US3614877A - Compound stitch cam for knitting machines - Google Patents

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US3614877A
US3614877A US807312A US3614877DA US3614877A US 3614877 A US3614877 A US 3614877A US 807312 A US807312 A US 807312A US 3614877D A US3614877D A US 3614877DA US 3614877 A US3614877 A US 3614877A
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  • ciricular knitting machine comprising a fixed main and an adjustable auxiliary stitch cam to act upon a pair of vertically spaced butts on the shanks of the latch needles in the machine, the said stitch cams also being vertically spaced with the main stitch cam acting upon the lower ones of said butts to lower the needles to less than their stitch forming level and with the auxiliary stitch cam thereafter acting upon the upper ones of said butts to lower the needles to their stitch forming level.
  • the said compound stitch cam and the latch needles being arranged in combination with needle selecting pattern means on the said machines for three level selection of the needles to Welt, tuck and knit positions.
  • the present invention relates generally to the art of knitting and more particularly to latch needle knitting machines wherein the needles are independently movable to and from their stitch forming position.
  • the invention provides a novel compound stitch cam means to move the latch needles to their stitch forming position, the said means comprising a main stitch cam which moves the needles to less than their stitch forming position and an auxiliary stitch cam which thereafter moves the needles to their stitch forming position.
  • the compound stitch cam means provides for fixed pathways for the needles and for the combination therewith of needle selecting means.
  • the needle operating cams are sharply angled to aid in the reduction of space required for each of the feeds.
  • Such sharply angled cams often cause some of the needles to be overthrown, even though they have been initially self frictioned in their slots, with the result that such overthrown needles no longer follow their proper paths of travel and thus cause imperfections in the fabric being knitted.
  • the needles move in fixed confined pathways as much as possible to prevent overthrow of the needles by the sharply angled cams, particularly during the time yarns are fed to the needle hooks to insure proper feeding and to prevent drop stitches.
  • the pathway of the needles necessarily changed with each stitch cam adjustment and it was often found necessary to accordingly adjust the position of the yarn feeding guides at the same time that the stitch cams were adjusted in order to properly feed the yarns to the needle hooks.
  • It is the principal object of the present invention to provide a novel compound stitch cam means comprising a relatively fixed main stitch cam to move the needles to less than their stitch forming position and a relatively adjustable auxiliary stitch cam to thereafter move the needles to their stitch forming position, the said compound stitch cam means providing for the formation of njtgg States an increased number of fixed pathways for the needles, whereby adjustment of the yarn feeding guides is eliminated, whereby overthrowing of the needles is substantially eliminated, whereby shorter latch needles may be used, whereby smaller sizes of needle operating cams may be employed and whereby a greater number of feeds may be placed upon a machine of a given diameter.
  • FIG. 1 is a front elevational View of the cam side of one arc-shaped cam section of the circular cam ring of a multi-feed latch needle circular knitting machine showing the cam arrangement at four adjacent feeds of the machine including the novel main and auxiliary stitch cams of the present invention at each of the feeds and also the cam means used for the needle selection.
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of the cam section shown in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 is a rear elevational view, partly in section, of the upper part of the cam section shown in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 4 is a vertical sectional view of the cam section as taken on lines 4-4 of FIG. 1
  • FIG. 5 is a vertical sectional view of the cam section as taken on lines 55 of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 6 is a view showing a series of latch needles with butts at six levels as used in the needle cylinder of the present machine and which are acted upon by the cams shown in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 7 is an enlarged schematic view illustrating the action of the two-piece compound stitch cam of the present invention in relation to certain of the needle butts, the stitch forming level and the yarn feeding position, other of the cams and the needle selecting butts being omitted.
  • FIG. 8 is a schematic view showing the outline of the cams at one of the feeds shown in FIG. 1 with the outline of the auxiliary stitch cam superimposed upon the outline of the main stitch cam.
  • FIG. 9 is a front elevational view of the cam side of one arc-shaped cam section of the circular cam ring of another multifeed latch needle circular knitting machine showing the cam arrangement at one feed of the machine including the novel main and auxiliary stitch cams of the present invention and an inclined design wheel used in conjunction therewith for needle selection.
  • FIG. 10 is a plan view of the cam section shown in FIG. is a schematic view illustrating the action of the cams and of the design wheel of FIG. 9 in relation to the butts of the latch needles shown in FIG. 14 and in relation to their stitch forming level.
