Abstract: A floss blowing and heat dissipating apparatus for high speed circular knitting machines includes an annular duct located beneath a circular frame plate and an airflow generator to generate pressurized air. The annular duct has a passage inside and an air intake connector located thereon communicating with the passage, and a plurality of air vents close to a cylinder and straddle seats communicating with the passage. The airflow generator generates the pressurize air which is delivered to the air intake connector through an air directing hose so that the passage delivers the pressurized air to the air vents to eject the pressurized air forcefully towards the straddle seats, the cylinder and needles of a circular knitting machine where the floss is most likely to accumulate to carry away the floss. It also can reduce the temperature generated by the friction between needle troughs and needles to achieve optimal cooling effect.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a doffing apparatus of a high-speed high-stand fabric take-up device, which is applicable to a fabric take-up device having a higher fabric-storage volume. The doffing apparatus has safety pins and control handles in the side-frame casings of the fabric take-up device. Via shifting the control handles to change the relative positions of the safety pins, the safety pins can be inserted into the rod shafts of the fabric-winding rod so that the coupling between the drive wheels and the rod shafts can be enhanced and the safety of a fabric-winding operation can be promoted. Further, hydraulic cylinders are installed between the side-frame casings of the fabric take-up device and the support brackets sustaining the fabric-winding rod. Via the hydraulic cylinders providing a buffer force for the support brackets, the support brackets can rotate and descend slowly, and the safety of a fabric-doffing operation can be promoted.

Abstract: A fabric winding machine is installed on a circular knitting machine to wind and collect an annular fabric knitted by the circular knitting machine. It has a fabric splitting mode and a fabric non-splitting mode according to the characteristics of the fabric material. The fabric winding machine includes a fabric directing means on which an arched bracket or a fabric extending bracket can be installed respectively corresponding to a fabric splitting mode or a fabric non-splitting mode. The fabric in the two modes can be collected on a fabric collection rod through different fabric winding paths. By switching the two modes the large size fabric winding machine does not have to be disassembled in response to the fabric of different characteristics.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine provides sinkers that are moved in an inclined manner in the sinker troughs to position yarn laps and prevent the sinkers from hitting yarn feeding plates. The sinker has a nose section to hold the yarn laps at a horizontal high point to prevent the yarn laps from slipping, and has a throat section which has a horizontal first end surface and a belly section with an inclined second end surface in order to keep the knitting needles and sinkers moving smoothly during a knitting operation. The yarn feeding plate has a dodging edge on a distal end, the dodging edge being formed in a shape corresponding to the movement track of the sinker and having a slanted surface at the front end thereof, so as to avoid hitting the sinker when the sinker is moved in the sinker trough in an inclined manner.

Abstract: A yarn clamp assembly of a knitting machine uses a wrap knitting method to knit a fabric having a side of a loop surface or a cut pile surface, and the base yarn of the base fabric forms two fixing loops fixed onto the wool yarn of the loop or the wool yarn during repeated knitting processes, so that the loop or the wool yarn will not be loosened easily from the base fabric due to the fixing effect of the two fixing loops.

Abstract: A knitting machine for manufacturing plush fabrics includes latch-less cylinder needles in a cylinder, latch needles located on a needle dial and a cutting unit. The loop formed by a plush thread can be directly knitted in a fabric formed by ground threads to form a longer plush on the fabric surface. By changing the dimension of the needle dial, the interval of the peripheral edge of the needle dial and the cylinder needle can be increased so that the plush thread held on the hook of the cylinder needle can be stretched by the latch needle to become a longer loop. Finally, the loop is severed by the cutting unit to form a plush fabric of a longer plush.

Abstract: A yarn guide of a knitting machine assists a knitting machine to weave a fabric having a yarn ring surface and comprised of a base yarn for forming a base fabric and a wool yarn for forming a yarn ring surface. A needle disc is shifted to enter the wool yarn and the base yarn respectively into a yarn hooking section and a first yarn hooking position of a needle latch. The needle disc continues shifting such that the base yarn is entered into a second yarn hooking position of the yarn hooking section. A knitting needle includes a yarn guide plate on a side so that the first yarn hooking position continues pressing the base yarn by the yarn guide plate. The second yarn hooking position drives the base yarn to weave the wool yarn into the base fabric under a counter wrap knitting status.

