EP0440574A2 - Needle selection system in a knitting machine - Google Patents
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- 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
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- This invention relates to a needle selection system in a knitting machine which comprises: a needle bed provided with tricks for receiving needles; selector devices; a plurality of association members to associate the needles with the selector devices; cams adapted to engage said association members and said needles and provided with movement relative to said association members and needles; and electronic control means.
- It is becoming increasingly important in the textile industry to have high speed knitting machines, which obviously improves their performance, but it is also very important that, further to the high speed, the machine should have short downtimes. The association of both factors means high machine productivity.
- To achieve the high running speed, it is necessary to remove the barriers thereto: yarn feed, improved cams, faster responding selection means. This invention improves the last named aspect on providing an individual selection system for each needle. Furthermore, unlike other embodiments, the present arrangement allows a longer time to be made available for the selection operations, both for actuating the electromagnets retaining the selectors and for the movement of the latter, since they are prepared for selection thereof within the period in which the needle is knitting.
- To reduce downtimes, the present invention affords great advantages, since with the selection being individual for each needle, it allows the source of any fault to be easily located and with the availability of compact sets grouping the selection electromagnets and the selectors corresponding to a group of needles together, it allows for ready replacement with a new set, reducing the downtimes, as stated above.
- It is an object of the present invention to provide a selection system representing an outstanding breakthrough with regard to the abovementioned demands.
- This object is attained with a selector system of the type first mentioned above and wherein there is a selector device for each needle, each selector device being fixed relative to said association members and needles and comprising: selector slide member moveable between a first position and a second position; a spring urging said slide member to said first position; an electromagnet in which there is a coil, a fixed armature and a moving armature moveable between a position close to said fixed armature when the coil is energised and a normal spaced apart position, said moving armature forming a retaining member which in one of said positions retains said selector slide member and in the other of said positions releases said selector slide member; and electrical connection means for said coil, associated with said electronic control means; there being furthermore external actuating means for moving said selector slide member cyclically from said first position to said second position.
- In a preferred embodiment, each selector slide member is vertically moveable and is provided with a projection directed towards said needle bed and a vertical portion in which there is a first portion having a thickness different from the thickness of the immediately adjacent portions and a second portion defining a support surface orientated transversally to the vertical direction; said retaining member interlocks with said first portion to retain the selector slide member; and said spring engages said support surface, urging said selector slide member to the first position thereof.
- Alternatively according to the invention, said first portion is a recess in which said retaining member enters to retain the selector slide member or it is a projection, one of the flanks of which is engaged by said retaining member to retain the selector slide member.
- In a further alternative of the invention, said support surface is a surface of a shoulder forming said second portion or it is a recess forming said second portion.
- In a development of the invention, the association members for associating the needles with the selector devices comprise a cancellation jack and a pulling jack, said cancellation jack being adapted to undergo a first vertical movement between a high position and a low position and having an upper portion and a lower portion, both being adapted to rock resiliently and independently between a first position of approach to the needle bed and a second position spaced apart therefrom, while said pulling jack is adapted to undergo a vertical translation movement between an upper position and a lower position and rocks simultaneously with said upper portion of the cancellation jack between a first position of approach to the needle bed and a second position spaced apart therefrom.
- In yet a further development of the invention, the lower portion of the cancellation jack is provided with a rocking butt and a raising butt and the upper portion is provided with a thrust butt, such that:
- a) the rocking butt is adapted to be engaged by said projection of the selector slide member, whereby the lower portion is retained in said first position and passes to the second position on release from said engagement;
- b) the raising butt is adapted to engage a raising cam capable of moving the cancellation jack from the low position to the high position, when the lower portion is in said second position; and
- c) the thrust butt is adapted to engage a thrust cam capable of moving the upper portion to said first position when the cancellation jack is in the high position; there being also a drawdown cam capable of moving the cancellation jack from the high position to the low position.
- Further advantages and features of the invention will be appreciated from the following description in which a preferred embodiment of the invention is described, with reference to the accompanying drawings, without any limiting nature. In the drawings:
- Figure 1 is a cross section view of a selector device on an axial plane.
- Figure 2 is a cross section view on the line II-II of Figure 1.
- Figure 3 is partial schematic view of the selector slide member and of the retaining member in the retained position.
- Figure 4 is a view similar to the previous one in the released position.
- Figure 5 is a cross section view on the line V-V of Figure 2.
- Figure 5a is a similar view to the previous one with the fixed armatures, being independent parts of the bodies.
- Figure 5b is a detail on a larger scale of part of one of said bodies housing a fixed armature having a central orifice.
