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US2972242A
US2972242A US729796A US72979658A US2972242A US 2972242 A US2972242 A US 2972242A US 729796 A US729796 A US 729796A US 72979658 A US72979658 A US 72979658A US 2972242 A US2972242 A US 2972242A
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  • This invention relates to a knitting machine which comprises two needle beds, each of which comprises latch needles guided parallel to each other in the bed and a carriage which is movable on the needle bed transversely to the direction of movement of the latch needles to operate the same, while hooked sinkers are adjustably mounted between the latch needles and arranged to be operated by a cam on the carriage.
  • the machine according to the invention is characterized by a single row of sinkers, which are arranged one beside the other and of which the pair of edges disposed on opposite sides of the slot partially dened by the hook form the thread-engaging surfaces for the formation of the stitches by the latch needles of both needle beds.
  • the edges of the slot extend preferably at equal distances from the plane of symmetry between the two needle beds.
  • Fig. 1 is a diagrammatical cross-sectional view of the machine
  • Figs. 2 and 4 to 8 illustrate different positions during the knitting operation
  • Figs. 3a and 3b are top plan views associated with Fig. 2, illustrating the knitting of two different patterns.
  • the knitting machine shown in Fig. 1 has two needle beds 2, 2', of usual construction, which are carried by a base 1, 1.
  • the parallel latch needles 3 are guided in the grooves of the needle beds.
  • the arrangement is such, by way of example, that the latch needles 3 can be displaced in a common horizontal plane.
  • the front ends of the two needle beds 2, 2 form the sinker beds 4, 4.
  • the two sinker beds 4, 4' face each other with a narrow gap between them.
  • sinkers 5 are pivoted in the left-hand needle bed 2 by means of a shaft 6 which is dxed in the sinker bed firice 4. Each sinker 5 is disposed between two latch needles 3 (see Figs. 3a and 3b).
  • the sinker 5 consists of a flat stamping. In the initial position, shown in full lines in Fig. l, the straight lower edge 7 of the sinker engages a stop 8 of the sinker bed 4. This stop serves also as a stiffening means.
  • the sinker is held in this position under the pressure of a U-shaped leaf spring 9, one limb of which is angularly bent. These springs are suitably combined for all sinkers in a single rakelike member mounted between the base 1 and the needle bed 2. The ends of the springs 9 engage the end edge 10 which extends vertically in the initial position of the sinker.
  • the top edge 11 of the sinker 5 is upwardly inclined toward the shaft 6 and terminates in a rounded portion 12 which is connected to the end edge 10 by a short, straight connecting edge 16.
  • This rounded portion 12 is engageable by a sinker-tilting cam 13 for operating or pvoting the sinkers.
  • This tilting cam 13 is mounted on the carriage 14 which is guided on the needle bed for movement in a direction transverse to the sinkers.
  • This carriage 14 slides in the usual manner along guides 15 and has the actuating means (not shown) required for operating the latch needles 3.
  • the upper front portion of the sinker forms a long hook 16 which partially denes a slot 18 with the adjacent front edge 17. ln the formationV of stitches, the two opposing edges 19, 2li defining this slot i8 serve as thread-engaging surfaces for the latch needles of both needle beds.
  • the end of the slot lies in the initial position of the sinker somewhat below the horizontal plane in which the latch needles are displaceable; this has the purpose of causing the knitting which has been formed to be pulled downwardly.
  • the tilting cam 13 causes the sinker to swing about the shaft 6.
  • the arrangement is such that the slot moves along an arc' of a circle which is tangent to the plane of symmetry S-S between the two needle beds.
  • Figs. 2 and 3 show the machine in sectional and top plan views, adjusted for knitting a one-by-one rib pattern.
  • every other latch needle of each needle bed 2, 2 is moved into the posif tion of Fig. l in which its butt end 24 will not be engaged by the usual actuating means such as advancing and retractng cams provided in the carriage.
  • These needles are designated 23.
  • Fig. 3b is a top plan View similar to that of Fig. 3a but showing the needles 3, 23 readjusted by pairs, for the knitting of a two-by-two-rib pattern.
