EP2241660A1 - Vorrichtung zur behandlung von garnenden für eine flachstrickmaschine - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zur behandlung von garnenden für eine flachstrickmaschine Download PDF

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EP2241660A1
EP2241660A1 EP08868426A EP08868426A EP2241660A1 EP 2241660 A1 EP2241660 A1 EP 2241660A1 EP 08868426 A EP08868426 A EP 08868426A EP 08868426 A EP08868426 A EP 08868426A EP 2241660 A1 EP2241660 A1 EP 2241660A1
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Norio Kotaka
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04B—KNITTING
    • D04B7/00—Flat-bed knitting machines with independently-movable needles
    • D04B7/30—Flat-bed knitting machines with independently-movable needles specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration
    • D04B7/32—Flat-bed knitting machines with independently-movable needles specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration tubular goods
    • D04B7/34—Flat-bed knitting machines with independently-movable needles specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration tubular goods gloves
    • 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
    • D04B15/38—Devices for supplying, feeding, or guiding threads to needles
    • D04B15/54—Thread guides
    • D04B15/56—Thread guides for flat-bed knitting machines
    • D04B15/565—Associated thread-clamping or thread-severing devices

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  • Another edge yarn cutting and gripping device is also disclosed which is structured so that the scissor-like cutter is driven together with the gripper by the turning of the drive shaft to guide the gripper unit (See Patent Citation 2, for example).
  • the device disclosed by Patent Citation 2 is structured so that when the drive shaft is shifted angularly in one direction and returned from the reference angle, the gripper can be moved down into a needle bed gap to catch and grip the knitting yarn extending from the knitted fabric to the yarn feeder at some midpoint in it.
  • the scissor-like cutter is opened and is held in its opened state even after the gripper is moved up, so that the knitting yarn is pulled up in the opened cutter.
  • the drive shaft is shifted angularly in the opposite direction and returned from the reference angle, only the cutter is closed, so that the knitting yarn gripped by the gripper is cut with the cutter on the side near the knitted fabric.
  • Patent Citation 2 discloses a structure of the flatbed knitting machine for knitting right and left gloves simultaneously, using two knitting yarn cut and grip devices for doing the treatment of the edge yarns of fingers of the gloves, while doing the set up.
  • each of the knitting yarn cut and grip devices merely has the function of cutting the knitting yarn and gripping it on the yarn feeder side until the next set up. After the cutting, the edge yarn on the knitted fabric side is released from the gripper, so that the treatment as is illustrated in Fig. 20 of Patent Citation 1 cannot be done.
  • the drive shaft must be shifted angularly in the opposite direction from the reference angle, for cutting the knitting yarn with the cutter.
  • the present invention provides an edge yarn treatment device for a flatbed knitting machine, which provided with:
  • said driving member is mounted on a different unit from said unit mounting the cutter thereon and is driven in a combined manner by the drive shaft for driving the grippers in that unit.
  • an angle of the drive shaft at which the cutter begins to be opened when the grippers are moved toward the needle bed gap and an angle of the drive shaft at which the cutter begins to be closed when the grippers are moved away from the needle bed gap can be varied with each other. This varied angle can provide a preferred timing in opening or closing the cutter even when the turning of the drive shafts is carried out in a single operation.
  • the gripping portions 5, 6 are driven via rectangular linkages which are respectively responsive to the turnings of the drive shafts 7, 8.
  • the rectangular linkage one side of which is defined between the drive shafts 7, 8, is fixed on the one side.
  • An opposite side to this side is defined by link linkage members 13, 14.
  • the link linkage member 13 located on the side of the left gripper unit 3 has a driving linkage shaft 13a and a driven linkage shaft 13b extending leftwards.
  • a link driving member 15 is provided between the driving linkage shaft 13a and the drive shaft 7.
  • the link linkage member 14 on the side of the right gripper unit 4 has a driving linkage shaft 14a and a driven linkage shaft 14b which extend rightwards.
