Patent ID: 7152436
Filing Date: 2006-12-26
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
1. A circular knitting machine comprising sinkers mounted in an inclined manner relative to a horizontal surface of a deck of the machine and movable in sinker troughs, for positioning yarn laps and yarn feeding plates without being hit by the sinkers, wherein: each of the sinkers has a nose section, a throat section having one end forming a first end surface which is connected to one end of the nose section, and a belly section having a second end surface which is connected to another end of the throat section, wherein the first end surface is horizontal when the sinker is mounted in the sinker trough in the inclined manner for holding the yarn laps at a horizontal high spot through the nose section, and wherein the second end surface is inclined relative to the horizontal surface of the deck of the machine; and the yarn feeding plate has a dodging edge, the dodging edge being formed on one distal end in a shape which corresponds to a movement track of the sinker, and having a slanted surface on a front end to avoid hitting the sinker during movement of the sinker in the sinker trough.