Knitting machine with controllably rockable knock-over bits

US4546623A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Memminger GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Falk Kuhn · Rottenburg am Neckar, DE
• Alfred Buck · Nagold, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 8, 1983
• Grant date: Oct 15, 1985
• Expiry date: Dec 8, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D04B15/06
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

To permit independent adjustment of movement of knock-over bit - jack sinker elements (3) having knock-over or casting-off heads (7), a cam box (22, 23) has an individually adjustable raising and lowering cam track (26, 28), engaging a butt (6) on the sinker element. The shaft (4) of the jack or sinker is formed as a double-arm lever (16, 17) with an intermediate fulcrum or pivot point projection (18), engaging a surface of the knitting machine, for example a cylinder groove, and two individual cam tracks (34, 35) are provided, formed on cam carriers (36, 37), of which, preferably, at least one (36) is adjustable, to provide for rocking movement of the knock-over bit - sinker jack element about the fulcrum or pivot projection independently of sliding longitudinal raising and lowering under control of the customarily provided cam structure (26, 28).