Circular knitting machine with pivotally mounted access platform

• US 4,033,147 A
• Filed: 05/05/1975
• Issued: 07/05/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
• Original Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
• Inventors: King, Herbert Ray
• Primary Examiner(s): Rimrodt, Louis K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Falik, A. M.
• Application Number:
  US05/574,502
• Time in Patent Office: 792 Days
• Field of Search: 108/50, 108/48, 297/331, 297/334, 297/335, 297/217, 297/142, 66/8, 66/147, 66/151, 66/149 R, 66/1 R, 66/60 R, 66/64, 66/60 H, 182/222, 182/91, 312/335, 312/228, 312/235 R, 139/13, 139/1 R, 139/304
• US Class Current: 66/8
• CPC Class Codes: D04B 15/00 Details of, or auxiliary devices incorporated in, weft knitting machines, restricted to machines of this kind details or auxiliary devices not so restricted D04B35/00
• CPC Class Codes: D04B 37/02 with weft knitting machines

Abstract

A circular knitting machine having a step attached to the machine which is accessible when the machine is in operation but can be moved out of the way when the knitting guard is opened to gain access to the interior of the machine.

Claims

1. A circular knitting machine having a frame and a means to produce a circular knitted fabric comprising:

means mounting a platform to allowing said platform to be moved to positions substantially both perpendicular or parallel to the vertical centerline of said machine, said means including hinge means to allow said platform to be pivoted about the hinge both outwardly and vertically upward adjacent said frame, said hinge means being mounted at an acute angle to said platform and to said frame.