Abstract: Control of skew, bow and yield in circularly knit pile fabric is accomplished by providing the fabric tube as knit and before longitudinal slitting with identification mark means so aligned with respect to selected longitudinally spaced courses that after the fabric tube has been slit and spread out flat for tentering, skew, bow and yield can be readily controlled in response to detecting means for viewing the identification mark means.

Abstract: A film transport system for transporting a closed loop of film continuously about a defined pathway incorporating a sub-pathway whereabout multiple film strip segments of the closed loop are transitorily stored in a slidable adjacent face-to-face contact. The system includes a deck, film guide means, film drive means, and a film oscillator subassembly which jogs laterally the film strip segments in the sub-pathway. The oscillator subassembly functions to prevent film seizures in the sub-pathway which tend to occur more frequently as the total film loop perimeter is increased for a substantially constant sub-pathway perimeter.