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US3365917A
US3365917A US443519A US44351965A US3365917A US 3365917 A US3365917 A US 3365917A US 443519 A US443519 A US 443519A US 44351965 A US44351965 A US 44351965A US 3365917 A US3365917 A US 3365917A
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    • 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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  • selector magnets control locking means to lock or release spring loaded jacks so that only selected released jacks move along slanted cam tracks to different positions to raise corresponding needles to higher and lower knitting positions in accordance with the pattern controlled energization of the selector magnets.
  • the present invention relates to a needle control apparatus ⁇ for a knitting machine, and more particularly to apparatus for selecting needles of a circular knitting machine, and for controlling selected needles to move either to a higher knit position, or to a lower tuck position in accordance with a predetermined pattern.
  • Selector devices serving this purpose are known, and, for example, the U.S. Patent 3,292,393, issued to E. Ribler, discloses various selector arrangements employing a selector magnet, ⁇ spring-biased needle-inuencing jacks, and needles operated by the same to move to a knitting position.
  • the U.S. Patent 3,079,775 discloses another selector arrangement in which small levers, such as resilient wires, are controlled by a selector magnet to cause movement of needle influencing elements provided in apattern wheel to positions causing the movement of selected needles to operative knitting positions.
  • the selector arrangements according to the prior art l perform the task of moving at each knitting station, se-
  • the electric impulses according to which the selector magnets perform the selecting function are supplied by program control means which cause impulses in accordance with the desired knitting pattern in accordance with a program.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide at each knitting station, a plurality of electromagnetic selector means which successively operate to select needles for movement to higher and lower knitting positions.
  • Another object of the invention is to move at each knitting station of the knitting machine, selected needles to different knitting positions, without shifting of cams, and by using completely identical needles, and completely identical jacks.
  • Another object of the invention is to permit alternate knitting of a tubular knitted fabric, and of other fabrics on a knitting machine having two sets of needles.
  • the needle control apparatus of the invention is applicable to flat bed knitting machines, to circular knitting machines with a single needle cylinder, to double-cylinder knitting machines, and to other types of knitting machines in which needles are movable independently of each other.
  • a needle control apparatus of the invention can be used for controlling each of the two sets of needles.
  • One embodiment of the invention comprises rotary carrier means, for example the needle cylinder of the dial of a circular knittingV machine; a set of knitting means mounted on the carrier means circumferentially spaced about the same; two or more selector means successively passed by the knitting means during rotation of the carrier means; and at least two cam means following, respectively the several selector means in the direction of rotation.
  • Each knitting means includes a needle iniuencing element, and a needle operated by the needle influencing element, which is commonly referred to as a jack
  • the selector means are actuated by program control means to cause movement of different selected knitting means to a position in which the cam means engage needle inuencing jacks land corresponding needles selected by the respective selector means, to cause movement of the needle selected by different selector means to different operative knitting positions, for example to the knit position or to the tuck position.
  • the needle influencing jacks are raised by the cam means to different operative positions, and directly shift the corresponding needles to corresponding different knitting positions.
  • the cam means shift all selected needle influencing jacks, irrespective by which selector means they were selected, to the same operative position, so that the corresponding needles are shifted to a corresponding intermediate position in which they are engated by cams following the two or more selector means, and having different height and inclination so that the needles selected by different selector means are moved to the higher knit position and to the lower tuck position, respectively.
  • FIG. l is a fragmentary developed schematic view illustrating a portion of a needle cylinder in the region of a knitting station which includes two selector means, and stationary cam means in accordance with a first embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a fragmentary schematic developed view of a portion of a needle cylinder in the region of a knitting station including three selector means in accordance with a second embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on line III-III in FIG. 1.
  • a needle cylinder C has circumferentially spaced axially extending grooves C1.
  • a needle N, and a needle influencing jack I are mounted in each groove for axial movement.
  • Each needle N has a butt numbered 1', 2', 3 and so forth in FIG. 1
  • each needle influencing jack I has a butt 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth as shown in FIG. l.
  • the lower end of each jack I is engaged by a curved spring S which is located in a cavity C2 of the needle cylinder C, and has another end resting on a rigid abutment. In the position of FIGS.
