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Device and method for producing knitted fabric

US9371600B2 · kind B2 · utility

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21Claims

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Assignee

Terrot GmbH · DE

Inventors

Johannes Barth · Karlsruhe, DE
Hermann Schmodde · Dornstetten, DE
Stephan Geiler · Oberlungwitz, DE
Michael Lau · Kowloon, CN

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 6, 2012
Grant date	Jun 21, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 3, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
CPC primaryD04B35/32
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for producing knitted fabric comprising a knitting machine and a roving drawing and strengthening unit. The roving drawing and strengthening unit has a roving supply unit, through which a roving can be provided in the form of a fiber bundle that has not been strengthened, a stretching unit, to which the roving can be fed in a conveying direction in the form of at least one sliver, and a spinning nozzle device, through which compressed air can be applied to a drawn roving exiting the stretching unit in a fiber strengthening segment.

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