Knitting machine pattern mechanism
US4100767A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 12, 1977 |
| Grant date | Jul 18, 1978 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 12, 1997 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
- CPC primaryD04B15/78
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A pattern mechanism for a flat knitting machine, has pattern sinkers lowered into and raised from the needle bed by pattern levers, or pattern sinkers movable in the direction of needle movement, the pattern levers, or the pattern sinkers movable in the needle direction having feet in staggered formation. At each passage of a selection point on a cam means, the pattern levers are lowered to the needle bed and held in, half in, or fully out in accordance with the particular pattern by strip-like control members, or the pattern sinkers movable in the needle direction are controlled by lifting members. The control members are on levers in the cam means movable by respective eccentrics, or cams, or by the pattern lever feet between two of the feet located successively in the direction of movement of the cam means and are retained in selected positions by electromagnetically controlled levers.
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