Yarn feed for a knitter which delivers a number of yarns has a yarn wheel with guide grooves around the circumference to give wound spiral coils and external yarn guides

摘要

The yarn feed for a knitter has a yarn feed wheel (3) where the yarn (4) is wound around it in one or more coils. The rotary speed of the wheel (3) controls the yarn (4) movement in a slip-free guide action. A separate system guides the yarn (4) into at least one coil winding around the yarn wheel (3). The separate yarn guide is one or more grooves around the wheel circumference, each taking one yarn coil winding in a spiral. One or more of the yarn guide grooves has at least two yarn guide planes as grooves. A yarn guide system (8-10) is round the yarn wheel (4) to give a positive guide action on the yarn (4) on lifting up the wheel (3), and lead the yarn (4) in a spiral on an axis parallel to the yarn wheel axis. The yarn (4), in each coil winding, passes through an initial yarn guide (9,10), and a further yarn guide (8) is for a yarn winding in at two adjacent coils, with the yarn guides at diametrically opposite and displaced positions around the wheel.