US 4,539,826 AGranted

Knitting machine

AssigneeSulzer Morat GmbH

InventorsEberhard Leins, Manfred Walter

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Abstract

Knitting machine having two needle beds in which loop-forming knitting needles are mounted for extension and retraction, having disk cams disposed on a revolving drive shaft with an angular offset for the purpose of lifting the knitting needles, and having a patterning apparatus for engaging and disengaging the knitting needles and the cams according to the pattern, such that only engaged knitting needles can be raised by the disk cams, a transfer device being provided, which is intended for the transfer of loops formed on knitting needles of at least one needle bed to associated knitting needles of the other needle bed. This transfer device can control the coupling produced by means of the patterning apparatus between the disk cams and the knitting needles such that the knitting needles can be extended selectively by the disk cams into a knit position or into a transfer position (FIG. 1).

Claims28

Dependent claims

A knitting machine comprising:

at least two needle beds, a plurality of knitting tools movably mounted in said needle beds, a plurality of eccentric cam means rotatably mounted in said needle beds and being disposed with angular offset with respect to each other, a plurality of driving elements coupled with and alternatingly movable by said cam means in at least two opposite directions, coupling means for drivingly coupling said driving elements and said knitted tools for at least raising said knitting tools into knitting positions by movement of said driving elements, and transfer means for transferring loops formed on knitting tools of at least one of said needle beds to associated knitting tools of the other needle bed, said transfer means having cam means movable past at least said one needle bed in a direction transversely of said knitting tools for coupling said knitting tools with said driving elements such that said knitting tools are raised beyond said knitting positions into transfer positions by said movement of said driving elements.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.