Apparatus for feeding filling threads to a wrap knitting machine

摘要

First and second spaced apart conveyors, extending toward the knitting instrumentalities of a knitting machine, each carry a plurality of thread clamping means. At least two guide means move from the first conveyor to the second conveyor and draw filling threads from filling thread supplies to positions adjacent to but spaced from the clamping means of both conveyors. The guide means then introduce the filling threads simultaneously into the clamping means of both conveyors. The clamping means of both conveyors then close simultaneously, the filling threads extending from the first conveyor to the rearward guide means are severed, and the forward guide means releases the filling threads. Continued movement of the rearward guide means draws new lengths of filling threads from the thread supplies. Each guide means comprises a carriage and a body, the body being movable toward the conveyors to introduce filling threads into the clamping means of the conveyors.