EP0117660B1 - Rippnadelauswählvorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP0117660B1
EP0117660B1 EP19840300704 EP84300704A EP0117660B1 EP 0117660 B1 EP0117660 B1 EP 0117660B1 EP 19840300704 EP19840300704 EP 19840300704 EP 84300704 A EP84300704 A EP 84300704A EP 0117660 B1 EP0117660 B1 EP 0117660B1
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Bertram Johnson
Arthur Reginald Smith
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04B—KNITTING
    • D04B15/00—Details of, or auxiliary devices incorporated in, weft knitting machines, restricted to machines of this kind
    • D04B15/66—Devices for determining or controlling patterns ; Programme-control arrangements
    • D04B15/68—Devices for determining or controlling patterns ; Programme-control arrangements characterised by the knitting instruments used

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  • the invention relates to dial needle selecting mechanisms and to dial and cylinder knitting machines incorporating such mechanisms.
  • the dial and cylinder may revolve with respect to a cam system and yarn feed station or the dial and cylinder may be fixed, the cam system and yarn feed stations revolving.
  • Dial needle selecting mechanism are described in GB Patent Specifications 305604; 481016; 473181; 1247676 (DE-A-1 635798) and 1404811. Many of these mechanism are complicated.
  • the GB Patent Specification 2099463 describes a simplified mechanism in which pattern drum operated slides have camming edges for lowering selectors. The selectors overcome spring bias in jacks lying in radial dial tricks to depress their operating butts into the tricks.
  • the invention provides firstly a dial needle selection mechanism having a pattern means associated with a dial cam system, selectors controllable by the patterning means individually associated with and arranged transversely to dial needles, jacks in dial needle tricks operable by the selectors to selectively project jack operating butts so as to cause a dial needle to perform its appropriate function,
  • each of the selectors is held non-slidably at an end remote from the dial cam system for selective spring biased projection at an end close to the dial cam system to engage and pivot a selecting end of an associated rocking jack to project the jack operating butt.
  • the patterning means include a drum and slides operable by the drum to engage a pattern butt on each of the selectors to selectively hold the selectors radially inward against spring bias.
  • the use of the spring biased selectors makes it possible for the selectors to provide the pressure for sensing of the hole, pin or butt lay-out of the pattern drum, without having to use individual return springs for each slide.
  • the slides may be replaced by pivoted members having equivalent effect.
  • the pattern butt levels can be arranged adjacent each other without having to provide for the slides to pass between pattern butts to cam them up or down.
  • the compact pattern butt arrangement enables a large number of pattern butts to be used so that the pattern repeat area from the use of the dial needle selecting mechanism is similar to that of a cylinder needle selecting mechanism.
  • a resiliently deformable selector part is provided between the end remote from the dial cam system and the levels occupied by the pattern butts for spring biased projection at the end close to the dial cam system.
  • a simple selector construction can provide individual spring bias for each lower selector end.
  • each selector has a sloped part at the end close to the dial cam system for engaging the selecting end of the associated jack and the selecting end has a butt for resisting radially outward movement of the jack when the selecting end butt is projected and the operating end butt is retracted in the dial needle trick, and the selecting end butt has a sloped part on its radially outward side for facilitating the camming of that butt into the dial needle trick.
  • the selector and rocking jack can thus interact to transform the radial selector end movement smoothly and positively into a projecting movement of the jack operating butt.
  • the dial cam system can be constructed in a simple manner using cam members in the form of aligned cam plates in a circular array.
  • Tracks for needle operating butts and jack operating butts can be defined between the plates and cam faces for inward jack ends and lower ends of the selectors can be provided at their radially inward faces, avoiding the use of separate cam members for acting on the selectors only.
  • the dial cam system has generally circularly arranged cam faces for holding the selectors radially inwards against spring bias and parts at which such cam faces are discontinued such as a recess to permit selectors not restrained by the patterning means to pivot associated rocking jacks.
  • the recess after permitting radially outward movement of appropriate selectors, can be shaped also to cam back any selectors which have moved.
  • the pattern means then only need to hold the selectors radially inwards in a passive manner and does not have to move the selectors actively at any stage.
  • a portion of the circularly arranged part upstream of the recess provides an overhang for the operating butt to resist its premature projection and a portion of the circularly arranged part downstream of the recess provides an overhang for the operating butt to resist its belated projection.
  • the overhang over the jack operating butts prior to selection for all jacks and after selection for non-projected butts only, ensures that the operating butts cannot accidentally project or catch a cam edge.
  • a jack control cam face is provided below a face for holding selectors radially inwards and said face is sloped or stepped at the position of the recess to pivot the jack when the associated selector acts on it under spring bias.
