Abstract: An ironing machine provided with a pair of press plates are juxtaposed with respective elastic webs on tensioning frames which can stretch the webs with the article to be pressed between them so as to tension the article outwardly from the center on both sides, the tension being maintained during pressing.

Abstract: A bielastic warp-knit fabric with balanced behavior of the elastic forces in the longitudinal and transverse directions is obtained by guiding elasthane yarn as weft thread under the needle points in the tuck or laying position during the stitch-forming process, so that loops are formed during knocking-over.

Abstract: A knife holder apparatus for a cut pile tufting machine including a plurality of knife blocks, each knife block being fixed to a depending staff having an upright elongated channel, and a transverse knife bar having forwardly projecting, transversely spaced angular rib members for receiving the channels of the corresponding staffs. A transverse clamp pin bridging the channel of each staff is adapted to be received in a transverse clamping slot formed at a rearward inclination in each rib member and to be forced upward against the rearwardly inclined upper wall of the transverse slot by a set screw projecting upwardly into the slot for clamping the knife block in a predetermined position upon the knife bar to hold the knives in their tensioned positions against their corresponding looper hooks.

Abstract: A stamped knitting tool for textile machines and particularly for knitting machines is provided with a shank member and a working member. The shank member includes upper and lower edges and first and second end surfaces, and has at least one butt extending from one of the edges and a recess defined in the first end surface and laterally bounded by a web portion of the shank member on each side. The recess is divided into a guide region adjacent the first end surface and a following anchorage region at the rear, and the edges of the web portions facing recess have an irregular profile in the anchorage region. The working member has a needle head or needle hook disposed at one end and a connecting member portion disposed at the other end, with the connecting member portion being positioned in the recess of the shank member so that it is held in a form-locking manner by the web portions in the guide region and so that it is anchored to the shank member in the anchorage region.

Abstract: A latch needle for loop forming textile machines includes a steel needle shank and a nonmetallic latch. The steel needle shank has upper and lower edges, a sawslot defined in the needle shank and a needle hook at one end of the needle shank. The needle also includes an axle which extends transversely across the sawslot and contacts the needle shank. The latch is pivotally mounted on the axle and is provided with a noucat at one end. The latch is pivotal between an open and a closed position. When the latch is in the closed position, the noucat rests on the needle hook and when the latch is in the open position, the back surface of the latch contacts part of the needle shank. The nonmetallic material which the latch is composed of is a fiber reinforced thermoplastic homopolymer or copolymer plastic.

Abstract: A tufting machine having a pair of rows of spaced apart needles which are independently selectively reciprocated in a path toward and away from a base material fed in a direction longitudinally from one row to the other through the machine. The machine includes drive mechanism including push rods which reciprocate during each cycle. A yoke is secured to each push rod and has a pair of downwardly depending limbs spaced apart longitudinally and corresponding to a respective row. The limbs for each row carry an air cylinder latching bar including latches which are controlled in accordance with a pattern. The needles are each carried by a respective needle holder mounted between the limbs and each needle holder may be coupled to the latch bar corresponding to that row selectively.

Abstract: An indexing mechanism for a tufting machine for indexing a needle bar or a backing material feed roller has three oscillating input gear sectors, a drive transmission corresponding to each gear sector, an output member and a programmable selector mechanism for each drive transmission for periodically selectively coupling the corresponding drive transmission with the respective gear sector. The drive transmissions include a pair of epicyclic gear assemblies having planet gears mounted within a common planet cage. The sun gear of one of the assemblies is connected to a flywheel coupled to a transfer gear which may be selectively moved to receive motion from a first sector. The ring gear of one epicyclic gear assembly is coupled to a second transfer gear which may be selectively moved to receive motion from a second gear sector. The other epicyclic gear assembly has its ring gear coupled to a third transfer gear which may be selectively moved to receive motion from the third gear sector.

Abstract: A knitted fabric having improved electrical charge dissipation properties, constructed so as to form a conductive matrix capable of discharging an electrical charge along any direction of the course and wale of the fabric.

Abstract: Laterally shiftable front and back needle bars are slideably mounted on a main needle bar, the front needle bar carries a front row of needles and a back needle bar carries a back row of needles. Cut pile loopers cooperate with the needles of the back row and cut-loop loopers cooperate with the needles of the front row. Needles in the front row are larger and handle larger size yarns than needles in the back row and a yarn feed control dictates whether yarns in the front needles make low loops or high cut piles.

Abstract: A warp knitting machine can deliver weft threads along a weft path to a needle bed having a needle bar. The machine has a weft thread magazine for transversely laying the weft threads across the breadth of the machine, in parallel, on the weft path, and upstream of the needle bed. The machine has at least one forwarding device for protruding into the weft path and through the needle bed for separating a leading one of the weft threads and bringing it to the downstream side of the needle bed, at least one support element for the weft threads having a support surface directed towards the needle bed. Also included is a vibration element connected to the weft thread support element.

