Abstract: A method of knitting an inlaid fabric including a base knitting fabric portion and an inlay yarn and an inlaid fabric knitted by the method. The method comprises the step that the base knitting fabric portion is knitted; the step that inlay yarn holding loops are formed by retaining loops of the base knitting fabric portion retained by the needles on the first needle bed to the needles on the opposed second needle bed through a split knit process, whereby the loops are retained to the needles on both of the first and second needle beds; the step that the inlay yarn is made to run across the loops retained to the needles on the first and second needle beds; the step that the inlay yarn holding loops retained by the needles on the second needle bed are transferred to the needles on the first needle bed to be overlapped with the loops of the base knitting fabric portion; and the step that a yarn is fed to the needles of the first needle bed to form loops of the next course.

Abstract: A knitting method that can permit the forming of a connecting part of the knitting fabric overlapped in front and back, such as a pleat or fly, even when the knitting fabric is knitted in a double jersey stitch structure.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine is provided with a guiding mechanism to engage the first butt of the slider of a needle for split knit and a split knit cam provided in the slider cam lock. When the first butt of the slider and the split knit cam is in engagement with each other, the needle proper is cleared. With this arrangement, the slider does not move inadvertently, and the second butt of the slider is reliably guided to the split knit bypass groove, and split knit is completed by the subsequent cam lock.

Abstract: To provide improved beauty of an double jersey fabric at its side edge portion and improved productivity, the present invention provides a method for knitting the double jersey fabric including rib knitting such as Milano rib by a knitting equivalent to or higher than a double knitting by use of a flat knitting machine, wherein a piping is provided for at least one of a side edge portion of the fabric by the step that one or more needles of the front and back needle beds are introduced so that knitting of the side edge portion of the fabric on an ending side of a course knitting can be ended with the needle(s) of one of the needle beds and knitting of the side edge portion of the fabric on a beginning side of the subsequent course knitting can be started with the needle(s) of the other of the needle beds; and the step that the course knitting are performed orderly from the yarn feeder disposed on a frontwardly positioned track, when the knitting of the side edge portion is ended with the needle(s) of the back

Abstract: An end yarn inserting device that is so constructed that an end yarn hook can be put into action only when necessary but otherwise be retreated to such a position in the vicinity of a needle bed gap as to avoid interfering with knitting members including a yarn feeder and knitting needles.

Abstract: A sheet material 2 is cut with a round blade 10 and a notching blade 11. It is assumed that, in a straight section P1-P2-P3-P4, a distance between the end point P1 and the end point P2 is not shorter than a blade width W10 of the round blade 10, a distance between the end point P2 and the end point P3 and a distance between the end point P3 and the end point P4 are shorter than the blade width W10 and it is necessary to cut without cutting into a pattern piece indicated by shadow. A section between the end point P2 and the end point P3 can be cut without cutting into the pattern piece although overcut occurs on the end point P2 side, with the round blade 10 by aligning the leading edge thereof at the end point P3. A section between the end point P3 and the end point P4 is cut with the notching blade 11 because cutting with the round blade 10 causes a cut into the pattern piece at least from one of the end points.

Abstract: A cutting head is provided also with a notching blade to enable it to cut a length shorter than the blade width of a round blade. In order to eliminate the need for compressed air supplying equipment and simplify the mechanism thereby to make it compact and light weight, an angular displacement servo motor is used as a common drive source for causing angular displacement of the round blade and angular displacement of the notching blade. A cam motor causes a round blade cam and a notching blade cam to make angular displacement thereby to selectively cause the round blade and the notching blade to work on sheet material placed on a cutting table an cut it.

