Shima Idea Center Company Ltd.

Hirozi Nishida

Masahiro Shima

In a V-bed flat knitting machine, a set-up comb having a plurality of teeth which are hook shaped at their upper ends is up and down movably disposed beneath a gap between a pair of needle beds. When the set-up comb is elevated until the tooth ends thereof extend above the gap, the hooks at the tooth ends hook up loops to form a set-up course. If released at this stage, the comb is allowed to lower by its own weight the set-up course end of the fabric being knitted as knitting progresses while giving adequate tension to the fabric. There is provided a knockover plate such that when the set-up comb is lowered to a predetermined position the plate may push the hook-engaged fabric at a portion adjacent the lower end thereof and from the back side of the hooks. If the set-up comb is slightly elevated or the knockover plate is slightly lowered while the fabric is so pushed, then the set-up course is disengaged from the hooks.

Set-up means in a flat knitting machine

In a flat knitting machine wherein needles or jacks connected thereto, each has two butts, front and rear and wherein there is provided a space below a center cam and between a pair of raising cams in a knitting lock, there is disposed in the space a loop-receiving raising cam having a cam face adapted to act on the rear butt to raise the needle to a loop receiving path and also present therein a loop-receiving lowering cam face formed of a bottom portion of the center cam and adapted to lower the needle to the loop receiving path. Preferably, a retractable guide cam is located above the center cam and there is disposed above the guide cam a loop-transfer lowering cam having a cam face adapted to act on the rear butt to lower the needle. Further, above this loop transfer lowering cam is there retractably disposed a loop-transfer raising cam which has a cam face adapted to act on the front butt to raise the needle. In this way there are disposed a knitting lock and a transfer lock at same phase in the direction of movement of the carriage, without involving any increase in the length of cam box in that direction and also in the longitudinal direction of the needle. No increase is involved in the length of needle trick either.

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Hirozi Nishida