Abstract: A knitting machine (1) comprises a shaft (2) with a recess (11) in which a selection element (12) provided with a controllable raising butt (20) is mounted swivellably and can be swivelled to and fro between a position in which the raising butt (20) is retracted into the recess (11) and a position in which the raising butt (20) projects forwards over the front side of the shaft (2). A spring (21), which can be attached to the selection element (12) or the shaft (2), serves to pre-tension the selection element (12) into one of these two positions (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A sinker (1) for a circular knitting machine contains a shaft (2) with a recess (11) in which a selection element (12) provided with a controllable raising butt (20) is mounted swivellably and can be swivelled to and fro between a position in which the raising butt (20) is retracted into the recess (11) and a position in which the raising butt (20) projects upwards over the upper side of the shaft (2). A spring (21), which can be attached to the selection element (12) or the shaft (2), serves to pre-tension the selection element (12) into one of these two positions (FIG. 1). In addition, a selection device is provided for selecting the sinker (1) in accordance with a pattern.

Abstract: In a Stirling engine with a cylinder head which can be heated, with a plurality of heating pipes bent in approximately U shape and with a cooler the the heat transfer to the heating pipes and the efficiency of the cooler are improved. This For this purpose the outwardly directed pipe sections (4c) of the heating pipes (4) through which the working medium flows are provided at least locally with a ceramic backing (11) for optimization of the flow (10) of the heating gas and the cooler is in the form of a light metal body (20) with radial ribs (23) within a pot-like housing (21), through which cooling water flows. The spacing of the radial ribs (23) from one another is greater than the gap (25) between the pot inner wall and the outer radial ribs bounding wall.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine for the production of knitwear formed of yarns and fibers tied into these yarns is described. The circular knitting machine contains a needle cylinder (1) with knitting needles (2), a sinker ring (15) which is rotatable about an axis of rotation jointly with the needle cylinder (1) and has sinkers (16), a stationary cylinder cam and sinker cam means which is associated with the knitting needles and sinkers, respectively, yarn and fiber feed units, an air guiding unit (45) provided with at least one suction nozzle and/or blowing nozzle, and a control cam (85) for acting upon the inserted fiber tufts.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine comprises a needle cylinder (2) and/or a dial (4) and a cam system (6, 7) associated therewith, said cam system having adjustable cam system parts (32, 33), which are preferably adjustable by rotatable eccentric studs (38) associated therewith. The circular knitting machine moreover comprises in accordance with the invention a setting device (48) which includes actuating members (58) for the eccentric pins (38), wherein the actuating members (58) and the eccentric pins (38) are provided with coupling elements (39, 72), which can be brought into engagement with one another in a defined coupling position. The setting of the cam system parts (32, 33) is effected in that the actuating members (58) are moved suitably after arrangement of the coupling position. The invention further relates to a setting device for this purpose, which can be attached removably to the circular knitting machine. (FIG. 4).

Abstract: A yarn delivery device for a textile machine has at least one yarn delivery roller, and a drive device for a propulsion of the delivery roller, the drive device including a drive belt, a drive roller with a peripheral section alterable in diameter and at least in part in part looped around by the drive belt, and a tensioning unit with a guide member acting on the drive belt, the tensioning unit including a controller for producing at least one larger belt tension for normal operation of the delivery roller and a smaller belt tension for alteration of the diameter of the peripheral section of the drive roller.

Abstract: A thread supplying device with intermittent thread consumption has at least one thread supplying unit including a rotatable thread supplying drum and a thread supplying device. The thread supplying drum has a first and a second peripheral portion forming corresponding friction surfaces for a thread to be supplied. The thread supplying device has an inlet element associated with the first peripheral portion and an outlet element associated with the second peripheral portion, and also has two movable guiding elements for the thread and associated with the peripheral portions. The thread is guided by the guiding elements between the inlet and the outlet element and cooperates successively with the first and the second peripheral portion and placed on an associated one of the peripheral portions in a supplying position of the guiding elements along a greater peripheral angle than in a non supplying position of the guiding elements.

Abstract: A knitting machine comprises at least one knitting implement carrier (1) having tricks (10) and knitting implements (8) slidably mounted therein, a cam system for guiding the knitting implements (8) in pass or raise tracks (15, 16), control jacks (9) formed as two-armed levers associated with the knitting implements (8), which jacks have controllable raising butts (21) and armature surfaces and are mounted freely pivotable in tricks (10) of the carrier (1), springs (26) bearing on the trick bottoms for biasing the control jacks (9) and at least one selector station with a control magnet (25) and a presser cam system part (24) for so turning the control jacks (9) that their armature surfaces are applied to the control magnet (25) and are then selectively held or released from this.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine has a knitting frame, a supporting ring mounted on the machine frame, a needle cylinder supported on the supporting ring. The needle cylinder has a needle cylinder axis and an upper and a lower edge. A carrier shaft is mounted in the machine frame coaxial to the needle axis, a component is mounted on a lower end of the carrier shaft, and a device is provided for moving the needle cylinder relative to the component in the direction of the needle carrier axis so that the needle cylinder can be disassembled or assembled by motions substantially perpendicular to the needle cylinder axis and so that the needle cylinder is movable into an operating position and an assembly position allowing assembly and/or disassembly.

Abstract: A high/low plush knitwear with a ground fabric including a plurality of stitch courses and plush yarns (72,81) bound thereinto is disclosed. The ground fabric consists of knitting formed from at least one ground yam (68) and comprises at least one first portion (77) formed by a plurality of adjacent stitch wales with incorporated plush yarns (72,81) forming plush loops (72d, 81d) and at least one second portion (78) without such plush loops. According to the invention at least two float yarns (64,65) are additionally bound into the ground fabric. Each float yarn (64,65) in the second portion (78) selectively floats or is formed into stitches (80e-80h). The invention moreover concerns a method and a knitting machine for making such a plush knitwear (FIG. 16).

