Patent · US Expired

Knitting tool having lubricant pockets

US5901582A · kind A · utility

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14Claims

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Assignee

GROZ-BECKERT KG · DE

Inventors

Uwe Hennig · Burladingen, DE
Klaus Wagner · Warthausen, DE
Bernhard Schuler · Austin, US
Hans-Udo Lebherz · Burladingen, DE
Siegfried Wissmann · Albstadt, DE
Albert Teufel · Veringenstadt, DE
Thomas Bregel · Abenberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 10, 1997
Grant date	May 11, 1999
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 10, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
CPC primaryD04B35/02
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A stamped knitting tool, such as a latch needle, has, on its shank, a lubricant distributing arrangement formed on at least one of the opposite broad shank faces for collecting a lubricant therein during operation of the knitting tool. The lubricant distributing arrangement is constituted by a region of reduced shank thickness extending transversely to the shank length from a distance from the upper shank edge at least substantially to the lower shank edge. The region of reduced shank thickness may be a chamfer, a recess or a depression.

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