- Figure 6 is a schematic perspective view of needles with the corresponding association members and cams.
- Figure 7 is a cross section view on an axial plane comprising the upper portion of the needle bed, a selector device, a needle and the association members between the needle and the device, corresponding to a preferred embodiment, all with the selector slide member in the second position, the cancellation jack in the low position thereof and the lower portion of the same jack in the first position thereof close to the needle bed.
- Figure 8 is a cross section view similar to that of Figure 7, with the selector slide member in the first position, the cancellation jack still in the low position and the lower portion in the second position thereof.
- Figure 9 is a cross section view similar to the previous two, with the selector slide member in the second position again and the cancellation jack in the high position, both portions in the jack being in the second position thereof.
- Figure 10 is a cross section view similar to the previous ones, with the selector slide member in the second position, the cancellation jack in the high position and the upper portion of the jack in the first position thereof close to the needle bed.
- The needle selection system of the invention relates to both circular and to flat bed knitting machines, although the examples described and illustrated herein correspond to circular machines.
- Insofar as the invention is concerned, it is stated that the machines comprise a needle bed 2 (particularly, a needle cylinder in circular machines) having
tricks 4 for receivingneedles 6 and aselector device 8 for each needle. There are, furthermore, association members between eachneedle 6 and the corresponding selection element. These association members arecancellation jacks 10, pullingjacks 12 and others to which reference will be made hereinafter. - Each
selector device 8 comprises aselector slide member 14 which preferably comprises a projectingportion 16, directed towards theneedle bed 2, fixedly attached to a vertical portion 18 in which there is a first portion 20 (Figures 3 and 4) having a thickness different from the thickness of the immediately adjacent portions.Portion 20 is shown in the Figures to be thinner, whereby it forms arecess 22, although the invention also contemplates that theportion 20 be thicker, whereby it would form a shoulder. Theslide member 14 is provided, further, with a second portion 24 (preferably formed by a shoulder, as shown) defining a support surface 26, although this second portion may also be formed by a recess also defining a support surface. Further reference will be made to saidportions - The
selector slide member 14 is adapted to move between a first position, such as shown in Figure 8, and a second position such as shown in Figures 1, 7, 9 and 10. There is aspring 28 urging the slide member to the first position. Furthermore, there is anelectromagnet 30 for eachslide member 14. It should be noted that twoelectromegnets 30 have been shown in Figures 1 and 7 to 10, since twoslide members 14 are partially superimposed in said figures. - The electromagnets are housed in
bodies 32 and comprise acoil 34, afixed armature 36 and a movingarmature 38 which is moveable between a position close to the fixed armature and a normal position spaced apart therefrom. The moving armature is in the close position when thecoil 34 is energised. In Figures 5 and 5a, the normal spaced apart position is shown by the movingarmature 38a and the close up position (which may even be contact) is shown with the movingarmature 38b. - The bodies 32 (Figures 5a and 5b) are preferably formed of non-magnetic material and in each of them there is housed at least one
electromagnet 30. Thefixed armature 36 of each electromagnet is an independent part housed in thebody 32. Thus there is avoided the appearance of possible magnetic influences between the electromagnets which are mounted in onesame body 32 or those which are mounted in contiguous bodies. The existence of acentral orifice 37 in the fixedarmature 36 is contemplated. - When the
slide member 14 is in the second position, the first portion 20 (and, as the case may be, the recess 22) are facing the movingarmature 38 and, preferably, an extension 40 thereof. In this situation, if theelectromagnet 30 is not energised, the movingarmature 38 and the extension 40 thereof move apart from thefixed armature 36, whereby the extension 40 is inserted in therecess 22 and thus becomes a retaining member for the slide member in said second position. Obviously, if the electromagnet is energised, the movingarmature 38 will cease to act as retaining member and, urged by the spring, theslide member 14 passes to the first position thereof. - In Figure 2 there are to be seen six
packages 42, each of which comprises a pair of selector devices housed in abody 32 prepared for the selection of each pair ofconsecutive needles 6. - The
coils 34 of theelectromagnets 30 may be supplied directly by conductor leads 44 in the machines where an electronic control having no relative movement with thepackages 42 ofselector devices 8 may be provided. This may occur in machines having a fixed needle bed and fixed controller. - Where the
packages 42 move relative to the controller (for example, in the case of rotating needle beds and a fixed controller), an electrical conducting system by way ofbrushes 46 andslip rings 48, in communication withdistributor rings 50 to which theplug pins 52 of eachpackage 42 ofselectors 8 are connected may be provided - The electricity received through said
pins 52 is fed at the right time to thecoils 34 following a trigger signal sent from the machine′s electronic control (not shown) through optical signal transmission means. There aretransmitters 54 disposed around the machine in each working set andreceivers 56 disposed on eachpackage 42 ofselectors 8. The signal received through said means is processed byelectronic components 58 so that the required electrical signal is allowed to reach thecoils 34 to energise theelectromagnets 30, thereby acting on theselector devices 8 according to a preset programme. - The
packages 42 are seen to be easily removeable, since they are fixed inflanges 60 of aring 62, which is fixedly attached to theneedle bed 2 by alocking system 64. Thepackages 42 are attached to thering 62 by conventional fastening means 66. The packages are protected by thescreen 68 whereby the interior thereof is practically unaccessible to dust, yarn and/or fabric fly and other impurities. - Hereinafter there is described the relationship between the mechanism described and the needle selection as such. The description is given of a preferred embodiment, although there are various embodiments.
