Circular knitting machine

US5031421A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Terrot Strickmaschinen GmbH · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 14, 1990
• Grant date: Jul 16, 1991
• Expiry date: Feb 14, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16C2340/00
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A circular knitting machine has a needle cylinder, a supporting disk attached to the needle cylinder coaxially therewith, a bearing body for the supporting disk surrounding the supporting disk, four bearing tracks arranged opposite one another in pairs on the supporting disk and on the bearing body, and bearing balls supported on the bearing tracks. Two elastic supporting flanges, each having one bearing track of two axially adjacent bearing tracks formed thereon, are provided to compensate radial expansions.