Patent · US Expired

Sinker control actuator for flat knitting machine

US5475990A · kind A · utility

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8Claims

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Assignee

S. Stoll GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

Franz Schmid · Bodelshausen, DE
Reiner Haas · Metzingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 27, 1994
Grant date	Dec 19, 1995
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 27, 2014

Classification

Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
CPC primaryD04B15/362
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a two-bed flat knitting machine separate sinker control devices are provided for controlling sinkers arranged between needles and have a device body laterally releasably mountable on a machine carriage. They extend only over an operating region of a cam system and their control parts are formed so that they are displaced during a carriage stroke return automatically to an operative position or a rest position.

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