  • butt 1 of the first jack abuts a cam 122 under the action of spring S so that the recess J1 is located spaced from a locking projection L1 of a corresponding locking means which is secured 'by a ring L2 to the needle cylinder.
  • Ring L2 is composed of segments secured to the needle cylinder C by screws L3. Projections Z1 on the inside of ring L2 support springs S which are secured by screws S1. The lower ends L4 of locking means L are clamped to ring L2 by members L5 held on ring L2 by screws 6. The butt 1' of the respective needle rests on a higher cam 30.
  • Cam 122 has in the region of selector magnet M1, a rising cam portion along which the butt of the jack slides due to the action of spring S as shown for butt 5.
  • Recess I1 passes locking projection L1, and when selector magnet M1 is not energized in accordance with the program, the locking projection snaps into recess J1 and locks the respective jack in an inoperative position in which its Aupper end is still spaced from the lower end of the corresponding needle.
  • selector magnet M1 was not energized at the moment in which the respective locking means and jack pass the same, the jack is locked in a slightly raised position, in which it is engaged by the descending portion of cam track 120C and urged downward and then assumes the position shown in FIG. 3 so that the oblique shoulders of the respective recess I1 urge the locking projection L1 again out of recess J1 so that a jack whose butt '7 arrives at the second selector magnet is no longer locked.
  • a second selection is now carried out Iby selector magnet M2.
  • spring S can move the respective selected jack into the gap G2 between cam track 126e and cam track 120 ⁇ so that its butt, for example butts 9, 11 and 13 travel along cam track 121) and the respective selected jacks are raised to an operative position in the same manner as the jacks represented by butts 6, 8, 1t), 12 were raised by cam track 12651.
  • the jacks which were selected yby the second selector means M2, and which are controlled by the cam track 120 do not rise as high as the jacks selected by the irst selector means M1, and after they have engaged the lower ends of the needles, they raise the corresponding needles first to the position indicated for example, by needle butt 11', and then to the position indicated by needle butt 13 which needle position corresponds to the so-called tuck position.
  • knitting means including a needle and a jack, selected by a tirst selector means M1 will Iinally assume a position in which the respective needle is in a higher knitting position, whereas knitting means selected by the second selector means M2, will nally assume a position in which the respective needles are in a lower knitting position.
  • Non-selected needles and jacks will remain in the inoperative position shown for the 'butts 14, and 16 of the jacks and for the butts 14 and 16 of the needles.
  • Return cam means 31 and 32 are provided for returning the needles from the knitting positions to the initial inoperative position for a selection at the next knitting station, not shown, where another group of selector means M1, M2 is provided.
  • Cam 31 cooperates with the butts of needles selected by the rst selector means M1 which have assumed a higher knitting position, and returns the same to the inoperative position in which the butts 18', 19', for example, again rest on the horizontal cam 30.
  • Return cam 32 engages the butts of needles which were selected by the second selector means M2 to rise to the tuck position, for example butt 13 and butt 15 are lowered by cam 32 so that the corresponding needles are lowered to the inoperative position in which the butts thereof slide on cam 30.
  • the position of butts 13 and 19 does not indicate whether the respective needles were previously selected by one of the selector means, or were not selected at all.
  • Another return cam 12251 is provided for returning the selected jacks to the inoperative position.
  • butts 17 and 18 are engaged by cam track 122g whereby the corresponding jacks are lowered to the position shown in FiG. 3 and for butt 19 in FIG. l. While the respective butt is engaged by the end of cam track 122a, locking projection L1 passes into recess J1, but is urged out of the same again as the respective jack is further lowered.
  • the jacks have an inoperative position, an intermediate position located either in the gap G1 or in the gap G2 so as to be engaged by cam track a or 120, and two different operative positions determined by the higher ends of cam tracks 12051 and 120.
  • the corresponding needle is move to a higher or lower knitting position by direct engagement with the respective jack.
  • selector means M1 and M2 Two successive selections are carried out by selector means M1 and M2 for causing movement of the needles either to the knit position or to the tuck position, and it will be understood that a third selector rneans may be provided, cooperating with a third less steeply inclined cam track for moving a third group of selected needles to a third knitting position which is .still lower.