Abstract: Provided is a high-speed high-stand device for taking up fabric comprising two side boxes each including a projection formed on its side proximate top; a take-up shaft provided across intermediate portions of the side boxes, the take-up shaft being adapted to wind fabric therearound; and a friction mechanism including two arms each having the other end pivotably connected to the projection, and a friction rod fixedly interconnected one ends of the arms, the friction rod being provided above the take-up shaft to contact the fabric wound therearound. In a fabric take-up process, an angle from an initial position of the arms to an operating position thereof is limited as a diameter of the fabric is increasing, and a pressing force exerted by the friction rod on the fabric being wound around the take-up shaft is the same for obtaining a uniform tautness of the wound fabric.

Abstract: A high speed color altering head for single-face circular knitting machines is installed on a circular knitting machine and controlled by a return cam, a needle selection device and upper and lower cams to perform colored yarns feeding operation for knitting needles to achieve colored and jacquard knitting effect. The color altering head includes two outer plates, a plurality of yarn feeding mechanisms, a plurality of yarn clipping mechanisms, a plurality of spacers and a plurality of color selection pressing plates. The needle selection device drives the color selection pressing plates to release the corresponding yarn feeding mechanisms and yarn clipping mechanisms so that the upper and lower cams of the circular knitting machine can control yarn feeding and yarn clipping operations at high speed without dropping the yarns.

Abstract: A heat dissipating system of a high-speed circular knitting machine includes a super low temperature air gun. Cold air is ejected from a cold air outlet of the super low temperature air gun for carrying away the high heat produced by a cylinder base during a knitting process. The super low temperature air gun is connected to an extension pipe and extended to a gap between a cutting disc and a pressing plate, or saddle bases, or a lower rhombus ring and two saddle bases, or yarn feeding nozzles. Cold air ejected from the cold air outlet passes through the gap to the cylinder base or other peripheral components of the high-speed circular knitting machine to achieve the heat dissipating effect. The super low temperature air gun is installed inside a leg for supporting a yarn supplying device or on its external surface or on a yarn feeding ring.

Abstract: A yarn feeder for circular knitting machines that have a plurality of knitting needles includes a first threading hole, a second threading hole and a jutting yarn guiding member on a lower edge for feeding three yarns corresponding to a knitting needle. The three yarns enter a hook of the knitting needle through the first and second threading holes and the yarn guiding member. The hook is a common point, forms a first included angle with the yarn guiding member and the first yarn threading hole, and forms a second included angle with the first threading hole and the second threading hole. The second included angle is larger than or equal to the first included angle. Thus the three yarns can be directed smoothly into the hook of the knitting needle without forming interference. Traveling of the three yarns is smoother.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a striping apparatus of a circular knitting machine, comprising: a selector, a controller, a yarn-feed unit, and a drive unit. The yarn-feed unit has two portions; the first portion includes a yarn-changing plate, which feeds a yarn into a yarn-entering position, and the second portion includes a movable blade, which clips the tail of the yarn when standby and cuts off an old yarn so that the old yarn can depart from fabric when changing yarns and the operation can back to the standby state. In the preferred embodiments of the present invention, different cams respectively drive the yarn-changing plate and the movable blade, and even though a new yarn and an old yarn are farther spaced, the timings of the cams can be adjusted to release the tail of new the yarn from the movable blade before it is torn off.

Abstract: A fiber blowing and heat dissipating system of single-sided circular knitting machine includes a fixed rod, a revolving supply device, and a fiber blowing device, wherein the revolving supply device includes a fixed rod, a rotary air supply section, and a driving motor. The fixed axle has an air inlet at its top, and the rotary air supply section has an air passage interconnected with the air inlet and connected to the fiber blowing device, such that the driving motor is driven to rotate around the fixed axle to centralize the air flow to blow away the cotton fibers easily produced at a yarn passing eyelet of the yarn passing plate and the yarn feeding eyelet of a yarn feeding nozzle and a knitting needle. The invention also can lower the heat produced by the friction between the rotation of the needle cylinder and the knitting needle.

