Patent ID: 7975511

Claim:
A machine for producing a knitted product by at least partly using untwisted fibre material ( 4 ), comprising: at least one stitch forming system, on which stitch-forming elements ( 3 ) can be brought into a fibre pick-up position; a thread guide ( 27 ), which is arranged in front of the stitch-forming system and has a passage ( 30 ) for the fibre material ( 4 ); a drafting assembly ( 9 ) associated with the stitch-forming system for attenuation of the fibre material; and a spinning device ( 15 ), which is arranged between the drafting assembly ( 9 ) and the thread guide ( 27 ) and contains at least one spinning element ( 16 ) working with a blast air flow and a transport tube ( 17 ) connected thereto, which contains an outlet end ( 17 d ) for the fibre material opening into the thread guide ( 27 ), wherein the outlet end ( 17 d ) has an inner cross-section (D 2 ), which is exactly the same size as or smaller than an inner cross-section (D 1 ) at an outlet end of the passage ( 30 ), and wherein the intensity of the blast air flow is selected such that this is sufficient at least to securely transport the fibre material ( 4 ) as far as the stitch forming elements ( 3 ) without further auxiliary means.