EP3770312B1 - Métier à tricoter à mailles cueillies capable de modifier les positions de fil - Google Patents

Métier à tricoter à mailles cueillies capable de modifier les positions de fil Download PDF

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EP3770312B1
EP3770312B1 EP19187868.5A EP19187868A EP3770312B1 EP 3770312 B1 EP3770312 B1 EP 3770312B1 EP 19187868 A EP19187868 A EP 19187868A EP 3770312 B1 EP3770312 B1 EP 3770312B1
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    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04B—KNITTING
    • D04B9/00—Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles
    • D04B9/26—Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles for producing patterned fabrics
    • D04B9/28—Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles for producing patterned fabrics with colour patterns
    • D04B9/34—Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles for producing patterned fabrics with colour patterns by plating
    • 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
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  • the invention relates to a weft knitting machine knitting structure, in particular to a weft knitting machine knitting structure with changeable yarn positions.
  • Plating also known as yarn overlapping, refers to the simultaneous feeding of two differently colored yarns during knitting, causing a technical face and a technical back of a knitted fabric to appear differently colored.
  • Fig. 1 the fabric surface thereof is shown in Fig. 1 .
  • Jacquard the foregoing knitting techniques are known in the art as Jacquard.
  • US 9 834 871 B2 discloses a device and a method for knitting interchanged plating on a technical face for a flat bed knitting machine which includes at least one needle bed that has a plurality of latch needles, a plurality of sinkers and a carriage comprises the steps of: forming an indentation and a nose protrusion at each sinker; controlling the latch needle to move in a staged stitching displacement; feeding a first and a second coloration yarns to the flat bed knitting machine simultaneously; pushing the yarns via the nose protrusion of the sinker to knit a standard plating and continuing the knitting operation through the standard plating to form a technical face of the fabric; and controlling the latch needle to perform an interchanged stitching displacement, and ordering the sinker to pick up and release the yarns through the nose protrusion and the indentation to knit an interchanged plating.
  • US 2 273 811 A relates to a method and apparatus for making knitted fabrics having design effects thereon.
  • reverse plating means comprising means for simultaneously feeding two yarns in plating relation, and needle actuating means in association with predetermined plating needles and predetermined reversing needles for bringing them into operative -engagement with said yarns, said actuating means including means operative upon said plating needles to cause them to take both of said yarns, means operative upon said reversing needles to cause them to take a selected one of said yarns, means to close the latch of each reversing needle after operatively taking its yarn, and means to hold each nonselected yarn in front of the closed latch of the coacting reversing needle, whereby said non-selected yarn in the following plating needles will be carried forwardly therein prior to the "loop drawing".
  • US 4 328 686 A discloses an improvement for knitting pattern areas with hosiery knitting machines having a rotatable cylinder carrying latch needles therein, a knitting station at which a plurality of yarn feed fingers are independently movable into and out of yarn feeding positions for feeding background yarn at a basic level and pattern yarn at a higher level above the cylinder, and means for selectively positioning the needles at either a basic position for receiving only background yarn or an extended position for receiving both background and pattern yarn, the improvement being an auxiliary feed finger for feeding background yarn at a level more closely spaced from the cylinder than the basic level to needles at the basic position and below the latches of needles at the extended position for floating of the background yarn in knitted pattern areas behind loops of pattern yarn formed by extended position neeldes.
  • An independently rotatable pattern drum sleeve, operatively associated with the yarn feed fingers and auxiliary finger to selectively render them inoperable in response to control thereof by the machine pattern drum, is provided to further expand the machine capability for color effects.
  • the main purpose of the present invention is directed to solve the problem in the prior art that a yarn carrier used for knitting yarns would cause after images appeared on a fabric easily.
  • the secondary object of the present invention is directed to solve the practical problems deriving from the fact that yarn changes are required to be carried out in a variety of sinkers in conventional techniques.
  • the present invention provides a weft knitting machine capable of changing yarn positions, and capable of feeding a facing yarn and a bottom yarn during knitting.
  • the weft knitting machine comprises a plurality of sinkers and a plurality of needles.
  • the plurality of sinkers is respectively arranged adjacent to one of the plurality of needles.
  • Each of the plurality of sinkers comprises a belly, a nose connected with the belly, and a throat between the belly and the nose.
  • Each of the plurality of sinkers is guided to perform a linear displacement movement,so as to position the facing yarn above the nose and the bottom yarn in the throat during a process of the linear displacement movement.
  • the weft knitting machine further comprises a plurality of needles respectively arranged adjacent to one of the plurality of sinkers, and a motion direction of plurality of needles perpendicular to a direction of the linear displacement movement.
  • the plurality of needles respectively includes a hook and a latch for performing a closing action relative to the hook, wherein in a first needle retracting track, each of the plurality of needles controls the latch performing a closing action at a latch closing time point; and in a second needle retracting track, each of the plurality of needles controls the latch performing a closing action before the latch closing time point.
