摘要:
An apparatus and a control method for adapting moving bodies to high-speed operation of a pattern making device for a warp knitting machine which is adapted to carry out a patterning operation by providing an arbitrary number of moving bodies, at least some of which constitute guide points, in a guide path so that the moving bodies can be moved on the basis of the driving means, and displacing each guide point on an arbitrary direction by a desired amount on the basis of a signal from an electronic controller to each moving body and thereby positioning the same, characterized in that an auxiliary driving means for supplementing the driving force from the driving means when the pattern device is started and operated in accordance with the lapping of the moving bodies is additionally provided. For example, the supplementing of the driving force is done by utilizing a force of the pressure air blown out and diffused from nozzles provided on some of the moving bodies, or blowing air from a nozzle directed to the moving bodies. A signal sent to the moving bodies, for example, a pulse signal is set to one pulse per gauge pitch, whereby a position in which the moving bodies are to be stopped is reliably set between knitting needles.