General information

I. Term: ADF = Autarkic Direct Feed

The machine has autarkically driven yarn carriers, which can be moved independently of a knitting system in an horizontal and vertical direction.
There are 8 yarn carrier rails with 2 yarn carrier tracks each, which are double allocated with autarkic yarn carriers (= a total of 32 autarkic yarn carriers).

II. Yarn carrier designation:

YCA = Yarn Carrier Autarkic (Autarkic Yarn Carrier) .

III. Possibilities of the yarn carrier movement:

The autarkic yarn carrier does not perform any swiveling movement.
This yarn carrier performs an upward / downward movement, which equals the swiveling of an intarsia yarn carrier.
For the knitting process the yarn carrier is positioned low and moved horizontally.

Conventional
Intarsia yarn carrier

Autarkic yarn carrier

Presentation of autarkic yarn carriers movement

Yarn carrier swiveled

The yarn carrier is positioned in its color field.

: The overrun path is 0.4" (6 nic). This ensures a secure yarn insertion during the following knitting.

Graphic presentation in the technical view:

Yarn carrier not swiveled

The yarn carrier is positioned in the neighboring color field.

: The behavior is similar to a normal yarn carrier, i.e. the overrun path is 0.75" (12 nic).

Graphic presentation in the technical view:

: The specification nic means: 1 nic = 1/16 inch = 1.5875 millimeter.

Possibilities

Meaning

System related yarn carrier run

Yarn carrier run with knitting action in the allocated system in the carriage direction

Reverse system related yarn carrier run

Yarn carrier run with knitting action in the allocated system opposite to the carriage direction

: Only allowed via a needle path of two neighboring knitting needles!

System independent yarn carrier run

Yarn carrier run without allocated system (autarkic)

Possibilities:

  • before stroke
  • between the systems (e.g. weft yarn carrier Q)
  • after stroke

IV. Additional entries in the control columns:

Control column

Entry

Meaning

 

System independent yarn carrier run to the left

: autarkic: No knitting system necessary!

 

System independent yarn carrier run to the right

 

System independent yarn carrier run undetermined

: When to use: In the module, if the direction of the yarn carrier run is not determined.

 

 

Yarn carrier run without overrun path
The minimum distance between the yarn carrier and the yarn insertion in the first needle is 6 nic.

: The yarn carriers are not staggered automatically within the fabric.

Yarn carrier run with overrun path (standard specification)

: The yarn carriers are staggered automatically within the fabric.

Automatic staggering for yarn carriers at the same position:

  1. The first yarn carrier is positioned with an overrun path of 12 nic .
  2. Further yarn carriers are positioned with an overrun path of 12 nic + 6 nic etc.

: The specification nic means: 1 nic = 1/16 inch

V. Definition of plating techniques

Designation of the
knitting techniques

Definition

Stitch notation

Intarsia Plated

Two (or more) yarns work together in one intarsia area.
The yarns are not used in neighboring areas.

Inverse Plating

Two (or more) yarns work together in one area and change their position (home position, plating position) with system change.
: Change between the systems.

Result:
One pattern row

is divided to several technical rows.

Stoll-ikat plating ®

Two yarns work together in one area and change their position (home position, plating position) without system change.
: Change in the system.

Result:
One pattern row corresponds to one technical row. In each pattern row, two yarns work, which knit in one system and change their position as well.

Selective Plating

Two (or more) yarns work together only in one selected area. In the same knitting row at least one yarn is also used outside the selected area.