US3163027A - Thread guiding device for hosiery and similar machines - Google Patents

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US3163027A
US3163027A US79212A US7921260A US3163027A US 3163027 A US3163027 A US 3163027A US 79212 A US79212 A US 79212A US 7921260 A US7921260 A US 7921260A US 3163027 A US3163027 A US 3163027A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
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    • D04B15/00—Details of, or auxiliary devices incorporated in, weft knitting machines, restricted to machines of this kind
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  • the placing of the thread in or out of the path of the needles, by means of aforesaid thread guides, is controlled by a pattern means actuated according to the type, respectively the design or type of knitting work to be produced, in correlation with the action of cams and levers which actuate and control the vertical movements of the said needles.
  • a pattern means actuated according to the type, respectively the design or type of knitting work to be produced, in correlation with the action of cams and levers which actuate and control the vertical movements of the said needles.
  • the thread guiding device is specially conditioned, not only to be able to ensure a normal feed of the needles, even at very high speeds, but also to be able to ensure such a feed for a large num- Indeed, one of the applications intended for this invention is the equipment of knitting machines with four additional thread guides.
  • the thread guide device is characterized by the combination of oscillate ing levers, which constitute the actual thread guides, and a slotted disc, concentric to the rotary needle support, said needles being themselves actuated during their rotational movement, in a known manner, so as to carry out a rectilinear up-and-down movement according to a predetermined sequence.
  • This new combination is intended to be substituted for the traditional means using clamps and the necessary mechanism to effect the opening and the closing of said clamping means, in order to grip the threads in correct timing to be placed upon or out of the travelling path of the needles.
  • any deficiency of the functioning of the thread guides will show up as a visible fault, and this fault will become all the greater and the more apparent as the operating speed is increased, and consequently the number of active thread guides become increased.
  • the most characteristic element of this new device consists of the slotted disc which is a one piece unit, without delicate parts, and which can retain or release the threads, even when the latter are displaced at high speed and in large numbers.
  • the threads guide device consists of a combination, for each thread guide unit, of a pattern drum, a lever transmitting the movements generated by the shape of said cam, an oscillating lever at the end of which is located the thread guide proper and of the slotted disc which is concentric with the needle carrier, said slotted disc being located at an intermediate level between the highest level reached by the needles on their upward stroke and the lowest level reached by said oscillating levers in their downward stroke.
  • the oscillating levers will preferably be divided into two groups, the one being made up of long oscillating levers and the other of short oscillating levers, the assembly and the profiles being such that the threads be located with respect to the fixed slotted disc and to the needles in motion.
  • FIGURE 1 shows a perspective view of a type of machine, to which the thread guides according to the invention can more particularly be adapted;
  • FIGURE 2 is a perspective view or an enlarged scale with respect to FIGURE 1, showing the head of a machine equipped with the thread guides according to the invention;
  • FIGURE 3 schematically shows the essential elements of the thread guide according to the invention, in half front view with partial cross-section, and half radial cross section;
  • FIGURE 4 is a top view URE 3;
  • FIGURE 5 is a cross-section taken on line VV of FIGURE 4.
  • FIGURES 6, 7, 8 and 9 are cross sections schematically showing four characteristic phases of the thread guide according to the invention.
  • FIGURE 10 is a diagrammatic view showing the characteristic relative position between needles and a thread guide.
  • the machine shown as example in FIGURES 1 and 2 consists mainly of the general frame 1, the knitting head 2, the set of cams 3 which constitute the pattern device, the bin 4 for reception of the knitted ware 5, the rack of countershaft d for the distribution of the threads leaving coils 7.
  • the head also comprises the thread guiding device 8, according to the invention.
  • This thread guiding device consists of a certain number of thread guides, each of which will hereafter be referred to as: thread guide unit.
  • Each unit device is substantially made up of a lever mechanism in combination with a slotted disc which is commonto all the lever mechanisms.
  • the number of lever mechanisms is variable according to the type of machine and more particularly in accordance with the number of threads.
  • each lever mechanism substantially consists of the combination of one cam, of one oscillating lever and of one element transmitting the motion generated by the cam to said oscillating lever.
