US 11,851,790 B2
Knitting needle
Ante Milicevic, Sindelfingen (DE); and Juergen Schick, Bitz (DE)
Assigned to Groz-Beckert KG, Albstadt (DE)
Filed by Groz-Beckert KG, Albstadt (DE)
Filed on Jan. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/160,978.
Claims priority of application No. 20154212 (EP), filed on Jan. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0230778 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. D04B 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC D04B 3/02 (2013.01) 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A knitting needle, comprising:
a hook point opposite a shank of the needle;
the hook point having an upper face, a rear portion on a side opposite the upper face, and oppositely disposed lateral portions extending between the upper face and the rear portion;
a planar cover surface at the upper face, the planar cover surface parallel to and extending along a longitudinal axis of the knitting needle;
the rear portion angled toward the longitudinal axis and converging with the planar cover surface at the longitudinal axis to define a point portion at a distal end of the hook point;
a hook protrusion opposite the point portion in a direction toward the shank; and
a hook throat extending from the hook protrusion in a direction toward the rear portion and terminating in a hook base;
the knitting needle having an elongated, obtuse-angled polygon cross-sectional shape, at least at a section delimited by the hook throat of the hook point.