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US 4,227,385 AGranted
Straight bar knitting machines
AssigneeWilliam Cotton Limited
InventorsLeonard B. Whittaker, William Clayton, Eric W. Marriott, Barry C. Strong
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AssigneeWilliam Cotton Limited
InventorsLeonard B. Whittaker, William Clayton, Eric W. Marriott, Barry C. Strong
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A straight bar knitting machine has pivots and levers for operating different reciprocable bars (such as needle bar, knockover bar and catch bar) arranged in a novel configuration wherein most levers extend from a longitudinally arranged pivot area to locate in a longitudinal substantial L-shaped zone and these levers are connected by links to the reciprocable bar or bars to form fabric in a zone substantially diagonally opposite the pivot area formed by the levers and the links when seen from the side. The configuration in a preferred embodiment has separate cams and cam shafts below and behind the L-shaped zone and for greater compactness a pair of fabric forming zones may be arranged back to back on a single machine with a common cam shaft arranged between the respective L-shaped cones associated with the fabric forming zones.
Straight bar knitting machine having knitting instrumentalities, a plurality of elongate bars mounting the knitting instrumentalities, a longitudinally extending pivot area, levers for a predominant number of motions pivotably supported in the pivot area at one end to locate in a longitudinally extending substantially L-shaped zone links connected to the other end of the respective levers governing in-out and up-down motion of the respective bars to reciprocate them side-ways, a fabric formation zone defined by the area in which the respective bars reciprocate, said fabric formation zone, links, levers and pivot areas defining an approximately quadrangular configuration when seen from the side and the pivot area and the fabric formation zone being arranged diagonally opposite in the quadrangular configuration.
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