Safety stopping device for knitting machine
AssigneeUniversal Maschinenfabrik Dr. Rudolf Schieber GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsErich Krause, Hans Schieber
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Abstract
A hood movable in the direction in which pinching of the operator's hand would occur extends across the stationary part and between the stationary part and the movable part of a straight knitting machine such that a machine stopping mechanism can be triggered by movement of the hood by impact of the hood by the operator's hand to insure stopping of the machine prior to the machine movable part reaching the stationary part covered by the hood.
Claims5
In a knitting machine having a stationary part and a movable part mounted for movement relative to the stationary part and being driven in a direction which could cause pinching of the operator's hand between the movable part and the stationary part and having a stopping mechanism which may be triggered to terminate movement of the movable part in the event of danger and a hood covering the stationary part, the improvement comprising:
- means for mounting said hood on said machine in a position extending across the stationary part and between the stationary part and the movable part for movement in the direction in which pinching of the operator's hand could occur, and
- means for triggering said stopping mechanism in response to movement of said hood in said direction to prevent pinching of the operator's hand when the operator's hand is caught between said movable member and said hood, and wherein said means for mounting said hood comprises means for permitting said hood to move through a distance equal to the maximum braking distance of said movable part of the knitting machine after triggering of the braking mechanism plus a reserve distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.