SWEATER MACHINE FEATURES

V bed flat knitting machine

Main features
Numerically these are the most important industrial knitting machines.
 The needles, mounted in beds opposed in an inverted "V" formation,
are operated by cams in a reciprocating carriage.
The hand flat machine is still widely used but most modern machines
are powered. Machines are with 1.5 to 20 needles per inch in widths
from a few inches to 76 inch.
 Many are employed to produce collars and rib trimmings for garments
made on other machines, but because of the almost unlimited patterning
scope available with jacquard flat machines considerable numbers are
used for the production of patterned fabrics and garment lengths.
Automatic narrowing has been common on these machines for some
time and models are now being offered with full fashioning capability.
Their main disadvantage is low productivity compared with other types.
Most have a single knitting head or section but
versions with 2 to 6 sections arranged side by side are
produced.
Arrangement of 2 sections back to back allows knitting
to take place in one direction using 15 or. more
carriages that traverse over the front section and return
over the back one: the resulting machine is thus a
hybrid circular-flat machine.
Main parts of the machine
The frame:
 The sweater knitting (flat knitting) machine is made up
by a frame carrying the base; this structure supports all
the needle beds and motions necessary for the knitting
process. In the rear side of the machine there is a spool
rack for storing the yarn spools.
The needle bed:

The needles accommodated inside the grooves of the

needle bed can be either in a knitting or in a ;non-knitting
position and are moved by special springs.
The carriage:
It is made up of two metal plates linked by a stiff
bridge ; the plates work individually and
simultaneously on the front and the rear needle beds.
The carriage carries out a double function and can be
used:
To select the needles and make them raise or lower to
form the stitch;
To select and drive the thread guides which feed the
needles.
Feeder & guide bar :
guides the yarn carrier
Feeds the yarn to the needle.
The Cam-locks:
The cam-locks are a cam system which gives the
necessary working information to the individual
needles; they include a fixed part, working as support,
and movable cams, which can be divided into raising
cams and lowering or knock-over cams. The raising
cam includes a tucking cam and a looping cam.
Knit stitch - when the needle carries out a complete
stroke, reaching the maximum height on the looping
plane.
Tuck stitch -when the needle reaches the tucking plane
and receives a new yarn while still holding its former
loop, thus forming two loops in the one needle hook.
 Miss or float stitch -when the needle is not knitting
and remains out of the knock-over plane.
Types of needles
The latch needle can have two different butt heights
which make it a high-but needle or a needle.
The assembly of high-butt needles and low-butt
needles on the knitting machine al different selection
and different manufacturing work ways, according to
the positions of the and looping cams.