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US 2014/0326023 A1Published application
Knitting machine
AssigneeSIPRA Patententwicklungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH
InventorsJohannes-Martin Eppler, Bernd Boss
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Abstract
A cam for a circular knitting machine has at least one cam groove formed in a cam surface to receive and guide a foot of a stitch-forming tool with which the cam is intended to operate. Additional recesses are formed in the cam surface to reduce the striking surface between the cam surface and a shank of the stitch-forming tool.
Claims12
A cam fore circular knitting machine, comprising:
- at least one cam groove formed in a cam surface to receive and guide a foot configured on a stitch-forming tool, with which stitch-forming tool the cam is intended to operate;
- and
- one or more recesses formed in the cam surface to reduce a striking surface between the cam surface and a shank of the stitch-forming tool.
Stitch-forming tool configured for operation with a cam for a circular knitting machine, the stitch-fitting tool comprising a shank having a foot and a flat projection;
- wherein the cam comprises
- at least one cam groove formed in a cam surface to receive and guide the foot of the stitch-forming tool;
- and
- one or more recesses formed in the cam surface to reduce a striking surface between the cam surface and the shank of the stitch-forming tool that embody channels or grooves that extend in a running direction of the stitch-forming tool;
- wherein the channels or grooves extend parallel to the at least one cam groove and wherein the flat projection inserted into one of the grooves or channels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.