Abstract: A warp knitted textile fabric and a method of producing such a fabric, characterized by a resiliently stretchable three-bar stitch construction, one fabric surface of which presents outwardly extending knitted loops adapted to serve as the loop component in a hook-and-loop fastener system. The fabric is knitted on a warp knitting machine by interknitting ground, elastic and loop-forming yarns together in knitted stitches on spaced needles in spaced fabric courses and interknitting stitches of the ground and elastic yarns on the same spaced needles in intervening courses while forming loops of the loop-forning yarns on inactive intervening needles to be cast off without integration into the ground structure of the fabric so as to form outwardly extending pile loops on one fabric surface. The pile loops do not require brushing or napping to render the fabric suitable for use in a hook-and-loop fastener system.

Abstract: A warp knitted textile fabric suitable for use as the loop component of a hook-and-loop fastener is formed of two sets of ground yarns knitted in a dimensionally stable construction with a set of pile loop-forming yarns formed in a stitch pattern producing elongated underlap loops outwardly extending diagonally in a back-and-forth zig-zag like pattern at the technical back of the fabric to be readily interengaged with the hook elements of a mating hook. A method of producing the fabric is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus removing creases from a tubular fabric including an assembly for moving the fabric through a fabric travel path, an assembly for internally stretching the fabric locally in the area of the creases and an arrangement for applying steam locally to the internally stretched fabric in the area of the creases.