  • each of these consists mainly of a cam 59, which is part of the above mentioned set of cams 3; this cam 9 being in permanent contact with one of the ends of a rod til,
  • the other end of rod ltl is formed into the shape of a beak 12, one part 13 at least of which has a beveled surface. The latter is intended to make contact with the lower end of arm 14 which is a solid part of rocker device 15, fitted on shaft 16.
  • This shaft is supported by a support 17 and may be common to a plurality of such rocker devices, all identical and in the present case four in number.
  • This rocker device carries an arm 18 which is extended and shaped in such a manner that one of its free ends is located vertically above a position predetermined with respect to the needle cylinder.
  • arm 1% carries a finger 19, the lower end of which has a lateral projection 2% to which the top-end of a guiding element 21 for the passing of the thread is solidly fixed.
  • the location, orientation and dimensions of this set-up are such, that in the raised position of the lever mechanism, the lower end of guiding element 21 is located above and retracted with respect to the upper level reached by the needles, While in the lower position it is located beyond and, below the said upper level.
  • each of these lever devices is individually subjected, by means of finger 2.2, to the pressure of an elastic element 23 pushing it against aforesaid arm 14 which is solidly fixed to rocker I5.
  • This finger 22 and its spring 23 are duly guided in a radial channel 24 drilled in the support 17, the latter being hinged around shaft 25 which bears in pillars 26 and 2'7, which in their turn are solidly attached to the frame of the machine.
  • This arrangement permits the complete thread guide assembly to be lifted almost instantaneously as a whole, thus giving access to the top part of the needle carrier crown or ring. This is a most practical arrangement for the preparation of the work and for the maintenance and 'the inspection of this part of the machine.
  • each of the latter consists mainly of a cam (not shown) which is part of the same aforementioned set of cams 3, of a rod 2%, one end of which is in permanent contact with said cam and the other end 29 of which, duly shaped, is in contact with rocker arm 3% oscillating around said shaft in which is common to all rocker arms.
  • End 31 of rocker arm 33 is bent outward and provided with a channel drilled right there through and intended for the passage of a thread.
  • All oscillating levers l8 and 3t? are located under piate 32 which is fixed to said support 17, in the present case by screws 33.
  • This plate is shaped in such a manner that its edge extends substantially over the total dimensional width of oscillating levers i8; moreover, vertically above the rear end of rockers 15, into which are fitted said oscillating levers 1S, and adjusting screws 34 are located in aforementioned plate 32, the adjusted position of which screws can be secured by locknuts 35.
  • the function of these adjusting screws is to limit the downward angular displacement of elements 21, maintaining them in correct position with respect to the ring of needles with which they have to cooperate.
  • the part of plate 32 which extends in the direction of said oscillating arms 18 and 3%), is cut away in the shape of an outrigger 36 which is oblique with respect to the rocker shaft 16 and has an opening 37 drilled therein vertically above each of the oscillating levers 3d.
  • slotted disc 41 is located, which is one of the essential elements of this invention.
  • This slotted disc has a shaft 42 which is fixed by means of pressure screw 43 in the tubular free end 44 of an outrigger 45, itself fixed to the annular edge of said support 17 by means of screws 46.
  • Disc 41 is provided with two narrow slots 47 and 48 opening up into eyelets and 5%. These slots 47 and 48 are inclined with respect to the circumference of disc 4 and said slots are directed in the direction of rotation of the needle cylinder. Moreover, the edges of said slots, or of one of them, is shaped undulated, so as to facilitate the guidance of the thread toward said slots.
  • Aforesaid support 17 is provided above needle cylinder 52 which is externally grooved and serves as a rotary support of the needles 51, slotted disc 41 being coaxial with respect to aforementioned needle cylinder 52.
  • the form of embodiment represented on the appended drawings concerns a thread guide device for a knitting machine with four guide units of which one main guide unit with five threads and guides, three complementary guide units and one elastic thread, i.e., a machine operating with nine threads.
  • the five threads of the main unit respectively threads abc-d-e, are guided by the lever devices of the second group, while threads jgh of the three complementary units as well as elastic thread 1', are guided by the lever devices of the first group.
  • the machine having to be conditioned so as to manufacture socks or stockings in successive and continuous fabrication, the movements of the needles on the one hand, and the movements of the thread guides on the other hand, will have to be considered so as to insure the feed of the needles with aforesaid threads abcde-fgh in such a manner, that four rows, i.c. four units, be carried out each revolution of the needle cylinder, which constitutes the common rotary support for all the needles.