  • Each of the needles in the first needle retracting track knits a standard plating without changing positions of the facing yarn and the bottom yarn in the hook; and each of the plurality of needles in the second needle retracting track comes out first and knits an interchanged plating with changing the positions of the facing yarn and the bottom yarn in the hook.
  • the latch drives the bottom yarn to make the bottom yarn pushed by the nose of one of the plurality of sinkers when one of the plurality of sinkers adjacent to each of the plurality of needles does not restrict positions of the facing yarn and the bottom yarn.
  • the weft knitting machine comprises a needle guide plate comprising the first needle retracting track and the second needle retracting track to guide the plurality of needles, and a sinker guide plate guiding the plurality of sinkers to perform the linear displacement movement. Further, the weft knitting machine comprises a needle selector for controlling each of the needles.
  • each of the plurality of sinkers has only a single motion track, and the motion track cycles through a first retraction section, a first push-out section subsequent to the first retraction section, a second retraction section subsequent to the first push-out section, and a second push-out section subsequent to the second retraction section.
  • the time point for the latch of each of the plurality of needles generating the closing action in the first needle retracting track is that one of the plurality of sinkers adjacent to the latch moves to the second retraction section
  • the time point for the latch of each of the plurality of needles generating the closing action in the second needle retracting track is that one of the plurality of sinkers adjacent to the latch moves to the first push-out section.
  • the top yarn and the bottom yarn are different in color.
  • the invention has the following characteristics: according to the weft knitting machine disclosed by the invention, the change of the yarn position is carried out in the hook comprising the facing yarn and the bottom yarn, so that the knitting requirement for changing yarns can be quickly performed, and the after image on the fabric is specifically avoided. Besides, the weft knitting machine provided by the invention can achieve the purpose of quick yarn changing and knitting without greatly modifying the integral structure.
  • each of the plurality of needles 12 knits a standard plating without changing positions of the facing yarn 30 and the bottom yarn 31 in the hook 121, and the so-called “the standard plating” refers to a plating in which the facing yarn 30 is positioned above the bottom yarn 31 when viewing from a technical face of a fabric.
  • the standard plating refers to a plating in which the facing yarn 30 is positioned above the bottom yarn 31 when viewing from a technical face of a fabric.
  • the latch 122 dials the bottom yarn 31 to make the bottom yarn 31 be pushed by the nose 112 of the plurality of sinkers 11, so as to change the positions of the facing yarn 30 and the bottom yarn 31 in the hook 121, then to knit an interchanged plating.
  • the so-called "the interchanged plating” refers to a plating in which the facing yarn 30 is positioned under the bottom yarn 31 when viewing from the technical face of the fabric.
  • each of the plurality of sinkers 11 only comprises one motion track 42 that recurring operations of a first retraction section 421, a first push-out section 422 subsequent to the first retraction section 421, a second retraction section 423 subsequent to the first push-out section 422, and a second push-out section 424 subsequent to the second retraction section 423.
  • the retraction of is defined that each of the plurality of sinkers 11 moves in a direction opposing to the feeding point of the facing yarn 30 and the bottom yarn 31, so that the facing yarn 30 and the bottom yarn 31 are not restricted by the plurality of sinkers 11.
  • the push-out action is defined that after the retraction each of the plurality of sinkers 11 moves toward the feeding point of the facing yarn 30 and the bottom yarn 31, so that the facing yarn 30 and the bottom yarn 31 are restricted by the plurality of sinkers 11 and unable to change position.
  • each of the plurality of sinkers 11 in each section of the motion track 42 varies the position continuously, rather than being located at a single location.
  • the time point for the latch 122 generating the closing action is that one of the plurality of sinkers 11 adjacent to the latch 122 moves to the second retraction section 423.
  • the facing yarn 30 and the bottom yarn 31 are hooked by the hook 121 in a state of being initially fed into the weft knitting machine 10.
  • the time point for the latch 122 generating the closing action is that one of the plurality of sinkers 11 adjacent to the latch 122 moves to the first push-out section 422.
  • the time point for the latch 122 generating the closing action is not at the end point of the first push-out section 422, and is a stage that each of the plurality of sinkers 11 still does not restrict the position of the facing yarn 30 and the bottom yarn 31 in the first push-out section 422 instead.
  • the bottom yarn 31 is dialed so that the bottom yarn 31 is diverged from the original position and is positioned on the displacement track of the nose 112 adjacent to one of the plurality of sinkers 11, and the plurality of sinkers 11 continuously performing a pushing action is allowing the yarn-pushing surface 115 to push the bottom yarn 31, so as to change the position of the bottom yarn 31 relative to the facing yarn 30 until the hook 121 of one of the plurality of needles 12 is hooked.
  • the weft knitting machine performs position change at the position where the facing yarn 30 and the bottom yarn 31 are fed into the hook to perform jacquard knitting.
