Patent ID: 6883352
Filing Date: 2005-04-26
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
1. A loop presser in a flat knitting machine comprising at least a pair of needle beds including front and back needle beds, the pair of needle beds forming a tooth mouth, the front and back needle beds being opposed to each other and forming an angle such that top sides are oriented upward, and wherein compound needles are provided in each of the front and back needle beds as knitting needles, said loop presser having: a top portion capable of advancing and retracting from an auxiliary bed supported on at least one of the front and back needle beds with respect to the tooth mouth in a process of making a knitting stitch loop from a knitting yarn fed from a yarn feeding port traveling in a longitudinal direction of the front and back needle beds above the tooth mouth to make a downwardly suspended knitted fabric, wherein said top portion has, at different positions in advancing and retracting directions of said loop presser, a loop presser portion operable to guide the knitting yarn fed from the yarn feeding port to one of the knitting needles and press the knitting stitch loop between the knitting needles on a lower side, and a knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches operable to hold knitting yarn fed from above the tooth mouth on the outside of a knitting end of a knitted fabric in a width direction; wherein said knitting yarn holding portion has a pressing portion for pressing the knitting yarn suspended from the knitting stitch loop held by one of the compound needles in the knitting end to the yarn feeding port moving toward the outside of the knitted fabric on a lower side, and a wall portion preventing the knitting yarn fed from the yarn feeding port moving toward the inside of the knitted fabric by reversing the moving direction to the one of the compound needles in the knitting end from approaching a tongue top thereof having a hook open on an upper side thereof.