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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1997
Uwe Hennig, Burladingen, DE;
Klaus Wagner, Albstadt, DE;
Bernhard Schuler, Sonnenbuhl, DE;
Hans Lebherz, Bitz, DE;
Siegfried Wissmann, Albstadt-Pfeffingen, DE;
Albert Teufel, Veringenstadt, DE;
Thomas Bregel, Strassberg, DE;
Groz-Beckert KG, Albstadt, DE;
Abstract
A stamped knitting tool, such as a latch needle, has, on its shank, a lubricant distributing arrangement formed on at least one of the opposite broad shank faces for collecting a lubricant therein during operation of the knitting tool. The lubricant distributing arrangement is constituted by a region of reduced shank thickness extending transversely to the shank length from a distance from the upper shank edge at least substantially to the lower shank edge. The region of reduced shank thickness may be a chamfer, a recess or a depression.