  • the needles 3 opposite the needles 23 are in operative position ready for knitting. Each of these needles holds a stitch of the knitting 25, disposed in the plane of symmetary S-S between the two needle beds.
  • the two carriages 14, 14 which are coupled to one another, suitably by a detachable connection (not shown), are moved to cause the butt ends 24 of the latch needles 3 to be displaced by advancing cams of the carriages. These advancing cams cause first a movement of the latch needles toward and beyond the plane of symmetry S-S (Fig. 4). In this operation the ylastformed stitch of the knitting 25 slides over the opening latch 26 of the needle 3. In Fig. 4 the latch needle has reached its most advanced position. The further movement of the carriages then causes the movement of the needle to be reversed by the retractng cam.
  • Fig. 5 shows the position in which the opened latches 26 of the needles 3 have positioned themselves over the last-formed stitch of the knitting. At this time the movement of the latch needles is interrupted for a short period while the sinker-tilting cam 13 begins to run up on the rounded portion 12 of the previouslyfstationary sinker and starts the pivotal movement Vthereof (Fig. 6).
  • Fig. 7 shows the position of the sinker before it has reached its initial position; the thread 27 inserted by the thread guide has been applied to the still open latches 26 of the needles 3 and is overlain by the sinker hook 16 so that the thread is guided between the edges 19, 20 in the end portion of the slot 18. Then the needles 3 continue their retracting movement.
  • the last-formed stitch now causes the latches 26 to be closed and the newly inserted thread 27 is pulled to the required length for the formation of a stitch.
  • the new loop thus formed carries the stitch formed last.
  • the thread 27 extends from the hook of a latch needle 3 of the bed 4 through the end of the slot 1S to the hook of the two adjacent opposite needles 3 of the bed 4' (Fig. 8).
  • the thread 27 extends between the hooks of two latch needles 3 of the bed 4 and then across the gap between the two needle beds to the two adjacent latch needles 3 of the other needle bed 4'; again, the two opposed edges 19, 20 which define the slot 18 in the sinker 5 straddle the thread in the formation of stitches by the latch needles of both needle beds.
  • the thread extends between two latch needles of the needle beds 4 around the edge 19 of the sinker S disposed between them while further extending between two needles of the bed 4 aigllnd the edge 20 of the hook 16 of the intervening s er.
  • the machine according to the invention has the advantage that a one-by-one rib pattern can be produced in any desired iineness and the need for providing a separate row of sinkers for the second needle bed is eliminated without any restriction regarding the knitting techniques and patterns for which the machine is suitable. It is obvious that weft knitting can be obtained with one of the two needle'beds which, for this purpose, are detachably connected to each other.
  • the invention is not restricted tothe illustrative embodirnent shown and described but permits of various modir'cations thereof. More particularlygthe sinkers instead of being pivoted on a shaft may be mounted in the sinker bed to be movable up and down along a straight line.
  • the spring means acting on the sinkers to return them into their initial position may be formed in any desired manner, e.g. as coil springs engaging the lower edge of the sinkers.
  • the latch needles instead of being displaceable in a common horizontal plane, the latch needles may be mounted in the two needle beds for movement at an angle to each other.
  • a knitting machine which comprises two opposed, elongated needle bedsextending generaily in a horizontal plane, two interleaved sets of latch needles, the needles of each set being guided along parallel paths in a respective one of said needle beds, said sets of needles being provided with thread-engaging means, a single row of sinkers disposed between said latch needles for movement in a vertical plane, each of said sinkers being formed with a hook and with two opposed edges denng a slot for receiving behind said hook a thread about to be en- Vgaged by said needles, and carriage means mounted ou said needle beds for movement thereon transversely to the directions of movement of said needles and sinkers, said carriage means being adapted to engage and operate said needles and sinkers to form saidthread into stitches, said sinkers being adapted to straddle said thread with said two .opposed edges during the formation of said stitches.
  • a knitting machine as set forth in claim l in which said latch needles are moveable in a common plane and said edges of each sinker are substantially equidistant from the plane of symmetry between said needle beds in the vicinity of said common plane inthe lowennost position of said sinker.

