Abstract: A jacquard cotton construction fabric, and garment made from the fabric, are produced by spinning and Z-twisting a first at least primarily cotton yarn, spinning and S-twisting a second at least primarily cotton yarn, dyeing the yarn a first color, dyeing the second yarn a second color different from the first color, and knitting a jacquard construction fabric using a ratio of between 70:30 to 30:70 of the first and second yarns so that a fabric having a torque below 8% (preferably less than 5%, e.g. between about 0-2%) is produced. The yarns are preferably substantially 100% cotton, and there may be either an S- or Z-twisted third yarn dyed a third color so that a three color jacquard construction fabric is produced with the first, second and third yarns.

Abstract: A composite yarn comprised of a chain stitch yarn knitted from a yarn A and at least an inlay yarn of a yarn B inserted into the chain stitch yarn along a longitudinal direction thereof. Since the chain stitch yarn and the inlay yarn are surely interlaced with each other in the composite yarn, there is little chance that the chain stitch yarn and the inlay yarn are separated in use. A preferable apparatus for manufacturing the composite yarn in accordance with the present invention may include individual winding mechanisms downstream of each knitting station in a warp knitting machine.

Abstract: A knitted fabric presents one or more passage courses formed by a removable support thread which, upon being removed, allows the partial unraveling of a zone of said knitted fabric, and increases the width of the mesh or stitch in said zone.

Abstract: A method of knitting a knit fabric which is knitted by a flat knitting machine with a plurality of yarn carriers having the following steps: (a) knitting the first half knitting portion of a course to a plating stitch with a first ground yarn and a plating yarn; (b) knitting the second half knitting portion of the course to a plating stitch with a second ground yarn and the plating yarn; (c) knitting the first half knitting portion of a next course to be coupled with the course to a plating stitch with the second ground yarn and the plating yarn; and (d) knitting the second half knitting portion of said next course to a plating stitch with the first ground yarn and the plating yarn.

Abstract: A protective fabric, and garments made therefrom, having superior resistance to wear and abrasion, as well as good flexibility and stretchability enabling the fabric to be conformed to the structure intended to be protected. The knitted fabric and garments made therefrom comprise a monofilament polymer having a gauge of 0.03 to 0.08 inches interknitted to form a structure of repeated interconnected loops or coils. The structure may be honeycomb-like in appearance. The monofilament polymer may be from a material selected from the group consisting of polyamide, Teflon, polyester or viscose.

Abstract: An every course hose is produced by knitting substantially exclusively a covered elastic yarn into the leg portion knitting fabric thereof. A covering yarn is wound around an elastic yarn as the core yarn to form the covered elastic yarn. The covering yarn is constituted of a plurality of filaments made of a polyamide substantially free from titanium oxide and having a flat cross section with a flatness (b/a) (the ratio of the length b to the width a) of 2.0 to 6.0.

Abstract: A method of utilizing a standard circular knitting machine to produce a fabric with a pattern by the combination of selectively rendering specific needles of the standard circular knitting machine inoperative, removing pre-selected needles in a predetermined manner from the cylinder of the knitting machine, using yarns of the type including S-twist, Z-twist, colored, and textured, and feeding the yarn types, i.e. z and s-twist yarns, in alternating manner with a predetermined length of yarn of each type.

Abstract: A garment having integrally knit underabdominal and back support panels is described. The garment desirably has a rear panel and a front panel which includes a substantially U-shaped support panel which is more resistant to stretch than the portion of the front panel which the substantially U-shaped panel surrounds, i.e. the abdominal section. The garment can be knit from a single or a pair of circularly knit tubular blanks, and preferably is formed so that the support panels are integrally knit with the garment. The abdominal section desirably has additional courses provided therein, in order to form a pouch area for accommodating the expanded abdominal region of a wearer. The garment also desirably includes an integrally knit back support panel which has a greater resistance to stretch than the abdominal section. In this way, when the garment is worn, the weight of the wearer's expanded abdominal region can be supported and distributed over a greater portion of his or her body.

Abstract: A double jersey weft knitted fabric cover having a course-wise slit formed therein and at least one edge of the slit extending into an overlapping portion, preferably of single jersey fabric, which overlaps the other edge, and a method of knitting the same using a weft knitting machine having two independently operable needle beds.

Abstract: A knitted fabric cover, especially for a vehicle seat having a vehicle air bag housed therein, in which the cover is adapted to provide minimal hindrance to inflation of the air bag by having at least one line of weakness knitted into the cover, in particular in a coursewise direction.

Abstract: This invention discloses a shirt, bodysuit and teddy having built-in breast cups and/or selected areas of varying cross-stretch in order to provide compressive support for a wearer's body, and methods and blanks for manufacturing such shirts, bodysuits and teddies. In particular, circular knitting operations are used to produce garments having areas of compressive support in the middle torso region, and a greater amount of cross-stretch in the region corresponding to a wearer's breast area. In addition, the garments can include integrally-knit breast cups and a gathered panel located between the breast cups. Shirts made according to the present invention can include a turned welt about their lower or shirttail ends, in order to eliminate the need for hemming the lower shirt portion. Blanks and methods for making the garments are also disclosed, which require only a minimal number of manufacturing operations to be converted into completed garments.

