JP5788675B2 - Flat knitting machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a flat knitting machine that is more excellent in knitting efficiency than conventional ones.

  The flat knitting machine includes at least a pair of front and rear needle beds, a knitting needle disposed in each of a large number of needle grooves arranged in parallel to each needle bed, and a carriage that reciprocates along the longitudinal direction of the needle bed ( For example, see Patent Documents 1 and 2.) A cam system is mounted on the carriage, and this cam system causes the knitting needles to perform knitting operations (knit, tack, miss, and delivery of stitches between the front and back needle beds).

  These knitting operations are performed by controlling the operation of the knitting needles with a needle selection actuator provided on the carriage together with the cam system. FIG. 5 is a schematic explanatory view showing a correspondence state between the knitting needle 100 and the cam system 200. In FIG. 5, only a part of the cam system 200 is shown for convenience of explanation. Further, in the drawing, a traveling trajectory drawn on the cam system 200 by a part of the bats provided on the knitting needle when the stitch is transferred is shown.

  The knitting needle 100 of the flat knitting machine shown in Patent Literatures 1 and 2 includes a needle body 1 having a hook, a needle jack 2 that advances and retracts the needle body 1 in the longitudinal direction of the needle groove, and whether or not the needle jack 2 is advanced and retracted. It has a select jack 3 to be controlled and a selector 4 for changing the position of the select jack 3 in the longitudinal direction of the needle groove. Such a knitting needle 100 receives a two-stage needle selection by the swing type or direct acting type needle selection actuator 99 and performs a knitting operation according to the result of the needle selection and the state of the cam system 200. The needle selection of the knitting needle 100 is performed by changing the position of the select jack 3 in the longitudinal direction of the needle groove by the selector 4 selected by the needle selection actuator 99. There are three positions of the select jack 3; the B position, the H position on the tooth mouth side (needle body 1 side) from the B position, and the A position on the tooth mouth side from the H position.

  The needle jack 2 that moves the needle body 1 along the needle groove according to the position of the select jack 3 is provided with a knitting butt 21 and a transfer bat 22. When the cam system 200 acts on the bats 21 and 22, the needle jack 2 moves forward and backward along the needle groove, and the knitting operation is performed. As an example, an operation of receiving a stitch from an opposing knitting needle and an operation of transferring the stitch to the opposing knitting needle will be described.

  First, the stitch receiving operation will be described. In performing the stitch receiving operation, the select jack 3 is in the H position (first position) after the first stage of needle selection, and the movable needle raising cam 83 of the cam system 200 is in the collapsed state, the transfer cam 88, 89 is in the extended state (the cam 89 is always in the extended state and not in the sunk state), and the half pressers 91 and 92 are arranged on the traveling track of the selection bat 31 formed at the tip of the select jack 3 and are tack pressers. The (selection presser) 90 is retracted from the traveling track.

  When the carriage travels in such an arrangement, the selection butt 31 is sunk into the needle groove by the half presser 91 of the cam system 200, whereby the tip portion of the select jack 3 bends the middle portion of the needle jack 2. The knitting bat 21 of the needle jack 2 is submerged in the needle groove. As a result, the fixed needle raising cam 80 does not act on the knitting butt 21 of the needle jack 2, and the needle jack 2 does not move along the needle groove.

  Next, when the selection bat 31 finishes passing through the half presser 91 on the traveling track, the selection bat 31 rises from the needle groove, and accordingly both the bats 21 and 22 provided in the needle jack 2 also move from the needle groove. Surface. As a result, the receiving transfer cam 81 formed at the intermediate portion of the fixed needle raising cam 80 acts on the knitting butt 21, and after the needle body 1 is pushed up to the mouth side, The lower end surface of the transfer cam 88 acts and the needle body 1 is pulled down in the direction away from the tooth opening, and the stitch receiving operation is completed. Thereafter, the selection bat 31 is sunk into the needle groove by the half presser 92, whereby the knitting butt 21 passes through the mountain cam 86 without contacting the mountain cam 86.