  • the second embodiment of the invention illustrated in FIG. 2 provides needles N, jacks J, locking means L, and springs S as shown in FIG. 3.
  • Three selector means are provided at each knitting station, as represented in FlG. 2 by selector magnets Ma, Mb, and Mc at the rst knitting station, and by selector magnets Ma', Mb at the second knitting station, the third seelctor magnet at the second knitting .station being omitted.
  • the shape and the position of the cams which respectively cooperate with the needle inuencing jacks and with the needles, are different.
  • the manner in which the jacks and needles are selected is substantially the same.
  • FIG. 2 Only a limited number of needles and jacks is illustrated in FIG. 2, and it will be understood that a jack and a needle are mounted in each groove of a carrier, such as a needle cylinder.
  • Each jack J is urged by a spring S to move upwards into engagement with the corresponding needle N from which the upper end of the jack is separated in the normal inoperative position of the needles and jacks as shown, for example, for the first knitting means including a jack J and a needle N on the left end of FIG. 2.
  • the respective spring S urges the jack upward to a position in which its butt 51 abuts a horiontal cam track portion 24051, while the butt 51' of the corresponding needle N rests on a horizontal cam track 30.
  • Cam track 240e is part of a cam 200 which includes a return cam track 142 and a selector cam track 140e.
  • the first selector magnet Mrz is positioned in the region of cam 200 to cooperate with a locking means L, not shown in FIG. 2, as described with reference to FIG. 3.
  • Three selector cams 201, 202, and 203 follow cam 200 at each knitting station. Gaps Ga, Gb, Gc are formed between each selector cam track 140er, 14011, 140e and the respective portion of selector cams 201, 202, and 203. When a selector magnet attracts a locking means L, the respective spring S moves the respective jack to move upward into the respective gap to an intermediate position engaging the lower end of a selector cam track 140e, 14011, 140e.
  • the respective butt first slides on one of the cam tracks 240e, 240b, 240C with the needle in an inoperative position, and then slides on one of the cam tracks 140e, 141i?, 141C to raise the needle to an intermediate position in which the butt of the needle is located in the region of a cam track 41a or 411; of two selector cams 241, 242.
  • a cam track 41a or 411 of two selector cams 241, 242.
  • butt 54 of a needle in the intermediate position is engaged by cam track 41a
  • butt 58 of another needle raised to the intermediate position is engaged by cam track 41h.
  • Selector cam track 41a follows tracks 140e, 1410
  • selector cam track 41b follows selector tracks 14011, 14111.
  • a return cam 240 which has a descending cam track portion 42 for engaging the butts of needles which have been moved to the highest points of cams 241, 242, respectively, and for returning the respective needles to the inoperative position in which the butts thereof slide on the horizontal cam track 30.
  • the nal position of the needle is not determined by the jack, but by the height of the selector cams 241, 242 which have diiierent shapes so as to raise needles engaged by the same to different heights, for example to the knit position and to the tuck position.
  • the jacks raised by selector cam track 141C to the operative position raise the corresponding needle to a ⁇ third knitting position which is lower than the positions to which needles are raised by cams 241 and 242.
  • cam 200 Following each group of selector cams 201, 202, 203 at each knitting station, is a cam 200 which includes the return cam track 142 engaging the butts of all selected jacks for returning the .same to the inoperative position in which the butts of the jacks slide on the horiozntal cam track 240er.
  • the projection L1 of the respective locking means passes into and then again out of the recess J1 described with reference to FIG. 3 so that the locking means and jacks are in the inoperative position shown in FIG. 3 when moving along cam track 240e.
  • a jack If a jack is not selected, it remains in the inoperative position, with its butt moving in a horizontal plane along cam tracks 240b, 240C, 240d, and 2406! of the next following knitting station.
  • the butts of the needles are designated 51' to 65 in FIG. 2.
  • the butts of the corresponding jacks are designated 51 to 56, 5S, 59, and 61 to 65.
  • the first selector means Mci has selected the needles with butts S2', S4 and 57.
  • I ack butt 52 is still engaged by cam track 140e so that the corresponding needle is still in the inoperative position
  • I ack butt 54 is in its operative highest position, so that the corresponding needle is in an intermediate position in which its butt 54 is just engaged by cam track 41a.
