| 摘要 |
To provide a knitting needle driving cam and a flatbed knitting machine that can prevent seizure of a knitting needle to a butt in a simple structure. A cam member 40 for driving a knitting needle is generally plate-form and is mounted to a carriage reciprocating the surface of a needle bed 15. The cam member 40 has a groove cam 41 formed to face the surface of the needle bed 15 and having a cam wall face 43 that comes in contact with and guides a butt 48 protruding from a knitting member 46 housed in a needle groove 18 of the needle bed 15 to the outside of the needle groove 18. The groove cam 41 is provided with a chamfering 45, and the edge of the cam wall face 43 on the cam surface 42 side is removed. A butt 47 protrudes more than 2 mm from the surface of the needle bed 15. Between the surface of the needle bed 15 and the cam surface 42, a clearance S of 0.2 mm is provided. The edge is removed by the chamfering 45 in a range of 0.2 to 0.4 mm away from the cam face of the groove cam 41 to the thickness direction. |
