摘要:
A hand-operated knitting machine of the type having a single, flat needle bed includes an improved carriage mounted on the bed for bi-directional movement. The carriage performs the needle selection, loop transfer, and knitting functions through a cam arrangement symmetrically located relative to the transverse center line of the carriage. The cam arrangement includes the plurality of fixed and movable cams that define front and rear loop transfer butt-paths that operatively engage the transferring and the receiving needles of a given set of paired needles to cause them to cooperate with a loop transfer device to effect loop transfer from one to the other of the needles to knit a lace-form fabric.
摘要:
A knitting machine is comprised of a first pair of cooperating flat needle beds and a second pair of cooperating flat needle beds positioned behind the first. Cam slides are provided with cams for controlling the motions of the needles in the needle beds. The cam slides are mounted for travel in a single direction along a closed path extending around the two pairs of needle beds. At least one, but preferably all, of the cam slides is provided with cam arrangements capable of causing needles to perform normal-knitting motion, loop-delivery motion for loop transfer and also loop-acceptance motion for loop transfer. As the cam slide makes one trip in one direction along one pair of needle beds, it can cause loops to be transferred in both directions during the single trip. When a switchover to normal knitting is to be made, the cam slide need not be replaced but is merely reset for normal knitting.
摘要:
Cams in knitting machines are movable between operative and inoperative positions and are biased as by springs toward one position and are held in the other position against the spring bias by a detent engaging latching bolt controlled by an electromagnet and movable along a path perpendicular to the direction of cam movement.