GB347632A - Improvements in or relating to circular knitting machines - Google Patents

Abstract

347,632. Knitting- machines. COLE, A. R. and COLE, B. T., 87, Princess Road, Leicester. Jan. 25, 1930, Nos. 2635 and 35451. Divided application [Class 74 (ii).] Pelerine stitch-forming instruments 20 are provided in a circular knitting-machine and are arranged in an annular bed 14, the whole or major part of which is disposed outside the needle circle. The bed 14 is preferably supported from a carrier 15, detachably secured to the sinker ring 12, by spaced pillars 19 extending between the carrier and the bed. The bed 14 is formed in two or more segments adjustably interconnected to permit adjustment in a circumferential direction. Alternatively the bed 14 may be supported above the sinker cover 13, ,Fig. 10, and may be driven by gearing 56, 57 from a gear ring 58 secured to the sinker ring 12. In another form, the bed 14 is mounted above the sinker cover and is rigidly connected to the sinker ring. A needle depressing cam 43, Fig. 6, (not shown), additional to the usual stitch-cam system, may be provided at position at which the pelerine instruments are projected over the top of the needles. The instruments 20 have butts 25 arranged at varying heights, and selectors 26, one to each height of butt, are provided for actuating the instruments 20. The selectors 26 are pivotably mounted, and are swung inwardly to actuate the instruments 20 by an abutment 28 carried by the needle-cam box and adjustable by pattern means to bring it into register with any of the selectors 26.