Patent ID: 8056372

Claim:
Knitting head for a circular knitting machine, comprising; a knitting cylinder with needle channels for knitting needles, with the knitting cylinder being mounted on a cylinder carrier ring; a needle cam arranged to be concentric to the knitting cylinder and to circumscribe said knitting cylinder on its outside; a bearing for the rotatable support of the knitting cylinder, wherein the bearing has at least two bearing surfaces that may be counter-rotational, with one of the bearing surfaces of the bearing being provided on the cylinder carrier ring; a head ring that is provided with another of the bearing surfaces of the bearing so that the cylinder carrier ring is rotatably connected to the head ring by the bearing, said head ring supporting said needle cam and being connected to the needle cam via an adjustment arrangement, and said head ring is set up to be mounted in a machine frame of the circular knitting machine, and wherein the head ring is set up for mounting in a separate carrier ring belonging to the machine frame.