Assembly plate for assembling cam parts of a knitting machine
AssigneeSulzer Morat GmbH
InventorsManfred Schmid, Martin Elsaber, Manfred Weik
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Abstract
A simple and easily manufactured assembly plate for receiving cam parts of a knitting machine in a predetermined position and in which the assembly plate is easily positioned in a knitting machine. The plate is provided with positioning projections, pins or the like which properly position the cam parts and which are formed by simple stamping procedures or by casting or extruding plastic materials.
Claims10
An assembly plate mounted on a cam base plate for the stationary and interchangeable assembling of at least one cam part of a group of cam parts of a knitting machine at at least one location on the assembly plate, said group including a plurality of cam parts of the same or different type, each cam part having an outer contour and one predetermined position at said location, and the assembly plate having a first surface and attaching means for mounting said cam parts on said assembly plate first surface and a plurality of first positioning means for association with said cam parts, said first positioning means being raised portions of the assembly plate which are integral and unitary with such plate, said first positioning means being located essentially entirely on said assembly plate first surface about the outer contour of each of said cam parts with respect to said attaching means for non-rotatably and non-slidably maintaining said cam parts in position to accurately orient said cam parts into a selected needle guidance position, at least one cam part having only one position on said assembly plate in which all of said first positioning means associated with such one cam part bear against the outer contour of such one cam part, said first positioning means having a height above said first surface of the assembly plate less than the height of the cam parts so that butts of a needle assembly will contact only the cam parts and will not come into contact with said first positioning means, said assembly plate including means for mounting said plate on the cam base plate.
A metal assembly plate mounted on a cam base plate for assembling a plurality of cam parts of a knitting machine and for being mounted on said knitting machine, the assembly plate including a first surface and attaching means for mounting cam parts on said assembly plate first surface, at least one cam part being stationarily mountable and at least one cam part being movably mountable by means of at least one slide member, each cam part having an outer contour, wherein the assembly plate comprises first positioning means for positioning said stationary cam part in one predetermined position on the assembly plate by bearing against the outer contour thereof, said first positioning means being stamped raised portions of the assembly plate which are integral and unitary with such plate, said first positioning means being located essentially entirely on said assembly plate first surface about the outer contour of said cam part with respect to said attaching means for maintaining said cam part in position to accurately orient said cam part into a selected needle guidance position, said stationary cam part having only one position on said assembly plate in which all of said first positioning means associated with such one cam part bear against the outer contour of such one cam part, said first positioning means having a height above said first surface of the assembly plate less than the height of the cam parts so that butts of a needle assembly will contact only the cam parts and will not come into contact with said first positioning means, said assembly plate including means for mounting said plate on a cam base plate, second positioning means being accurately aligned to said first positioning means and serving to define the position of the assembly plate and thereby also of the cam parts on the knitting machine and third positioning means being accurately aligned to said first positioning means for positioning the slide member on the assembly plate, said second and third positioning means and the assembly plate being formed by a stamping process.
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