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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 1984
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1981
Peter Artzt, Reutlingen, DE;
Gerhard Egbers, Reutlingen, DE;
Helmut Grimm, Neckartailfingen, DE;
Klaus Kunde, Kohlberg, DE;
Anton Schenek, Bremen-Groblingen, DE;
Adolf Seidel, Reutlingen, DE;
Sulzer Morat GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
Circular knitting machine for the manufacture of knit wares of hosiery with combed-in fibers, having at least one needle bed possessing knitting needles and having at least one carding machine which possesses a feed apparatus for a band of fibers, a combing-in zone, through which the knitting needles pass, for the contact less insertions of fibers into the knitting needles, and a separating apparatus for separating the band of fibers into individual fibers. The separating device comprises a separating drum that can be driven at high peripheral speed and is provided with a fitting (card wires) for which a drive mechanism is provided that is independent of the knitting machine drive mechanism. Opposite the peripheral surface of the separating drum is a cover which possesses an entrance opening for the band of fibers brought by the feed device and an exit opening for the separated fibers that opens into the combing-in zone, and which encloses the fitting, (card wires) in a separating and accelerating section disposed in the direction of rotation between the entrance opening and the exit opening, so closely that a detachment of the fibers in this separating and accelerating section is prevented.