  • Butt 57 has been raised by cam track 41a to the highest position so that the respective needle is in the highest knitting position.
  • the respective jack has remained in its high operative position in which its butt, not shown, is in the same position as butt 54.
  • the second selector means Mb has selected the needles with butts 55', 58', and 60 so that the same are raised to the tuck position.
  • the third selector means Mc has selected the needles with the butts 59 and 61 which are to be raised to a position lower than the tuck position which is achieved 1oy providing no cam engaging the butts of needles selected by the third selector means Mc, but leaving the needles in the position to which they are raised by the corresponding jack in its operative position shown for jack 61 on top of cam track 141C of selector cam 203.
  • the jack and needle represented by butts 62 and 52 have not been selected by any of the selector means Ma, Mb, Mc and move in inoperative position along horizontal cam tracks 30 and 240e. Still within the same knitting station, return track 142 of cam 200 returns all selected jacks from the operative raised position to the inoperative position sliding on horizontal cam track 240e. The same function is performed for the needles by return cam 240 whose track 42 engages the butts of all selected and raised needles and returns the same to the inoperative position as shown for butt 63.
  • butt 63' was selected by selector means Mrz of the next following knitting station, and While butt 63' was still moving along return cam track 42, butt 63 of the jack passed through gap Ga onto track e and to the highest point of the same while the respective jack moved up to a position in which its upper end just engages the lower end of the respective needle. Further movement of jack 63 along cam track 14017 will Icause raising of the respective needle to the intermediate position in which it can be engaged and further raised by cam 241 of the second knitting station.
  • FIG. 2 permits the start of the selection while the respective needle is still being returned, so that the available space about the circumference of the knitting cylinder or corresponding needle carrier, can be fully utilized for a great number Iof knitting stations each of which may include three selector means as shown in FIG. 2, or even a greater number if desired.
  • the raising of selected jacks is tiret accomplished by the force of the respective Spring S, and then by the driving force by which the needle cylinder, or other carrier of the jacks and needles, is rotated since the rotary movement of the needle cylinder urges the butts of the jacks and needles revolving with the needle cylinder against the rising cam tracks of the selector cams.
  • FIG. 1 shows an arrangement in which selected needles can be raised at each knitting station to different knitting positions
  • the embodiment of FIG. 2 utilizes the available space better, and permits the raising of selected needles to three diiierent knitting positions.
  • a needle control apparatus for a knitting machine comprising, in combination, rotary carrier means; a set of knitting means mounted on said carrier means circumferentially spaced about the same and respectively movable between an inoperative position, an intermediate position, and a plurality of operative positions; a knitting station including at least two electromagnetic selector means successively passed by said knitting means during rotation of said carrier means, each of said electromagnetic selector means causing movement of different selected knitting means from said inoperative position to said intermediate position; and at least two cam means following, respectively, the two selector means in the direction of rotation, and respectively engaging knitting means in said intermediate position selected by said selector stations, respectively, for guiding the same to different operative positions, respectively, at said knitting station.
  • a needle control apparatus for a knitting machine comprising, in combination, rotary carrier means; a set of knitting means mounted on said carrier means circumferentially spaced about the same, each knitting means including a needle movable between an inoperative position and a plurality of knitting positions, a needle influencing element aligned with the needle and movable between an inoperative position, an intermediate position, and a plurality of operative positions for moving the respective needle to said knitting positions, and biasing means for urging said needle influencing elements to said operative positions; a knitting station including at least two electromagnetic selector means successively passed by said needle influencing elements during rotation of said carrier means, each of said electromagnetic selector means selectively preventing movement of selected needle influencing elements by said biasing means to said operative position, and causing movement of different selected needle influencing elements front said inoperative position to said intermediate position; and at least two cam means following, respectively, said two electromagnetic selector means in the direction of rotation, and respectively engaging needle infiuencing elements in said intermediate position for guiding the same to different operative operative
  • a needle control apparatus for a knitting machine as claimed in claim 2 the first cam means in the direction of rotation being steeper inclined than the second cam means so that needles selected by the first selector means are raised to a higher knitting position, and needles selected by the second selector means are raised to a lower knitting position.
