Flatbed Knitting Setup Equipment Single Elevating Guide
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing flatbed knitting machine setups require multiple elevating guides and mechanisms for multiple setup plates, which occupy space and complicate the process of selecting and connecting plates, leading to inefficiencies in knitting different fabric widths without generating unnecessary waste fabric.
Innovation Solution
A setup equipment with multiple setup plates aligned in the front-back direction, featuring a holder that moves to select a plate, an elevating mechanism with a single elevating guide, and a connecting mechanism that allows for switching between setup plates and the elevator, enabling efficient elevation and connection without needing to move the elevator in the knitting width direction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple elevating guides and mechanisms are provided for multiple setup plates, then each setup plate can be independently elevated and selected, but the device complexity increases and installation space is occupied
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple elevating guides into a single elevating guide by providing a holder that moves in the knitting width direction. The holder accommodates multiple setup plates and transfers them to the single elevating guide, which then elevates the selected setup plate. This combining approach reduces the number of elevating guides from multiple to one, simplifying the device structure while maintaining the capability to select and elevate different setup plates.
2Device complexity
If a single elevating guide is used for multiple setup plates, then device complexity is reduced, but the mechanism for selecting and connecting plates becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a holder as an intermediary mechanism between the multiple setup plates and the single elevating guide. The holder moves in the knitting width direction to select a specific setup plate and transfers it to the elevating guide. This intermediary simplifies the connection process by providing a centralized interface (the holder) that manages the selection and transfer of setup plates, making the overall operation easier despite using a single elevating guide.
3Device complexity
If setup plates are used for both body and sleeve knitting, then device structure is simplified, but waste knitting fabric increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the setup plates into different functional types: a first setup plate for body knitting and a second setup plate for sleeve knitting. By providing dedicated setup plates for different knitting regions, the system可以避免 using a single setup plate that would require large waste knitting to transition between body and sleeve areas. The holder enables selective transfer between these segmented setup plates, reducing waste fabric while maintaining structural simplicity.
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AI summary
[Problem to be solved] It is an object of the present invention is to provide a set up equipment for a flatbed knitting machine in which an elevating guide only in an elevating mechanism is enough even when a plurality of set up plates are included. [Solution] A holder 6 accommodates a plurality of set up plates 3, 4, and 5 at an interval in a front-back direction and is capable of being moved in the front-back direction. Elevating mechanisms 7 are provided with elevating guides 10 and have elevators 11 moving the connected set up plate 4 in an elevation manner by guiding with the elevating guides 10. Selecting mechanisms 8 move the holder 6 frontward and backward, select the one set up plate 4, and adjust the set up plate 4 to a position at which substrates 4a are capable of being connected to the elevators 11 of the elevating mechanisms 7. Connecting mechanisms 9 are capable of switching connection or disconnection between the substrates 4a of the selected set up plate 4 and the elevators 11 in a state where the elevators 11 of the elevating mechanisms 7 are lowered and it is therefore sufficient that the elevating guides 10 are provided only in the elevating mechanisms 7.