Shima Seiki Manufacturing Limited

Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.

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Groz-beckert Kg

Toshiaki Morita

Toshinori Nakamori

Kenji Ikoma

Hirokazu Nishitani

Hiroyuki Ueyama

Yoshiteru Koyama

Minoru Sonomura

Masaki Miyamoto

Andreas Dietz

Bernhard Schuler

Takekazu Shibuta

Takuya Miyai

Klaus Ruoff

Ikuhito Hirai

Sigmar Majer

Jürgen Schneider

Norio Kotaka

Masanori Inumaki

Toshiro Ochi

Kurt Wiedenh&ouml;fer

Akihiro Otani

Kenji Kitahara

A dryer apparatus for use with a woven and knitted fabric is constructed such that a first drying rack is disposed at an upper portion of the frame, and at least one second drying rack is disposed at a lower. Each of the drying racks is formed of a ventilated drying surface. A first drying device is disposed above the first drying rack, and a second drying device is disposed above the second rack. Each of the drying devices is formed of a drying irradiation surface for irradiating a heat ray and/or heated air, and is constructed to be movable for reciprocation along the drying surface of the drying rack by means of a driving device. The second drying device is arranged so as to be pivotable between a position in which the drying irradiation surface of the second drying device opposes an upper surface of the at least one second drying rack, and a position in which the drying irradiation surface of the second drying device opposes a lower surface of the first drying rack.

Dryer apparatus for clothing knitted or woven fabric

An object of the invention is to be capable of easily acquiring a fabric having a desired feeling using a stretch yarn. A knitting controller () controls a carriage (), and the like, according to knitting data and control data stored in a memory (). Data representing relationships between a gauge texture and a stitch loop length being obtained after knitting and the relationships between these gauge texture and stitch loop length and the length and tension of the stretch yarn () being fed at the time of knitting are collected previously and stored in the memory () in the form of table data. The knitting controller () sets control target values of the length and tension of the stretch yarn () for a yarn feed controller () such that a gauge texture and a stitch loop length being specified by an input unit () can be attained, with reference to the table data stored in the memory ().

Knitting method and system using stretch yarn

A pile knitting method by a weft knitting machine is provided in which a compound needle can be used to form a pile stitch and simultaneously hold other stitches. After a hook of a needle body receives a fastening yarn fed thereto, a carriage brings together a yarn feeder for feeding a pile yarn and the hook receives the pile yarn. On a front needle bed, the needle body is raised to a tuck position in a state where an old loop is set on a tongue of a slider. The hook of the needle body holds therein the fastening yarn. When the pile yarn is fed to the hook from the yarn feeder, the hook holds therein the fastening yarn and the pile yarn. The pile yarn is set also on a tongue of a slider on a rear needle bed, which tongue has been already raised and advanced into a needle bed gap.

Pile knitting method by weft knitting machine

In order to switching yarns used for knitting by switching a plurality of yarn feeders, a knitting member switching apparatus is provided. The knitting member switching apparatus includes a plurality of holders provided on a side of a carriage, a stopping device provided on an end portion such as a left side end on a needle bed. The stopping device includes a plurality of stopping stands and switching mechanisms in correspondence with the holders, and is further provided with a control device for letting the carriages travel and for selecting knitting needles based on knitting data.

Removable moving member for knitting and weft knitting machine provided with knitting member switching apparatus

A carriage which completes one course of knitting to the knitting end of a fabric is stopped. Knitting in a next course is performed when the carriage reverses its moving direction and re-starts its movement. Since the knitting yarn is not knitted to the fabric until a carrier brought by the carriage reaches a position of a knitting needle holding the stitch of the fabric at the knitting end, the knitting yarn existing in a feeding path between a yarn feeding mechanism and the carrier is excessively increased and a slack is generated. Since a distance between a yarn feeding port formed at a carrier's frontal end and the knitting needle at the fabric-knitting end is also reduced, the knitting yarn is further increased excessively. The further-excessively-increased knitting yarn is taken in by a yarn feeding means by reversing a servomotor, and further pulled in by a rewinding arm.

Yarn feeding apparatus of weft knitting machine

Two blades () of a slider of a compound needle move back into blade grooves () of a needle body () on the left and right side of a partition wall (). An opening () is provided at the front ends of the blades (), and curved portions () are provided on the backside of the front ends of the blades. Further, a thick section is provided at the front end of the partition wall (), and a thin section is provided on the backside of the thick section. When the blades move forward from the blade grooves, the blades are centered at the thick section so that even if a lateral force is applied from a knitted loop to the blades, deformation of the blades is prevented by the contact of the two blades at the curved portions. In the blade grooves, the curved portions contact the thin section of the partition wall such that the force applied between the blades and the blade grooves does not increase.

Compound needle

A weft knitting machine having a movable sinker capable of securing a large space at a needle bed near a knitting fabric knitting area and making a pause in the state of stopping action on the knitting fabric knitting area. A sinker operating cam mechanism () installed in a carriage acts on the butt () of a sinker jack () to move the sinker jack () backward from a mouth part () so that the acting part () of the movable sinker () can retract from the mouth part (). The sinker jack () is locked to a moved back position by a locking mechanism (). Since a wire () passed through a needle plate () is utilized to lock the sinker jack () in the locking mechanism (), the locking mechanism () can be reduced in size. To lock the sinker jack () to the wire (), the sinker jack () comprises a projection ().