  • Said sloped or stepped face can interact with the aforementioned sloped selecting butt part to provide a smooth pivoting action for the jack.
  • the dial cam system provides an open track for projected operating butts which is separate from a cam track and camming zone for needle operating butts and adjacent the jack cam track there is arranged a camming projection passing through slots in the trick walls to cause the operating butts to be retracted without a pressing cam operating on those butts after the jacks have been returned radially inwards by the jack cam track.
  • a camming means is provided upstream of the camming projection to cause all non-selected rocking jacks to be rocked prior to selection.
  • the rocking jacks are of a comminutable material so that on butt breakage the broken-off butts are disintegrated between relatively moving parts of the dial.
  • the material may be plastic.
  • electromagnetically operated selecting mechanisms can be used. This may require changes in the selector arrangement. This has advantageously a reduced number of pattern butt heights and uses a sliding or unsprung rocking action for the selector, each however still culminating in a camming or lowering action on the inwardly located rocking jack end.
  • the selector return action may be achieved by cams.
  • the dial cam arrangement would be maintained to take advantage of its compactness and reduced risk of individual butt breakage and the avoidance of cumulative butt breakage resulting therefrom.
  • the invention provides a dial needle selecting mechanism having a patterning means associated with and arranged transversely to dial needles, jacks in dial needle tricks operable by the selectors to selectively project jack operating butts so as to cause a dial needle to perform its appropriate function, characterised in that the selectors have an end close to the dial cam system to engage and pivot a selecting end of an associated rocking jack to project the jack operating butts into an open track separate from a needle butt cam track.
  • the machine has a dial 2 and a cylinder 4.
  • the dial and cylinder are stationary and yarn feeders revolve together with the yarn supply (not shown) around the dial and cylinder.
  • the dial 2 includes a fixed dial needle bed 78 with dial needle tricks 16 supported on a main dial casting 80. This supports a fixed, tricked cylindrical selector ring 82 and a revolvable main dial cam supporting casting 84 upon which are mounted a support 86 for patterning means 6 and a dial cam plate 46 mounting a dial cam system 8.
  • the main dial cam supporting casting 84 has a recess 87 to permit selectors 10 to be clipped in with a nose 32 restrained by an annular retainer ring 83.
  • the selectors 10 extend downwards and lie close to jacks 14 in dial needle tricks 16 radially inwards of dial needles 12.
  • the jack 14 has an operating butt 18 and a jack selecting butt 24.
  • the selectors nose 32 is at the end 20 remote from the dial needle tricks 16 and the jack selecting butt 24 is at the selector end 22 close to the tricks 16.
  • the butt 24 has a slope 25 on one side.
  • the patterning means 6 includes a rotatable drum 26 with pattern bits 30 for controlling thin slides 28 not controlled by tension springs having a level, radially inward edge 29.
  • the selectors 10 have a curved part 34 just below the nose 32 but above the level occupied by pattern butts 36 which can be of low height and close together for engaging the operative edges 29.
  • the selectors 10 all have, at their lower ends 22, a sloped part 38 and a downward projection 40 for engaging the associated jack 14.
  • the dial cam system is shown generally in Figure 4. A number of such systems can be used to complete an annular array. The system illustrated is for knitting selectively but the same principles can be applied for selecting for transfer.
  • An outer cam ring or segment 48 defines with an intermediate cam ring 54 a track 58 for dial needle butts.
  • the track 58 is also defined by a stitch cam 50 movable along slot 52 for stitch adjustment.
  • the track 58 has an initial part 56 for clearing the old loop on the dial needle 12.
  • a bolt cam 60 can be inserted to make all needles knit but for selective operation jacks 14 are used.
  • a track 64 for jack operating butts 18 is defined between the intermediate cam ring and an inner cam ring 62.
  • the track does not have a presser cam acting to push the butts 18 back into the dial needle tricks 16. Instead a downwardly projecting rib 66 with a slope 67 passes through a slot 69 in trick walls and engages the body of the jacks just clear of the butts 18.
  • the jack track is thus uninterrupted and does not have a closed-off part through which broken butts 18 could not pass.
  • the ring 62 is of two superposed layers with an upper layer 71 having an overhang 68 for projecting over the butts 18 for a short distance upstream of a selection position.
  • the jack selecting butts 24 and the lower selector ends 22 are controlled by an inward facing camming edge 70 of the inner ring 62.
  • edge 70 with its recess 72 at the selecting position will emerge.
  • the recess 72 ends with a gradually curved slope 73 at the upper layer pushing all selectors back in against spring action.
  • a slope 75 urges all rockers down at their innermost end so that even non-selected jacks are rocked once during a knitting cycle. This ensures that jacks remain freely movable for selection.
