Circuit board (textile machines)
Two types of sinkers are known in textile machine construction:
- On warp and weft knitting machines , the plate is a small plate made of approximately 0.3 mm thick steel with various functions: e.g. B. enclosing, distributing or knocking off the warp thread.
An example of the use of a sinker is also the formation of sinker loops. These are foot connections of two adjacent stitches in succession.
On the drawing at the top right (green) the shape of a plate on the warp knitting machine is shown.
Depending on the machine division, a warp knitting machine can be equipped with up to 1600 blanks per meter of working width.
- Sinkers are also fine metal hooks on the jacquard machine that are used to control individual strands on the loom .
Electronically controlled jacquard machines work with up to 24,000 sinkers.
literature
- Denninger, Giese: Textile and Fashion Lexicon. Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt / Main 2006, ISBN 3-87150-848-9
- Mesh technology. Employers group Gesamttextil, Frankfurt / Main 1979