  • a link driving member 16 is provided between the driving linkage shaft 14a and the drive shaft 8.
  • a driven link member 17 is provided between the driven linkage member 13b, 14b of the link linkage member 13, 14 and the drive shaft 8, 7.
  • the left gripper unit 3 and the right gripper unit 4 are moved along the direction along which the drive shafts 7, 8 extend by a transverse pulling force or a transverse pushing force transmitted to upper portions of the base members 10 from movable racks 19 through moving members 18.
  • the right and left movable racks 19 have at least a length corresponding to a width of the needle beds so that the left gripper unit 3 and the right gripper unit 4 can be moved in reciprocation within an extent corresponding to the dimension of the needle beds.
  • Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 show the configuration of the left gripper unit 3 and the configuration of the right griper unit 4, respectively.
  • Fig. 2(a), Fig. 2(b), and Fig. 2(c) show the configurations when viewed from top, front, and right side, respectively.
  • Fig. 3(a), Fig. 3(b), and Fig. 3(c) show the configurations when viewed from top, left side, and front, respectively. It is to be added however that in Figs. 2 and 3 and in other drawing figures, some parts described are omitted in the drawings viewed in a different orientation and viewed from other direction, while on the other hand, some parts omitted are illustrated in the drawings viewed in a different orientation, for avoiding troublesomeness.
  • the left gripper unit 3 is provided with a switch lever 21 as a switch member to switch in a manner so as to open or close the cutter 9.
  • the switch lever 21 is pivotally displaced by abutment of its upper end with a lug provided on the left end of the link driving member 16 on the side of the right gripper unit 4 to switch opening or closing movement of the cutter 9 at the lower end thereof.
  • the gripping portions 5, 6 of the left gripper unit 3 and the right gripper unit 4 are formed by the hook members 23, 24 and the presser members 25, 26 connected to each other through tension springs 22.
  • the tension springs 22 bias the upper ends of the presser members 25, 26 downwardly via the hook members 23, 24.
  • Figs. 5 and 6 show the configuration of the stop members 11, 12 of the left gripper unit 3 and the right gripper unit 4.
  • Fig. 5(a), Fig. 5(b), and Fig. 5(c) show the configurations when viewed from top, front, and right side, respectively.
  • Fig. 6(a), Fig. 6(b), and Fig. 6(c) show the configurations when viewed from top, left side, and front, respectively.
  • the stop members 11, 12 are provided with upper stoppers 11a, 12a and lower stoppers 11b, 12b, respectively.
  • the stop member 11 to be mounted in the left gripper unit 3 is provided with a cutter mounting portion 11c.
  • Figs. 8, 9, 10 show the configuration of the link driving members 15, 16 and the configuration of the link driven member 17, respectively.
  • Fig. 8(a) and Fig. 8(b) show the configurations when viewed from front and right side, respectively.
  • Fig. 9(a) and Fig. 9(b) show the configurations when viewed from left side and front, respectively.
  • Fig. 10(a) and Fig. 10(b) show the configurations when viewed from front and right side, respectively.
  • the link driving members 15, 16 and the link driven member 17 are respectively provided with drive shaft insertion holes 15a, 16a, 17a for the drive shafts 7, 8 to extend through and connection shaft insertion holes 15b, 16b, 17b for the drive connection shafts 13a, 14a and the driven connection shafts 13b, 14b of the link linkage member 13, 14 to extend through.
  • the drive shafts 7, 8 have a D-shaped section formed by its circular section being partially cut out flat.
  • the drive shaft insertion holes 15a, 16a of the link driving members 15, 16 may be adapted to have a lock by using those cut-out-flat portions of the drive shafts 7, 8
  • the link driving member 16 used in the right gripper unit 4 shown in Fig. 9 has two abutment lugs 16c, 16d at its left end on the side confronting the left gripping unit 3.