Abstract: The knitted fabric winding-up device is formed as an auxiliary device which can be located beneath the needle beds (21, 22) on a lower supporting cross member (10), at the front side of a flat knitting machine, from which it is removable, and by means of a winding roller for formation of the fabric package (24) is pivotable from an inner position to an outer position. The winding roller (13) can, even in the outer position, be driven by a motor located in the lower supporting cross member (10) or can be decoupled and turned by hand.

Abstract: A single warp-knitted pile fabric comprising loop courses of ground and pile threads, wherein the loops of the pile threads are run jointly with the ground loops and interconnected by the floats of these loops. Transfers are run on from the pile threads in the same courses as the loops of these pile threads. The floats of the transfers are laid in some courses to overlie the floats of the ground loops, whereas in other courses the floats of the transfers are laid to underlie the floats of the ground loops.

Abstract: A device for actuating movable cams for use on a flat knitting machine that includes several cams arranged on a cam plate, in which the cams are movable in a direction perpendicular to the plane of movement of the cam box, contains a drum having an axis of rotation that is perpendicular to the plane of movement of the cam box and that is located substantially central relative to all movable cams. The drum includes grooves in the peripheral portion thereof at axial distances from one another, which grooves have variable axial positions over the periphery of the drum. A corresponding engaging part rides in a respective groove and the drum is rotated by a drum mechanism through definite angular amounts so that cams are placed in or out of activity at a stroke of the engaging part in the groove by means of connecting bars assigned to each of the engaging parts riding in the grooves on the drum.

Abstract: In this machine, rows of rods (R.sub.1.sup.2, R.sub.3.sup.2, R.sub.4.sup.3, R.sub.2.sup.3) representing the woof threads are circulated in passages A, B, C defined between filaments (86) forming concentric open loops having adjustable diameters. In the openings of the loops are needles (90) movable between neutral or open positions for deviating the rods from a passage into an adjacent passage while depositing warp threads in circular layers between the rods. The rods are then replaced by woof threads by a lacing device.

Abstract: In this machine, rows of rods representing the woof threads are circulated in passages A, B, C defined between filaments forming concentric open loops having adjustable diameters. Disposed in the openings of the loops are needles (90) movable between neutral or open positions for deviating the rods from a passage into an adjacent passage in accordance with a predetermined sequence while depositing warp threads in circular layers between the rods. The rods are then replaced by woof threads by a lacing device.

Abstract: Warp-knit fabric having a two-course repeat pattern of alternating first and second bar yarns. The fabric is prepared by interlocking the first and second bar yarns using a combination of knit and layed-in stitches in opposite fashion.

Abstract: A multiple needle tufting machine incorporating a pair of relatively transversely adjustable front and rear needle bars, each needle bar supporting corresponding front and rear needles in transverse rows for simultaneous penetration of a base fabric moving in a feeding direction through the machine. A looper apparatus is provided incorporating transversely adjustable front and rear loop pile hook bars supporting a plurality of corresponding front and rear loop pile hooks pointing in the direction of fabric feed. Both the front and rear needle bars and the front and rear hook bars are relatively transversely adjustable between positions in which the front and rear needles are in alignment with the direction of fabric feed and a staggered position in which the front and rear needles are transversely offset. Separate yarns of preferably different characteristics are fed to the front needles and to the rear needles preferably by pattern control mechanisms to produce loop pile fabric of various patterns.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electric iron including a heat-radiating base. A coating is formed on the lower side of the heat-radiating base. The coating is formed by mixing conductive fine powder and a polyethersulfone resin with a polytetrafluoroethylene resin.

Abstract: A patterning device for a circular knitting machine which is particularly adapted for quick style changes. The device comprises a rotor element with a plurality of lobes around the periphery thereof, a drive motor for rotating the rotor element in synchronous rotational movement with the needle cylinder, and a control for actuating the drive motor according to a predetermined program in order to determine which of the lobes will be brought into registry with a respective needle jack to force it out of engagement with the cam and which of the lobes will be caused to miss a respective needle jack and thereby allow the jack to be cammed.

Abstract: The device for monitoring the knitwear (16') of a flatbed knitting machine for falling-off exhibits several support bodies (18) having in each case a feeling lever (17) which rests against the knitwear (16') and which is coupled to a switching arm (25). The switching arm (25) is constructed as a contactless contactor and is moved during an adjusting movement of the feeling lever (17), which is triggered when knitwear (16') has fallen off, through the contact range of an electric switching device, for example a light barrier or an ultrasonic barrier or through a magnetic field area into an ineffective end position so that a control signal can be triggered only during the adjusting movement of the switching arm (25) between its end positions.