Risk Vulnerability and the temper-ing E ect of Background Risk

Method of operating a warp knitting machine includes, after interruption of a weft running to the weft storage and activation of a machine shut-down device, initially controlling slow-down of the knitting instruments of the machine so that when the machine stops, the weft storage has been emptied of all but a predetermined number of weft lengths, severing the drive connection between the weft storage and the knitting instruments, removing from the weft storage the weft remaining therein, automatically filling the weft storage with weft, and the restoring the drive connection for continuing the knitting operation.

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