Gate Switch Knitting Safety Interlock
- Are gate/machine run accidents preventable?
- Are your safety inspections free of all problems?
- Do your existing switches FAIL in the SAFE position?
- Do your machines continue to run with the gate open?
- Are your current gate switches easily bypassed or disabled?
- Does your current gate switch conform to industry standards?
- Do your knitting personnel have to interface with the gate switch?
- Do your knitting personnel have to turn off the machines at DOFF?
Matrix’s Gate Switch is designed to minimize the risk on the plant floor in the event of a knitting machine switch failure. Workers are protected when the gate is opened to one inch and beyond, as the safety switch is activated, disengaging a running knitting machine.
Maximize Safety – Minimize Risk
The Gate Safety Switch was engineered to be adaptable to most knitting machines, while conforming to Industry standards. There is no user interface to operate the switch, and it prevents the machine operator from manually overriding the instrument with the gate open. Manufactured with a die cast rugged aluminum housing and steel operating arms, the switch also comes with a mechanical life of 1 million switch contact operations. Upon a one-inch gate opening, positive-break contacts assure circuit interruption upon actuation, allowing fail-to-safe operation upon switch failure.
Customers acquire our products and services to provide the necessary edge to successfully compete in the ever-changing global textile marketplace. With Matrix’s Gate Switch that edge will be accomplished safely and with confidence.
The following companies have seen rapid return on investment and dramatic savings/increased profits over the past 50 years:
| * Alstyle Apparel * Antex Knitting * Anvil Knitwear * Caracol Knits * Danube Knit Fashions * Delta Apparel * Dominican Knits * Duraflex |
* Fruit of the Loom * Gilden Activewear * Hanesbrands Inc * Hilmex * Jockey International * Main Knitting * Milliken & Co. * Monarch Machinery |
* Narricot Industries * Polartec Inc * Russell Corp. * Texollini Inc * Ultratex Inc * Vanguard Supreme * Yazbek |