Patent ID: 6122939
Filing Date: 2000-09-26
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
A process for reducing a length of a lead-in thread in a double-cylinder circular knitting machine having a corresponding thread guide for feeding the thread which is clamped at an end of said thread, before knitting begins, by a thread cutting and clamping device of said double-cylinder circular knitting machine which laterally faces needle cylinders of said double-cylinder circular knitting machine downstream of a position of said thread guide, relative to a direction in which the needle cylinders rotate about a common axis of said needle cylinders, with respect to said thread guide and to said thread cutting and clamping device, said process comprising:moving a thread dispensing end of said thread guide toward the needle cylinders of said double-cylinder circular knitting machine to allow the thread to be taken up by needles that are moved so as to knit at a feed served by said thread guide;keeping said end of the thread clamped by said thread cutting and clamping device, while the needles being lifted to knit, take up the thread and a first needle of said needles take up said thread;moving a cutting end of a lead-in cutting device of said double-cylinder circular knitting machine toward the needle cylinders such that said lead-in cutting device being arranged proximate to said thread cutting and clamping device, so as to engage said cutting end with a portion of said thread that is arranged between said cutting and clamping device and said first needle of the needles that has taken up the thread;cutting, by way of said cutting end of the lead-in cutting device, said portion of said thread that is adjacent to the first needle of said needles that has taken up the thread.