Weft knitting machine having movable sinker

A printing apparatus which includes a printer body having a setting surface on which a printing surface of a printing medium is set horizontally, a carriage beamwhich is attached to the printer body and extends in the direction along the setting surface, and a carriageprovided so as to be movable in the beam lengthwise direction with respect to the carriage beam, and further includes an ink headequipped with a nozzle for discharging ink provided in the carriage, comprises:

Printing device

A stitch presser in a weft knitting machine installed on a carriage that slides in a reciprocating fashion on a needle bed and configured such that a presser bar fitted through a presser bar supporting arm joined to a rotation shaft of a motor is advanced into a mouth portion of the weft knitting machine with an electric power supplied to the motor driving the predetermined presser bar in conjunction with the directional switching of the reciprocating motion of the carriage, including a rotation energizing mechanism for rotating the rotating shaft of the motor to a side retracting the presser bar of the weft knitting machine when the electric power is not supplied to the motor for driving the presser bar advanced into the mouth portion.

Stitch presser in a weft knitting machine

An object of the invention is to be provide a yarn feeding apparatus of a flat knitting machine capable of accurately predicting a required amount of a knitting yarn and knitting a fabric while supplying knitting yarn necessary for knitting. The knitting yarn is fed out based on an idea shown in a solid line in consideration of a yarn speed corresponding to the requirement for knitting yarn produced according to the movement of a yarn feeding member as shown by chain lines in FIG.(). A knitting yarn is stored on a buffer rod at a start of knitting because the speed of a motor such as a servo motor for feeding a knitting yarn lags behind the yarn speed. A knitting yarn that runs short at the time of deceleration at an end of knitting is also fed out in advance.

Yarn feeding device for flat knitting machine

A weft knitting machine with a movable sinker device capable of preventing yarn from being worn caused by repeatedly striking the yarn with a sinker energized by a spring to push down knitting fabric, wherein a stroke to which a yarn locking part () at the tip of a sinker plate () is moved to a tooth port () by the energization of the spring () is increased at a first stage shown in (a) and decreased at a second stage shown in (b), the stroke is limited in (b) by locking a holding locking part () of a holding member () to the holding locking part () of the sinker plate (), and a stage is switched to a second stage at a knitting portion where the yarn locking part () repeatedly strikes the yarn to prevent the yarn from being thinned and fluffed.

Weft knitting machine with movable sinker device

A composite needle of a knitting machine, comprises: a needle body having at a tip end a hook; a slider formed by superposing two blades, wherein the composite needle of the knitting machine is formed such that a blade groove provided in the needle body supports the blades of the slider when the needle body and the slider can separately slide in forward and backward directions; and a dust-collecting plate that is seperately formed from the needle body and that extends, when viewed from a side, from the blade groove of the needle body in an upward direction and to a hook side of the needle such that the dust-collecting plate is provided at a tip end of the slider proximate to the hook.

Composite needle of knitting machine

A tongue () is provided, at a front end thereof, with a drop-loop preventing step (), and the hook () is provided, on an outer edge portion thereof extending from a sharp-pointed tip () of the hook to a top () of the hook, with a loop escape surface () to hide the drop-loop preventing step () when the hook () is closed by the tongue (). In addition, the front end of the tongue is lowered so that a height between a bottom of the needle body and a top of the drop-loop preventing step () is lowered more when the slider is in a knock-over position than before the slider arrives at the knock-over position and also the top of the drop-loop preventing step () positioned at the knocked-over position can be positioned at a lower level than the top () of the hook. This can allow can allow a further smooth knock-over of the loop without negative effects on the yarn feed requirements for the capture of the yarn by the needle hook.

Composite needs

A yarn carrieris capable of being engaged with a pinprotruding from a carriageat two engagement pointsseparated by a delay amount &#x394;L with respect to a center, respectively. Assuming that the carriageapproaches from the right with the pinprotruding in order to select and haul the yarn carrierstationary on a yarn guide rail, the tip of the pinis guided on a guide portionof an oscillating piece, and a tip portionprevents engagement with the engagement pointby making oscillation displacement about a shaftThe pinis guided to the engagement pointby guide portionsof oscillating platesand abuts on a tip portionof an oscillating piecewhich is engaged with the front side of the pinThe oscillating platealso departs from the pinand a tip portionascends to be engaged with the rear side of the pin

Yarn carrier of weft knitting device

In a loop length controller for a flat knitting machine adapted to set a loop length of a knitting fabric by raising or lowering, via a raising and lowering device, a stitch cam attached to a carriage that slides on a needle bed to slidably operate knitting needles forward and backward, the raising and lowering device is provided with a driving motor and a converting mechanism for converting rotational motion of the driving motor into ascent and descent of the stitch cam, wherein the converting mechanism is configured such that the ascending and descending amount of the stitch cam with respect to the rotational amount of the driving motor differs between a side for a larger drawing-in amount of knitting needles for loops of longer length and a side for a smaller drawing-in amount of knitting needles for loops of shorter length.

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Wakayama, Japan

Toshiaki Morita