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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2000
Filed:
May. 12, 1999
Ernst-Dieter Plath, Albstadt, DE;
Sipra Patententwicklungs - U. Beteiligungsellschaft mbH, Albstadt, DE;
Abstract
A knitting machine contains at least one knitting tool carrier for knitting tools (9) with a needle distance t, an associated knitting cam assembly (12, 13), the carrier and the knitting cam assembly being moveable relative to one another and the knitting cam assembly containing a plurality of systems (I, II) lying one behind the other in the direction of movement (v) which systems having respectively a first and a second selection point, lying one behind the other in the direction of movement (v), with one electrically controllable selection member (44, 52), a timing signal-generating device (56, 60) for producing timing signals and a programme control device (53) for producing electric control signals for the control members (44, 52). According to the invention, the spacings between the first and the second selection members (44 or 52) are identical to one another and are chosen to correspond to an integer multiple of the distance t, while the spacings between the first and second selection members (44, 52) are identical in all of the systems (I, II) and are greater or smaller by a fraction x or y of the distance t than corresponds to integer multiple of the distance t. The timing signal-generating device (56, 60) is set to product a first and a second timing signal sequence containing the first or second timing signals which have temporal intervals corresponding to the distance t but which are offset relative to one another temporally by a value corresponding to the fraction x.t or y.t, one of the timing signal sequences being assigned to the first selection members (44) and the other timing signal sequence being assigned to the second selection members (52) (FIG. 8).