Year: 2002
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper reports the design, manufacture and test of an innovative method of producing warp\nknitting fabrics, using a circular disposition of the needles rather than linear needle bars. By\nusing the novel truncated-cone needle-bed concept instead of a cylindrical one, the needles slide\nsimultaneously in radial and vertical directions to combine the reciprocating and swinging\nmotions into one. Initially a mechanical prototype machine was designed, built and successfully\ntested to prove the knitting mechanism and its interaction with the patterning rings. The second\nprototype has a mechatronic patterning mechanism, hence increasing the patterning capabilities\nsignificantly, and enabling changing fabric pattern change during knitting without requiring long\nmachine stoppages and cam changes.
Authors: Memiş Acar, Sylvia P. Mermelstein, Michael R. Jackson
Language: English
Subfield: Polymers and Plastics
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Loughborough University
OpenAlex ID: W2773217824