  • each electromagnetic selector means includes a selector magnet and means controlled -by said selector magnet for locking needle influencing elements in said imperative position and for preventing movement of selected needle influencing elements under the action of said spring means to said operative positions.
  • a needle control apparatus for a knitting machine comprising, in combination, rotary carrier means; a set of knitting means mounted on said carrier means circumferentially spaced about the same, each knitting means including a needle movable between an inoperative position, an intermediate position, and a plurality of knitting positions, a needle influencing element aligned with the needle and movable between an inoperative position, an intermediate position, and an operative position for moving the respective needle to said intermediate position, and biasing means for urging said needle influencing elements to said operative positions; a knitting station including at least two electromagnetic selector means successively passed by said needle influencing elements during rotation of said carrier means, each of said electromagnetic selector means selectively preventing movement of selected needle influencing elements by said biasing means to said operative position, and causing movement of different selected needle influencing means from said inoperative position to said intermediate position; and at least two cam devices following, respectively, said two electromagnetic selector means in the direction of rotation, each cam device including a first cam means respectively engaging needle inuencing elements in said intermediate position for guiding
  • a needle control apparatus for a knitting machine as claimed in claim 8 the second cam means leading in the direction of rotation being steeper inclined than the second cam means trailing in the direction of rotation so that needles selected by the first selector means are raised to a higher knitting position, and needles selected by said second selector means are raised to a lower knitting position.
  • a needle control apparatus as set forth in claim 8 wherein said carrier means has circumferentially spaced axially extending grooves, wherein a needle iniluencing element and a needle are mounted in each groove for axial movement; and wherein a needle intluencing element in said inoperative position is spaced from the respective needle in said inoperative position and is moved by the respective first cam to a position engaging the respective needle.
  • each electromagnetic selector means includes a selector magnet and means controlled by said selector magnet for locking needle influencing elements in said imperative position and for preventing movement of selected needle influencing elements under the action of said spring means to said operative position.
  • a needle control apparatus as set forth in claim 8 and including a third selector means following said two selector means; a third cam means following said two first cam means for guiding needle influencing elements selected by said third selector means to said operative position so that the corresponding needles are raised to an operative knitting position.
  • each of said first cam means includes tirst and second overlapping spaced rising cam tracks, said needles being spaced from said needle influencing elements while the same are engaged by said irst cam track, and engaged and raised by the same to said intermediate position while the same are engaged by said second cam track.
  • a needle control apparatus for a knitting machine comprising, in combination, rotary carrier means; a set of knitting means mounted on said carrier means circumferentially spaced about the same and respectively movable between an inoperative position, an intermediate position, and a plurality of operative positions; a knitting station including at least two electromagnetic selector means successively passed by said knitting means during rotation of said carrier means, each of said electromagnetic selector means causing movement of different selected knitting means from said inoperative position to said intermediate position; at least two cam means following, respectively, the two selector means in the direction of rotation, and respectively engaging knitting means in said intermediate position selected by said selector stations, respectively, for guiding the same to different operative positions, respectively; and return cam means following said cam means in said direction of rotation for engaging said knitting means and for returning selected knitting means from said operative positions to said inoperative positions at said knitting station.
  • a needle control apparatus for a knitting machine comprising, in combination, rotary carrier means; a set of knitting means mounted on said carrier means circumferentially spaced about the same, each knitting means including a needle movable between an inoperative position and a plurality of knitting positions, and a needle influencing element aligned wth the needle and movable between an inoperative position, an intermediate position, and a plurality of operative positions for moving the respective needle to said knitting positions; a knitting station including at least two electromagnetic selector means successively passed by said needle inlluencing elements during rotation of said carrier means, each of said electromagnetic selector means causing movement of different selected needle influencing means from said inoperative position to said intermediate position; at least two cam means following, respectively, said two selector means in the direction of rotation, and respectively engaging needle iniluencing elements in said intermediate position selected by said two selector means for guiding the same to ditlerent operative positions, respectively, so that needle influencing elements selected by different selector means move the respective needles to ditferent knitting positions;
  • said -biasing means including spring means for moving said needle intluencing elements along said first cam tracks.

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