  • the link driving member 16 functions as a drive member for the cutter 9 of the left gripper unit 3 to be opened or closed by the turning of the drive shaft 8 which drives the gripping portion 6 of the right gripper unit 4 open or close, when the left gripper unit 3 and the right gripper unit 4 are connected to each other as shown in Fig. 1 .
  • the hook 23a is formed by bending a metal sheet shaped as shown in Fig. 1(d) , having for example a width W of 2.6mm and a gap D of 0.6mm. A left side of the yarn presser 25a at the lower end of the presser member 25 is moved into the gap. A part of the front end portion of the yarn presser 25a, which has a thickness T shown in Fig. 12(b) , is moved into the gap D. The part having the thickness T is divided into two parts, between which a space S is defined. The hook 23a having the width W is partly inserted in the space S. The thickness T is 0.8mm and the space S of the yarn presser 25a is 2.4mm.
  • the yarn presser 25a spreads out a narrowed portion of the hook 23a resiliently, so that the hook 23a and the yarn presser 25a are put in the state of being held to each other.
  • the knitting yarn is gripped between an upper surface of the hook 23a and a lower end of the yarn presser 25a.
  • the presser member 25 is provided, at an upper end thereof, with a spring peg 25b.
  • the tensile spring 22 shown in Fig. 2 is extended between the spring pegs 23b, 25b of the hook member 23 and the presser member 25.
  • the presser member 25 is also provided with an upper lug 25c and a lower lug 25d which are respectively abutted with the upper stopper 11a and the lower stopper 11b of the stop member 11 shown in Fig. 5 , to stop downward movement of the presser member 25.
  • the hook member 24 and the presser member 26, which form the griping portion 6 of the right gripper unit 4, have the structure basically symmetrical with the hook member 23 and the presser member 25 of Figs. 11 and 12 . It should be noted however that in the presser member 26, only an upper lug, which corresponds to the upper lug 25c of the presser member 25, is arranged in a position deviated downwardly from the symmetrical position. Since both the upper stopper 11a on the stop member 11 of the left gripper unit 3 and the upper stopper 12a on the stop member 12 of the right gripper unit 4 project in a direction in which they come close to each other, their positions are vertically shifted from each other, in order to avoid interference. This is because the position at which the corresponding upper lug is arranged is deviated.
  • Figs. 13, 14, 15 and 16 show the configuration of the movable blade member 28, that of the fixed blade member 29, that of the switch lever 21, and that of the eccentric collar 30, respectively.
  • (a) and (b) of the respective drawing figures show the configurations when viewed from front and right side, respectively.
  • the movable blade member 28 and the fixed blade member 29 are closed at their blade edges 28a, 29b, the knitting yarn can be cut.
  • the movable blade member 28 and the fixed blade member 29 are opened or closed by pivoting about pivot points of center bosses 28b, 29b.
  • the movable blade member 28 is provided, at an upper end thereof, with a driving recess 28c.
  • the fixed blade member 29 is provided, at an upper end thereof, with a fixing hole 29c for fixing with a screw.
  • the switch lever 21 shown in Fig. 15 has, at a top end thereof, an abutting portion 21a with which two abutment lugs 16c, 16d of the link driving member 16 shown in Fig. 9 can be brought into abutment.
  • the switch lever 21 pivots about a pivot point of a center boss 21b.
  • the switch lever 21 is provided, at its lower end, with a working portion 21c, which is in engagement with the driving recess 28c of the movable blade member 28.
  • the turning of the drive shaft 8 drives the movable blade member 28 of the cutter 9 to be opened or closed via the abutment lugs 16c, 16d and the switch lever 21.
  • the eccentric collars 30 are used for adjusting vertical positions of the hook member 23, 24 joined to the link linkage members 13, 14.