  Next, the stitch transfer operation will be described. When performing the stitch transfer operation, the select jack 3 is moved to the H position through the first stage of needle selection and then to the A position (second position) through the second stage of needle selection. The raising cam 83 is in the collapsed state, and the transfer cams 88 and 89 are in the extended state. The half pressers 91 and 92 and the tack presser 90 do not overlap the A position traveling track even in a state of being retracted from the H position traveling track. .

  When the carriage travels in the above-described arrangement, the selection bat 31 is never submerged in the needle groove, and the bats 21 and 22 draw a travel trajectory along the cam system 200 as shown in the figure. The passing operation is performed.

Japanese Patent Publication No. 2-10262 International Publication No. 2007/074944

  In recent years, further improvement in knitting efficiency in flat knitting machines has been desired, and it has been considered to review the arrangement and shape of each cam provided in an existing cam system.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a flat knitting machine capable of further improving the knitting efficiency as compared with the conventional art.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present inventor paid attention to the configuration of the half presser as a result of the following investigation.

  In the knitting process, a plurality of knitting needles 100 that have been in the H position after the first stage of needle selection, a knitting needle 100 that remains in the H position in the second stage of needle selection, and a knitting needle that has been changed from the H position to the A position. There are cases in which 100 is assigned. This applies to the case where stitches are transferred in both directions between the front and back needle beds in the same knitting course. As already described, the knitting needle 100 passing the stitch is in the A position, and the knitting needle 100 receiving the stitch is in the H position.

  In order to raise the select jack 3 from the H position to the A position, the selection butt 31 needs to be pushed up to the A position where the half presser 91 does not act before the selection butt 31 is submerged into the needle groove by the half presser 91. There is. Therefore, the branch point BP at which the selection butt 31 transitions from the H position (first position) to the A position (second position) is outside the half presser 91 (the center line of the cam system 200 indicated by the one-dot chain line in FIG. 5). Must be located on the side away from the That is, the position of the selector raising cam (raised bat raising cam) 87 that pushes up the raising butt 41 of the selector 4 toward the tooth opening side and the position of the needle selection actuator 99 are defined by the half presser 91. For reference, in FIG. 5, the position where the half presser 91 begins to act on the selection bat 31 (right dotted line) and the position where the selector raising cam 87 which makes the select jack 3 the A position begins to act on the raising butt 41 (left side). (Dotted line).

  Here, as can be seen from FIG. 5, the leading half presser 91 has the selection butt 31 submerged in the needle groove long before the knitting butt 21 contacts the fixed needle raising cam 80. . That is, it can be said that the half presser 91 is longer than the length necessary for the preceding half presser. This is because when the knitting direction is changed and the half presser 91 becomes the trailing half presser, the half presser 91 needs to have a length necessary for the trailing half presser. . The half presser 92 on the trailing side of the knitting is used for avoiding the pulling of the knitting needle 100 by the degree cam 86, and at that time, the knitting bat 21 needs to be long enough to pass the degree cam 86. Become. Therefore, the half presser 91 is designed so that when the half presser 91 becomes the trailing half presser, the knitting butt 21 has a length that allows the knitting butt 21 to pass through the angle mountain cam 85 reliably.

  Based on the examination described above, the present inventor has reviewed the configuration of the half presser and completed the flat knitting machine of the present invention. The flat knitting machine of the present invention is defined below.

  The flat knitting machine of the present invention acts on at least a pair of front and back needle beds, a knitting needle disposed in each of a plurality of needle grooves juxtaposed in the longitudinal direction of each needle bed, and a plurality of bats provided on the knitting needle, thereby And a cam system that causes the knitting needle to perform a knitting operation by advancing and retreating the needle in the longitudinal direction of the needle groove, and the cam system reciprocates along the longitudinal direction of the needle bed when knitting the knitted fabric.

  The knitting needle of the flat knitting machine includes a knitting bat, a selection bat, and a raising bat. The knitting bat advances and retracts the knitting needle by the action of the cam system. The selection bat can sequentially take at least two positions of the first position and the second position in the longitudinal direction of the knitting needle toward the tooth mouth side, and varies the knitting operation performed on the knitting needle according to the position. The raising bat changes the position of the selection bat.