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Feb. 21, 1961 F. EBERL KNITTING MACHINE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed April 21, 1958 FRANZ EBE R L INVENTOR.
Feb. 21, 1961 F. EBERL 2,972,242
KNITTING MACHINE Filed April 21, 1958 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INV EN 1 OR:
FRANZ` EBERL BY interference.
United States Patent() KNI'ITING MACHINE Franz Eberl, Keramikstrasse 4, Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria Filed Apr. 21, 1958, Ser. No. 729,796
Claims priority, application Austria May 8, 1957 2 Claims. (Cl. 66-64) This invention relates to a knitting machine which comprises two needle beds, each of which comprises latch needles guided parallel to each other in the bed and a carriage which is movable on the needle bed transversely to the direction of movement of the latch needles to operate the same, while hooked sinkers are adjustably mounted between the latch needles and arranged to be operated by a cam on the carriage.
In known machines, in which a row of sinkers is associated with each needle bed or row of latch needles, it is diicult to knit a fine-meshed one-by-one rib fabric because in this case the thread is laid between the staggered latch needles ofthe two needle beds and a certain spacing between the sinkers of the two needle beds must be ensured to enable the sinkers to be moved without mutual This spacing required that a knitted fabric of the type described was obtainable only with relatively large meshes.
It is an object of the invention to eliminate these disadvantages. The machine according to the invention is characterized by a single row of sinkers, which are arranged one beside the other and of which the pair of edges disposed on opposite sides of the slot partially dened by the hook form the thread-engaging surfaces for the formation of the stitches by the latch needles of both needle beds. In the vicinity of the plane in which the latch needles are operated, the edges of the slot extend preferably at equal distances from the plane of symmetry between the two needle beds.
The elimination of a row of sinkers between the two needle beds as compared with the known machines enables the two needle beds to be more closely spaced and the gap between them to be reduced so that a one-by-one rib fabric can be knitted with smaller meshes than before. Because only a single row of sinkers is required, the manufacture is simplified and material is saved whereas the range of types of knitting operations and patterns is not restricted.
An embodiment of a machine according to the invention is shown by way of example in the drawing in which:
Fig. 1 is a diagrammatical cross-sectional view of the machine;
Figs. 2 and 4 to 8 illustrate different positions during the knitting operation; and
Figs. 3a and 3b are top plan views associated with Fig. 2, illustrating the knitting of two different patterns.
The knitting machine shown in Fig. 1 has two needle beds 2, 2', of usual construction, which are carried by a base 1, 1. The parallel latch needles 3 are guided in the grooves of the needle beds. The arrangement is such, by way of example, that the latch needles 3 can be displaced in a common horizontal plane. The front ends of the two needle beds 2, 2 form the sinker beds 4, 4. The two sinker beds 4, 4' face each other with a narrow gap between them.
'Ihe sinkers 5 are pivoted in the left-hand needle bed 2 by means of a shaft 6 which is dxed in the sinker bed firice 4. Each sinker 5 is disposed between two latch needles 3 (see Figs. 3a and 3b).
The sinker 5 consists of a flat stamping. In the initial position, shown in full lines in Fig. l, the straight lower edge 7 of the sinker engages a stop 8 of the sinker bed 4. This stop serves also as a stiffening means. The sinker is held in this position under the pressure of a U-shaped leaf spring 9, one limb of which is angularly bent. These springs are suitably combined for all sinkers in a single rakelike member mounted between the base 1 and the needle bed 2. The ends of the springs 9 engage the end edge 10 which extends vertically in the initial position of the sinker.
The top edge 11 of the sinker 5 is upwardly inclined toward the shaft 6 and terminates in a rounded portion 12 which is connected to the end edge 10 by a short, straight connecting edge 16. This rounded portion 12 is engageable by a sinker-tilting cam 13 for operating or pvoting the sinkers. This tilting cam 13 is mounted on the carriage 14 which is guided on the needle bed for movement in a direction transverse to the sinkers. This carriage 14 slides in the usual manner along guides 15 and has the actuating means (not shown) required for operating the latch needles 3.
