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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1988
H. Stoll GmbH & Co., Reutlingen, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus for controlling the carriage drive motor of a flat-bed knitting machine is provided with a device used for activating, accelerating and turning off the carriage drive motor. The apparatus has at least one manually operable handlebar, essentially extending along a longitudinal section of the machine. The handlebar is mechanically connected to the device which causes the activation, acceleration or turning off of the motor. In order to make possible by means of the already present manually operable handlebar not only the activation and turning off of the carriage movement, but at the same time a continuous adjustment of the speed of the drive motor or of the carriage along the needle bed from a very slow creep rate to working speed, it has been provided that the device causing the activation, acceleration or turning off of the motor have an electrical transducer which can be continuously adjusted by means of the handlebar and that the output of the transducer is a measure for the relative change to the present working speed.