  The cam system of the flat knitting machine includes a needle raising cam, a pair of mountain cams provided on the left and right sides of the needle raising cam, a pair of left and right selection pressers, and a pair of left and right raised butt raising cams. The needle raising cam acts on the knitting bat to advance the knitting needle when the selection bat is in the second position. The Washiyama cam retracts the advanced knitting needle by the action of the needle raising cam. Both the selection pressers are in an operating state in which when the selection bat is in the first position, the selection bat protrudes on the traveling track of the selection bat and sinks the selection bat into the needle groove, and does not protrude on the traveling track. It is possible to take two states of non-acting that do not act on the selection bat. The raising bat raising cam moves the selection butt from the first position to the second position by pushing the raising butt toward the mouth.

  In the flat knitting machine of the present invention having the above-described configuration, the both selection pressers are arranged so that the knitting bat is placed in the needle groove so that the knitting butt does not act on the mountain cam when the cam system is in the trailing direction of the cam system. In order to sink into the needle groove, the length of the selection bat is set into the needle groove. Further, in the flat knitting machine of the present invention, the branching point at which the selection butt transitions from the first position to the second position as the butt raising cam acts on the raising bat on the preceding side in the traveling direction is selected on the leading side. The raising butt raising cam is positioned so as to overlap the presser. The flat knitting machine of the present invention includes a retraction mechanism that retreats part or all of the selected presser from a position overlapping with the branch point.

As one form of the flat knitting machine of the present invention, both selection pressers may be divided into two parts, an outer divided presser located at a position away from the center line of the cam system and an inner divided presser located at a position near the center line. . In that case, the retracting mechanism is configured to switch each divided presser independently between an operating state and a non-operating state. In this flat knitting machine, the raised butt-raising cam is positioned so that the raised butt-raising cam acts on the raised bat between the following (1) and (2).
(1) A position at which the outer divided presser acts on the selection bat when the outer divided presser is in the operating state.
(2) A position at which the inner divided presser acts on the selection bat when only the inner divided presser is in an operating state.

  As one form of this invention flat knitting machine provided with a division | segmentation presser, the inner side division presser may be provided with the overhang | projection part which protrudes toward the outer side division presser and overlaps with an outer side division presser. In that case, it is preferable that the overhang portion has an inclined surface that is gently inclined toward the edge.

  Moreover, when it is set as the inner side division presser provided with an overhang | projection part, an overhang | projection part has a front-end | tip part and the 1st thin part formed thinner than the front-end | tip part, and an outer side division presser is a 1st thin-wall part. It is preferable to have the 2nd thin part thinly formed corresponding to, and the recessed part which receives a front-end | tip part.

Further, as one form of the flat knitting machine of the present invention, the retraction mechanism may be configured to slide both the selection pressers in a direction along the traveling track from the position overlapping the branch point toward the center line of the cam system. In this flat knitting machine, between the following (3) and (4), the raising bat raising cam is positioned so that the raising bat raising cam acts on the raising butt.
(3) A position where the selection presser acts on the selection bat when the selection presser slides away from the center line of the cam system on the traveling track.
(4) A position where the selection presser acts on the selection bat when the selection presser slides on the traveling track toward the center line of the cam system.

  According to the flat knitting machine of the present invention, the position where the selection presser on the preceding side acts on the selection bat in the first position can be brought closer to the center line side of the cam system than before. That is, the position of the raising bat-raising cam that changes the selection bat from the first position to the second position and the needle selection actuator can be brought closer to the center line side of the cam system than before. Then, the pitch from one cam system to the next cam system can be reduced by the amount corresponding to these arrangements. As a result, the reciprocating stroke of the carriage can be shortened, so that the knitting efficiency can be improved. Further, since the pitch between the cam systems is clogged, the carriage can be reduced in size and weight, so that the knitting speed can also be improved.

