Safety device for knitting machine
AssigneeUniversal Maschinenfabrik Dr. Rudolf Schieber GmbH & Co. KG
InventorErich Krause
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Abstract
A hood which is mounted to and shields a slide which in turn is longitudinally movable on a straight knitting machine, has contact devices for triggering a stopping mechanism for the knitting machine slide on the end faces of the hood as viewed in the direction in which the slide travels, with the hood being displaceable longitudinally relative to the slide through a distance corresponding to at least the braking distance of the slide after the stopping mechanism is triggered.
Claims7
In a knitting machine including a stopping mechanism which can be triggered in the event of danger to terminate machine operation, cam carriage movable on said machine, and a hood in the zone of movement in which the cam carriage moves for protecting the machine operator, the improvement comprising:
- means for mounting said hood on said cam carriage for movement with said cam carriage and relative to said cam carriage in the direction of cam carriage movement, and
- a contact device mounted to the face of the hood as viewed in the direction in which the cam carriage travels for triggering the stopping mechanism of the knitting machine,
- and wherein said means for mounting said hood for movement relative to the cam carriage comprises means for permitting displacement of said hood relative to said cam carriage through a distance corresponding to the braking distance of the cam carriage after the stopping mechanism has been triggered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.