Textiles: knitting – Stopping
Patent
1999-05-28
2000-03-14
Worrell, Danny
Textiles: knitting
Stopping
66165, D04B 3510
Patent
active
060356693
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for detecting broken hooks of needles in a knitting machine having first and second cam faces defining a cam for slidably receiving needle butts. The cam includes a raising cam portion, a stitch cam portion, and a gate cam portion in which tension forces between yarn loops and hooks bias the butts of intact needles against the first cam face. The detector has a detector butt raising segment wherein the second cam face in the gate cam portion is inclined away from the second cam face at the stitch position for urging butts toward the first cam face. A detector butt lowering segment follows the detector butt raising segment, in which the first cam face urges the butts toward the second cam face. A recess segment follows the butt lowering segment. The recess is formed so that the second cam face is sufficiently spaced from the first cam face so that butts of needles having broken hooks are urged into the recess segment by the detector butt lowering segment but butts of intact needles that are biased against the first cam face do not enter the detector recess segment. A sensor identifies butts of broken needles in the detector recess segment. The apparatus may further include means for stopping operation of the knitting machine when the sensor is activated. A method for detecting broken hooks is also provided.
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Monarch Knitting Machinery Corp.
Worrell Danny
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