Warp knitting machine with slider needles
AssigneeLiba Maschinenfabrik GmbH
InventorRoland Wunner
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Abstract
A warp knitting machine is disclosed as including slider needles, each of which has a needle shank of channel form with a hook head and a slider that covers the hook opening of the needle shank by means of a cover member fitted on the slider shank, such cover member is shorter than the hook opening of the needle shank, and the slider has such a cross-section that it carries the stitch in each instance without being supported on the needle shank and/or the hook head.
Claims3
Warp knitting machine with slider needles which have a needle shank of channel form with hook head and a slider which covers the hook opening of the needle shank with a cover part fitted on a slider shank, where the needle shank and slider are moved in relation to one another so that the slider does not come into contact with the bottom of the channel of the needle shank, characterized in that the cover part (4, 14) is so far shorter than the hook opening that on closure of the hook opening by placing of the end of the cover part (4, 14) opposite to the hook head (5) the transition (7) of the cover part (4, 14) into the slider shank (2, 3) has come out of the region of the channel, while the slider (2) possesses such a cross-section that it carries the stitch (8) in each case without supporting on the needle shank (1) and/or hook head (5).
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