Patent ID: 7591153

Claim:
A yarn delivering apparatus, for knitting machines having a yarn return operating mode, comprising: a yarn delivering wheel having an intake side and a storing portion for receiving a yarn winding, a drive connected to the yarn delivering wheel and drivable in two opposite directions of rotation for delivering a yarn in a yarn delivery direction to a yarn consuming station in a normal operation during forward rotation, and for rewinding the yarn, returned from the yarn consuming station in a yarn return direction, on the yarn delivering wheel in a return delivery operation during reverse rotation, a yarn storing device arranged upstream of the yarn delivering wheel as viewed in the yarn delivery direction for intermediately storing the yarn returned by the yarn delivering wheel at a yarn intake side of the yarn storing device during reverse rotation, wherein the yarn storing device has a yarn storing surface concentric to the yarn delivering wheel, and a yarn laying device associated with the yarn storing device and including a yarn guiding eyelet guided in a circular path concentric to the yarn delivering wheel.