Abstract: A running carriage (33) delivers, spreads, and piles a sheet material to be spread to form a piled sheet material (24), while running on a spreading table (22) of a cloth spreading machine (21). The piled sheet material (24) is placed on an underlay sheet (25) which has a larger area than that of the piled sheet material (24). At the bottom of the running carriage (33), a foot presser (27) is provided. The foot presser (27) is designed to be vertically displaced by a cylinder (28). A blower motor (29) drives a fan (30) to blow air through nozzles (31) towards the surface of the spreading table (22), thereby reducing the load of the piled sheet material (24). The underlay sheet (25) is pressed by the foot presser (27) and the running carriage (33) starts running, whereby the piled sheet material (24) is delivered.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the width of a cutting blade in a linear motor is activated when the cutting blade is raised. A working pin is advanced and one end of a detecting pin is abutted against an edge of the cutting blade. Thereafter, the working pin is returned. The blade width is derived by deducting the number of inputted driving pulses in returning from the advanced position of the detecting pin. The cutting blade is polished each polishing cycle for predetermined times by polishing rollers. The width of the cutting blade is measured by blade width detecting means during each predetermined polishing cycle. The measurement value of the blade width is fed back into a control device so that the subsequent polishing time of the cutting blade with the polishing rollers is adjusted until it becomes appropriate. The expiration of the useful life of the polishing rollers is determined when a long polishing time is required.

Abstract: A knitting yarn feeding apparatus has a base body provided along the longitudinal direction of a front needle bed and a rear needle bed, and plural lace bars movable reciprocally on the base body in the longitudinal direction. Holding blocks are easily attached to and detached from the lace bars. Plural feeder tubes, are detachably fitted to each holding block. From the front end of the feeder tubes, knitting yarn is supplied to the knitting needles of the front needle bed, and the lapping motion is effected by the reciprocal drive of the lace bar in the longitudinal direction. Moreover, the knitting yarn feeding apparatus oscillates and displaces about a swing shaft by an oscillating mechanism provided beneath the front needle bed 11 and rear needle bed, and the front ends of the feeder tubes make a swing motion.

Abstract: A sinker is disposed at the front end of a needle bed of a flat knitting machine so as to be capable of swinging displacement. A groove guiding advancing, retreating and swinging of the sinker is formed at the front end of the needle bed. A knitting yarn holding part is formed at the front end of a sinker plate. A knitting yarn drop preventive part, for preventing knitting yarn between a knitting needle and the sinker from dropping into the groove during knitting, is disposed adjacent to the sinker.

Abstract: In knitting a knit fabric, knitting needles in a range corresponding with a desired knitting width for the fabric are fed with a draw yarn to form a course of stitches from the draw yarn. The knitting needles may be taken from a pair of needle beds which are sometimes referred to as the front bed and the rear bed. All or part of the knitting needles used for knitting the draw yarn are next fed with a knitting yarn and a course of stitches form from the knitting yarn. Thereafter, knitting needles from the front and rear needle beds in the range corresponding with the desired knitting width are fed with the knitting yarn and the initial portion of the fabric is knitted. Subsequently, knitting needles from either the front or rear needle beds are fed with knitting yarn and thereafter knitting needles from another needle bed are fed with knitting yarn to knit plan tubular stitches until the fabric is completed. The draw yarn is drawn out of the fabric after completion of the knitting.

Abstract: A knitted fabric presser unit includes pressers corresponding to respective reciprocal directions and installed in a carriage. A first presser presses a knitted fabric when the carriage is being moved in a first knitting direction, during which a second presser is in a rest position. The first presser moves in conjunction with displacement in one direction of a sliding plate due to a follower engaged with a grooved cam. Similarly, the second presser moves in conjunction with displacement in another direction of the sliding plate due to a follower engaged with a grooved cam. Displacement of the sliding plate is caused by a rack engaged with a pinion fixed at a rotation axis of a motor. Movement traces of the first presser and the second presser are determined so that the two pressers are prevented from interfering with each other on movement thereof between a respective pressing and rest positions.

Abstract: In order to process yarn preliminarily, and to change over yarn precisely at a desired knitting position, the yarn fed to a flat knitting machine is processed by a yarn processing device. To change over the yarn at a changeover position of knitted fabric, it is necessary to actuate the yarn processing device preliminarily at an actuating position C. A controller calculates the actuating position from a set value in a setting circuit and pattern information from a memory. When an encoder detects that a position of feeding the yarn to a knitting needle has reached the actuating position, the yarn processing device is actuated. The length of the yarn from a yarn processing position to the actuating position is nearly equal to the sum of a knitting loop length from the actuating position to the changeover position.