Knitting machine

US5329790A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Terrot Strickmaschinen GmbH · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: May 4, 1993
• Grant date: Jul 19, 1994
• Expiry date: May 4, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D04B15/78
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A knitting machine comprises a needle cylinder, stitch-forming knitting needles, displaceable selector elements for initiating specific knitting operations, springs which bias the selector elements into a first position, mechanical control means which transfer the selector elements into a second position contrary to their biasing and electromagnetic selector means which comprise at least one activatable magnetic pole for holding the selector elements in their second position. The displaceable selector elements have a stop edge which cooperates in the second position with a counterstop edge stationary relative to the movement of the selector element. When the stop edge engages on the counterstop edge, the selector elements are located at such a small distance from the electromagnetic selector means, hereby forming an air gap, that their magnetic force is still sufficient to hold the selector elements in their second position.