Cloth winding device for circular knitting machine

A cloth winding device for a circular knitting machine comprising a base, and a swivel frame having support rods, a left side and a right side;

• a case positioned on said support rods and housing gear means having coarse gears for receiving an input rotation and fine gears for rotating a cloth tensioning shaft, said fine gear including a plurality of fine adjustment gears secured on said cloth tensioning shaft, and adjustment means for selective coupling together one of said course gears and one of said fine gears for rotating said cloth tensioning shaft at different speeds relative to said input rotation;
• said course gears including a sleeve, a plurality of coarse adjustment gears secured to said sleeve, and a plurality of adjacent rear row reduction gears respectively meshing with said plurality of coarse adjustment gears, a first bevel gear on an end of said sleeve, a second bevel gear meshing with said first bevel gear and providing said input rotation, and a third bevel gear attached to a cloth winding shaft and meshing with said second bevel gear;
• said cloth winding shaft and said cloth tensioning shaft being coaxially arranged;
• a driving roller coupled to and driven by said cloth winding shaft;
• a set of rollers coupled to and driven by said driving roller, set of rollers mounted between said left and right sides of said swivel frame;
• a rocking arm having a first end attached to a cloth roller and a second end protruding into said swivel frame and pivotally connected to a supporting shaft mounted in said swivel frame;
• said cloth roller coupled to and driven by one roller of said set of rollers through a first belt and receiving a knitted cloth thereabout;
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• a tension adjustment means mounted on said swivel frame mounted and secured to an extension element extending from said second end of said rocking arm for controlling a knitted tightness of said knitted cloth.