Knitting of precious metal networks and a method using same
AssigneeUmicore AG & Co. KG
InventorsDirk Born, Dietmar Koenigs
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for producing large stainless steel meshes on flatbed knitting machines, comprising the steps of providing stainless steel wire and knitting a stainless steel mesh, characterized in that one stainless steel mesh each is knitted on the front and the rear needle bed of the flatbed knitting machine at the same time, and these two stainless steel meshes are linked to each other on one side by connecting stitches.
Claims21
Method for producing connected precious-metal gauzes with each gauze being knitted on a common flat-bed knitting machine, comprising the steps of
- providing precious-metal wire;
- knitting first and second precious-metal gauzes,
- wherein the first and the second precious-metal gauzes are knitted simultaneously on front (8) and rear (9) needle beds of the flat-bed knitting machine, and the first and the second precious-metal gauzes each have a Z-axis thickness and extend along an X-Y axes plane, and wherein the first and the second precious-metal gauzes are connected along adjacent side edges that each extend in a common X-Y axes plane by connecting knit meshes of the first and the second precious-metal gauzes such that the first and the second gauzes fall on the common X-Y axes plane.
A method for producing a connected precious-metal gauze combination having first and second precious-metal gauzes that are each knitted with precious metal wire on front (8) and rear (9) needle beds of a common flat-bed knitting machine, wherein the first and the second precious-metal gauzes each have a Z-axis thickness and extend along an X-Y axes plane, the method comprising:
- combining the first and the second precious-metal gauzes to produce the connected precious-metal combination by connecting knit meshes of the first and the second precious metal gauzes along adjacent side edges of the first and the second precious-metal gauzes, with the adjacent side edges each extending within a common X-Y axes plane such that the first and the second gauzes fall on the common X-Y axes plane.
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