It is a schematic explanatory drawing which shows the corresponding state of the knitting needle and cam system in the flat knitting machine described in Embodiment 1. It is a schematic block diagram of the selection presser which consists of two division | segmentation pressers used in FIG. 1, (A) is a front view of an outside division presser, (B) is a bottom view of (A), (C) is an inside presser. Front view, (D) is a bottom view of (C), and (E) is a front view when an outer divided presser and an inner divided presser are combined. It is a schematic explanatory drawing which shows the corresponding state of the knitting needle and cam system in the flat knitting machine described in Embodiment 2. FIG. 4 is a schematic configuration diagram of a selection presser configured to be slidable in the moving direction of the carriage used in FIG. 3, wherein (A) is a front view of the selection presser, and (B) is a bottom view of (A). It is a schematic block diagram which shows the corresponding state of the knitting needle and cam system in the conventional flat knitting machine.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The flat knitting machine of the present invention is characterized by the configuration of a half presser (selection presser) and a selector raising cam (raised bat raising cam) in the cam system, and other configurations are the same as the conventional flat knitting machine shown in FIG. Same as knitting machine. Accordingly, in the following embodiment, differences from the conventional flat knitting machine will be mainly described. 1 and 3 is a center line of the cam system.

<Embodiment 1>
The half pressers 7 and 8 of this embodiment shown in FIG. 1 have the same length in the left-right direction on the paper surface as the conventional half pressers 91 and 92 shown in FIG. Further, the arrangement is the same as the conventional one. The difference from the prior art is that these half pressers 7 and 8 are arranged in the direction along the traveling track of the selection bat 31 in the H position (first position) and the outer divided presser 7A (8A) and the inner divided presser 7B (8B). ) And is divided into two. The inner split presser 7B arranged on the center line side of the cam system 200 causes the selection butt 31 to sink into the needle groove before the knitting butt 21 contacts the fixed needle raising cam 80, thereby knitting. The bat 21 is formed in such a length that it can be submerged in the needle groove. These outer divided pressers 7A and (8A) can be swung in the vertical direction on the paper surface independently of the inner divided presser 7B (8B) by a retracting mechanism constituted by an appropriate actuator such as a solenoid. Yes. However, only the outer presser 7A (8A) does not remain in the operating state.

  First, a detailed configuration of the half pressers 7 and 8 will be described with reference to FIG. Since the half pressers 7 and 8 are symmetrical to each other, only the half presser 7 is shown in FIG.

  2A and 2C, both the outer divided presser 7A and the inner divided presser 7B are flat members, and the lower end surfaces shown in FIGS. 2B and 2D protrude from the cam plate. (See also FIG. 1).

  The outer divided presser 7A has a recess 71 formed of a through-hole penetrating the outer divided presser 7A in the thickness direction, and an edge of the recess 71 on the inner divided presser 7B side toward an edge on the right side of the outer divided presser 7A. And a thin portion (second thin portion) 72 formed. In addition, since the recessed part 71 should just be formed so that the front-end | tip part 75 of the inner side division presser 7B mentioned later can be engage | inserted, it may be a mere hollow instead of a through-hole.

  Further, of the lower end surface of the outer divided presser 7A, the portion from the intermediate portion in the width direction of the outer divided presser 7A to the edge opposite to the thin portion 72 is the longitudinal direction of the outer divided presser 7A, that is, FIG. Inclined toward the back of the paper. By the inclination of the inclined surface 70, the selection bat 31 can be smoothly sunk into the needle groove without being damaged.

  On the other hand, the inner division presser 7B is formed with an overhang portion 73 that projects to the outer division presser 7A side. A thin portion (first thin portion) 74 that is thinner than the other portions is formed at an intermediate portion of the overhang portion 73. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 2E, when the outer divided presser 7A and the inner divided presser 7B overlap to form one half presser 7, the thin portions 72 and 74 overlap. At that time, the distal end portion 75 at the distal end of the overhanging portion 73 relative to the thin portion 74 is disposed in the concave portion 71 of the outer divided presser 7A, and the thickness and strength of the entire half presser 7 are ensured. By such a configuration of the overhanging portion 73 of the inner divided presser 7B and the outer divided presser 7A, the engagement of both the divided pressers 7A and 7B can be strengthened. Even if the overhanging portion 73 overlaps the outer divided presser 7A, the step formed between the inner divided presser 7B and the outer divided presser 7A can be reduced. If the level difference is large, when the divided pressors 7A and 7B are combined to form the half presser 7, any divided presser may not act on the selection bat 31.

