Thread supply apparatus, particularly for knitting machine

US4361292A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Memminger GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Josef Fecker · Bisingen, DE
• Gustav Memminger · Freudenstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 18, 1981
• Grant date: Nov 30, 1982
• Expiry date: Feb 18, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D04B15/48
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

To permit, selectively, use of multistrand monofilamentary thread or yarn, or twisted fiber thread or yarn with the same thread supply drum, the pull-off direction is changeably arranged by supporting a take-off thread guide eye (11, 11a) with respect to the axis of rotation (1') of the drum such that the orientation of the eye is either radial (FIG. 2: I; FIG. 3) or essentially tangential (FIG. 2: II, III; FIG. 4) or intermediate thereof; in the radial direction, individual strands which might be torn or broken are carried along by the running thread; in the tangential direction (FIG. 4), loose ends of fibers of fibrous yarn will not entangle other loops on the storage winding (22) of the drum. The take-off guide eye (11, 11a) either is secured to a pivotable U-shaped holding bracket 8 (FIG. 1) or can be slidable in a guide track 31 (FIGS. 5, 6). In the essentially tangential position, the take-off guide eye is preferably spaced by a somewhat greater distance from the rim (23) of the drum than in the radially aligned position.