  • Figs. 17-20 schematically show the process of catching and cutting the knitting yarn in a single operation during which the left gripper unit 3 and the right gripper unit 4 are moved close to each other, as shown in Fig. 1 , and the drive shafts 7, 8 are angularly shifted in one direction and then angularly shifted in the opposite direction to be returned therefrom.
  • (a) and (b) of those drawing figures show the configurations when viewed from front and right side of the left gripper unit 3, respectively.
  • the two abutment lugs 16c, 16d of the link driving member 16 are provided on the right gripper unit 4, since they drive the opening or closing movement of the cutter 9, the right gripper unit 4 is shown in parallel with the left gripper unit 3.
  • needle bed of the needle beds 40 which are arranged opposite to each other across the needle bed gap 2
  • like needle bed is also arranged on the front side and a number of knitting needles are also arranged in parallel along that needle bed.
  • a movable sinker 42 may be arranged between the knitting needles 41.
  • the knitting needle 41 and the movable sinker 42 are advanced to or retracted from the needle bed gap 2 and supplied with the knitting yarn from a yarn feeder portion 43 arranged at the lower end of the yarn feeding member such as the yarn feeder, for the knitting of the knitted fabric.
  • the needle bed is slanted in such a manner that as it comes closer to the needle bed gap 2, it goes higher in level, while as it moves away therefrom, it goes lower in level.
  • Fig. 17 shows a reference state in which the gripping portions 5, 6 are on standby over the needle bed gap 2.
  • the gripping portions 5, 6 and the cutter 9 are both closed.
  • the link driving members 15, 16 are driven and also the link driven member 17 is driven.
  • the link linkage members 13, 14 begin to move downwards.
  • the hook members 23, 24 are joined to the link linkage members 13, 14, respectively, the hook members 23, 24 are also moved downwards.
  • the presser members 25, 26 are also pulled by and moved downwards by those hook members 23, 24 through the tension spring 22.
  • Fig. 18 shows the state in which the upper lugs 25c, 26c of the presser members 25, 26 are abutted with the upper stoppers 12a, 11a of the stop members 12, 11, so that the downward movement of the presser members 25, 26 is brought to a step.
  • the movable blade member 28 begins to open through the driving recess 28c of the movable blade member 28 in which the working portion 21c of the switch lever 21 is engaged.
  • Fig. 19 shows the state in which the hooks 23a, 23b of the gripping portions 5, 6 which are in the opened state are moved into the needle bed gap 2.
  • the movable blade member 28 is in the fully opened state.
  • Fig. 20 shows the state in which the drive shafts 7, 8 are on the way of being angularly shifted in the clockwise direction to be returned to the reference condition.
  • the movable blade member 28 When the other abutment lug 16d of the link driving member 16 is abutted with the abutting portion 21a of the switch lever 21, the movable blade member 28 begins to close through the driving recess 28c of the movable blade member 28 in which the working portion 21c of the switch lever 21 is engaged. Since the angle of the drive shaft 8 at which the movable blade member 28 begins to open is different from the angle of the drive shaft 8 at which the moveable blade member 28 begins to close, the cutter 9 can be opened or closed at an appropriate timing.
  • Figs. 21 and 22 show the unilateral operation of the gripping portion 5 of the left gripper unit 3.
  • (a) and (b) of the respective drawing figures show the configurations when viewed from front and right side of the left gripper unit 3, respectively.
  • the presser member 25 moves down together with the hook member 23 until the lower lug 25d of the presser member 25 abuts with the lower stopper 11b of the stop member 11.
  • the hook 23a can be moved into the needle bed gap 2 in the state in which the gripping portion 5 is slightly opened so that a yarn gripping force is decreased.
  • this unilateral operation can be used for treating the edge yarn produced by the cutting of the knitting yarn.
  • the same unilateral operation may be performed in the right gripper unit 4.

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EP08868426.1A 2007-12-29 2008-12-25 Vorrichtung zur behandlung von garnenden für eine flachstrickmaschine Not-in-force EP2241660B1 (de)

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