To provide a winder for a knitting machine which is small sized, low cost and can prevent generation of wrinkles in a tubular knitted fabric by means of a tension roller while stably feeding and housing the tubular knitted fabric.
The winder includes a tentering mechanism 10 which is disposed in the radial direction on the inner side 61a of a tubular knitted fabric 6 in a take-up route P and adjusts the width of the tubular knitted fabric 6 to a predetermined width along an axial direction W of a tension roller 2. The tension roller 2 is mounted at the lower part of the tentering mechanism 10, and comprises a plurality of inner rollers 3, 4 arranged in a radial direction on the inner side 61a of the tubular knitted fabric 6 and extending in the axial direction W, and a plurality of outer rollers 5 arranged opposing to the inner rollers 3, 4 respectively in a radial direction on the outer side 61b of the tubular knitted fabric 6 and extending in the axial direction W. The tubular knitted fabric 6 is sandwiched and pressure-contacted with inner rollers 3, 4 and outer rollers 5 from the radial direction on the inner side 61a and the radial direction on the outer side 61b, and fed in a state where the tubular shape is maintained.
HANIYU TOSHIKATSU
TANIGUCHI KOZO
Masashi Noda
Kenro Tsutsumi
Akio Otomo