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Chemnitz, in the Kingdom of Saxony and the arm or latch It strikes the lug 6 and the
Empire of Germany, have invented certain bar 7 must move therewith in the same di
new and useful Improvements in Driving
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Mechanism for Thread-Guide Bars, of which A can also be thrown upward, so that the
the following is a speci?cation.
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In many cases in the construction of ma
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In the inclosed drawing an instance of the
In the frame of the machine the fashion
construction of the invention in a straight ing screw 15 is mounted. On this screw 15
knitting frame is illustrated.
rests a nut 16. On the nut 16 is arranged a
Figure 1 is a front view of the device. bolt 22, which serves as center of motion
Fig. 2 shows enlarged detailed views of
25 parts of the device shown in Fig. 1 when for the crank lever-10, 21. A vertical arm 80
The part which is moved to and fro, the crank lever 10, 21 has arranged on its arm
motion of which is to be retarded at the 21 a roller 23, and on the other arm a pawl
30 end of its run, is the rod 7, to which the
1.1 jointed to said arm 10 and with a pin 14,
thread guides 25 are ?xed. As is known the for the purpose of raising the pawl 11.
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thread guide 25 must be continually shifted A head 12 is formed at the end of the rod
to and fro in the two directions w and g]. In 7 , with which the pawl 11 engages. An
the last moment of its motion, the right oblique wedge 24 is ?xed to the bar 1.
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a knitting frame is very long, the left end latch 4 strikes the end of the bar 19, and 95
of the mechanism could not be fully illus the head 12 snaps under the pawl 11. Con
trated in the drawing.
sequently the bars are positioned as in Fig.
I will now describe the device in detail.
3, that is to say, the arm or latch 4 is lifted
As shown in the drawing the bar 1 is oif from the lug 6 and cannot take the rod
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the end of the rod 7 will therefore only run. nisIn for, straight knitting machines a pri
with very slow speed against the cap 9 of mary bar on the machine frame having a
the screw 26. This is the purpose of the in
vention as it has already been explained said bar, a bar 5 carried by said post, an
1. In a thread guide bar traverse mecha frame carrying a fashioning screw, a crank
lever fulcrumed on a nut carried by said
mary bar having a constant reciprocating screw, an 1ncl1ne on said prlmary bar en
movement, a thread guide bar, a latch 4: on gaged by a roller on the lower arm of said
' said primary bar to contact with and drive crank lever, a catch pivoted on the upper 35
the thread guide bar, a stop for the thread arm of said crank lever, adapted to engage
15 guide bar and means to vary the position of behind the head of said thread guide bar
said stop, and a second step 19 carried by and an adjustable stop for said thread guide
said means to unlock the latch before the bar also carried by said nut.
thread guide bar encounters its stop, and
CARL VVALTI-IER.
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