in juxtaposed rows repeating the same digits in columnar fashion, the digits sharing above and below border elements to form continous vertical patterns in side by side spaced relationships.

This invention is directed to a precursor for preparing a resist pattern by heat mode imaging, the precursor comprising a heat sensitive composition, the solubility of which in an aqueous alkaline developer is arranged to increase in heated areas, and a means for increasing the resistance of non-heated areas of the heat sensitive composition to dissolution in an aqueous alkaline developer (the "developer resistance means"), wherein said developer resistance means comprises one or more compounds ...

A discrete pattern, formed by dots discretely arranged in two dimensions, is provided wherein the dots included in a rectangular area having a longitudinal length of Lx and a transverse length of Ly satisfy expression (1), (in expression (1), N denotes the number of dots included in a predetermined area, and D is obtained by expression (2), wherein A(x,y) defines the number of dots, of a total of N dots, included in a rectangular area for which a line segment extended from reference coordinates ...