  • the pattern bit 30 permits the slide 28 to remain retracted (see Figure 3).
  • the jack operating butt 18 passes under overhang 68 the jack having been racked by the rib 66. As the recess 72 reaches the selector 10, it springs radially outward unrestrained by the slide 28.
  • the sloped part 38 is pushed into the recess 72 and against the selecting butt 24 of the jack urging it radially outward and downwards.
  • the slope 25 on the butt 24 pivots the rocking jack, the overhang 68 having passed over the operating butt 18 to permit it to project upwards.
  • the butt 18 movement now conforms to the track 64.
  • the pattern bit 30 projects the slide 28 (see Figure 2).
  • the selector 10 is pushed radially inwards by the cam face 70 so the edge 29 does not have to shift the selector 10 actively against spring pressure.
  • the overhang 68 passes over butt 18 of the jack 14 as previously but when the recess 72 arrives, the selector 10 cannot spring radially outward being restrained by the slide 28.
  • the butt 18 passes below the radially outwardly inclined part of the inner cam ring 62 holding the butt 24 of the jack raised. That jack is hence kept in its inner radial position.
  • the selector 10 detaches from the slide 28 and moves radially outwards taking the jack 14 with it to a limited extent until further movement is prevented by cam ring 62.
  • the jack 14 remains however un-rocked.
  • the dial needle 12 associated is not moved radially outward and the needle will not knit.
  • the next arriving overhang 68 passes over the butt 18 for a repetition if required of the selection cycle.
  • the drawings illustrate the simplicity and directness of the selection cycle and how simple and few the parts are for achieving it.
  • the rocking jacks are solid so that if a cam is struck the risk of damage to trick walls is reduced. No pointed cams need to be used and a large number of pattern butt levels can be arranged compactly and in a robust construction.
  • the rocking jacks are of a plastic material or other material which is readily disintegrated by the mechanical parts of the system in the event of butt breakage.
  • the jack cam track remains open for butts to pass over the top of the needle bed without jamming.
  • the selecting mechanism may be operated electromagnetically. In that event the number of heights of pattern butts 36 can be reduced and a selecting mechanism can be chosen in which the selectors 10 are not sprung but can be rocked or even slid vertically using a camming action between electromagnetically operated devices and the selectors 10. However the jack camming arrangement would be unchanged.

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1. Rippscheibenwählmechanismus mit einer einem Rippscheiben-Kurvensystem zugeordneten Mustervorrichtung, mit von der Mustervorrichtung gesteuerten, den Rippscheibennadeln individuell zugeordneten und quer zu diesen verlaufenden Wählvorrichtungen, mit in Rippscheiben-Nadelkanälen angeordneten, von den Wählvorrichtungen betätigen, zum wahlweisen Anstoßen von Platinenbetätigungsfüßen dienenden Platinen, damit eine Rippscheibennadel die ihr zugeteilte Funktion ausführt,
dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jede der Wählvorrichtungen (10) an einem vom Rippscheiben- Kurvensystem entfernten Ende (20) unverschiebbar gehalten und an einem dem Rippscheiben- kurvensystem naheliegenden Ende (22) auswahlweise durch Federvorspannung vorgestoßen wird, um ein Wählende einer zugeordneten, den Platinenbetätigungsfuß (18) anstoßenden Schwenkplatine (14) einzurücken und zu schwenken.
2. Mechanismus entsprechend Anspruch 1, weiterhin dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Mustervorrichtung eine Trommel (26) und von der Trommel (26) betätigbare Schieber (28) umfaßt, die einen an jeder der Wählvorrichtungen (10) vorgesehenen Musterfuß (36) einrücken, um die Wählvorrichtungen (10) entgegen einer Federvorspannung selektiv radial nach innen gekehrt zu halten, und daß zwischen dem vom Rippscheiben-Kurvensystem entfernten Ende (20) und den von den Musterfüßen eingenommenen Ebenen ein elastisch verformbares Auswahlteil (34) vorgesehen ist, das an dem dem Rippscheiben-Kurvensystem naheliegenden Ende (22) durch Federvorspannung vorgestoßen wird.
3. Mechanismus nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, weiterhin dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jede Wählvorrichtung (10) an dem dem Rippscheiben-Kurvensystem naheliegenden Ende (22) einen abgeschrägten Teil (38) aufweist, um das Wählende der zugeordneten Platine (14) einzurücken, und daß das Wählende einen Fuß (24) aufweist, der der radial nach außen gerichteten Bewegung der Platine (14) entgegenwirkt, wenn der Fuß (24) angestoßen und der Betätigungsfuß (18) in den Rippscheiben-Nadelkanal (16) zurückgezogen wird.
