Textiles: knitting – Miscellaneous
Patent
1999-06-02
2000-12-05
Worrell, Danny
Textiles: knitting
Miscellaneous
66116, D04B 3700
Patent
active
061550809
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a knitting needle arranging apparatus and, more particularly, a knitting needle arranging apparatus comprising a series of knitting needle supplying means and knitting needle stacking means for sequentially stacking and holding knitting needles which are pushed from the knitting needle supplying means in the thickness direction of the knitting needle in cooperation with each of the series of the knitting needle supplying means.
BACKGROUND ART
In a circular knitting machine, when knitting needles are inserted into a needle bed in a state where no knitting needles are installed in needle bed (such as the case of replacing the needle bed), the knitting needles of different butt shapes have to be inserted in regular order.
Hitherto, the work has been done manually by an experienced person. For example, in case of inserting needles of the total number of 3,000 or the like which are classified into four kinds (for example, A, B, C, and D) according to the shapes of the butts or the like, the first needles A are inserted into grooves for knitting needles for the whole circumference intermittently at the ratio of one knitting needle to four shuttle grooves. Second needles B, third needles C, and fourth needles D are inserted in a manner similar to the first needles A to thereby insert all of the 3,000 needles.
Usually, grooves for holing few tens of knitting needles per inch are formed in the shuttle of the circular knitting machine. The number of grooves per inch is often about 14 to 36. At the time of the above-mentioned work, therefore, the knitting needles have to be inserted into the grooves formed with a very small pitch at predetermined intervals in order of the knitting needles. Even for the experienced person, the work is very laborious and, moreover, inefficient.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the invention to provide a knitting needle arranging apparatus which enables knitting needles to be inserted into a knitting machine in regular order without requiring experience of the worker.
After the wholehearted examinations by the inventors to achieve the object, the inventors have found that the problem can be solved by employing a method of arranging knitting needles in the order of insertion and simply successively inserting the arranged knitting needles into grooves in place of a conventional method of inserting the knitting needles in accordance with a predetermined order at predetermined intervals by the worker, and reached the present invention.
Specifically, according to the invention, the followings are provided.
(a) a series of knitting needle supplying means for sequentially pushing one or plural knitting needles in one direction;
(b) knitting needle stacking means for sequentially stacking and holding the pushed knitting needles in the radial direction of the knitting needle in cooperation with each of the series of the knitting needle supplying means; and
(c) means for moving the knitting needle stacking means from a cooperation state with one of the knitting needle supplying means so as to cooperate with predetermined knitting needle supplying means, knitting needle supplying means comprises:
(d) a knitting needle storing box for stacking and storing a plurality of knitting needles in the radial direction of the knitting needle, which has an opening part from which the stacked knitting needles can pass at the lower end;
(e) a seating installed below the opening part of the knitting needle storing box so as to have a clearance corresponding to the total thickness of one or plural knitting needles with the opening part; and
(f) a slider which slides on the seating so as to freely enter the clearance, for sequentially pushing one or plural knitting needles existing in the clearance along the width direction of the knitting needle, and the knitting needle stacking means is a knitting needle stacking box comprising:
(g) an opening part which is provided in the upper part of the knitting needle stacking box and from which the push
Nakamura Norio
Yamaguchi Takeshi
Teijin Limited
Worrell Danny
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