Patent ID: 6962065

Claim:
Knitting machine comprising: at least one bed ( 1 ) provided with grooves; knitting tools ( 7 ) displaceably mounted in said grooves; control jacks ( 8 ) displaceable and pivotable in said grooves and, intended for their pretensioning, pretensioning springs ( 9 ), said control jacks ( 8 ) being allocated individually to said knitting tools ( 7 ) and being designed as two-armed levers, each lever having a first and a second lever arm ( 11 , 12 ); at least one cam section ( 5 a , 5 b ) movable relative to said bed ( 1 ) and having a pressure member ( 30 ) intended for acting upon said control jacks ( 8 ), a knitting cam ( 28 ) and a tuck cam ( 29 ) beginning behind said knitting cam ( 28 ) in a direction of said relative motion; and at least one selecting device for controlling said control jacks ( 8 ) with at least one first control magnet ( 31 ) assigned to said knitting cam ( 28 ), one second control magnet ( 32 ) assigned to said tuck cam ( 29 ) and a holding magnet ( 33 ) arranged between said two control magnets ( 31 , 32 ); wherein an arrangement is made such that on carrying out a relative movement between said bed ( 1 ) and said cam, said first lever arms ( 11 ) of said control jacks ( 8 ) are initially guided to said first control magnet ( 31 ) by said pressure member ( 30 ) and against a force of said pretensioning springs ( 9 ) and then are optionally either held by said first control magnet or released, in order to select knitting tools ( 7 ) assigned to control jacks ( 8 ) released from said first control magnet for knitting, whilst first lever arms ( 11 ) of firmly held control jacks ( 8 ) are further firmly held by said holding magnets ( 33 ), guided to said second control magnet ( 32 ) and are then optionally either firmly held by it or released, in order to select knitting tools ( 7 ) assigned to control jacks ( 8 ) released from said second control magnet for tuck and to select knitting tools ( 7 ) assigned to firmly held control jacks ( 8 ) for non knitting; wherein said second lever arms ( 12 ) of said control jacks ( 9 ) are each provided with a lower raising butt ( 17 ) intended for running onto said knitting cam ( 28 ) and an upper raising butt ( 18 ) intended for running onto said tuck cam ( 29 ).