Knockover bar assemblies
AssigneeWilliam Cotton Limited
InventorsBarry C. Strong, Eric W. Marriott, William Clayton
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Abstract
A straight bar knitting machine for example of the Cotton's Patent type has (see FIG. 1) a shaft (4) which is resistant to torque located inside a knitting head (H) to reduce distortion of a knockover bar (2) located between a needle bar (33) and a sinker bar (30) by means of means (8,10,12) which interconnect the knockover bar and the shaft in such a way that the shaft oscillates concurrently with the reciprocation of the knockover bar.
Claims8
Straight bar knitting machine having a knitting head comprising a head rail, a needle bar carrying a multiplicity of needles, a sinker bar spaced rearwardly from said needle bar, a reciprocable knockover bar arranged between said needle bar and said sinker bar, a shaft extending along and to the rear of said knockover bar, a plurality of mutually spaced bearing means rotatably supporting said shaft at spaced positions along its length for oscillation of said shaft and a plurality of means interconnecting said knockover bar with said shaft at positions between pairs of neighboring bearing means for reciprocating said knockover bar upon oscillation of said shaft and resisting distortion of said knockover bar between its ends.
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