Abstract: The invention is directed to a monitoring device at textile machines which have at least two stations (1a, 1b . . . 1n) which generate electrical status signals in the event of the occurrence of preselected states. According to the invention, storages (IC.sub.1 . . . IC.sub.n) associated individually with the stations generate status signals which are encoded with an identification code in such a way that an evaluation of the status signals in an interrogating and evaluating unit (8) can determine the station which generated the status signal (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A knitting machine contains at least one knitting tool carrier for knitting tools (9) with a needle distance t, an associated knitting cam assembly (12, 13), the carrier and the knitting cam assembly being moveable relative to one another and the knitting cam assembly containing a plurality of systems (I, II) lying one behind the other in the direction of movement (v) which systems having respectively a first and a second selection point, lying one behind the other in the direction of movement (v), with one electrically controllable selection member (44, 52), a timing signal-generating device (56, 60) for producing timing signals and a programme control device (53) for producing electric control signals for the control members (44, 52).

Abstract: A yarn delivery device has a casing, a delivery drum rotatably mounted on the casing, a drive belt, at least one drive wheel propelling the delivery drum, the drive wheel having a peripheral section for application of the drive belt and being provided with at least one cleaning channel extending in a peripheral direction, and at least one scrapper attached to the casing and projecting at a point of a peripheral section remaining free of the drive belt into the cleaning channel.

Abstract: A yarn brake has a bearing pin, two brake elements for braking a yarn, the brake elements being mounted on the bearing pin for being rotated by the yarn in friction engagement with the brake elements when the yarn is consumed, at least one of the brake elements being axially movable on the bearing pin, a bias mechanism holding the two brake elements in abutment, and a support, the bearing pin being freely rotatable in the support by the brake elements during use of the yarn brake.

Abstract: A control jack for a knitting machine has at least one selector device for knitting implements, having a front side, a rear side, a first lower lever arm having a controllable raising butt and an armature surface, a second upper lever arm having a rocking butt, and a spring arranged on the rear side for biasing the second lever arm, wherein the arms are arranged on opposite sides of a bearing point and wherein the controllable raising butt, the rocking butt and the armature surface are formed on the front side.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine with a dial arrangement, has a rotatable dial (2), a stationary dial cam system (12), a device (23) for feeding a lubricant to the dial arrangement and a collecting container (29) for reception of lubricant escaping from the dial arrangement. Elements (27) are associated with the dial arrangement which prevent or at least reduce the escape of lubricant consequent upon the effect of the centrifugal force over the radially outer edge of the dial (2).

Abstract: The invention relates to a yarn changer for knitting machines, with swinging yarn fingers (22c, 22d), which comprise finger bodies and guide bodies (66c, 66d) having cutting and clamping elements (69, 71) slidable on the finger bodies, and with an opener (121) and closer (122) both associated with all yarn fingers in common. In order to reduce the number of moving parts and the noise occurring in operation of the yarn changer, the opener (121) and closer (122) are in such operative connection through a reverse-coupling mechanism (114-120) that they can be actuated in common by an associated cam track (102) acting on a control member (114). The control member (114) is preferably only in the working range of the cam track (102) when a yarn change is to be effected. The invention moreover concerns a knitting machine equipped with the yarn changer, especially a rib circular knitting machine, in which a yarn catcher cooperating with the yarn changer is built into the dial.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine for knitting patterned knitted fabrics (19) contains a preferably rotatable needle carrier (1) having knitting needles (3) distributed along a needle ring, selection devices (6) for selection of the knitting needles (3) in accordance with the pattern, a plurality of yarn guides (17) attached to the selection devices (6) to feed yarns (18) to the knitting needles (3), whereby these yarn guides (17) are arranged so that the yarns (18) are picked up by selected knitting needles (3) and tied into the knitted fabric (19) but passed over by non-selected knitting needles (3) with the formation of yarn floats, and at least one cutting device located within the needle ring for cutting through yarn floats of a given minimum length such that yarn ends on the fabric side and the yarn guide side are formed and the yarn ends on the yarn guide side remain in a position in the catchment area of the selected knitting needles that intersects with the needle ring.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method, a knitting machine and sinkers (1, 2) for producing plush fabrics. The method is distinguished in that core and plush thread loops (48, 54) are preformed on selected sinker edges and are transferred prior to the actual stitch formation from these sinker edges to other preselected sinker edges by simple displacement of the sinkers (1, 2). For this purpose the knitting machine has first and second sinkers (1, 2), wherein the second sinkers (2) are provided with oblique faces (15). These are used, in the course of the transfer of the core thread loops (48) by means of retracting the first sinkers (1) and simultaneous advancement of the second sinkers (2), to act on the core thread loops (48) in such a way that the latter are securely enclosed in the slits of the first sinkers (1) when these are again advanced (FIG. 10).

Abstract: The circular braiding machine includes an inner and outer group of spools (31,38) arranged on a circular track coaxial with a rotation axis (1); a drive device (9-11, 17, 29, 42-45) for rotating the groups in opposite directions (r,s) around the circular track; strand guide members (48) for guiding strands (37) from one of the groups at a location between that group and a braiding point (35) so as to braid the strands, these strand guide members (48) being mounted to reciprocate along guideways (78) while keeping a constant distance from the braiding point (35); and a device for reciprocating the strand guide members (48) along the guideways (78), which operates synchronously with the drive device and which includes pivotally connected levers (73,77) for coupling the at least one strand guide member with the drive device, at least one rotatable crank device.