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Recent Development of Circular Knitting Machine: Submitted By:-Niharika KD-5

Recent developments in circular knitting machines include: 1) Seamless knitting technology allows for the creation of tubular garments without seams on circular machines or joining of tubes on flat machines. 2) Ultra fine gauge circular machines use fine yarns to produce lightweight "second skin" fabrics similar to woven textiles. 3) Loop transfer technology enables more structured designs and shaped fabrics by transferring stitches between cylinders or within a cylinder.

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Recent Development of Circular Knitting Machine: Submitted By:-Niharika KD-5

Recent developments in circular knitting machines include: 1) Seamless knitting technology allows for the creation of tubular garments without seams on circular machines or joining of tubes on flat machines. 2) Ultra fine gauge circular machines use fine yarns to produce lightweight "second skin" fabrics similar to woven textiles. 3) Loop transfer technology enables more structured designs and shaped fabrics by transferring stitches between cylinders or within a cylinder.

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Recent Development of Circular Knitting Machine

Submitted by:- Niharika


KD-5
Introduction of Knitting Machine:
The machines used for the manufacturing of knit fabrics can be divided into
machines with individually driven needles and needle bar machines. The former
type of machine incorporates needles which are moved individually by cams
acting on the needle butt; they are used for producing weft knits and are
subdivided into circular knitting machines and flat-bed knitting machines.

The needles used can be latch needles or compound needles. The needle bar
machines incorporate needles which move simultaneously, since they are all fixed
to the same bar; we distinguish full-fashioned knitting machines and circular
loop-wheel machines for the production of weft knit fabrics, which only use
spring-beard needles, and warp knitting machine which use spring-beard needles,
latch needles and compound needles.
Classification of Knitting Machines
Circular Knitting Machine:
Circular knitting machine is widely used through out the knitting industry to produce fabric. This machine can be built
in almost any reasonable diameter and the small diameter of up to five, which are used for wear.
Machine for outerwear and under wear may vary from 12 inch to 60 inch in diameter according to manufactures
requirement. This machine can be used either as fabric or for making garments completely with fancy stitch. Latch
needles are commonly employed in all modern circular machines because of their simple action and also their ability to
process more types of yarns.   

Circular knitting machine


Important Part of Circular Knitting Machine:
Creel: Creel is a part of a knitting machine. Hear yarn package are store and ready to feed in the
machine.

creel pulley
VDQ Pulley: It is a very important part of the machine. It controls the quality of the product.
Altering the position of the tension pulley changes the G.S.M. of the fabric. If pulley moves towards the
positive directive then the G.S.M. is decrease. And in the reverse direction G.S.M will increase
Pulley Belt: It controls the rotation of the
MPF wheel. Brush: Its clean the pulley belt. 

Needle: It is a principal element of the


knitting machine. Its help the yarn to create
a loop. And by this way fabric are produce.
Prior to yarn feeding the needle is raised to
clear the old loop from the hook, and
received the new loop above it on needle
stem. The new loop is then enclosed in the
needle hook as the needle starts to descend.
Feeder Ring: It is a ring. Where all feeders are pleased together.

Inlet and Outlet Stop Motion: It is Yarn Guide: Its help the yarn to feed in the
an important part of the machine. It stops feeder.
the machine instantly when a yarn is break.

Feeder Ring: It is a ring. Where all Feeder: Feeder is help yarn to feed in to the
feeders are pleased together. machine.
Needle Track: Where all Needles is placed Tension Disk: It confronts the tension of
together in a decent design. the supply yarn.

Sinker: It is most important element of the Sinker Ring: Sinker ring is a ring.
machine. Its help to loop forming, knocking over Where all sinkers are pleased together.
and holding down the loop.
Cam Box: Where the cam are set horizontally. Cam: Cam is device s which converts the
rotary machine drive in to a suitable
reciprocating action for the needles and other
elements.

Cylinder: Needle track are situated hear.


Recent Development of Circular Knitting Machine

Seamless knitting technology


Seamless garment knitting can be achieved either on the circular knitting
machine or flat (V-bed) knitting machine. However, seamless circular knitting
machines differ from seamless flat knitting machines in that seamless circular
machines create only a single tubular type of garment such as those produced on
Santoni machines.