  • Each of the cam sections of a circular cam ring of a multifeed latch needle circular knitting machine is arcshaped in outline, as shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, and is L-shaped in cross-section with its upright portion indicated at 1 and its base portion at 2, the latter being provided with a pair of spaced holes 3 through which screws (not shown) extend to secure each cam section in place on the machine frame. It is understood that a plurality of like circularly arranged cam sections together form the circular cam ring surrounding the needle cylinder of the machine.
  • each cam section is obviously dependent upon the diameter of the machines needle cylinder and its circumferential extent is sufficient to encompass the minimum length required for a plurality (here shown as four) of feeds of the machine, the machine itself being of the multi-feed type with the maximum number of feeds for the diameter thereof.
  • the needle moving cams have relatively steep slopes in order that each of the feeds may take up a minimum of circumferential extent of the machines cam ring or, in other words, that a maximum number of feeds can be placed on the machine.
  • the needle latches are made shorter so that less needle travel is required to form stitches. It is also desirable that the needles follow confined pathways as much as possible, particularly during the stitch forming operation.
  • the present compound stitch cam is of general application to all types of knitting machines including both plain and rib circular machines and to machines having needle selecting means therein.
  • the invention is shown in connection with one type of needle selection (cams and needle butts at several levels) in the FIGS. 1 through 8 and with another type of needle selection (inclined design wheel) in the FIGS. 9 through 15.
  • FIGS. 1 through 8 there are needle selecting cams at four levels of each feed of the cam sections to act upon the needle butts at four corresponding levels of the needles, the latter also having a pair of butts, one above and one below the said four butt levels, upon which the main and the auxiliary stitch cams of the present invention act to lower the needles.
  • the needles are shown in FIG. 6 at 4, 5, 6 and 7, being of normal construction at their hook and latch ends and having butts at six levels on their shanks.
  • butts 8 and 9 there are common level butts 8 and 9 at the lower and at the upper levels of all of the needle shanks with a butt 10 at the second level on needle 4, a butt 11 at the third level on needle 5, a butt 12 at the fourth level on needle 6 and a butt 13 at the fifth level on needle 7.
  • the four feeds are indicated at 14, 15, 1 6 and 17 while the six needle actuating cam levels at each of the feeds are indicated at 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23.
  • the four intermediate levels, 19 through 22, are the needle selecting levels at which there are selectively placed needle actuating cams to act upon the butts 10 through 13 while upper and lower levels, 18 and 23, have the main and the auxiliary switch cams to act upon the needle butts 8 and 9, and additionally, raise cams may be placed at the level 23 at one or more of the feeds to act upon the butts 8 when it is desired to provide uniform raising action on all of the needles at such feed or feeds.
  • each of the main switch cams at level 23 of feeds 14 through 17 is indicated at 24 while each of the auxiliary stitch cams at level 18 of the same feeds is indicated at 25.
  • knit raise cams which elevate the needles to full latch clearing level, are shown at 26 in level 21 of feed 14, in levels 19 and 20 of feed 15, in levels 20 and 22 of feed 16 and in level 23 of feed 17.
  • the tuck raise cams which elevate the needles to tuck level (with the old loops still on their latches), are shown at 27 in level 22 of feed 15 and in levels 19 and 21 of feed 16.
  • guard cams 28 Shown at 28 in level 18 of all four feeds are guard cams 28 which are associated with the auxiliary stitch cams 25 in fixed spaced relation thereto and which serve to prevent overthrow of the needle butts 9 (and of the needles) when the latter are lowered by the auxiliary stitch earns 25. Shown at 29, in association with each of the tuck raise cams 27, is a guard cam 29 which serves to prevent overthrow of the needle butts when the latter are raised by the tuck raise cams 27.
  • welt guard cams which act upon the needle butts of needles which are not to be raised by cams and which serve to keep these needles (if accidentally raised) at a welt level wherein their hooks will not take yarn nor interfere with the feeding thereof to the hooks of raised needles.
  • the above set forth needle actuating cams are affixed to the wall 1 of the cam sections at each feed in novel manner which includes the formation of a double width vertical keyway milled in the inner side of the cam section at each feed, with a pair of side-by-side keys of rectangular cross section secured to the cam section in each keyway thereof and the several needle cams secured to the keys themselves.
