Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic patterning system on a knitting machine, which has knitting tools which are selectable independently of one another. The patterning system comprises ferromagnetic control elements associated with the knitting tools, an electromagnetic control pole which can be excited according to a pattern, and at least one permanent holding pole, the selection of the knitting tools being performed by relative motion between the control elements and the control pole and the holding pole during which motion the control elements adhere or do not adhere to the holding pole depending on the state of excitation of the control pole.

Abstract: A thread guide system for feeding a plurality of threads to a plurality of thread carriers moving in tandem in an endless circuit.

Abstract: A control magnet system for a pattern apparatus on a textile machine, in particular a knitting machine, comprises a permanent magnet which includes a control pole having a pole surface and controllable by means of a control coil and a co-operating pole having a pole surface, and comprises at least one armature which is movable relative to the two poles and which can be applied against the pole surface of the control pole against a spring force in such a manner that, when the control coil is not energized, the armature remains against the pole surface of the control pole by virtue of the magnetic force produced by the permanent magnet, whereas, when the control coil is energized the armature is released from the pole surface of the control pole by virtue of the spring force, wherein the pole surface of the control pole is perpendicular to the direction of release of the armature, and the pole surface of the co-operating pole is perpendicular to the pole surface of the control pole (FIG. 2).

Abstract: The clamping means, which has a clamping position and an open position for material in thread, ribbon or strip form, has an element which, in accordance with the invention, is resiliently bent double hairpin-wise in a first plane and has two arms of substantially equal length, the end of the first arm being bent double to a U shape in a second plane such that the gap between the two limbs of the U formed by this bend is smaller than the cross section of the portion of the free end of the second arm which cooperates with it, and the ends of the two arms being offset from one another parallel to the second plane such that, in the closed position, the free end of the second arm engages both limbs of the U in the area of the gap.

Abstract: An apparatus for feeding yarn, or the like vice yarn guides which travel on an endless O-shaped floating-mounted track to present the yarn, or the like to the instrumentalities of a textile machine.

Abstract: A knitting machine in which electrical signals are employed during operational strokes for selecting particular needles for operation in accordance with a pattern and in which operational pulse modes are generated having electrical signals displaced in phase from the signals of other pulse modes so that the signals appear in other operational strokes.