Flat knitting machine having a stroking-in device

摘要

A flat knitting machine with a carriage movable over the needle beds includes stroking-in wires mounted in holders on the carriage with free wire ends trailing in the direction of carriage traverse in front of the withdrawal positions of the needles. These wires are moved into and out of their working positions at the regions where the carriage reverses its direction of movement. In order to make possible a selectively controlled switching of the stroking-in wires into and out of effective operation, indexing cams engageable with entraining fingers on the holders are arranged on the machine frame to be displaceable perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the needle beds, and lifting cams which can be switched into and out of action are mounted on the carriage for selective displacement of the indexing cams on the machine frame.