Flat knitting machine having looping press sheet and control method thereof

Abstract

The present invention provides a flat knitting machine having a looping press sheet and a control method thereof, capable of simply confirming poor condition occuring at a front end of a cam follower, capable of reliably preventing the cam follower from being used all the time in the case of the poor condition. When a base end portion of the cam follower is switched from a set position to a reset position, in the state that a reset position sensor detects that the base end portion of the cam follower has been switched to the reset position, only when a recover state detection unit detects that the front end of the cam follower is not recovered to the reset position, occurrence the poor condition of the front end of the cam follower is judged. If the judgement and retreat of a cam carrier to the outside of a knitting width of knitted fabric are performed simultaneously, it is judged that the cam follower is interferenced with a yarn feeding port of a yarn guide device, then an interference avoiding action which enables move stroke of the cam carrier to be prolonged to a position where the cam follower and the yarn feeding port of the yarn guide device are not interferenced is performed, and then the cam carrier is inverted.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a flat knitting machine equipped with a stitch presser that moves together with a carriage and can switch a finger (finga) to a setting position for pressing a knitted fabric, and a control method thereof and the reset position away from the knitted fabric. Background technique [0002] In a flat knitting machine in which the front and rear needle beds face each other in an inverted V shape across the tooth gap, the knitted fabric being knitted is often pressed by the knitting sheet at the tooth gap. The knitting press piece has a substantially L-shape, and is mounted on a carriage that makes the knitting needles perform selective knitting operations while reciprocating along the needle bed. In addition, the knitting press piece has a finger that is cantilever-supported at the base end and extends at the front end, and can press the knitted fabric knitted with the knitting yarn supplied from the yarn feeder of the yarn...

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In addition, depending on the user of the flat knitting machine, the yarn feeder may be used in a state where the yarn feeder is lowered to approach the tooth gap where yarn bite is likely to occur. In this case, the yarn feeder of each yarn feeder may be Interference with the movement trajectory of the finger

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