Thread-tensioning and guide device for flat knitting machines

US4869079A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• H&S Toll, Inc. · DE

Inventors

• Ernst Goller · Reutlingen, DE
• Fritz Walker · Tübingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 29, 1988
• Grant date: Sep 26, 1989
• Expiry date: Jun 29, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D04B15/44
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Thread-tensioning and guide device provided for fastening to the needle-bed ends of a flat knitting machine has, on a stationary machine part (20), a pivotably mounted supporting arm (10) for each thread to be fed, the device parts influenced by the thread to be fed being distributed to the supporting arm (10) and to the stationary machine part (20), and, in the operating position of the supporting arm (10), parts of the stationary machine part (20) interacting with elements arranged on the supporting arm or being accessible through the supporting arm for setting purposes. This design of the device allows a favorable combination of a thread-tension brake influenced by a thread-tension regulator with a specially designed pick-up tensioner.