Knitting machine

US4838048A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Terrot Strickmaschinen GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Muller · Grafing, DE
• Werner Engelfried · Sindelfingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 11, 1988
• Grant date: Jun 13, 1989
• Expiry date: Jan 11, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D04B15/68
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A knitting machine with stitch-forming knitting needles which are actuated by pattern bars and which are adjustable in accordance with the three-way technique to three operating positions, i.e., the knitting, floating and tucking positions, comprises electromagnetic selector means which are controlled in accordance with a pattern to adjust the knitting needles to their operating positions and also eccentric steering means which cooperate with these selector means. Arranged in each pattern bar are two displaceable selector elements which are biased by a spring and which are adjustable by cooperation of the electromagnetic selector means and the spring so as to be brought in accordance with a pattern or combination into the path of steering cam means trigger displacement of the selector elements and hence pivotal motion of the pattern bar in accordance with the desired operating position.