Circular knitting machine
AssigneeMilliken Research Corporation
InventorGeorge Roger Haynie
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Abstract
A circular knitting machine having a novel jack and presser arrangement to prevent the jack from engaging the cam track at certain pre-selected times to prevent the cylinder needles from knitting in order to provide an area in the fabric being knit which is distinct from the pattern of the fabric but has the same density to prevent curl of the fabric when cut in the area.
Claims1
A circular knitting machine including a tricked needle cylinder, individually operated knitting needles in said tricks, needle controlling jacks provided below and in the same tricks as said needles and a jack raising cam operably associated with said jacks, each of said jacks having a cam engaging first butt portion and a second butt portion, said knitting machine having a plurality of yarn feed positions, a pattern attachment mounted at each yarn feed position to control the position of needle controlling jacks at each of said feed positions, a presser mounted at certain selected yarn feed positions projecting towards said jacks, means mounting control springs at certain pre-selected jack positions in engagement with said second butt portions of said jacks, and jacks at certain other jack positions having a third butt portion projecting from said second butt portion engaging said presser when said needle cylinder is rotated to place said third butt portion opposite to said presser to pivot said first butt portion out of engagement with said jack raising cam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.