US3362196A - Circular knitting machine for the manufacture of ladies' stockings - Google Patents

Circular knitting machine for the manufacture of ladies' stockings Download PDF

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US3362196A
US3362196A US429419A US42941965A US3362196A US 3362196 A US3362196 A US 3362196A US 429419 A US429419 A US 429419A US 42941965 A US42941965 A US 42941965A US 3362196 A US3362196 A US 3362196A
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    • 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
    • D04B15/06—Sinkers
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04B—KNITTING
    • D04B1/00—Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes
    • D04B1/22—Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration
    • D04B1/24—Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration wearing apparel
    • D04B1/26—Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration wearing apparel stockings
    • 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
    • D04B15/32—Cam systems or assemblies for operating knitting instruments
    • D04B15/34—Cam systems or assemblies for operating knitting instruments for dials

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  • ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Single feed circular knitting machine for knitting an arcuate area of run-resistant fabric contiguous to a complementary arcuate area of conventional fabric, with the yarn passing course-wise without interruption from one arcuate area into the other arcuate area, the area of runresistant fabric having yarn loops in selected courses of a larger size than the yarn loops in the area of conventional fabric.
  • FIG. 1 a side view of part of a seamless circular knitted ladys stocking of which the zone above the heel has been knitted according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 a side view of a sinker commonly used in manufacturing a normal plain knitted ladys stocking
  • FIG. 3 a side view of a sinker to be used in the knitting during the formation of the run-resistant zone and the plain knitted fabric adjoining in circumferential direction, and
  • FIG. 4 a portion of the sinker cap with some cams.
  • backfloating knitted fabric is meant to indicate a fabric in which yarn floats are formed in selected wales and courses.
  • the stocking shown in FIG. 1 consists of a double welt 1, the leg 2, the instep or upper portion 3 of the foot, the heel 4, the sole portion 5 of the foot and the toe 6.
  • the stocking has been knitted in the direction from the welt towards the toe and, as regards the leg and the foot, in this example of plain knitted fabric.
  • the entire sinker ring is equipped with sinkers 7 according to FIG. 2 with a butt 8 and in front of the throat 9 an edge 10 for supporting the knitting yarn.
  • sinkers 7 For normally knitting such a stocking, i.e. without applying the invention, the entire sinker ring is equipped with sinkers 7 according to FIG. 2 with a butt 8 and in front of the throat 9 an edge 10 for supporting the knitting yarn.
  • a description of the operation is not necessary since for single-feed circular knitting machines these sinkers are generally used and are controlled in the usual manner by cams in the sinker cap in co-operation with the needles of the needle cylinder.
  • sinkers 7 for example 170 of a total of 400 sinkers
  • sinker 12 for example 170 of a total of 400 sinkers
  • These sinkers diifer from the sinkers 7 according to FIG. 2 in that they have a higher butt 13 and that in front of the portion 10 located in front of the throat 9 and constituting the edge for the knitting loop a lower portion 14 is provided.
  • the distance 19 in FIG. 4 corresponds with the distance from +7 needles after the last visible needle to +2 needles after the last visible needle. In this case means between the 2nd and 3rd needle or between the 7th and 8th needle respectively.
  • the last visible needle is that needle which when being lowered during the rotation of the needle cylinder is with its head still at the same level as the upper edge of the sinker. Any other needle will then be above or below the upper edge of the sinker. From that point onwards one counts two needles or seven needles respectively towards the left.
  • radially movable sinker cam 15 when in advanced position, will insert the high butt sinkers 12 into the needle circle at a relatively earlier period of time during the rotation of the needle cylinder, thereby permitting the needles to draw yarn over the relatively high sinker ledges 10 of those sinkers. Because sinkers 7 have relatively low butts, they are not influenced by cam 15.
  • the movable cam 15 in the sinker cap which acts on the high butt of the sinkers 12 may be controlled by means of two segments of the driving toothed wheel which by means of a set of toothed wheels drives the needle cylinder such that said cylinder performs four rotations in the time within which the driving toothed wheel performs only one rotation.
  • By providing two segments on said toothed wheels it is possible to cause a movement by which the cam 15 is pushed inwards every second knitting course via transmission rods. It is also possible to eifect the control of the cast-off sinkers with the portions 10 and 14 of diiferent height in front of the throat in some other way according as the existing machine(s) renders (render) this possible or this has been taken into account in new machines.
  • the machine may manufacture before the zone 11 of run-resistant knitting also plain, micro-, or backfioating knitting without the necessity of changing the sinkers.
  • the sinker cap may turn over :5 needles such that the plain knitted portion of the stocking is knitted at :2 needles after the last visible needle.
  • the heel and the toe may be either knitted by narrowing and widening or circular knitted and subsequently pressed in shape, in particular if nylon or other synthetic thermoplastic materials are used.

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US1821848A (en) * 1929-08-02 1931-09-01 Scott & Williams Inc Selective control of webholders
US2080377A (en) * 1933-05-27 1937-05-11 Nebel Max Circular knitting machine
GB526280A (en) * 1939-03-11 1940-09-13 Jennings And Sons Ltd T Improvements in and relating to knitted hose and like tubular knitted goods, and in methods of and machines for making same
US2337153A (en) * 1942-02-18 1943-12-21 Hemphill Co Machine for knitting
GB834560A (en) * 1955-05-02 1960-05-11 Max Nebel A circular-knitted stocking, and a method of producing the same on a circular knitting machine
GB952050A (en) * 1959-03-11 1964-03-11 Edmund Gordon Beasley An improved method of and means for producing seamless hose
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