Seamless knitting machines can create more than one tube and join the tubes
together on a machine. The complete garments knitted on circular machines
may also only need a minimal cutting operation.

In addition, seamless knitting machine require different diameters to make


major changes in garment size, whereas seamless flat machines can adjust to
different garment sizes on the same machine. Consequently, seamless knitting
on circular machines is not true seamless knitting. It should be mentioned that
knitting on V-bed seamless machines produces truly seamless garments since
they do not require any cutting or sewing. In recent years, Santoni has
developed a four-feed single-jersey electronic circular machine, which enables
the creation of a shaped garment by reciprocal movement.
To get a higher quality knitted garment, it is crucial to control the
manufacturing functions. It is critical for designers and
manufacturers to communicate effectively in order to create
successful new products in the knitting industry. Designers complain
that the designs that they specified are not accurately created, while
technicians are of the opinion that the designers do not understand
the technical problems in knitting feasibility. It has been proposed
that one way to overcome the communication problem between
designers and technicians would be the use of intelligent CAD
systems. The CAD system gives designers and manufacturers the
opportunity to specify and evaluate their design more precisely
without requiring great time investment and technical expertise.
Diverse computer controlled systems including CAD/CAM controlled
machines have been developed to facilitate communication.

Companies have been offered new types of CAD system, which use
two different monitors including a technical window and a design
window for designers and manufacturers, who require different
information for the same design.
Ultra fine gauge knitting machines
Fine knitted fabrics known as ‘second skin’ are produced on fine gauge circular
knitting machines. Cotton, polyester and viscose yarns of 90 to 120 Ne are applied
to produce fine circular knitted fabrics. The appearance of these fabrics is similar
to woven fabrics but they are more flexible.

High-grade circular knitting cylinders provide the ideal complement to the


company’s premium range of needles and system parts to create the perfect knitting
system from a single reliable supplier.
It is only with the guarantee of a consistently high standard of component quality
and outstanding durability that circular knitting machines are able to reach their full
potential for high-performance operation on the factory floor. Ensuring the pinpoint
precision of individual elements in existing machines not only simplifies the
workflow but also improves capacity utilisation in production.
Fine gauge automotive fabrics, known as woven-like fabrics, are produced on fine
gauge double cylinders in Pai Lung ultra fine gauge machines. Pile technology is
applied to these machines, where the fine gauge of loop makers is adjusted near to
the sinkers.
Loop transfer technology in circular knitting machines
Stitch transfer is an important operation, as a higher number of transfer modes
means more possibilities of making structured designs and shaped fabrics in which
the stitch is transferred from one cylinder to the other or within the same cylinder.
The production of high-quality knitted fabrics – i.e. of homogeneous appearance as a
result of a smooth knitting process and the absence of holes and barring – essentially
depends on the application of certain technical solutions.
As for the type of needle used, Italian machines incorporate latch needles, which
operate according to the drowned butt principle. This kind of needle remains in an
idle position with its heel completely drowned in the needle bed groove without
being involved in the action of cams, and retains the loop, which in this case is not
subject to strain.
Pile and sliver insertion mechanism in circular knitting
A special sliver knitting process locks individual fibres directly into a lightweight
knit backing, allowing each fibre to stand upright, free from the backing, to form
the soft pile on the face of the fabric. This makes comfort pile fabrics softer,
warmer, more drapeable and more resilient than fabrics made from yarns. Each
fabric originates from premium loose fibers. These fibres include high-tech
microfibre acrylics, polyesters and mod-acrylics specially developed for fabric,
along with natural fibres such as wool.
Each blend is chosen for its specific end result. By engineering the fibre mix, an
incredibly wide range of colours, density, weight, patterning, texture and performance
features can be produced in comfort knit pile fabrics.

Needle with spring for high speed loop transferring

After knitting, the pile fabric is sheared to the desired height. It is then put through a
series of technical finishing processes specially developed by this kind of knitting
process to control the surface texture and special characteristics of the final fabric
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