摘要:
Apparatus for detecting broken hooks of needles in a knitting machine having first and second cam faces defining a cam for slidably receiving needle butts. The cam includes a raising cam portion, a stitch cam portion, and a gate cam portion in which tension forces between yarn loops and hooks bias the butts of intact needles against the first cam face. The detector has a detector butt raising segment wherein the second cam face in the gate cam portion is inclined away from the second cam face at the stitch position for urging butts toward the first cam face. A detector butt lowering segment follows the detector butt raising segment, in which the first cam face urges the butts toward the second cam face. A recess segment follows the butt lowering segment. The recess is formed so that the second cam face is sufficiently spaced from the first cam face so that butts of needles having broken hooks are urged into the recess segment by the detector butt lowering segment but butts of intact needles that are biased against the first cam face do not enter the detector recess segment. A sensor identifies butts of broken needles in the detector recess segment. The apparatus may further include means for stopping operation of the knitting machine when the sensor is activated. A method for detecting broken hooks is also provided.
摘要:
The knitting machine is provided with latch detector means for detecting a latch improperly positioned in a closed position and for signaling when such a condition occurs. A trigger lever (30) having a free inner end (31) is normally positioned in an operative latch detecting position (FIG. 3) immediately below the path of travel of the hooked upper ends (10) of the needles N so that a latch (11) in the proper open position will not engage and trip the trigger lever (30) while a latch (11) in an improper closed position will engage and trip the trigger lever (30). A tension spring (45) is provided to immediately move the trigger lever (30) to the inoperative position (FIG. 4) with the inner free end (31) outwardly and away from the path of travel of the needles N upon being engaged by a latch in an improper closed position.
摘要:
A detection and control apparatus for a textile machine having a coil through the field of which the machine needles pass individually and a pair of coupled oscillators operating in frequency step with the phase change due to a broken or damaged needle passing through the field of the coil detected as the modulation on the oscillation to control stopping the machine.
摘要:
A stopping apparatus for a rectilinear knitting machine comprising at least two needlebed parts arranged in roof form and provided with needles, a carriage being displaced in an oscillating movement above the frame parts for the control of the needles during its displacement in alternating directions, and at least one apparatus forming one piece with said knitting carriage to move the fabric away from the knitting area of the needles, said stopping means comprising a switch feed means arranged parallel with the direction of movement of the knitting carriage and control means for this switch.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for detecting defective knitting needles in a circular knitting machine wherein the knitting needles are advanced along a circular path between a light source and upper and lower vertically spaced photoelectric detector devices. The direction of the light beams from the source to the two photoelectric devices is inclined at an angle to the tangent of the circular path at the beam intercept with the circular path, such that the advancing needles pass successively through the beams and a shadow of the hook end of each needle is cast on the upper photoelectric device before any shadow of any other part of the needle is cast on the lower photoelectric device, when a nondefective intact needle enters the beams. Needles with broken off hooks or closed needle latches cause a shadow to be cast on the lower photoelectric device before any shadow reaches the upper photoelectric device to activate an alarm and/or stop the knitting machine. A third photoelectric device may be positioned to receive a shadow of a different needle from the one being inspected by the upper and lower photoelectric devices to detect needles broken off too low to cast a shadow on the lower photoelectric device.
摘要:
In a knitting machine having at least two co-operating arrays of independently actuable latch needles arranged in opposed needle beds, a carrier located above the needle beds and movable longitudinally of the needle beds and a hold-down element supported from the carrier for holding down knitted loops as the needles rise, the carrier is mounted so as to be capable of movement between a first level and a second level which is raised in relation to the first level. Movement of the carrier to said second level, caused for example by the hold-down element striking a needle which has failed to descend, is employed to actuate means for producing a warning signal and/or for stopping the knitting machine.
摘要:
An apparatus for detecting faulty needles on an operating loom, particularly an operating hosiery loom. The apparatus comprises at least one magnetic detector, for example a Hall effect probe, mounted so that the needles of the loom pass successively in front of it during operation of the loom, and an associated electronic circuit for receiving signals from the or each detector, identifying those signals indicative of a defective needle, and providing a control signal for stopping the loom when such a signal is identified.
摘要:
Mounting for an optical device to be precisely adjusted on a fixed frame, such as an optical needle-checking device in circular knitting machines comprising a spherical joint which permits movement in all directions as well as distance adjustment and rotation around the axis of the optical device, said joint having a ball connected with the optical device which is mounted lockably and unlockably on a fixed support.