  Further, both sides of the lower end surface of the inner divided presser 7B are inclined toward the upper end side of the inner divided presser 7B toward the edge in the width direction of the inner divided presser 7B. The inclined surfaces 78 and 79 formed by this inclination are for smoothly sinking the selection bat 31 into the needle bed, similarly to the inclined surface 70 of the outer divided presser 7A. In addition, since the inclined surface 78 includes the front end portion 75 having a predetermined thickness, the inclined surface 78 has sufficient strength.

On the other hand, the selector raising cam 87 of the present embodiment has the same shape as the conventional one, but the position in the cam system 200 is closer to the center line side of the cam system 200 than the conventional one (see FIG. 1). The position is determined so that the selector raising cam 87 starts to act on the raising butt 41 between the following (1) and (2). This position is the position of the center dotted line among the three dotted lines extending in the vertical direction in the figure, and is the position of the branch point BP where the selection butt 31 transitions from the H position to the A position.
(1) The position of the dotted line on the left side in the figure. This position is a position at which the outer divided presser 7A acts on the selection bat 31 when the outer divided presser 7A is in the operating state.
(2) The position of the dotted line on the right side in the figure. This position is a position at which the inner divided presser 7B acts on the selection butt 31 when only the inner divided presser 7B is in the operating state.
The reason why the positions (1) and (2) do not coincide with the left end of each divided presser 7A (7B) is that an inclined surface 70 (78) (see FIG. 2) is formed at the left end of each divided presser 7A. Because.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 1, the travel trajectory of each bat provided on the knitting needle when the stitch is transferred bi-directionally between the front and back needle beds will be described. In that case, the outer divided presser 7A of the preceding half presser 7 is in an inoperative state arranged at a position deviating from the traveling track of the selection bat 31, and the inner divided presser 7B is in an activated state arranged on the traveling track. It becomes. The tack presser 90 is in an inoperative state, both divided pressors 8A and 8B of the trailing half presser 8 are in an active state, the movable needle raising cam 83 is in a retracted state, and the transfer cam 88 is in an extended state.

  In the knitting needle 100 in which the select jack 3 remains in the H position with respect to the cam system 200 in the above-described state, the selection butt 31 is sunk into the needle groove by the inner divided presser 7B. The position where the selection bat 31 is sunk (hereinafter referred to as the “sink position”) is closer to the center line side of the cam system 200 than the half presser 7 in which the divided pressors 7A and 7B are integrated. Further, since the sinking position is close to the center line side of the cam system 200, the position where the select jack 3 is pushed up from the H position to the A position can also be close to the center line side of the cam system 200. Since the length and position of the half presser 7 are the same as those of the conventional half presser 91 with reference to FIG. 5, in the flat knitting machine of this embodiment, the selector raising cam 87 and the needle selection actuator for pushing the selector 4 to the mouth side. 99 is closer to the center line side of the cam system 200 than in the prior art. As a result, the pitch between the cam system 200 in the carriage and the cam system (not shown) adjacent to the cam system 200 can be reduced, and the reciprocating stroke of the carriage can be shortened, resulting in improved knitting efficiency. Can do. In addition, since the pitch between adjacent cam systems is clogged, the carriage on which the cam system is mounted can be made compact.

  Since the outer divided presser 8A is in the operating state in the rear half presser 8, the knitting bat 21 can pass through the mountain cam 86 reliably without being pulled down by the mountain cam 86. Therefore, in the stitch receiving operation, the knitting needle 100 that has received the stitch is not pulled down by the degree cam 86.

<Embodiment 2>
In the second embodiment, a flat knitting machine including a half presser different from the first embodiment will be described based on FIGS. The flat knitting machine of the second embodiment, structure Naru以 outside of the half presser is similar to the first embodiment.