  • Each of the double width keyways is shown at 31 with a pair of side-by-side keys 32 and 33 therein, the former each being secured in place by a pair of spaced screws 32 passing through suitable apertures in wall 1 of the cam section and threaded part way into suitable tapped apertures in the key itself while each of the latter is similarly secured to the cam section by a screw 33.
  • the said keys 32 and 33 are additionally positioned by means of suitable pins 32a and 33a set in the wall 1 and in the keys themselves.
  • a separate key 34 which is vertically adjustable within the keyway.
  • This key is secured in position by means of a screw 34' extending through a suitable vertically elongated slot 35, in the wall 1 and into threaded engagement with the key 34, a suitable washer being placed between the head of screw 34' and the outer face of the wall 1 whereby the screw 34', after being loosened, may be moved vertically within the limits of the slot 35 (as key 34 is adjusted) and then tightened to position the key 34.
  • a compression spring 36 set in suitable apertures in the upper end of key 33 and in the lower end of key 34, serves to urge key 34 upwardly and is of assistance in the adjustment of the latter key.
  • a large headed screw 37 is provided which is threadedly engaged vertically into the top of wall 1 in such disposition that the underside of its head (the outer edge of which is serrated) overlies the key 34.
  • the screw 37 is spring retained in adjusted position by a V-shaped flat spring 38 pressed into the serrations of the head of screw 37, the spring itself being retained in active position on the outer face of wall 1 by a pair of screws 38', 38 passing through the spring into threaded engagement with the wall.
  • cams 24 through 30 are each secured to one or the other of the keys 32 and 33 by means of screws passing through the cams into threaded engagement with the keys (the reverse being the situation as regards the cams 28), the latter having slots formed in their rear sides to fit over the keys.
  • screw 24' passes through a suitable aperture in cam 24 into threaded engagement with the key 33 to secure the cam thereto.
  • screw 26 secures the cam 26 to key 32
  • screw 25 secures the cam 25 to key 34
  • screw 28' passes through key 34 into threaded engagement with cam 28 to secure the latter to the key.
  • the other cams are similarly secured to their respective keys and, at each of the needle selecting levels 19 to 22, the keys 32 are provided with suitably tapped holes 19, 20, 21' and 22, FIG.
  • any desired ones of the cams 26, 27, 29 and 30 may be secured thereto.
  • the particular choice of a selecting cam at each level of each feed whether it be a knit raise cam 26, a tuck raise cam 27 and guard cam 29 or a welt guard cam 30, will depend upon the action desired of each of the needles at each of the feeds and also upon the sequential arrangement of the needles 4 through 7 in the cylinder. If it is desired that all the needles are .to knit at a feed, this may be accomplished by locating a knit raise cam 26 on a key 32 at level 23 to act on butts 8, as in feed 17.
  • FIG. 7 The compound action of the main stitch cam 24 on butts 8 and of the auxiliary stitch cam on butts 9 of needles 4 through 7 is graphically shown in FIG. 7 wherein 39 represents the level of the surface over which the stitches are drawn (sinkers or the edge of a cylinder or dial), wherein 40 indicates a knitting yarn being fed to the needles through a yarn guide aperture 41 and wherein the path of the needle hooks during plain knitting at a feed is indicated by the path lines 42, 43, 44 and 45, when all the needles are raised by the action of a cam 26 at level 23 on the butts 8, as at feed 17 of FIG. 1.
  • the stitch forming action itself is the same on selected needles raised by the cams 26 at the levels 19 through 22.
  • the needle hooks move up as they follow the path lines 42 to 43 as their butts 8 move up the cam face 26a of cam 26 and then move down to follow the common path line 43 to 44 as their butts 8 move down the face 24a of cam 24 to its point 24b.
  • cam face 25a of cam 25 takes over on butts 9 (the cam 24 being cut back below its point 24b to no longer act on the butts 8 beyond this point) and the needle hooks follow the common path line 44 to 45., the latter point being at the stitch forming level as the butts 9 pass under the point of cam 25.
