GB573823A - Improvements in or relating to the production of narrowed goods in flat knitting machines - Google Patents

Abstract

573,823. Knitting-machines. DUBIED & CIE, SOC. ANON., E. June 24, 1943, No. 10223. Convention date, June 24, 1942. [Class 74 (ii)] Narrowing without transfer points is effected upon a flat machine by racking one of the needle beds prior to the cam carriage movement and again before the cam carriages reach the next following edge of the fabric. In producing plain fabric, knitting occurs on the rear row of needles, and prior to the cam carriages 3, 4 moving from one end, the front row of needles are racked one-half needle space to bring the needles into alignment for transfer of loops from the rear needles 7, 9 at that selvedge. After the cams have effected the transfer of these loops to the front needles 26, 28 and before the cams have reached the opposite edge of the fabric, the front needle bed is again racked in the direction of the cam movement to the extent of a further needle space, to position the needles for transfer of the loops of the needles 18, 17, 16 forming the other selvedge. After transfer of these loops, the front needle bed is racked in the opposite direction one-half needle space. During the return movement of the cams, the front bed is racked one needle space in the direction of the cam movement, the loops transferred from the needles 18, 17, 16 are re-transferred to the needles 19, 18, 17, the front needle bed is racked one needle space in the opposite direction and the loops on the needles 26, 27, 28 are transferred to the needles 8, 9, 10.