  The two half pressers 6 and 6 provided in the flat knitting machine have the same configuration and are made of a single member as in the conventional case. The half pressers 6 and 6 are shorter in the width direction than the conventional half presser 91 shown in FIG. 5, but are configured to be swingable so that the operating state and the non-operating state can be switched in the same manner as the half presser 91. Yes. The swinging direction is the vertical direction in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4B, and the depth direction in FIG. 4A. In addition to such a conventional configuration, the half pressers 6 and 6 include a retracting mechanism configured by an appropriate actuator that slides along the traveling path of the H-position selection pad 31. The half pressors 6 and 6 are arranged in the same manner as the conventional half pressers 91 and 92 shown in FIG. Further, even when the half pressers 6 and 6 are slid to the position closest to the center line, before the knitting butt 21 contacts the fixed needle raising cam 80, the selection bat 31 is submerged in the needle groove. It is like that. As for the configuration for swinging or sliding the half presser, an actuator such as a solenoid may be appropriately employed.

On the other hand, the position of the selector raising cam 87 of this embodiment is determined so that the selector raising cam 87 starts to act on the raising butt 41 between the following (3) and (4). This position is the position of the center dotted line among the three dotted lines extending in the vertical direction in the figure, and is the position of the branch point BP where the selection butt 31 transitions from the H position to the A position.
(3) The position of the dotted line on the left side in the figure. This position is a position at which the half presser 6 acts on the selection bat 31 when the half presser 6 is in the working state and slides to the farthest position from the center line of the cam system 200.
(4) The position of the dotted line on the right side in the figure. This position is a position at which the half presser 6 acts on the selection butt 31 when the half presser 6 is in an operating state and slides to the position closest to the center line of the cam system 200.
The reason why the positions (3) and (4) do not coincide with the left end of the half presser 6 is that an inclined surface 60 (see FIG. 4) is formed at the left end of the half presser 6. Here, the inclined surface 61 is an inclined surface for gradually raising the selection bat 31 from the needle groove.

  Next, the trajectory of each bat provided on the knitting needle when the stitch is transferred bi-directionally between the front and back needle beds will be described with reference to FIG. In this case, the preceding half presser 6 is slid to the center line side of the cam system 200 while being arranged on the traveling track of the selection bat 31, and the trailing half presser 9 is disposed on the traveling track. As it is, it is slid to the side away from the center line of the cam system 200. The tack presser 90 is in an inoperative state, the movable needle raising cam 83 is in a collapsed state, and the transfer cam 88 is in an extended state.

  Also in the cam system 200 in the above-described state, as in the first embodiment, the position where the selection bat 31 is submerged (hereinafter referred to as the “sink position”) is compared with the conventional flat knitting machine with reference to FIG. It can be brought closer to the centerline side of the system 200. In addition, since the sinking position is close to the center line side of the cam system 200, the position where the select jack 3 is pushed up from the H position to the A position can also be close to the center line side of the cam system 200. As a result, for the same reason as in the first embodiment, it is possible to improve the knitting efficiency and make the carriage on which the cam system is mounted compact.

<Embodiment 3>
In the first and second embodiments, the knitting needle 100 is configured by four members, but is not limited to such a configuration. For example, the knitting needle may be composed of two members or three members. In that case, the needle body 1 and other members constitute a knitting needle. In any case, any knitting needle provided with the knitting bat 21, the selection bat 31, and the raising bat 41 may be used.

<Embodiment 4>
In the flat knitting machines of the first and second embodiments, the three positions of the selection bat 31 are distributed through two stages of needle selection, but the flat knitting machine distributes the selection bat 31 into three positions by one stage of needle selection. The configuration of the present invention can also be applied to (see, for example, International Publication WO2004 / 003275 ). Also in this case, among the three positions, the intermediate H position is the first position in the present invention, and the A position is the second position in the present invention.

<Embodiment 5>
In the flat knitting machines of the first to fourth embodiments, the selection butt 31 can take three positions, but the configuration of the present invention is also applied to a flat knitting machine in which the selection butt can take only two positions. can do. In that case, one of the two positions is the first position and the other is the second position.

  The embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be appropriately changed without departing from the gist of the present invention. For example, in the configuration of the first embodiment, the half presser is configured to project and retract in a direction perpendicular to the cam plate, and when the half presser is in the submerged state, the half presser is inactivated to the selection bat. May be. The needle selection actuator may be an electromagnetic adsorption type as shown in Japanese Patent No. 3359514.