Abstract: A micro-control apparatus for circular knitting machines that operates through the request of a host end including an input unit to provide operating functions, a processing unit to command input, output and communication, a communication unit to provide a communication interface and a control unit to control circular knitting machine operations. The processing unit integrates the functions of the input unit, communication unit and control unit to form the microcontroller. The processing unit thus designed can improve the overall speed and response time of circular knitting machines.

Abstract: A sinker of circular knitting machines for pile fabrics, which is used in the circular knitting machine assembly has an aslant contact surface between a sinker cylinder and a cam. By the aslant surface disposed on a nose section of the sinker, the bottom yarn can fall accordingly and constitutes a perfect plating loop effect with the binding yarn. Further a first end surface of a throat section and the second end surface of an abdominal section are designed with different inclined angles to cope with the movement of a sinker cylinder of a circular knitting machine having an aslant surface. Therefore, the knitting needle and the sinker on the circular knitting machine can maintain a smooth knitting movement.

Abstract: A gear rack adjustment wheel for circular knitting machines includes a holding deck mounted on a circular knitting machine, an adjustable sliding block located at the bottom of the holding deck, a sliding trough formed in the holding deck to communicate with the adjustable sliding block, and an adjustment mechanism which includes an anchor pin and an adjustment wheel with a screw thread formed thereon. The adjustment wheel is housed in the sliding trough to be in contact with the adjustable sliding block. The adjustable sliding block has a gear rack on one side to couple with the screw thread of the adjustment wheel so by turning the adjustment wheel drives the adjustable sliding block.

Abstract: An improved circular knitting machine aims to provide an improved structure and installation for cams. It includes a saddle plate forming an angle to the horizontal surface with the cams mounting thereon in an inclined manner, and a sinker drum surrounded by the saddle plate. The sinker drum has an inclined surface formed in a continuous circular ring in the shape of a conical shallow tray so that the sinker drum has a concave surface. The sinker drum has sinker troughs formed thereon for housing sinkers in an inclined manner. The cam has one end fastened to the saddle plate in an inclined manner and the other end forming a convex surface to be in contact with the concave surface. The cam has a driving path formed on the bottom side thereof to allow the sinkers to be movable therein. The sinker drum may be rotated to drive the sinkers to move smoothly in the cam.

Abstract: A striping apparatus for a circular knitting machine includes a control mechanism, an operation mechanism driven by the control mechanism, an adjusting mechanism mounted onto the control mechanism and a release mechanism located in the operation mechanism. The striping apparatus is installed on the circular knitting machine and is controlled by the yarn releasing and receiving cam and the color selection device, and may feed different colored yarns to the knitting needles to produce striped jacquard knitting fabrics.

Abstract: An improved fabric take-up apparatus adopted for use on an elevated take-up apparatus with a large capacity includes a frame, a conveying mechanism located in the frame, a take-up mechanism located in the frame, at least one friction mechanism located in the frame between the conveying mechanism and the take-up mechanism, a balancing weight mechanism located on two sides of the frame, a speed changing mechanism located at a lower section of the frame and a stop mechanism located in the frame. The conveying mechanism transports the fabric to the take-up mechanism for rolling. The fabric is rolled until the diameter of the roll increases to contact the friction rod of the friction mechanism, then the friction rod aids the take-up mechanism to roll the fabric. Meanwhile, the friction mechanism is hauled by the balancing weight mechanism so that the friction rod firmly presses the rolling fabric.

Abstract: A yarn feeder for circular knitting machines includes a jutting section located on a yarn feeding section of the yarn feeder. The jutting section has a yarn directing surface to allow the yarn to either slide over the surface without forming floss, or to retain the floss on the jutting section. Thereby, the yarn maybe fed smoothly and effectively above the knitting needle without rupturing to allow the knitting needle to raise and pick up the yarn as the knitting operation proceeds.