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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1996
Filed:
May. 01, 1995
Shima Seiki Manufacturing Limited, Wakayama, JP;
Abstract
A knitting yarn feeding apparatus has a base body provided along the longitudinal direction of a front needle bed and a rear needle bed, and plural lace bars movable reciprocally on the base body in the longitudinal direction. Holding blocks are easily attached to and detached from the lace bars. Plural feeder tubes, are detachably fitted to each holding block. From the front end of the feeder tubes, knitting yarn is supplied to the knitting needles of the front needle bed, and the lapping motion is effected by the reciprocal drive of the lace bar in the longitudinal direction. Moreover, the knitting yarn feeding apparatus oscillates and displaces about a swing shaft by an oscillating mechanism provided beneath the front needle bed 11 and rear needle bed, and the front ends of the feeder tubes make a swing motion.