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The SSG Series is recognized as the global standard in computerized flat knitting machines, having become a bestseller in SHIMA SEIKI 's lineup. Its quality, reliability, high productivity, and cost-performance combine to maximize the production potential of customers, while minimizing investment risks.
The World's First Digital Stitch Device, the Digital Stitch Control System(DSCS) can be programmed with the desired loop length, after which it monitors yarn consumption continuously and adjusts yarn feed and tension to yield consistency throughout the fabric to within a remarkable ±1% tolerance. The result is quality control that is essential to shaping and integral garment production.
SSG features Shima Seiki's new R2 (Rapid Response) Carriage System, which achieves quicker carriage returns after each course. For a given knitting width, a larger and heavier carriage requires more space (B) at each end of the machine to decelerate, return and accelerate back up to speed, so the actual portion where the carriage runs at full speed (A) becomes very limited. With SSG's R2Carriage, less space is required for the carriage to make returns, allowing more area for the carriage to run at full speed. This allows faster knitting per course, resulting in an increase in productivity of over 10 per cent.
SSG122SV features WideGauge capability that allows a variety of gauges to be knit on a single machine. This allows the freedom to handle changing seasons and shifting trends without investing in a machine for every gauge or resorting to the complex, time-consuming task of gauge conversion. A wide range of production is possible, from tighter, finer gauge fabrics using all-needle knitting to more airy, lower-gauge textures using half-gauge (1×1) knitting.
Other takedown systems employ needles which face sideways with a tendency to snag and failure to release fabrics. On the other hand, SSG's patented takedown comb employs a row of special forward-facing setup needles with an active release mechanism for consistent quality and complete, reliable, snag-free fabric release. The takedown comb can also provide fine adjustments depending on the type of fabric for stable quality under various production conditions.
Spring-type sinkers operate full-time regardless of carriage position, and provide gentle holddown movement, realizing significant improvement in quality and texture for complicated three-dimensional fabrics.
The patented stitch presser system features a special motor-driven system which allows the pressers to carry out individual on/off adjustments in both knit and transfer, in either course direction. These pressers are able to hold down fabric gently for improved consistency and control, contributing significantly to quality shaping.
Our unique yarn gripper and cutter system consists of two yarn grippers and one yarn cutter that work in precise coordination with each other. Since the gripper and cutter are separate units, they can be independently activated to delay cutting while holding, or perform holding alone.
Additional features include a new control unit that is built-in to the machine for simplified shipping and installation, easier maintenance, and more efficient use of space. A USB memory interface and a backup power supply are standard.
