Category: Empisal

  • Empisal KH67A knitting machine

    Empisal KH67A knitting machine

    Similar to the Empisal KH67 knitting machine, Empisal KH67A strongly resembles Brother Profile 551 but has eight pushbuttons. At the moment, except for minor visual differences, I cannot see any principal distinctions between the KH67 and KH67A models. Thus, I suspect that Empisal KR67 ribber will fit the KH67A model as well.

  • Empisal KH-67 knitting machine

    Empisal KH67 knitting machine is a standard-gauge machine with 200 needles and eight pushbuttons and a pattern center for semi-automatic needle selection and knitting patterned fabric. The look of the needlebed, carriage, and its functions, row counter, all are identical to the Brother Profile 551 knitting machine (which, however, has four pushbuttons and not eight).…

  • Empisal KR-67 ribbing attachment

    Empisal KR-67 ribbing attachment

    Empisal KR67 ribber is an attachment to an 8-pushbutton Empisal KH67 knitting machine. The ribber itself look idential to the Brother KR551 ribber. That makes me suspect that Empsal KR67 and Brother KR551 might be interchangeable. In fact, the carriage and the needle bed for the Brother KH67 machine look identical to the Brother Profile…

  • Empisal KH770 knitting machine

    Empisal KH770 knitting machine has 200 needles, and 8-pushbutton patterning/needle-selection mechanism. It is a strange combination of the looks of Brother KH551 (4-pushbutton machine) and the functionality of Brother KH552 (8-pushbutton machine). Thus, check out the corresponding posts while I am researching if there is anything else special about this machine.

  • Empisal KH-610 knitting machine

    Empisal KH-610 knitting machine

    Also known as Empisal KH610 Computamatic, this knitting machine has 200 needles, 4.5 mm apart, which makes is a standard-gauge. The pictures below so far are the only ones I could find. But it looks that this machine is similar to Empisal KH680, as well as Brother KH587, Brother KH588, and Brother KH601.

  • Empisal KH680 knitting machine

    Empisal KH680 knitting machine

    Empisal KH680 knitting machine features 200 needles, 4.5 mm apart. Thus standard-gauge machine has a patterning center with eight pushbuttons to allow for semi-automatic needle selection. The machine comes with a lace carriage. The carriage handle is a screw on: Comptabitle ribbers are Brother KR580 (I used KR580 on KH585 and the needlebeds and carriages…

  • Empisal KH91 knitting machine

    Empisal KH91 knitting machine

    Empisal KH91, sometimes also called Empisal Computamatic KH-91, was manufactured in Japan in the very early 1970s. It is a standard-gauge (4.5 mm distance between the needles) machine with 200 needles. It can perform automatic needle selection with its patterning center, that contains eight pushbuttons, reverse knob It features eight push buttons and a patterning…

  • Empisal Vistamatic KH531

    Empisal Vistamatic KH531

    The full name according to this machine is ‘Empisal Vistamatic Push BUtton Automatic Knitter KH531″. It is identical to the vintage 4-pushbutton knitting machine Brother KH531. Thus, read the corresponding post.