Method and flat warp-knitting machine for the production of a weft-and-warp-knit fabric

US4638647A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• VEB Kombinat Textima · FR

Inventors

• Dietmar Grenzendoerfer · Plaisir, FR
• Achim Wierzgon · Plaisir, FR
• Gerhard Mueller · Freilassing, DE
• Dieter Erth · Großschirma, DE
• Ludwig Guenther · Plaisir, FR
• Rolf Kuenzel · Kamenz - Kamjenc, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 24, 1985
• Grant date: Jan 27, 1987
• Expiry date: Dec 24, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D04B23/12
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A flat-weft knitting machine for producing a weft-and-warp-knit fabric, e.g., a stitch knitting machine, employs a weft yarn insertion device, which moves backward and forward, for constantly guiding a continuous thread or yarn group. The insertion device transfers one weft yarn group of the yarn group to first and second weft yarn conveyor means. The weft yarn group is then separated from the insertion device and the yarn group. The weft yarn group thus has free ends at both ends and is then conveyed by the weft yarn conveyor means to a looping point, for connection with loop-forming warp yarns to form a fabric.