Abstract: The embroidering frame of the shuttle embroidering machine comprises cloth beams drivable via drive means. The cloth beams coact in pairs to receive between each such pair a respective material web. These material webs are superimposed in the frame plane and at each material web there engages at each longitudinal edge of the web material a rod-shaped temple or spreader. The upper and lower cloth beams both for the upper and lower material webs are each in selective driving connection by a respective endless belt of the drive means with the driving shaft of an associated geared motor of the drive means and which is carried by the embroidering frame. A belt tensioning device which is reversibly switchable with the rotation direction of the associated geared motor is used. The control circuit of the geared motors contains switching means for the selective separate or synchronous operation of the two geared motors.

Abstract: The safety gate extends between and normally encloses the entire space between adjacent legs of a circular knitting machine to prevent the operator from being injured by a knit fabric take up roll mechanism which rotates beneath the needle cylinder and extends downwardly between the vertical support legs. The safety gate includes individual safety gate elements which are divided into upper and lower sections with the upper section being supported on the lower section for vertical movement between a raised closed position and a lowered open position. At least one of the gate element is hingedly connected on one side to one of the vertical support legs to permit the safety gate element to swing horizontally between closed and open positions between the vertical legs for permitting removal of the fabric take up roll.

Abstract: In the dust extraction appliance for flat knitting machines, a vacuum is generated in the suction nozzles (17) by means of at least one suction-flow device (16) which is arranged on the slide of the flat knitting machine and into with a conveyed, via a flexible delivery line (20), compressed air which carries the sucked-up dust further into a dust collecting bag (18) via an exhaust-air duct (22).

Abstract: A water resistant garment for protecting a thoracic incision on a patient during showering is disclosed. The garment includes upper and lower plackets extending completely through one sleeve, through the collar area of the garment, and all the way down one side of the garment which allows same to be fully opened on one side. This allows the garment to be placed on a patient with virtually no backward or upward movement of the patient's arms. Hook and eye fastening strips are used along the edges which are formed to join the plackets to selectively join the portions of the plackets when the garment is worn. A water seal is formed by a pair of absorbant cotton web panels extends from the collar area of the garment down the front and back of the body portion of the garment. This seal absorbs any water which enters the interior of the body portion of the garment.

Abstract: A four component part adjustable needle punch is presented with each part in threaded interrelationship. A hollow needle is embedded in a plastic needle housing seated within a guide housing. A cylindrical interior housing is threaded at its front end to the needle housing and thereby controls adjustment of the needle length. A cylindrical exterior housing is threaded at its front end to the guide housing and is used to prevent movement of the needle housing when fully seated.

Abstract: A yarn brake of a plurality pairs of discs spaced apart along a straight rod of uniform non-circular section mounted in path of yarn as it is fed to the knitting needles.

Abstract: Methods for circular weft knitting of variegated articles and selectively programmable circular weft knitting machine apparatus for carrying out such methods including means for effecting selective, controlled two dimensional displacement of compound needle member components and associated sinker elements so as to provide each such needle member with the selectable capability of performing a knit, tuck or float operation at each yarn feed location independent of the direction of knitting needle approach thereto.

Abstract: The guide bars of a warp knitting/crochet warp knitting as well as the plurality of needles associated with such machines are automatically fully controlled for each full reciprocal movement in the knitting cycle of said machines. The pattern bars, yarn guides and needles are all moved in synchronism with each other and the rotation of the main machine drive to generate various desired patterns through a programmable memory with the capacity to store all the information required to position all the pattern governing parts in a series of juxtapositions which produce the desired patterns in the cloth fabricated by said machine. Said programmable memory means is integrated with a signal processing means generating signals which control the rotation of Servo-Motors; direction of the rotation of said Servo-Motors; rate of rotation of said Servo-Motors; and duration of each said series of rotations.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process and a circular knitting machine for the production of knit goods with combed-in fibers, in which an amount of fibers synchronous with the needle cylinder rotatory speed is fed to a teasing cylinder rotating at high speed, transferred by the latter to the comb-in zone, and taken from the needles in the comb-in zone without contacting the teasing cylinder. To prevent the development of areas overfilled with fibers or short of fibers in the finished knit goods on account of the contact-less fiber feed, during or before abrupt reductions or increases in the rotatory speed of the needle cylinder, at least temporarily smaller or larger amounts of fibers are fed to the comb-in zone than corresponds to the synchronous amount of fibers.

Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus for pressing a stack of signatures including a first pressing member mounted on a bracket upwardly and downwardly movable by drive means for pressing the stack of signatures over an intermediate upper surface area thereof, a pivotally movable second pressing member connected at its one end to each end of the first pressing member for pressing the signature stack over the remaining upper surface area at each end thereof, an arm for pivotally moving the second pressing member and air cylinder-plunger means for driving the arm, the apparatus being characterized in that the cylinder-plunger means is disposed above the first pressing member and attached to the bracket, the plunger of the cylinder-plunger means being directed downward and having a lateral support member, the arm having one end pivoted to the support member and the other end to a base portion of the second pressing member.

