Twin bed flat knitting machine method for widening a tubular fabric

US6006551A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• H&S Toll, Inc. · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Nonnemacher · Neckartenzlingen, DE
• Henning Schmidt · Lillerød, DK
• Juergen Schenk · Albershausen, DE
• Achim Ulmer · Gomadingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 18, 1997
• Grant date: Dec 28, 1999
• Expiry date: Dec 18, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D04B1/246
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

For mesh widening of a hose-shaped knitted piece on a double bed flat knitting machine knitting a mesh row is knitted in a carriage direction from left to right on a front needle bed and subsequently a mesh row is knitted in the carriage direction from right to left on a rear needle bed. Then a mesh row is knitted in the carriage direction from left to right on the front needle bed and a loop is formed on a previously free edge needle of the front needle bed, a mesh row is formed in the carriage direction from right to left on the rear needle bed, the loop is transferred with a first knitting system in the carriage direction from left to right on an empty needle of the rear needle bed with a further knitting system knitting a mesh row on the front needle bed. Finally, a mesh row is formed in the carriage direction from right to left with cooperation of the edge needle with the loop, a mesh row is knitted in the carriage direction from left to right on the front needle bed, and a mesh row is knitted in the opposite carriage direction of the rear needle bed.