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US 5,682,770 AGranted
Jacquard mechanism of a circular knitting machine
OwnerPing-Shin Wanginventor
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Abstract
A jacquard mechanism mounted in a circular knitting machine for knitting a jacquard fabric, including a fixed selector cam for guiding a knitting needle in a fixed track, a needle selector controlled to raise the knitting needle into a tucking track for a jacquard knitting operation, a movable selector cam moved in a sliding slot in the fixed selector cam to open/close the tucking track, and a driving mechanism controlled to move the movable selector cam in the sliding slot of the fixed selector cam.
Claims5
A jacquard mechanism mounted in a circular knitting machine for knitting a jacquard fabric, comprising:
- a fixed selector cam mounted in a circular knitting machine, said fixed selector cam having at least one track for guiding a knitting needle, and a sliding slot;
- a movable selector cam moved in the sliding slot of said fixed selector cam between an upper position in which an auxiliary track is defined by said movable selector cam in the sliding slot of said fixed selector cam, and a lower position in which said movable selector cam blocks said auxiliary track;
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- a driving mechanism controlled to move said movable selector cam between said upper position and said lower position, said driving mechanism comprising a servo motor, a cam wheel turned by said servo motor, and a crank coupled between said cam wheel and said movable selector cam.
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