Textiles: knitting – Independent-needle machines – Straight
Patent
1983-04-21
1984-09-11
Feldbaum, Ronald
Textiles: knitting
Independent-needle machines
Straight
66 78, D04B 700
Patent
active
044702744
ABSTRACT:
In a flat knitting machine wherein needles or jacks connected thereto, each has two butts, front and rear and wherein there is provided a space below a center cam and between a pair of raising cams in a knitting lock, there is disposed in the space a loop-receiving raising cam having a cam face adapted to act on the rear butt to raise the needle to a loop receiving path and also present therein a loop-receiving lowering cam face formed of a bottom portion of the center cam and adapted to lower the needle to the loop receiving path. Preferably, a retractable guide cam is located above the center cam and there is disposed above the guide cam a loop-transfer lowering cam having a cam face adapted to act on the rear butt to lower the needle. Further, above this loop transfer lowering cam is there retractably disposed a loop-transfer raising cam which has a cam face adapted to act on the front butt to raise the needle. In this way there are disposed a knitting lock and a transfer lock at same phase in the direction of movement of the carriage, without involving any increase in the length of cam box in that direction and also in the longitudinal direction of the needle. No increase is involved in the length of needle trick either.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4012927 (1977-03-01), Kunert
patent: 4287727 (1981-09-01), Otoshi
patent: 4413482 (1983-11-01), Steiger
Nishida Hirozi
Shima Masahiro
Feldbaum Ronald
Shima Idea Center Co. Ltd.
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