4. Mechanismus nach Anspruch 3, weiterhin dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Fuß (24) am Wählende auf seiner radial nach außen gekehrten Seite einen abgeschrägten Teil (25) aufweist, der das Mitnehmen dieses Fußes (24) in den Rippscheiben-Nadelkanal (16) erleichtert.
5. Mechanismus nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, weiterhin dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Rippscheiben-Kurvensystem eine allgemein kreisförmig ausgebildete, die Wählvorrichtung (10) gegen die Federvorspannung radial nach innen zurückhaltende Kurvenfläche (70) und ein Teil (72) aufweist, an dem eine derartige Kurvenfläche aufhört, damit die nicht durch die Mustervorrichtung zurückgehaltenen Wählvorrichtungen (10) die zugeordneten Schwenkplatten (14) schwenken können, und daß ein Stück des unterhalb der Aussparung (72) angeordneten kreisförmig ausgebildeten Teiles als Überhang für den Betätigungsfuß dient, damit sein nachträgliches Anstoßen verhindert wird.
6. Mechanismus nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche 1 bis 5, weiterhin dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß in dem Rippscheiben-Kurvensystem eine offene Spur (64) für die angestoßenen Betätigungsfüße (18) vorgesehen ist, die im Abstand zu einer Nadelfußkurvenspur (58) und der Mitnehmerzone für die Nadelbetätigungsfüße angeordnet ist, und daß neben der Platinenkurvenspur (64) eine durch Schlitze (69) in den Nadelkanalwänden hindurchgehende Mitnehmernase (66) angeordnet ist, damit die Betätigungsfüße (18), ohne durch eine Presser-Kurve betätigt zu werden, nach Rückförderung der Platinen (14) radial nach innen durch die Platinenkurvenspur (64), zurückgezogen werden.
7. Mechanismus nach Anspruch 6, weiterhin dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß oberhalb der Mitnehmernase (66) ein Mitnehmerorgan (73) vorgesehen ist, damit alle nicht ausgewählten Schwenkplatinen (14) vor der Auswahl geschwenkt werden.
8. Mechanismus nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, weiterhin dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Schwenkplatinen (14) aus zerkleinerbarem Material bestehen, so daß beim Abbrechen der Füße diese durch die Relativbewegung der Rippscheibenteile zerfallen.
9. Mechanismus nach Anspruch 8, weiterhin dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Schwenkplatinen (14) aus einen Kunststoff bestehen.
10. Rippscheiben-Wählmechanismus mit einer einem Rippscheibenkurvensystem zugeordneten Mustervorrichtung, mit von der Mustervorrichtung gesteuerten, den Rippscheibennadeln individuell zugeordneten und quer zu diesen verlaufenden Wählvorrichtungen, mit in Rippscheiben-Nadelkänalen angeordneten, von den Wählvorrichtungen betätigten, zum wahlweisen Anstoßen von Platinenbetätigungsfüßen dienenden Platinen, damit eine Rippscheibennadel die ihr zugeteilte Funktion ausführt,
dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Wählvorrichtungen (10) ein dem Rippscheiben-Kurvensystem naheliegendes Ende (22.) aufweisen, das ein Wählende einer zugeordneten Schwenkplatine (14) einrückt und diese schwenkt, um den Platinenbetätigungsfuß (18) in eine offene, von einer Nadelfuß-Kurvenspur (58) getrennte Spur (64) hineinzustoßen.
11. Mechanismus nach Anspruch 10, weiterhin dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß neben der Kurvenspur (64) eine durch die Schlitze (69) in den Nadelkanalwänden hindurchgehende Mitnehmernase (66) angeordnet ist, damit die Betätigungsfüße (19) ohne Betätigung durch eine Presser-Kurve, nach Rückförderung der Platinen (14) radial nach innen durch die Platinenkurvenspur (64), zurückgezogen werden.
12. Mechanismus nach Anspruch 11, weiterhin dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß oberhalb der Mitnehmernase (66) ein Mitnehmerorgan (73) vorgesehen ist, wodurch alle nicht ausgewählten Schwenkplatinen (14) vor der Auswahl geschwankt werden.
13. Mechanismus nach einem der Ansprüche 10 bis 12, weiterhin dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Schwenkplatinen (14) aus einem zerkleinerbaren Material bestehen, so daß beim Abbrechen der Füße diese durch die Relativbewegung der Rippscheibenteile zerfallen.
14. Rippscheiben- und Zylinder-Wirkmaschine mit einem Rippscheibenwählsystem nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche.
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GB08334389A GB2152083B (en) 1983-12-23 1983-12-23 Jacks for knitting-machine dials

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