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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1993
Ikuhito Hirai, Wakayama, JP;
Takekazu Shibuta, Wakayama, JP;
Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd., Wakayama, JP;
Abstract
A flat knitting machine with a transferring mechanism comprising a pair of needle beds arranged facing each other to form an inverted V-shaped form in a side view and to form an aperture between adjoining end portions of the needle beds, knitting needles arranged in needle grooves formed on the needle beds, a yarn feeder arranged above the aperture between the needle beds, each carriage being reciprocally movable on each of the needle beds and having cam surface on a lower surface of the carriage for moving the knitting needles forward and backward, each transferring jack bed is supported by a supporting member above each of the needle beds, a transferring jack having a transfer jack selected member and arranged swingably and movably forward and backward in a jack groove formed on each transferring bed, and a transfer jack selecting unit acting on the transfer jack selected member and arranged at an edge portion of the carriage, which is adjoining to the aperture. The needle bed and the transferring jack bed are relatively movable.