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US 4,221,317 AGranted
Apparatus for controlling the feed of yarn
AssigneeHiraoka Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMinoru Fukada, Zen Sakaguchi, Kenichi Hasegawa
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for feeding yarn during a single stitch of a needle such that the mean rotational frequency of a yarn feeding drum connected to a first and second driving member is changed during the single stitch of the needle so as to regulate and control the feeding of the yarn and provide a maximum and minimum yarn length in the resulting stitch or selectively provide a yarn length between the maximum or minimum length.
Claims1
An apparatus for controlling the feed of yarn from a yarn feed drum which comprises:
- first and second shaft members;
- first and second gears respectively driven by said first and said second shaft members;
- a third shaft member which has said first gear mounted at one end thereof and said second gear mounted at the other end thereof;
- means for driving said third shaft member in a clockwise and counterclockwise direction;
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- first and second one way clutch members respectively mounted between said first gear and said third shaft member and between said second gear and said third shaft member, said first and said second one way clutches being locked in a counter direction with respect to one another and said third shaft member being connected to said yarn feed drum.
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