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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2005
Filed:
May. 01, 2003
Toshiaki Morita, Wakayama, JP;
Toshinori Nakamori, Wakayama, JP;
Toshiaki Morita, Wakayama, JP;
Toshinori Nakamori, Wakayama, JP;
Shima Seiki Manufacturing Limited, Wakayama, JP;
Abstract
A weft knitting machine with a movable sinker device capable of preventing yarn from being worn caused by repeatedly striking the yarn with a sinker energized by a spring to push down knitting fabric, wherein a stroke to which a yarn locking part () at the tip of a sinker plate () is moved to a tooth port () by the energization of the spring () is increased at a first stage shown in (a) and decreased at a second stage shown in (b), the stroke is limited in (b) by locking a holding locking part () of a holding member () to the holding locking part () of the sinker plate (), and a stage is switched to a second stage at a knitting portion where the yarn locking part () repeatedly strikes the yarn to prevent the yarn from being thinned and fluffed.