Professional Documents
Culture Documents
seminar on
Electronic Controls in warp and weft knitting.
Juan/2015
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contents
1. Introduction
2. Advantages of electronic control and programming
3. Application areas of electronics in knitting
4. Microprocessors and computers
5. computerized knitting machine
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Introduction
• Initially Knitting machines have developed
with mechanically controlled and operated
movements.
• requirements of modern knitting technology,
however, emphasize on limitations of
mechanical movements which are expensive
to manufacture, slow and cumbersome in
operation, difficult to adjust or alter, and
subject to friction and wear.
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Cont…
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Advantages of electronic control and programming
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Fields of applications Electronics in knitting
● Stop motions
● Yarn feed system
● Course and stitch length
● Yarn tension
● Pattern selection
● Stripping
● Shaping of product
● Monitoring of various motions and settings
● Cylinder temperature and oil pressure
● Online quality measurement and control
● Operational data acquisition
● Preparation of design and knitting pattern (CAD)
● Production of knitted structures (CAM)
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Microprocessors and computers
The most important use of electronics is in microprocessor
and computer systems.
A computer can receive, store, retrieve, and communicate
enormous quantities of information at phenomenal speeds.
It can also manipulate, rearrange, select, and transform this
information. It performs arithmetical or logical processes
accurately at high speed after receiving the instructions
(programm) and values (data) without the need for further
intervention by the operator.
Flexibility in processing of data b/c system can be
programmed to produce YES or NO decisions, based on the
result of comparing and testing monitored data, that then
determine the choice of two alternative courses of action in
the program of the system. These alternative courses
within the main program sequence may include counted
loop sequences, branching or jumping out of the main
sequence, and selection of stored sub-routines.
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Cont…
It is these facilities that give electronically-
controlled knitting pattern preparation and
needle selection their extensive capabilities as
compared with previously available methods.
Although it is possible to directly program a
system using switches, a matrix board, a
keyboard or another input device, the processor
(and probably the knitting machine) will be held
waiting during this time-consuming operation.
It is therefore preferable to record the program
and data in an auxiliary memory store such as a
tape or disc.
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computerized knitting machine
electronically-controlled knitting machine can be part of a network
of management communication links.
Electronics increasing automatic monitoring and adjustment
facilities provided by microprocessor control on modern machines
obviates the need for continual manual attention.
Perhaps electronics has had its greatest impact in V-bed flat
knitting, as a major factor in the successful development of shaping
techniques .
Electronics is also increasingly being employed in ‘intelligent’ stop
motions, yarn feed systems, the design and preparation of knitting
patterns, machine function control, pattern selection and striping.
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Yarn feeding
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Cont…
Storage feeder
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Electronic needle selection
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Needle selection shaping
selvedge needle(s) is introduced or withdrawn from the knitting
width by means of needle selection.
It is more convenient on automatic V-bed flat machines to employ
the jacquard selection to introduce empty needles for widening and
to take needles out of action for narrowing
(i) by transferring and re-transferring rib loops in conjunction with
needle bed racking,
(ii) by pressing-off loops, or
(iii) by causing needles to hold their loops for large numbers of
traverses
It is even possible to introduce or remove a selvedge needle from
knitting action during tubular plain knitting on a V-bed flat machine,
thus achieving a certain amount of shape in the tube.
full shaping potential of the V-bed flat machine can only be
exploited if the conventional roller take-down system is replaced by
an arrangement capable of accommodating itself to varying rates of
production and fabric widths and even to separated garments or
garment pieces.
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The shaping control programme-on flat knitting
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Control of the fabric during knitting
• take-down rollers and cloth winder are driven separately by an electric
motor
• cloth passing through nip of take-down rollers is wound on the cloth
roller.
• cloth roller is driven by take-down rollers through gear arrangement. The
take down tension or the surface speed of the take down rollers can be
sensed and adjusted. with the help of facility available in the control p
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Cont…
On flat knitting
• Shima have a new computer-controlled pull-down
system for their FIRST Whole-Garment machines.
• front and back of garment each has a separate
takedown panel of tiny pins, each section of
which can be individually controlled for specific
tension.
• This results in a more dimensionally-accurate
garment; for example by allowing shoulder lines
for set-in sleeves to be positioned over the
shoulders and towards the back.
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