Abstract: A looper apparatus for a multiple tufting machine including a looper support member having a transverse hook bar for supporting a plurality of looper hooks for cooperation with the reciprocable needles in the tufting machine and an elongated guide member reciprocably supported in linear bearings to restrict the motion of the looper hooks to a straight linear direction substantially parallel to the feeding direction of the base fabric, and a drive mechanism pivotally connected to hook support member for reciprocably driving the support member in a linear path.

Abstract: An improved guide device for the horizontal motion mechanism for the upper feed dog of an overlock sewing machine including an angularly adjustable bracket element that cooperates with a vertically adjustable slide to provide adjustability in the amount of shaft oscillation while attaining higher operating speeds.

Abstract: The machine comprises a knitting head (2), a camholder carriage (3) and several striping bars (7), on which thread guides (6, 6a) are mounted between two movable stop blocks (9, 9a) and are equipped with a thread catcher (21, 21a) and driven by fingers (25, 25a). Auxiliary drive means (11) for the stop blocks and a mechanism for attaching the thread guides automatically to the stop blocks, detachable by means of the drive finger (25), make it possible at any moment to shift the thread guides together with one of these stop blocks independently of the movement of the carriage, thus making it possible to move away the thread catcher when it stops knitting, in the production of INTARSIA knitted fabrics.

Abstract: The dust extraction device located on the cam carriage (13) of the flat knitting machine has separate, independently operable suction fans (27) for the front and rear needle beds (11,12), which, by lowering of the suction nozzles (29,30), the use of smooth-walled suction ducts (31,32) and coupling of the dust containers (37) with the suction ducts and with the suction fans (27) ensures a good cleaning effect with low expenditure of energy and a maintenance free operation.

Abstract: A multi-needle sewing machine has a workpiece feed mechanism which includes first and second side supports located to opposite ends of the needle bar. A plurality of shafts extend between the side supports at locations spaced from the front region progressively rearwards towards the rear region of those supports. A plurality of transversely spaced endless belts pass around front and rear rollers rotatably mounted on foremost and rearmost ones of the shafts. Intermediate shafts carry respective front and rear guide rollers which guide an upper run of the conveyor belt to lie adjacent to a lower run of that belt and below the needle bar. The belts are driven so that the lower runs thereof travel from the front towards the rear of the side supports.

Abstract: A multiple needle tufting machine incorporating a pair of front and rear needle bars each 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 a front transverse cut pile hook bar supporting a plurality of cut pile hooks pointing in the direction opposite the feeding direction, and a loop pile hook bar spaced in front of the cut pile hook bar for supporting a plurality of loop pile hooks having bills projecting rearwardly in the feeding direction and opposite the direction of the bills of the cut pile hooks. The looper apparatus further includes a drive and linkage mechanism for simultaneously moving the cut pile hooks and loop pile hooks in opposite directions for cooperation with the corresponding front and rear needles, in order to form loop pile loops behind the cut pile tufts in the same base fabric.

Abstract: The take up means (5) is inhibited in response to a predetermined operating conditions of the flat knitting machine.

Abstract: Process for the production of a warp knit fabric with a basic material including a tricot stitch ground and a chain stitch ground as well as a pile laid over pile sinkers, forming pile loops which are knitted into the material. The pile sinkers are offset relative to their pile sinker bar by one needle division per stitch row so that the tricot ground can be formed. The chain stitch ground yarns form a loop only every other stitch row so that the looping is let out in the formation of the chain stitch ground once the yarn which forms the chain stitch ground has been displaced laterally by the pile sinker bar.

Abstract: The open mesh warp knit fabric of the present invention includes a base fabric knit with electrically nonconductive base yarn and forming an open mesh pattern of lightweight construction having spaced openings to provide ventilation therethrough. Electrically conductive filaments are incorporated in the base fabric and provide an open grid extending throughout the entire area of the base fabrics with the conductive filaments being incorporated predominantly in only one side of the base fabric. The conductive yarns provide only about one-half of one percent of the total weight of the fabric and are of a relatively fine denier so that the conductive yarn is substantially invisible to the naked eye. Various types of garments and accessories are illustrated as being formed of the electrostatic dissipating fabric.

Abstract: A knitted article such as a glove having a wrist cuff includes an edge binding which is activatable by the application of heat thereto to prevent unraveling of the cuff edge. The bound edge is defined by first and second yarn ends which are knitted together, wherein the first yarn includes a heat activatable, thermoplastic outer covering and the second yarn is defined by a nonthermoplastic, elastic material. The first and second yarns are knitted in a manner to form crossover points therebetween. The edge binding is subjected to heat in order to melt the thermoplastic outer covering of the first yarn, thereby joining the first and second yarns at the crossover points. The articles may be formed on conventional, automatic knitting machines. The knitted articles are ejected from the machine and are gravity fed into a heated chamber in order to melt the thermoplastic outer covering of the first yarn, and thereby bind the edge of the article.