- Prior reference has been made to the
needle bed 2,tricks 4, needles 6, cancellation jacks 10 and pullingjacks 12. In the embodiment described, eachcancellation jack 10 is resilient and is provided with a bulge 70 forming alower portion 72 and anupper portion 74 of the cancellation jack, each of which may rock resiliently from the bulge 70 independently of the other portion. - The
lower portion 72 is provided with a rockingbutt 76 and a raisingbutt 78. When theselector slide member 14 is in the second position thereof, theprojection 16 thereof is engaged with the rockingbutt 76, whereby thelower portion 72 of the cancellation jack rocks to a first position close to theneedle bed 2, as shown in Figure 1. As a result of the rocking, the raisingbutt 78 is disengaged from a raisingcam 80, whereby, while theprojection 16 is engaged with thebutt 76, thecancellation jack 10 is not moved vertically. See Figures 1 and 7 andcancellation jacks - When the
corresponding electromagnet 30 is energised, the movingarmature 38 approaches the fixedarmature 36, whereby said movingarmature 38 is spaced apart from therecess 22 of theselector slide member 14 and releases it. In this way the force ofspring 28 urges theselector slide member 14 to move to the first position, with disengagement of theprojection 16 from the rockingbutt 76. - Therefore, the
lower portion 72 of the rocking jack moves to the second position removed from the needle bed (see Figure 8 andcancellation jacks 10b in Figure 6) and consequently the raisingbutt 78 engages the raisingcam 80. When the cancellation jack engages aprotuberance 82 of thecam 80, the jack is raised vertically from the low position thereof (jack 10b) to the high position thereof (jack 10d). - In turn, the
upper portion 74 of thecancellation jack 10 is provided with athrust butt 84. When the jack is in the low position thereof, the thrust butt is withdrawn from engagement with thethrust cam 86. Nevertheless, when it moves to the high position thereof (Figure 9) and engages afirst cam surface 88 of the cam 86 (Figure 10 andjack 10d), theupper portion 74 of the jack moves to the first position thereof close to the needle bed. The cam has asecond cam surface 89 which is also adapted to cause the cancellation jack to rock, in turn, to the first close-up position thereof. There is also adrawdown cam 91 which engages thethrust butt 84 to drive thecancellation jack 10 from the high position to the low position. - The pulling
jack 12 is in constant engagement with theupper portion 74 of thecorresponding cancellation jack 10, whereby it accompanies this upper portion in the rocking movement thereof to the close-up position to the needle bed. Aspring 90 urges the pulling jack to the position removed from the needle bed. The pulling jack is provided also with a liftingbutt 92, so that in the close-up position to the needle bed,butt 92 is disengaged from the lifting cam 94 and, on the other hand, in the removed position the liftingbutt 92 engages said cam 94, so that when thebutt 92 engages afirst slope 96, thejack 12 is lifted. - The pulling
jack 12 may be lifted for a second time by engagement with thesecond slope 98, although, for this purpose, it is necessary for the corresponding cancellation jack (jack 10e in Figure 6) to be in the low position thereof, since otherwise, thethrust jack 84e would have engaged thesecond cam surface 89 and the pullingjack 12e would have rocked towards the needle bed, whereby the lifting jack 92e would have become disengaged from saidsecond slope 98. - Furthermore, the
selector slide member 14 is seen in Figure 6 to be in the first position, whereby it has allowed thelower portion 72 of thecancellation jack 10b to rock to the second position thereof. This jack will duly be pushed upwards by theprotuberance 82, whereby it will occupy the position corresponding to jack 10d which, in the upward movement thereof, has pulled theselector slide member 14d which, in turn, is immobilised in this position by the aforesaid action of theelectromegnet 30 and its movingarmature 38. Consequently, when the cancellation jack (jack 10f) has been drawn down by thedrawdown cam 91, theprojection 16 reengages the rockingjack 76. Therefore, thecancellation jack 10 is an external means to theselector device 8 which cyclically moves theselector slide member 14 from the first position to the second position. - Figure 6 also shows
needles 6 having alower butt 100 and anintermediate butt 102, as well as afirst cam track 104 and asecond cam track 106. Thefirst cam track 104 is traversed by theupper jack 108 of the pullingjack 12, provided that the liftingbutt 92 of thesame jack 12 has previously traversed the first andsecond slopes - The
second cam track 106 is traversed in turn by theintermediate butt 102 of eachneedle 6 and the needle will be lifted if the corresponding pullingjack 12 has been previously been lifted. By suitably combining the selection of theselector slide members 14 by means of appropriate energisation of theelectromagnets 30, the needles may be moved alternatively to thewelting track 110, thetucking track 112 or to theknitting level 114.