The upper front portion of the sinker forms a long hook 16 which partially denes a slot 18 with the adjacent front edge 17. ln the formationV of stitches, the two opposing edges 19, 2li defining this slot i8 serve as thread-engaging surfaces for the latch needles of both needle beds. As is apparent from Fig. 1, the end of the slot lies in the initial position of the sinker somewhat below the horizontal plane in which the latch needles are displaceable; this has the purpose of causing the knitting which has been formed to be pulled downwardly. The tilting cam 13 causes the sinker to swing about the shaft 6. The arrangement is such that the slot moves along an arc' of a circle which is tangent to the plane of symmetry S-S between the two needle beds. Slightly below the plane in which the latch needles are displaced the edges of the slot are equidistant from the plane S-S. I'he end position 21 of the sinker and a retracted position 22, in which the sinker 5 is inoperative, are indicated with dash-and-dot lines in Fig. 1.
The mode of operation of this machine is as follows:
Figs. 2 and 3 show the machine in sectional and top plan views, adjusted for knitting a one-by-one rib pattern. As is apparent from Fig. 3a, every other latch needle of each needle bed 2, 2 is moved into the posif tion of Fig. l in which its butt end 24 will not be engaged by the usual actuating means such as advancing and retractng cams provided in the carriage. These needles are designated 23. Fig. 3b is a top plan View similar to that of Fig. 3a but showing the needles 3, 23 readjusted by pairs, for the knitting of a two-by-two-rib pattern.
The needles 3 opposite the needles 23 are in operative position ready for knitting. Each of these needles holds a stitch of the knitting 25, disposed in the plane of symmetary S-S between the two needle beds.
The two carriages 14, 14 which are coupled to one another, suitably by a detachable connection (not shown), are moved to cause the butt ends 24 of the latch needles 3 to be displaced by advancing cams of the carriages. These advancing cams cause first a movement of the latch needles toward and beyond the plane of symmetry S-S (Fig. 4). In this operation the ylastformed stitch of the knitting 25 slides over the opening latch 26 of the needle 3. In Fig. 4 the latch needle has reached its most advanced position. The further movement of the carriages then causes the movement of the needle to be reversed by the retractng cam.
Fig. 5 shows the position in which the opened latches 26 of the needles 3 have positioned themselves over the last-formed stitch of the knitting. At this time the movement of the latch needles is interrupted for a short period while the sinker-tilting cam 13 begins to run up on the rounded portion 12 of the previouslyfstationary sinker and starts the pivotal movement Vthereof (Fig. 6).
l The sinkery 5L is now swung against the action of the spring 9 about the shaft 6. Being lifted along an are of a circle, the end of the slot 18 disengages the knitting 2S and in the lifted end position of the sinker (Fig. 6; 21 in Fig. 1) is suiciently spaced above the horizontal plane in which the latch needles are displaced to permit the insertion of the thread 27 by means of the thread guide, not shown.
. 'A continued movement of the carriage will cause the tilting cam 13 to slide off the rounded portion 12 so that the sinker 5 returnsv to Vits initial position under the action of the spring 9. Fig. 7 shows the position of the sinker before it has reached its initial position; the thread 27 inserted by the thread guide has been applied to the still open latches 26 of the needles 3 and is overlain by the sinker hook 16 so that the thread is guided between the edges 19, 20 in the end portion of the slot 18. Then the needles 3 continue their retracting movement.
As is generally usual in knitting, the last-formed stitch now causes the latches 26 to be closed and the newly inserted thread 27 is pulled to the required length for the formation of a stitch. The new loop thus formed carries the stitch formed last.
This position is shown in Fig. 8, shortly before the sinker has reached its initial position. Thereafter the sinker 5 is lowered entirely under the pressure of the spring 9 and pulls also the knitting 25 downwardly. Now the position according to Fig. 2 has again been reached and the next course can be formed.