Abstract: This invention discloses methods of manufacturing brassiere blanks and brassieres, and the brassieres made therefrom. In particular, the methods and brassieres involve circular knitting operations in which a brassiere blank is produced on a circular knitting machine as a cylindrical tube, and thereafter cut and sewn only at the shoulders to produce a brassiere having shoulder straps knit integrally with a front torso portion having a pair of breast cups and a rear torso portion cooperating with the front torso portion in forming a torso encircling portion.

Abstract: This invention discloses methods of manufacturing brassiere blanks and brassieres, and the brassieres made therefrom. In particular, the methods and brassieres involve circular knitting operations in which a brassiere blank is produced on a circular knitting machine as a cylindrical tube, and thereafter cut and sewn only at the shoulders to produce a brassiere having shoulder straps knit integrally with a front torso portion having a pair of breast cups and a rear torso portion cooperating with the front torso portion in forming a torso encircling portion.

Abstract: A net is provided having a plurality of threads oriented in one direction and being essentially equal spaced from one another, and having wefts oriented in a second direction which is perpendicular to said one direction, the threads forming stitches which hold the weft in position in the net. The wefts in the net are bands made of a laminate having a first layer consisting of a transparent, mono-oriented polymeric film having an axis, being defined by a direction in which the film has been stretched to achieve mono-orientation, which is in the direction of the band's longitudinal axis, a second layer on said first layer consisting essentially of aluminum, and a third layer on said second layer consisting of transparent material capable of protecting said second layer from degredation.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of providing a formable composite material comprising providing a reinforcing material (9) having a plurality of superimposed layers (1-6), each layer consisting of a plurality of unidirectional non-woven yarns or threads (10) laid side-by-side, the yarns or threads in at least some of the different layers extending in different directions, said layers being stitched (12) together, and before said stitching incorporating in or with the reinforcing material (9) a matrix material (7, 8).

Abstract: Described is a fabric produced from textile threads, more particularly a knitted fabric, for use within the flexion area of articulated bandages. The knitted fabric is incorporated into the articulated bandage (2) in the form of an insert (8). In order to eliminate the formation of creases within the flexion area of the articular bandage, a transverse wave structure is formed on at least one side, which, by the use of an elastic thread arrangement which is incorporated or located underneath a top structure, is elastically pretensioned and stabilized and is connected to the top structure at predetermined intervals or according to a specific rule.

Abstract: A fabric intended to serve as an insert in working trousers or trouser legs for power-saw operators. The fabric consists of two layers, viz. a carrier layer or passive layer, wherein the threads interconnect the threads of the active layer, i.e. the layer wherein on account of the contraction of the passive layer threads caused by suitable treatment of them, the threads of the active layer are forced to take on a sinuous configuration whereby at their contact with the saw chain the sinuous sections will be caught by the chain, and the threads of the active layer by pulled out and thus so heavily oppose the movement of the saw chain that the latter is immobilized.

Abstract: A warp knitted fabric is described in which each individual wale contains stitches formed from both elastic and inelastic yarn. The fabric is extensible in the direction of the wales and may be used as a substrate in an orthopaedic splinting bandage. Orthopaedic splinting bandages are also described which comprise the warp knitted fabric coated with a hardenable resin such as an isocyanate terminated propolymer. The lengthwise extensibility of the substrate makes the uncured bandage conformable during application to the body.

Abstract: A warp knit net fabric is disclosed in which the number of stitches in each leg and in each join of a diamond pattern is varied to vary the size of the openings defined by the legs. An array of yarn ends are knit on a Raschel warp knitting machine and the formation of stitches of the legs is driven from one pattern chain drum and the formation of stitches of the joins is driven from another pattern chain drum. Switching from drum to drum is accomplished by a programmable controller.

Abstract: Reinforcement preform of knitted fibers for a carbon or the like component such as an airfoil guide vane. A junction between adjacent sections of the finished article of the preform is formed with a buttonhole. In assembly, the reinforcement for one of the sections is passed through the buttonhole. In this way stresses can be better transmitted to a base section with reduced risk of tearing or delamination.

Abstract: An interlining comprising a non-woven substrate with a single or double bar ripple weft stitch knitted therethrough.

Abstract: Forming a mock cable pattern in a knitted fabric includes preforming tuck stitches in the fabric, subsequently transferring and placing the tuck stitches on respective preselected needles in an array within which the mock cable pattern is being formed, and knitting the tuck stitches into the fabric. For a mock double cable pattern, two tuck stitches are preformed in the material by outer ones of the needles in the array, so as to subsequently be essentially below these needles. When a fabric row in which the pattern is to begin is reached, knitting then is interrupted, and single eyelet tools are inserted diagonally through openings in the tuck stitches in an upward direction left-to-right and right-to-left, respectively. The tuck stitches then are transferred inwardly and diagonally upward, and placed upon respective ones of the preselected needles, which are rearward for identification purposes, and which then are pulled forward into "hold" knitting positions.

