Flat knitting machine having function for adjusting knock-over timing
AssigneeShima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.
InventorsTakashi Wada, Shigeki Nakahara, Ryoichi Kubota
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Abstract
The invention relates to a flat knitting machine capable of obtaining a high quality knit fabric excellent in knitting property (ease of knitting), by variably adjusting the knock-over timing when knitting, depending on the characteristics of knitting threads and knitted texture of the knit fabric. The characteristics of the knit fabric depends upon the sinkers which have at least one aperture near a tip end of the sinkers. A knitting thread stopping wire rod is passed through one aperture near the tip end of the sinker. The knit fabric depends upon which aperture near the tip end that the knitting thread stopping wire rod is passed.
Claims4
A flat knitting machine having a function for adjusting knock-over timing comprising;
- a plurality of sinkers fixed on a top of a needle bed at specific intervals in parallel with each other, each of said sinkers including at least one aperture near a front tip of said sinkers,
- multiple knitting needles mounted on the needle bed and slidable along the sinkers, each of the knitting needles being controlled by a cam mechanism of a carriage running on the needle bed, and
- a knitting thread stopping wire rod is provided below hook portions of the knitting needles in operation of knock-over, the knitting thread stopping wire rod extending through at least one of said at least one aperture in the sinkers to be orthogonal to the sliding direction of the knitting needles, wherein a setting position of the knitting thread stopping wire rod in the sinkers is made adjustable so that an abutting position of a knitting thread loop on the knitting thread stopping wire rod is changed in the sliding direction of the knitting needles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.