2 needle bed
4 trick
6 needle
8 selector device
10 cancellation jacks
12 pulling jacks
14 selector slide member
16 projection
18 vertical portion
20 first portion
22 recess
24 second portion
26 support surface
28 spring
30 electromagnet
32 body
34 coil
36 fixed armature
37 central orifice
38 moving armature
40 extension
42 packages
44 conductor leads
46 brush
48 slip rings
50 distributor rings
52 plug pins
54 transmitters
56 receivers
58 electronic components
60 flanges
62 ring
64 locking system
66 attachment means
68 screen
70 bulge
72 lower portion
74 upper portion
76 rocking butt
78 raising butt
80 raising cam
82 protuberance
84 thrust butt
86 thrust cam
88 first cam surface
89 second cam surface
90 spring
91 drawdown cam
92 lifting butt
94 lifting cam
96 first slope
98 second slope
100 lower but
102 intermediate butt
104 first cam track
106 second cam track
108 upper butt
110 welting track
112 tucking track
114 knitting level
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ES9000229A ES2020833A6 (en) | 1990-01-26 | 1990-01-26 | System for selecting needles in a general-purpose knitting machine |
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ES9001150A ES2024199A6 (en) | 1990-04-24 | 1990-04-24 | Improvements to the subject of Patent No. 9000229 for: System for selecting needles in a knitting machine |
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DE2445291A1 (en) * | 1974-09-21 | 1976-04-01 | Mayer & Cie Maschinenfabrik | Circular knitter needle selection - has a sprung bar to link the magnet keeper to the selection sinker |
FR2325756A1 (en) * | 1975-09-26 | 1977-04-22 | Vyzk Vyvojovy Ustav Zavodu | Circular knitter needle selection - has a fixed magnet and selection sinker with pivoted sliding block to simplify pattern impulse transmission |
US4196599A (en) * | 1978-03-04 | 1980-04-08 | Jumberca, S. A. | Needle selection mechanism for knitting machines |
GB2097824A (en) * | 1981-04-15 | 1982-11-10 | Elitex Zavody Textilniho | Patterning device for circular knitting machines |
EP0235068A1 (en) * | 1986-02-18 | 1987-09-02 | Jumberca, S.A. | Mechanism for selecting and controlling the raising of needles in circular and flat bed knitting machines, having a plurality of adjacent needles, with electronic programming control |
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DE1635963B1 (en) * | 1963-02-15 | 1972-05-04 | Schieber Universal Maschf | Knitting machine, in particular flat knitting machine, for producing patterned knitwear |
CH479738A (en) * | 1967-09-15 | 1969-10-15 | Dubied & Cie Sa E | Device for selecting the needles of a knitting machine |
DE2445291A1 (en) * | 1974-09-21 | 1976-04-01 | Mayer & Cie Maschinenfabrik | Circular knitter needle selection - has a sprung bar to link the magnet keeper to the selection sinker |
FR2325756A1 (en) * | 1975-09-26 | 1977-04-22 | Vyzk Vyvojovy Ustav Zavodu | Circular knitter needle selection - has a fixed magnet and selection sinker with pivoted sliding block to simplify pattern impulse transmission |
US4196599A (en) * | 1978-03-04 | 1980-04-08 | Jumberca, S. A. | Needle selection mechanism for knitting machines |
GB2097824A (en) * | 1981-04-15 | 1982-11-10 | Elitex Zavody Textilniho | Patterning device for circular knitting machines |
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