  • cam 25 has been superimposed in dotted lines over that of cam 24 so that the action of butts 8 on cam face 24a of cam 24 and that of butts 9 on cam face 25a of cam 25 may be clearly seen. It will be noted that portions of cams 24 and 25 are common to an arc of the cam ring. Since the cam 24 is fixed it follows that the pathway 43 to 44 is likewise fixed and since the cam 25 is adjustable (as indicated by the arrow in FIG. 7) it follows that the pathway 44 to 45 will vary in accordance with the degree of adjustment.
  • the fixed pathway 43 to 44 is determined by the action of the cam face 26b of cam 26 and that of 'cam face 24a of cam 24 up to its point 24b on the butts 8 of the needles while the variable pathway 44 to 45 is determined by the action of the lower end of the cam face 26b of cam 26 on the butts 8 of the needles and by the action of the lower end of the cam face 25a of cam 25 on the butts 9 of the needles.
  • the butts then move across the top of cam 27 between it and guard cam 29 until butts 8 are moved down by cam face 24:: of cam 24 in a pathway determined by the action of cam face 24a on butts 8 and cam face 27b, FIG. 8, of cam 27 on the butts at the level at which cam 27 is located.
  • cam 25 takes over to complete the tuck stitch movement to stitch forming level.
  • the pathway of the hooks of the tuck level needles does not extend up to the point 43 (the full latch clearing level) but stops short thereof with the old loops still on the latches and then moves across along the line 46 to join the pathway 43 to 44 and then moves downwardly to the stitch forming level at 45.
  • the needle hook pathways are fixed by the action of fixed needle moving cams and that the pathway 44 to 45 will vary with the position of cam 25.
  • the point 44 at which the cam 25 starts to move the needles is after the needles, in both knit and tuck position, take the yarn 40 and therefore the position of the yarn feeding guide (of which its aperture is shown at 41) may remain fixed and need not be changed when the stitch length is changed by adjusting the stitch cam 25.
  • the needles follow fixed or con-fined pathways, their needle hooks do likewise so there is no possibility of overthrown needle hooks interfering with the yarn feeding.
  • cam 24 acts before the cam 25 takes over may be varied and while it is shown that the cam 25 takes over just prior to the needle hooks passing the stitch forming line 39, the invention is not so limited, however, in all cases the action of both cams 24 and 25 is required for the machine to be able to knit conventional fabrics and the basic changes in stitch length to be made in the machine and in the fabrics are made by adjusting the stitch earns 25.
  • the cam layout in FIG. 8 is that of the cams at feed 15 of FIG. 1 with the outline of cam 25 superimposed in dotted lines over the outline of cam 24. All needles 6 and 7 passing this feed will be raised to full latch clearing level by the cams 26 at levels 19 and 20' acting on their butts 12- and 13, all needles 5 passing this feed will not be raised at all since no raise cam is present at level 21 but the cam 30 at this level acting on butts 11 of any needles accidentally raised will lower these needles sufficiently so that their hooks will not take yarn or interfere with the feeding thereof to other raised needles, and all needles 4 passing this feed will be raised by cam 27 at level 22 acting on their butts 10.
  • FIGS. 9 through 15 A modification of the invention is shown in FIGS. 9 through 15 wherein at each feed of a multi-feed latch needle circular knitting machine the main and the auxiliary stitch cams act upon the lower two of three spaced butts on the shanks of the latch needles used in the machine while an inclined design wheel acts upon the third butts of the needles to selectively place them in welt, tuck or knit positions.
  • Each of the cam sections of the machine is arc-shaped in outline, as shown in FIGS. 9 through 11, and is L-shaped in cross section with its upright portion indicated at and its base portion at 51, the latter being provided with one or more suitable apertures 52 through which screws extend to secure each cam section in place on the machine frame.
  • the needle selection is provided by an inclined design wheel 53 which acts upon the upper one, 54, of three spaced butts 54, 55 and 56 on the shanks of latch needles shown at 57, FIG. 14, to cause certain of the said needles to pass through the wheel at a low tuck level, others are raised to the regular tuck level and still others of the needles are raised to the full latch clearing level.
  • the wheel is mounted in customary manner upon an inclined forked member 58 extending radially outwardly from the upper portion of the wall 50 of the cam section. The cams acting upon the butts 55 and 56 of the needles, FIGS.
