US 4,380,913 AGranted

Weft thread laying apparatus with combing element

AssigneeKarl Mayer Testilmaschinenfabrik GmbH

InventorChristian Wilkens

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Abstract

A weft thread magazine for a warp knitting machine has two endless transfer chains. The chains have holders for retaining weft threads in parallel and presenting them to a needle bed. Also included is a thread laying arrangement which transports the weft threads from one transfer chain to the other, and which is provided with a comb arrangement. The comb arrangement includes a comb element having at least one combing peg which is introduced between the weft threads proximate to one of the transfer chains and which moves parallel to the weft threads and is removed proximate to the other transfer chain. A carriage has a thread guide for guiding at least one weft thread into a position parallel to a previously laid weft thread. The comb element is carried on the end of the carriage directed toward the needle bed.

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Dependent claims

A weft thread magazine for a warp knitting machine having a needle bed, said magazine comprising, in combination:

(a) a pair of endless transfer chain means each having holding means for retaining weft threads in parallel and for presenting them to said needle bed;
(b) a thread laying arrangement for transporting weft threads from one of said pair of transfer means to the other, said arrangement including a carriage means having at least one thread guide for guiding at least one of the appropriate weft threads into a position parallel to an already laid weft thread;
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(c) a combing element mounted on said carriage means and having at least one combing peg and being operable to introduce said peg between weft threads proximate one of said pair of transfer chain means, to move said peg parallel to the weft threads and to remove said peg proximate the other transfer chain means.

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