Abstract: A fabric take-off roller arrangement for flat bed knitting machines is provided with a driven fabric take-off roller that has roller elements disposed next to each other in the axial direction. To ensure that, even with irregular thickenings of the fabric to be taken off, engagement of the fabric take-off roller arrangement is provided both in the region of the thickening and in the adjacent region(s) of the fabric to be taken off, it is provided that the roller elements engage one another in a co-rotational manner at their ends facing one another and are rotatably held on respectively one support carrier, that the support carriers are pivotably held in a direction perpendicular to the orientation of the roller elements that the ends of the roller elements facing each other are flexibly seated against each other as well as in the support carrier, and that the fabric take-off roller is pressed against a counter-roller, between which rollers the fabric run is taken off.

Abstract: In a method for the production of intarsia knitted pieces on a flat-bed knitting machine, at least some of the yarn guides associated with each one of the intarsia areas and the respective needle bed are moved in a direction relative to each other when one of the needle beds is traversed in both lift directions by a carriage provided with one or a plurality of cams in the border area between two areas of intarsia, and the yarn guides are being coupled with the movement of the carriage in each intarsia area. At the end of a movement segment which extends at most across a number of intarsia areas corresponding to the number of cams, the carriage is reversed in its lift direction and returned, together with the yarn guide last used as well as with the yarn guide to be used for the following intarsia area, to the intarsia area last produced, without making a needle selection.

Abstract: The yarn feeder slide proposed for intarsia knitting on a flat knitting machine and provided with a braking device has brake shoes (22,23) projecting sideways on pivoted levers (16,31) and which extend into a special longitudinal slot of the associated yarn feeder rail and can be jammed therein. Two control regions (19,38) for the braking device or for a moveable yarn feeder arm are provided and are spaced from one another in the direction of displacement of the yarn feeder slide (10) so that the yarn feeder driving member located on the cam carriage of the flat knitting machine can be selectively lowered into both control regions (19,38) of the yarn feeder slide.

Abstract: A fabric draw-off roller (11) is described for flat-bed knitting machines equipped with individual roller elements (14, 14') situated side-by-side in line on a shaft (12), the rollers being allowed to turn relative to each other, but preferably restricted in their amount of angular movement. In order to ensure, with fabric draw-off rollers (11) of this type, that loose threads of the knitted fabric are prevented from entangling and jamming between neighboring roller elements (14, 14') when drawing off fabric from the machine, the individual roller elements (14, 14') are arranged at an axial distance from each other thereby forming a gap (54, 54') distance spacer (32, 32') is provided having a smaller external diameter than the maximum diameter of the roller element with at least one of its ends overlapping and penetrating an axial bore of an adjacent roller element (14, 14').

Abstract: The fabric take-down mechanism for flat knitting machines has an auxiliary take-down roller (22) following the main take-down roller (10) and extending over the whole length of the needle beds, this auxiliary roller having edges (24) and being grounded through metallic retaining loops (25). The auxiliary take-down roller (22) cooperates with a smooth but likewise electrical conducting counter plate (21).

Abstract: For the purpose of taking down shaped knitted products from a flat knitting machine the take-down mechanism comprises an auxiliary take-down roller (18) disposed in advance of the take-down roller (16), and this can have a superimposed take-down motion intermittently imparted thereto by means of an auxiliary driving device. To increase the effectiveness of the auxiliary take-down roller (18), the last course of separating stitches formed on one needle bed can be pressed off between two successive shaped knitted pieces (43) before the taking down of a double-sided separating knitting section (45).

Abstract: In the take-down mechanism the plurality of coaxial roller sections (14.1 . . . 14.x) of the take-down roller are moveable on a common shaft (16) and adapted to be coupled separately and selectively with a driving means (17/18) that is to say independently of one another. A return rotary movement of the roller sections is prevented by one-way clutches constituted by loop springs (35,36). The common shaft (16) can be turned for adjustment of all the roller sections in common. Annular guards (28) prevent threads intruding between the individual roller sections (14). (FIG. 1).

Abstract: This invention relates to a knitted fabric spreader device for flat knitting machines which have spiked rotatable rollers (14) disposed beneath the comb gap (12) of the needle beds of the machine. The spiked rollers (14) are mounted over the full length of the needle beds (10, 11) on a common carrier rod (13) concentric with this rod, and the common carrier rod (13) can be moved transversely to the longitudinal direction of the needle beds to provide for clearance of the comb gap (12) of the machine. To cater for this adjustment the carrier rod (13) is held on at least slides adjustable by means of a control cam (27). The rollers (14) are so mounted between eccentric intermediate discs (15) provided with a smooth peripheral edge that spikes (38) of the rollers (14) project radially above the intermediate discs (15) over a part only of the carrier rod (13) to engage the knitted fabric (29) (FIG. 2).