7,8, half presser (selection presser)
7A, 8A Outer divided presser 70 Inclined surface 71 Recessed portion 72 Second thin portion 7B, 8B Inner divided presser 73 Overhang portion 74 First thin portion 75 Tip portion 78, 79 Inclined surface 6 Half presser (selective presser)
60, 61 Inclined surface BP Branch point 100 Knitting needle 1 Needle body 2 Needle jack 21 Knitting butt 22 Transfer bat 3 Select jack 31 Selection butt 4 Selector 41 Lifting butt 200 Cam system 80 Fixed needle raising cam 81 Receiving transfer cam 83 Movable needle raising cam 85, 86 Degree cam 87 Raising butt raising cam 88, 89 Transfer cam 90 Tuck presser 91, 92 Half presser (selection presser)
99 Needle selection actuator

Claims (5)

At least a pair of front and back needle beds,
Knitting needles arranged in each of a plurality of needle grooves arranged in parallel in the longitudinal direction of each needle bed;
A cam system that acts on a plurality of bats provided in the knitting needle and causes the knitting needle to perform a knitting operation by moving the knitting needle in the longitudinal direction of the needle groove,
The knitting needle is
A knitting bat that advances and retracts the knitting needle by the cam system acting;
A bat for selection which can take at least two positions of the first position and the second position sequentially toward the mouth side in the longitudinal direction of the knitting needle, and makes the knitting operation to be performed by the knitting needle different according to the position;
A raised bat for changing the position of the selection bat;
Have
The cam system
A needle raising cam that acts on the knitting bat to advance the knitting needle when the selection bat is in the second position;
A pair of left and right needle raising cams, and a mountain cam that retracts the knitting needle advanced by the action of the needle raising cam,
When the selection bat is in the first position, the selection bat projects on the traveling track of the selection bat and sinks the selection bat into the needle groove, and the projection bat does not project on the traveling track. A pair of left and right selection pressors that can take two states of non-action that do not act on the selection bat;
A pair of left and right raised bat raising cams that move the selection butt from the first position to the second position by pushing up the raised butt toward the mouth;
Have
The knitting machine is a flat knitting machine in which the cam system reciprocates along the longitudinal direction of the needle bed,
In order to cause the knitting bat to sink into the needle groove so that the knitting bat does not act on the mountain cam when the both-selection presser is on the trailing side in the traveling direction of the cam system, Formed to a length that allows the selection bat to sink into the needle groove, and
A branch point where the selection butt transitions from the first position to the second position as the raising bat lasing cam acts on the raising butt on the preceding side in the traveling direction overlaps with the selection presser on the preceding side. And the raised butt-raising cam is positioned,
A flat knitting machine comprising a retracting mechanism for retracting a part or all of the selected presser from a position overlapping with the branch point. Both selection pressers are divided into two parts, an outer split presser located at a position away from the center line of the cam system and an inner split presser located near the center line,
The retracting mechanism is configured to switch the outer divided presser between an operating state and a non-operating state independently of the inner divided presser ,
A position at which the outer divided presser acts on the selection bat when the outer divided presser is in an active state;
A position where the inner divided presser acts on the selection bat when only the inner divided presser is in an active state;
2. The flat knitting machine according to claim 1, wherein the raised butt raising cam is positioned so that the raised butt raising cam acts on the raised butt. The inner split presser, projecting toward the outer split presser has a protruding portion that overlaps with the outer split presser, said overhang comprises an inclined surface that is inclined obliquely follow towards its edge The flat knitting machine according to claim 2. The overhang portion has a tip portion, and a first thin portion formed thinner than the tip portion,
4. The flat knitting machine according to claim 3, wherein the outer divided presser includes a second thin portion that is thinly formed corresponding to the first thin portion, and a concave portion that receives the tip portion. 5. The retracting mechanism is configured to slide the selected presser in a direction along the traveling track from the position overlapping the branch point toward the center line of the cam system,
A position where the selection presser acts on the selection bat when the selection presser slides away from the center line of the cam system on the traveling track;
A position at which the selection presser acts on the selection bat when the selection presser slides on the travel path toward the center line of the cam system;
2. The flat knitting machine according to claim 1, wherein the raised butt raising cam is positioned so that the raised butt raising cam acts on the raised butt.

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