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Patterning servo-mechanism for a circular warp knitting machine

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posted on 2017-10-13, 15:52 authored by Sylvia P. Mermelstein, Darren A. Hale, Memis Acar, Michael Jackson, Kevin Roberts
Warp knitting is always performed on flat (linear) knitting machines. A circular warp-knitting machine is recently made possible by using a novel concept of a conical needle bed and patterning cams with enclosed cam followers to drive the patterning rings. This also requires a mechanical linkage to transmit the motion from the patterning cam to the patterning rings, which is prone to vibration at undesirable levels. A new generation design replaces the mechanical cam and linkage with high-speed AC brushless servomotors enabling limitless precision patterning possibilities. A method of selecting servomotors based on minimising the power required to perform the fastest motion required for a given application is reported. This method ensures cost minimising by selecting the smallest servomotor suitable for a given application. A circular warp-knitting machine using servomotor to drives selected using the method reported is designed, built and successfully tested.

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This work was financially supported by a Teaching Company Scheme between Loughborough University and Tritex International Limited, the Teaching Company Directorate and Tritex International Limited being the contributors to the scheme.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Mechatronics Journal

Volume

11

Issue

(6)

Pages

617 - 630

Citation

MERMELSTEIN, S. ... et al., 2001. Patterning servo-mechanism for a circular warp knitting machine. Mechatronics, 11 (6), pp.617-630.

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© Elsevier

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2001

ISSN

0957-4158

Language

  • en

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