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US 3,979,927 AGranted
Knitting machines
OwnerGiovanni Bessiinventor
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Abstract
A flat bed or circular knitting machine has an additional bed which accommodates in grooves or tricks pairs of yarn-guide members which are controlled alternatively by cams to co-operate with needles of the machine. The ends of each yarn-guide member carries a hook which co-operates with an eyelet to effect the actual guiding function.
Claims5
In a knitting machine
- means defining a needle bed,
- combined needles and jacks movable in the bed,
- sinkers arranged to co-operate with the needles,
- means defining guides for knitting yarn, and
- means defining guides for weft-yarn,
- the improvement wherein there is provided
- means defining an additional bed,
- a pair of yarn supply members slidably mounted on the additional bed and interdigitated with respect to a contiguous pair of needles,
- yarn guides mounted on the yarn supply members so arranged that the guides can move to the front of the needles,
- wedge means mounted on the additional bed for resiliently diverging the individual members of each pair of yarn supply members, and
- control means for controlling operation of said wedge means according to a required program.
8 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.