  • the main stitch cam 59 acting on butts 56 to partially lower the needles includes the main stitch cam 59 acting on butts 56 to partially lower the needles, the auxiliary stitch cam 60 acting on butts 55 to lower the needles to stitch forming level, the guard cam 61 in fixed spaced relation to the cam 60 (and serving the same function as cam 28 in the first modification of the invention), the leveling cam 62 acting on butts 56 to raise the needles from their stitch forming level to which they were lowered by an auxiliary stitch cam (not shown) at the preceding feed and to bring them up to a common low tuck level for presentation of their butts 54 to the design wheel 53 at such low tuck level, the cam 63 which is a retractable wing cam and which acts upon the butts 56 of those needles remaining at the low tuck level (after passing through the wheel 53 without being raised) to lower them to welt level so that they do not take yarn in their hooks and the cam 64 which is a conventional fixed stationary guard cam adapted to act upon the but
  • the several cams (other than the wing cam 63 which is positioned at the forward end of a member inserted into a milled opening formed in the wall 50) are secured to keys set in keyways in the inner side of the wall 50 in a manner similar to that described in connection with the apparatus of FIGS. 1 through 8.
  • Set into the spaced vertically extending keyways 65 and 66 milled in the inner side of wall 50 is a pair of keys 67 and 68 in keyway 65 and a pair of keys 69 and 70 in keyways 66, FIGS. 9, 12 and 13.
  • the cam 64 is secured to the key 67 by means of a screw 64' extending through the cam into threaded engagement with the key while the latter is secured to the wall 50 by means of a screw 67' extending through the key into threaded engagement with the wall 50.
  • the cam 62 is similarly secured to the key 68 by screw 62' and the key 68 is similarly secured to the wall 50 by means of a screw 68.
  • the cam 59 is similarly secured to key 70 by screw 59 and additionally by a pin 59c extending through cam and key while the latter is similarly secured to the wall 50 by a screw 70'.
  • the cams 60 and 6,1 are likewise secured to the key 69 by screws 60' and 61 while the key is secured to the wall 50 in such manner as to permit vertical adjustment thereof.
  • a screw 71 extends through a vertically elongated slot 72 in wall 50 into threaded engagement with the key 69 with a washer placed between the underside of the head of screw 71 and the outer face of the wall.
  • a compression spring 73 disposed in a suitable aperture in the upper end of key 70 acts upon the lower end of key 69 to urge the latter upwardly, the key 69 in FIG. 13 being shown in its lowermost position.
  • the rear upper portion of key 69 is cut away to provide the angled surface 74 which is in contact with a similarly angled face of an elongated adjusting hammer 75 set in the keyway 66, the member 75 being provided with a screw extension 76 passing through the wall 50 and upon the free end of which is placed a knurled head adjusting nut 77. Normally, when the screw 71 is tightened the key 69 and its cams 60 and 61 are held fast in adjusted position.
  • a flat spring similar to the spring 38 of the first embodiment, may be provided to act upon the knurled portion of the nut 77 to yieldingly maintain the same in position.
  • FIG. 15 the outline of the auxiliary stitch cam 60 has been superimposed over that of the main stitch cam 59 in order to show where the action of cam face 59a of the cam 59 on the butts 56 stops and the action of cam face 60a of the cam 60 takes over on the butts 55 to lower the needles to stitch forming level.
  • the level over which the stitches are drawn is shown at 78 and the several paths of travel of the needle hooks are also indicated in FIG. 15.
  • wing cam 63 As to those needles whose butts 54 pass through wheel 53 without being raised thereby, their butts 56 pass along the top of cam 62, are lowered by wing cam 63 and are further lowered by the action of cam face 60a of cam 60 on their butts 55 to stitch forming level, while their needle hooks follow the pathway from point 80 to 81, 81 to 82, 82 to 83 and 83 to 84, the latter being at the stitch forming level.
  • the action of wing cam 63 is to lower the nonselected needles from their low tuck level to welt level wherein they do not take yarn.
  • the needle butts are in a fixed and confined pathway as they are lowered from tuck level with their butts 56 between the cams 63 and 59 at which time the needles are taking yarn so that the position of the yarn feeding guides need not be changed when adjustments are made to the cam 60, as indicated by the arrow, to change the stitch length of the fabric being knitted.
  • the needle butts are also in a fixed and confined pathway as they are raised by the cam 62 with their butts 56 between the cam face 62a of cam 62 and cam face 59b of a main stitch cam 59 (not shown) at the preceding feed of the machine.
