Circular knitting machine

US6247335A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Terrot Strickmaschinen GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Erwin Schaeberle · Traunreut, DE
• Klaus Kunde · Dessau, DE
• Armin Mueller · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 31, 2000
• Grant date: Jun 19, 2001
• Expiry date: May 31, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D04B9/14
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A circular knitting machine for producing knitted fabrics with combed-in fibers, comprising a needle cylinder, at least one carding device with a comb-in wheel and an extraction device for waste fibers, which produces knitted facbrics of a high quality and requires as little maintenance as possible. The extraction device has at least one extraction nozzle for generating a directional extraction flow.