Sulzer Morat Gmbh

Wolfgang Kolb

Peter Artzt

Gerhard Egbers

Klaus Kunde

Erwin Schaberle

Helmut Grimm

Adolf Seidel

Peter Wachsmuth

Helmut Hascher

Heinrich K Elsasser

The invention relates to a circular knitting machine for the production of knit goods with combed-in fibers, having a rotatable, needle-bearing needle cylinder and a card which has a means for feeding the fibers, a comb-in zone through which the needles pass for the purpose of contactlessly receiving the fibers, and a teasing cylinder rotating at high speed which takes the fibers from the feed means and yields them to the comb-in zone. To prevent thin areas or thick areas from being produced in the finished goods on account of the contactless fiber loading, the circular knitting machine has a protective device (60) which becomes active in the still state of the needle cylinder for the purpose of retaining the already combed-in fiber tufts (57) in the needles (3) which are in the comb-in zone in the still state of the needle cylinder.

Circular knitting machine for producing knit goods with combed-in fibers

The invention concerns a process and a circular knitting machine for the production of knit goods with combed-in fibers, in which an amount of fibers synchronous with the needle cylinder rotatory speed is fed to a teasing cylinder rotating at high speed, transferred by the latter to the comb-in zone, and taken from the needles in the comb-in zone without contacting the teasing cylinder. To prevent the development of areas overfilled with fibers or short of fibers in the finished knit goods on account of the contact-less fiber feed, during or before abrupt reductions or increases in the rotatory speed of the needle cylinder, at least temporarily smaller or larger amounts of fibers are fed to the comb-in zone than corresponds to the synchronous amount of fibers.

Method and circular knitting machine for producing knit goods with

The invention relates to a magnetic patterning system on a knitting machine, which has knitting tools which are selectable independently of one another. The patterning system comprises ferromagnetic control elements associated with the knitting tools, an electromagnetic control pole which can be excited according to a pattern, and at least one permanent holding pole, the selection of the knitting tools being performed by relative motion between the control elements and the control pole and the holding pole during which motion the control elements adhere or do not adhere to the holding pole depending on the state of excitation of the control pole. To prevent the control elements from having to be already swung or shifted in the area of the control pole, the control pole is designed as a pole for only addressing address sections of the control elements in order to magnetize them, according to the pattern, to remanent north poles or south poles, while the holding pole is designed as a sorting pole in order to attract or repel the address sections according to their remanent magnetization.

Electromagnetic patterning system on a knitting machine

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Reutlingen, Germany

Wolfgang Kolb