Patent ID: 7093466

Claim:
A device for taking up fabric from a knitting machine comprising: two side boxes each including a projection formed on its side proximate top; a take-up shaft disposed across intermediate portions of the side boxes, the take-up shaft being adapted to wind fabric therearound; and a friction mechanism including two arms each having a first end pivotably connected to the projection, and a friction rod fixedly interconnected to second ends of the arms, the friction rod being disposed above the take-up shaft to contact the fabric wound therearound and to apply a pressing force by a weight of the friction rod to the fabric wound around the take-up shaft, wherein in a fabric take-up process, the arms move from an initial position where the take-up shaft is empty to a maximum position where the take-up shaft is full due to an increase in the diameter of the fabric on the take-up shaft, and the pressing force exerted by the friction rod on the fabric being wound around the take-up shaft is the same during the fabric take-up process.