Abstract: Circular knitting machine for the manufacture of knit wares of hosiery with combed-in fibers, having at least one needle bed possessing knitting needles and having at least one carding machine which possesses a feed apparatus for a band of fibers, a combing-in zone, through which the knitting needles pass, for the contact less insertions of fibers into the knitting needles, and a separating apparatus for separating the band of fibers into individual fibers. The separating device comprises a separating drum that can be driven at high peripheral speed and is provided with a fitting (card wires) for which a drive mechanism is provided that is independent of the knitting machine drive mechanism.

Abstract: Circular knitting machine for the production of high pile fabrics having combed-in fabrics, having a needle cylinder with displaceably mounted knitting needles defining a circular knitting field along the upper edge of the cylinder, carding devices disposed along the knitting field, and an exhaust disposed above the knitting field. A lamp is fastened to the exhaust to illuminate the knitting field from within, and a mirror is fastened to the exhaust for the section-wise viewing of the inside of portions of the knitting field disposed on the side of an observer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a knitting machine having a combing-in cylinder for producing knitted goods with combed-in fibres. The problem of the invention is rapidly and effectively to eliminate the gaps which occur in the carding clothing of the combing-in cylinder in the knitting operation and which have only a very small number of fibres. This problem is solved by means of a regularization cylinder which co-operates with the combing-in cylinder and which treats the fibres on the combing-in cylinder in the manner of a comb, displaces such fibres in the opposite direction to the direction of rotation of the combing-in cylinder and thereby regularizes such fibres, without however picking up fibres itself.