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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
May. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Rolf Willmer, Albstadt, DE;
Assignee:
SIPRA Patententwicklungs- u. Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Albstadt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D04B 9/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D04B 9/10 ;
Abstract
A knitting machine (,) comprises a shaft (,) with a recess (,) in which a selection element (,) provided with a controllable raising butt (,) is mounted swivellably and can be swivelled to and fro between a position in which the raising butt (,) is retracted into the recess (,) and a position in which the raising butt (,) projects forwards over the front side of the shaft (,). A spring (,), which can be attached to the selection element (,) or the shaft (,), serves to pre-tension the selection element (,) into one of these two positions (FIG. 1).