Flat knitting machine and a method of operating the rocking sinkers of the flat knitting machine
AssigneeTsudakoma Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKatsumi Inagaki, Atsuo Tsuboi, Shoichi Komasaka
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Abstract
The present invention provides a flat knitting machine having a simple construction and provided with rocking sinkers capable of stably operating for high-speed knitting operation without damaging the yarns, and a method of operating the rocking sinkers. The flat knitting machine is provided with rocking sinkers (8), sinker operating means (3) for operating the sinkers (8), needle operating means (19), and a power transmitting mechanism (4, 21) interlocking the needle operating means (19) and the sinker operating means (3) to operate the sinker operating means (3) by at least part of the motion of the needle operating means (19).
Claims6
A flat knitting machine comprising:
- two needle beds disposed opposite to each other along a stitching line;
- a plurality of needles slidably supported on the two needle beds, respectively;
- needle operating means for operating the needles for reciprocal sliding movement on the needle beds;
- a plurality of rocking sinkers arranged on at least one of the needle beds in connection with the needles, respectively, so as to rock about an axis parallel to the stitching line;
- sinker operating means for operating the sinkers for rocking motion;
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- frictional engaging means for transmitting movement of the needle operating means to reciprocally move the sinker operating means, wherein the frictional engaging means allows the needle operating means to move free of the sinker operating means when a load on the sinkers exceeds a predetermined frictional engaging force.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.