Knitting machine needle
AssigneeSIPRA Patententwicklungs- u. Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH
InventorRolf Willmer
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Abstract
A knitting machine (1) comprises a shaft (2) with a recess (11) in which a selection element (12) provided with a controllable raising butt (20) is mounted swivellably and can be swivelled to and fro between a position in which the raising butt (20) is retracted into the recess (11) and a position in which the raising butt (20) projects forwards over the front side of the shaft (2). A spring (21), which can be attached to the selection element (12) or the shaft (2), serves to pre-tension the selection element (12) into one of these two positions (FIG. 1).
Claims13
Knitting machine needle comprising a shaft (2, 30, 37, 47) having a front side (8) and a back (5, 52), said shaft having a recess (11, 31, 38, 50) open towards the front side (8);
- a selection element (12, 32, 39, 49) being received at least partly in said recess and being provided with a controllable raising butt (20) for selectively raising or not raising said needle, said selection element (12, 32, 39, 49) being arranged swivellably relative to the shaft (2, 30, 37, 47) in such a manner that said selection element can selectively be swivelled into at least a first position in which aid raising butt (20) projects forwards over the front side (8) for raising said needle in cooperation with a raising cam part (26), and a second position, in which said raising butt (20) in retracted behind the front side (8) such that said needle is not raised by said raising cam part (26), and a spring (21, 34, 44, 51) pretensioning said selection element (12, 32, 39, 49) into one of the two positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.