Circular knitting machine for producing knit goods with combed-in fibers

US4765156A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Sulzer Morat GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Artzt · Reutlingen, DE
• Gerhard Egbers · Reutlingen, DE
• Helmut Grimm · Mountainside, US
• Klaus Kunde · Dessau, DE
• Adolf Seidel · Reutlingen, DE
• Helmut Hascher · Stuttgart, DE
• Wolfgang Kolb · Schweinfurt, DE
• Erwin Schaberle · Gäufelden, DE
• Peter Wachsmuth · Leinfelden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 24, 1987
• Grant date: Aug 23, 1988
• Expiry date: Jul 24, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D04B9/14
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a circular knitting machine for the production of knit goods with combed-in fibers, having a rotatable, needle-bearing needle cylinder and a card which has a means for feeding the fibers, a comb-in zone through which the needles pass for the purpose of contactlessly receiving the fibers, and a teasing cylinder rotating at high speed which takes the fibers from the feed means and yields them to the comb-in zone. To prevent thin areas or thick areas from being produced in the finished goods on account of the contactless fiber loading, the circular knitting machine has a protective device (60) which becomes active in the still state of the needle cylinder for the purpose of retaining the already combed-in fiber tufts (57) in the needles (3) which are in the comb-in zone in the still state of the needle cylinder.