  • the yarn changing reaction time of the weft knitting machine 10 is real-time, and the problem that patterns of a fabric appears after image due to slow yarn changing reaction speed of the conventional can be solved.

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  1. Métier à tricoter à mailles cueillies (10) capable de modifier les positions du fil, et capable d'alimenter un fil de dessus (30) et un fil de fond (31) pendant le tricotage, le métier à tricoter à mailles cueillies (10) comprenant:
    une pluralité de platines (11) comprenant chacune un ventre (111), un nez (112) relié au ventre (111) et un col (113) entre le ventre (111) et le nez (112), chacune de la pluralité de platines (11) étant guidée pour effectuer un mouvement de translation linéaire (116) pour positionner le fil de dessus (30) au-dessus du nez (112) et le fil de canette (31) dans le col (113) pendant un processus du mouvement de translation linéaire (116); et
    une pluralité d'aiguilles (12), chacune étant disposée de manière adjacente à l'une de la pluralité de platines (11), une direction de déplacement de la pluralité d'aiguilles (12) étant perpendiculaire à une direction du mouvement de translation linéaire (116), chacune de la pluralité d'aiguilles (12) comprenant un crochet (121) et un cliquet (122) pour effectuer une opération de fermeture par rapport au crochet (121),
    caractérisé en ce que, dans un premier trajet de rétraction d'aiguille (40), chacune de la pluralité d'aiguilles (12) commande le cliquet (122) qui effectue une opération de fermeture à un premier instant de fermeture de cliquet ; et dans un second trajet de rétraction d'aiguille (41), chacune de la pluralité d'aiguilles (12) commande le cliquet (122) qui effectue une opération de fermeture à un second instant de fermeture de cliquet avant le premier instant de fermeture de cliquet;
    dans lequel chacune de la pluralité d'aiguilles (12) peut tricoter un placage standard dans le premier trajet de retrait d'aiguille (40) sans changer les positions du fil de dessus (30) et du fil de dessous (31) dans le crochet (121); et
    chacune de la pluralité d'aiguilles (12) tricotant un placage échangé dans le deuxième trajet de retrait d'aiguille (41), en changeant les positions du fil de dessus (30) et du fil de dessous (31) dans le crochet (121), dans lequel, dans le deuxième trajet de retrait d'aiguille (41), le cliquet (122) est capable de, entraîner le fil de canette (31) pour faire en sorte que le fil de canette (31) soit poussé à travers le bec (112) de l'une de la pluralité de platines (11) lorsque l'une de la pluralité de platines (11), adjacente à chacune de la pluralité d'aiguilles (12), ne limite pas les positions du fil de dessus (30) et du fil de canette (31).
  2. Métier à tricoter à mailles cueillies (10) capable de modifier les positions du fil selon la revendication 1, dans lequel le métier à tricoter à mailles cueillies (10) comprend une plaque de guidage d'aiguille (14) comprenant la première piste de retrait d'aiguille (40) et la seconde piste de retrait d'aiguille (41) pour guider la pluralité d'aiguilles (12), et une plaque de guidage de platine (13) guidant la pluralité de platines (11) pour effectuer le mouvement de déplacement linéaire (116).
  3. Métier à tricoter à mailles cueillies (10) capable de modifier les positions du fil selon la revendication 2, dans lequel le métier à tricoter à mailles cueillies (10) comprend un sélecteur d'aiguilles qui commande chacune de la pluralité d'aiguilles (12).
  4. Métier à tricoter à mailles cueillies (10) capable de modifier les positions du fil selon la revendication 1, 2 ou 3, dans lequel chacune de la pluralité de platines (11) se déplace uniquement dans une piste de déplacement (42) comprenant des opérations répétitives d'une première section de retrait (421), d'une première section d'éjection (422) à la suite de la première section de retrait (421), d'une deuxième section de retrait (423) à la suite de la première section d'éjection (422) et d'une deuxième section d'éjection (424) à la suite de la deuxième section de retrait (423), et dans lequel le moment pour le cliquet (122) de chacune de la pluralité d'aiguilles (12) produisant l'opération de fermeture dans le premier trajet de rétraction d'aiguille (40) est celui où l'une de la pluralité de platines (11) adjacente au cliquet (122) se déplace vers la seconde section de rétraction (423), et le moment pour le cliquet (122) de chacune de la pluralité d'aiguilles (12) produisant l'opération de fermeture dans le second trajet d'introduction d'aiguille (41) est que l'une de la pluralité de platines (11) adjacente au cliquet (122) se déplace vers la première section d'éjection (422).
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PT191878685T PT3770312T (pt) 2019-07-23 2019-07-23 Máquina de tricô de trama capaz de mudar as posições dos fios
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ES19187868T ES2930115T3 (es) 2019-07-23 2019-07-23 Estructura de tejido de máquina de tejer por trama con posiciones de hilo cambiables

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