Sinker mechanism for flat knitting machines

Details Sinker mechanism for flat knitting machines Sinker mechanism for flat knitting machines

1993-07-09

1994-08-02

Crowder, Clifford D.

Textiles: knitting

Needle cooperating elements

Sinkers or web holders

66 64, 66109, D04B 1506

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053334736

ABSTRACT:
A sinker mechanism for a flat knitting machine having at least one front needle bed and one rear needle bed, is provided with a row of sinker assemblies, each sinker assembly having a needle plate, a swingable sinker next to a front region of the needle plate, and a yarn guide sheet fixedly mounted to a needle bed, the swingable sinker having at front end a yarn holding portion, the yarn guide sheet having at front end a yarn guide edge, and when the swingable sinker turns forward with its yarn holding portion moving down, the yarn guide edge of the yarn guide sheet comes above the yarn holding portion of the swingable sinker and projects outwardly of the front end of the sinker towards an intermediate position between the front ends of the opposite needle beds.

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patent: 5134864 (1992-08-01), Yabuta et al.
patent: 5134865 (1992-08-01), Shima et al.

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