Knitting machine
AssigneeKarl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik GmbH
InventorKlaus Benno BRANDL
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Abstract
Knitting machine, method of guiding a guide bar and guide bar drive for a knitting machine. Knitting machine includes a shogging drive, a swing-through drive, and at least one guide bar, which is moveable by the shogging drive in a shogging direction and by the swing-through drive perpendicular to the shogging direction. Further, a slide surface pairing has two slide surfaces oriented perpendicularly to the shogging direction, and the shogging drive acts on the guide bar via the slide surface pairing.
Claims20
A knitting machine comprising:
- a shogging drive;
- a swing-through drive;
- at least one guide bar, which is moveable by the shogging drive in a shogging direction and by the swing-through drive perpendicular to the shogging direction;
- and
- a slide surface pairing having two slide surfaces oriented perpendicularly to the shogging direction, wherein the shogging drive acts on the guide bar via the slide surface pairing.
A method of guiding a guide bar of a knitting machine, comprising:
- mounting a guide bar on a stationary shaft for lateral movement in a shogging direction parallel to the stationary shaft and for movement generally in a direction perpendicular to the lateral movement;
- forming a slide surface pairing comprising two abutting slide surfaces;
- and
- moving the slide surface pairing in the shogging direction via an actuating rod acted on by a shogging drive, whereby the slide surface pairing pushes the guide bar in the shogging direction via a bar element.
A guide bar drive for a knitting machine, comprising:
- a shogging drive;
- an actuator rod having a first sliding face arranged on one end and acted on by the shogging drive on the other end;
- and
- a bar element having a second sliding face arranged on one end and an opposite end of the bar element being structure and arranged to act on a guide bar,
- wherein the first and second sliding faces are arranged to abut each other to form a slide surface pairing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.