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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2003
Toshiaki Morita, Wakayama, JP;
Ikuhito Hirai, Wakayama, JP;
Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd., Wakayama, JP;
Abstract
In a loop length controller for a flat knitting machine adapted to set a loop length of a knitting fabric by raising or lowering, via a raising and lowering device, a stitch cam attached to a carriage that slides on a needle bed to slidably operate knitting needles forward and backward, the raising and lowering device is provided with a driving motor and a converting mechanism for converting rotational motion of the driving motor into ascent and descent of the stitch cam, wherein the converting mechanism is configured such that the ascending and descending amount of the stitch cam with respect to the rotational amount of the driving motor differs between a side for a larger drawing-in amount of knitting needles for loops of longer length and a side for a smaller drawing-in amount of knitting needles for loops of shorter length.