  • the compound stitch cam of the present invention has been shown as comprising a pair of spaced stitch cams acting upon a pair of spaced needle butts
  • the principle of the invention is not so limited and includes other arrangements of the main and the auxiliary stitch cams and of the needle butts, including the arrangement wherein the two stitch cams are at substantially a common level in overlying relation with both cams acting in sequence upon a common level butt of the needles.
  • one of the two stitch cams may be placed at a plurality of levels to act upon needle butts at said plurality of levels while the other stitch cam is placed at a single level to act upon a common level butt of the needles at said single level.
  • a multi-feed circular knitting machine having a circularly shaped slotted needle bed, a full complement of latch needles for said machine individually disposed in and movable lengthwise of the slots in said needle bed between latch clearing, tuck and stitch forming positions and having a circularly shaped sectional cam ring with means thereon to move said needles lengthwise of said slots, yarns fed to said needles at each of said feeds, said needles each having a pair of spaced butts extending from shanks thereof and said cam ring having a compound stitch cam disposed thereon at individual ones of the feeds of said machine, each said compound stitch cam comprising a relatively fixed main stitch cam and a relatively adjustable auxiliary stitch cam, each said pair of main and auxiliary stitch cams being spaced in the direction extending lengthwise of said slots and having a corresponding pair of cam surfaces to engage said pair of needle butts to move said needles from their latch clearing and tuck positions toward and to their stitch forming position, said pair of cam surfaces having portions thereof common to an arc of said
  • said needle moving means on said cam ring includes pattern selecting apparatus thereon in combination with the said stitch cams, said apparatus being operatively related to the said needles to move selected ones thereof to their tuck and latch clearing positions.
  • a knitting machine as in claim 1 wherein said needle bed is a cylinder, wherein said needles are vertically disposed and have said butts disposed at a pair of levels on their shanks, wherein said sectional cam ring is cylindrically shaped and wherein said main and auxiliary stitch cams are disposed at a plurality of levels on said cam ring.
  • a knitting machine as in claim 4 wherein said needle needle moving means on said cam ring includes pattern selecting apparatus thereon in combination with said main and auxiliary stitch cams, said apparatus being operatively related to the said needles to raise selected ones thereof to tuck and to latch clearing levels.
  • a knitting machine as in claim 5 wherein the shanks of said needles are each additionally provided with a butt disposed thereon at a level other than said pair of butt levels upon which said main and auxiliary stitch cams act and wherein said pattern means includes an inclined design wheel operatively related to said additional butt of said needles to raise selected ones thereof.
  • a knitting machine as in claim 5 wherein the butts on said needles are disposed at three levels thereof, wherein said pattern means includes inclined design wheels operatively related to the upper level of butts of said needles to raise selected ones thereof, wherein said main stitch cams act upon the lower level of butts of said needles and wherein said auxiliary stitch cams act upon the middle level of butts of said needles.
  • a knitting machine as in claim 5 wherein the shanks of said needles are additionally provided with individual butts disposed thereon at a plural number of levels other than the said pair of butt levels upon which said main and auxiliary stitch cams act, and wherein said pattern selecting apparatus includes needle raising cams placed at selected ones of a like plural number of levels in operative relation to said additional individual butts of said needles to raise selected ones thereof.
  • a knitting machine as in claim 5 wherein the butts on said needles are disposed at six levels of which level six is closest to the hooks of the needles, said needles having commonly disposed butts at levels one and six thereof and having individual butts disposed thereon at levels two through five thereof, wherein said pattern selecting apparatus includes needle raising cams placed at selected ones of four levels in operative relation to the butts of said needles at said levels two through five thereof to raise selected ones of said needles, wherein said main stitch cams act upon the butts of said needles at said level six thereof and wherein said auxiliary stitch cams act upon the butts of said needles at level one thereof.
  • a knitting machine as in claim 9 including raising carns placed in operative relation to the butts of said needles at said level six theerof to raise all of said needles.
  • a knitting machine as in claim 8 wherein at each feed of the machine said cam ring is provided with a pair of vertically positioned side-by-side keys and is provided with a common keyway within which said pair of keys is 1 1 1 Z disposed, said raise cams being attached to one of said 3,283,540 11/1966 Levin 6636 pair of keys and said stitch cams being attached to the 3,403,535 10/1968 Mishcon 6650 AX other thereof.

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