  • said threads will be set to work as follows: for the knitting of the edge, threads at and f as well as elastic thread 1'; for the knitting of the leg, threads bf-g-h; for the knitting of the heel, thread 0; for the knitting of the foot, threads b-f-g-h, and finally for the knitting of the toe, thread 0.
  • thread d generally of cotton, will be used for the knitting of one row, and thread 0 for the knitting of the separation zones.
  • the operationeof the thread guiding device according to the invention can more easily be comprehended, and particularly when referring to FIGURES 6 to 10, in the following manner: as schematically shown in FIGURE 6, the rest position of a thread, i.e. theposition in which the thread does not partake of the knitting operation, said thread g for example, passes through disc 41, for instance through eyelet 50, and through the guiding element 21 of the corresponding oscillating mechanism placed in its uppermost or rest position. This thread runs from one of the coils 7, by means of the rack 6.
  • one or more needles 51 are brought, by means of their own operating mechanism and by a vertical upward movement during their rotation around the ax s of needle cylinder 52, to a level Y'Y' which is higher than the level XX and generally slightly higher than level Z-Z of slotted disc 41.
  • These needles are now in a position enabling them to graps thread g in said loop g.
  • aforesaid needles 51 will pull said loop g down, as schematically represented in FIGURE 8, thread g temporarily remaining applied against the corresponding part of slotted disc 41.
  • the number of oscillating mechanisms will be a function of the number of threads, respectively the number of feed stations which characterize the machine.
  • This invention not only concerns this thread guiding device, but also all its characteristic elements as well as any textile machines using the device.
  • Thread guiding device for knitting machines comprising a plurality of needles, a plurality of individual mechanisms for changing the position of each thread used to obtain the desired article in said machine, means for actuating each individualmechanism to enable the guiding of the thread to a point where the latter can be grasped by the needles which are operated to that end, a slotted disc common to all of said individual mechanisms to appropriately maintain the threads out of reach of the needles, the individual mechanisms for each thread being divided into two groups, one group for controlling all the threads of the main feed, and the other group for controlling the remaining threads, the second-mentioned group having each oscillating mechanism mainly consisting of a cam, an element for transmitting the movements resulting from the shape of the cam, an arm which is solidly fixed to a rocker freely fitted over a shaft which is common to all the oscillating mechanisms of the thread guiding device, and the rocker carrying an arm at the end of which is fixed a guiding element constituting the thread guide proper and being on the one hand subjected to the
  • Thread guiding device for knitting machines comprising a plurality of needles, a plurality of individual mechanisms for changing the position of each thread used to obtain the desired article in said machine, means for actuating each individual mechanism to enable the guiding of the thread to a point where the latter can be grasped by the needles which are operated to that end, a slotted disc common to all of said individual mechanisms to appropriately maintain the threads out of reach of the needles, the individual mechanisms for each thread being divided into two groups, one group for controlling all the threads of the main feed, and the other group for controlling the remaining threads, the second-mentioned group having each oscillating mechanism mainly consisting of a cam, an element for transmitting the movements resulting from the shape of the cam, an arm which is solidly fixed to a rocker freely fitted over a shaft which is common to all the oscillating mechanisms of the thread guiding device, and the rocker carrying an arm at the end of which is fixed a guiding element constituting the thread guide proper and being on the one hand subjected to the permanent pull
  • Thread guiding device for knitting machines comprising a plurality of needles, a plurality of individual mechanisms for changing the position of each thread used to obtain the desired article in said machine, means for actuating each individual mechanism to enable the guiding of the thread to a point where the latter can be grasped by the needles which are operated to that end, a slotted disc common to all of said individual mechanisms to appropriately maintain the threads out of reach of the needles, and a support carrying the slotted disc and which also carries the shaft around which all rocker mechanisms oscillate, said support being provided with a large circular opening into which is fitted a bushing, the inner diameter of which is larger than the outer diameter of said slotted disc, said bushing having spaces therein in its inner surface and the oscillating mechanisms being provided in such a way as to bring the thread between said bushing and the outer edge of the disc within said spaces.

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