During the knitting of a two-by-one rib pattern the thread 27 extends from the hook of a latch needle 3 of the bed 4 through the end of the slot 1S to the hook of the two adjacent opposite needles 3 of the bed 4' (Fig. 8). During the knitting of a two-hy-two rib pattern (Fig. 3b) the thread 27 extends between the hooks of two latch needles 3 of the bed 4 and then across the gap between the two needle beds to the two adjacent latch needles 3 of the other needle bed 4'; again, the two opposed edges 19, 20 which define the slot 18 in the sinker 5 straddle the thread in the formation of stitches by the latch needles of both needle beds. In this operation the thread extends between two latch needles of the needle beds 4 around the edge 19 of the sinker S disposed between them while further extending between two needles of the bed 4 aigllnd the edge 20 of the hook 16 of the intervening s er.
The machine according to the invention has the advantage that a one-by-one rib pattern can be produced in any desired iineness and the need for providing a separate row of sinkers for the second needle bed is eliminated without any restriction regarding the knitting techniques and patterns for which the machine is suitable. it is obvious that weft knitting can be obtained with one of the two needle'beds which, for this purpose, are detachably connected to each other. A*
The invention is not restricted tothe illustrative embodirnent shown and described but permits of various modir'cations thereof. More particularlygthe sinkers instead of being pivoted on a shaft may be mounted in the sinker bed to be movable up and down along a straight line. The spring means acting on the sinkers to return them into their initial position may be formed in any desired manner, e.g. as coil springs engaging the lower edge of the sinkers. instead of being displaceable in a common horizontal plane, the latch needles may be mounted in the two needle beds for movement at an angle to each other.
What is claimed is:
1. A knitting machine which comprises two opposed, elongated needle bedsextending generaily in a horizontal plane, two interleaved sets of latch needles, the needles of each set being guided along parallel paths in a respective one of said needle beds, said sets of needles being provided with thread-engaging means, a single row of sinkers disposed between said latch needles for movement in a vertical plane, each of said sinkers being formed with a hook and with two opposed edges denng a slot for receiving behind said hook a thread about to be en- Vgaged by said needles, and carriage means mounted ou said needle beds for movement thereon transversely to the directions of movement of said needles and sinkers, said carriage means being adapted to engage and operate said needles and sinkers to form saidthread into stitches, said sinkers being adapted to straddle said thread with said two .opposed edges during the formation of said stitches.
2. A knitting machine as set forth in claim l, in which said latch needles are moveable in a common plane and said edges of each sinker are substantially equidistant from the plane of symmetry between said needle beds in the vicinity of said common plane inthe lowennost position of said sinker.
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US3326017A (en) * 1963-11-15 1967-06-20 Paliz A G Double-bed knitting apparatus
US3362195A (en) * 1964-07-28 1968-01-09 Goisis Mario Method of and apparatus for forming loops in flat knitting machines
US3440839A (en) * 1963-11-15 1969-04-29 Paliz Ag Double-bed knitting machine
US5355699A (en) * 1992-04-16 1994-10-18 Tsudakoma Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Flat knitting machine and a method of operating the rocking sinkers of the flat knitting machine
US5570592A (en) * 1994-11-16 1996-11-05 Tsudakoma Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Sinker actuating apparatus having spring force advancing member

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US2893225A (en) * 1955-04-28 1959-07-07 Gerhard Kochheim Flat knitting apparatus for manufacturing rib knit fabric

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US2762213A (en) * 1952-09-04 1956-09-11 Karl Steinhof Hand knitting appliance
US2893225A (en) * 1955-04-28 1959-07-07 Gerhard Kochheim Flat knitting apparatus for manufacturing rib knit fabric

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US3125871A (en) * 1964-03-24 Schur
US3326017A (en) * 1963-11-15 1967-06-20 Paliz A G Double-bed knitting apparatus
US3440839A (en) * 1963-11-15 1969-04-29 Paliz Ag Double-bed knitting machine
US3362195A (en) * 1964-07-28 1968-01-09 Goisis Mario Method of and apparatus for forming loops in flat knitting machines
US5355699A (en) * 1992-04-16 1994-10-18 Tsudakoma Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Flat knitting machine and a method of operating the rocking sinkers of the flat knitting machine
US5570592A (en) * 1994-11-16 1996-11-05 Tsudakoma Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Sinker actuating apparatus having spring force advancing member

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