Abstract: A method for knitting a buttonhole in a knit product by using a knitting machine for forming the remainder of the knitted product employing the following steps: feeding a thread to a front knitting needle, transferring the loop held on the front knitting needle to a corresponding rear knitting needle, racking the needle bed leftward, transferring the two loops to a front needle, repeating the above steps leftward to form a bottom peripheral portion if the buttonhole, hooking a loop held on the front needle, racking and transferring the loop rightward to an empty front needle, repeating the steps rightward to increase the number of loops on the front knitting needles.

Abstract: A warp knitted fabric is described in which each individual wale contains stitches formed from both elastic and inelastic yarn. The fabric is extensible in the direction of the wales and may be used as a substrate in an orthopaedic splinting bandage. Orthopaedic splinting bandages are also described which comprise the warp knitted fabric coated with a hardenable resin such as an isocyanate terminated propolymer. The lengthwise extensibility of the substrate makes the uncured bandage conformable during application to the body.

Abstract: An upholstered three dimensional structure incorporating an internal core and a knitted fabric cover, in which there is provided in the cover a line along which the fabric is less extensible compared to the surrounding fabric, the line being positioned on the fabric such that the line curves over an edge of the core so that on stretching the fabric over the core the less extensible line is displaced from the general plane of the fabric towards the core.

Abstract: A wiper for use in cleanrooms and other controlled environments is made using a knit fabric tube rather than a fabric sheet. The fabric tube is knit with a diameter approximately equal to the preferred wiper dimension and is presented directly to an apparatus for sealing and cutting. A sequence of spaced strips are fused into the fabric tube perpendicular to its length. Individual two ply wipers are separated from one another along a cut line midway in the strips. The wipers are characterized by lower costs due to fewer fabrication steps and a 50% reduction in the number of wiper edges requiring treatment.

Abstract: An upholstered three dimensional structure in which there is an upholstery fabric stretched over a three dimensional core, the fabric being formed by knitting and incorporating a sewn seam between the knitted fabric and a further fabric, the knitted fabric being provided with stable sewing zones which are less elastic than the majority of the remaining portions of the knitted fabric to assist in the sewing of the knitted fabric to a further fabric.

Abstract: A patch is made from a rolled up first flat sheet of polypropylene or polytetrafluroethylene surgical mesh. One end of the rolled up mesh has multiple slits to provide multiple flared out flaps stitched to a second flat sheet of surgical mesh. The patch is compressed into a longitudinal cylindrical structure and is inserted through a trocar into an opening of a hernia. The rolled up first flat sheet is inserted through the opening and the flaps and second flat sheet are stapled to the patient's tissue adjacent the opening.

Abstract: The cotton characteristics are provided in the panty portion of the pantyhose of the present invention by knitting alternate single courses of the panty portion of a thermoplastic yarn and a much larger cotton yarn in plated relationship with the thermoplastic yarn. Stretchable characteristics are provided in the panty portion of the pantyhose by knitting intervening single courses of the panty portion of a thermoplastic yarn and a plated spandex yarn. The much larger cotton yarn, knit in alternate single courses, is predominant on both the inside and outside of the panty portion. The sheer legs of the pantyhose are formed by merely discontinuing the knitting of the cotton yarn in alternate single courses of the leg and discontinuing the knitting of the thermoplastic yarn so that the legs are formed of alternate single courses of thermoplastic yarn and intervening single courses of spandex yarn.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for producing a cloth for stuffed animal toys, comprising directly binding long or superlong fibers with the lining cloth of a high pile base cloth by hand knitting. The cloth produced by this process can dispense with back processing for preventing the fibers from falling off. The stuffed animal toy made of this cloth is endowed with a soft touch quite analogous to the natural one of the animal.

Abstract: An anisotropic wound dressing comprised of a knitted reinforcing fabric which is sandwiched between a crosslinked aliphatic polyurethane. The wound dressing is fabricated by dipping the fabric into a polyurethane-forming coating solution to form a thin film which coates the fibres of the fabric and fills the interstices with a film or layer. The film which coats the fabric is cured by ultraviolet radiation and one side of the film is coated with pressure sensitive adhesive to form a wound dressing. In the most preferred embodiments, the knitted reinforcing fabric is an anisotropic fabric formed with a basic stitch construction to create equally spaced and sized hexagonal interstices. Because of the fabric reinforcement, the resulting oxygen permeable product can be made thin, and yet be anisotropic and strong. The resulting product does not wrinkle easily and holds its shape so it is also easily applied.

Abstract: Indigo dyed cotton yarn suitable for producing indigo dyed cotton knitwear, and method of producing it, comprising passing a cotton rope consisting of a plurality of yarn threads through a plurality of baths of indigo dyed liquor, allowing the dye to oxidize by exposure to air between each bath, and winding each of the said yarn thread separately to provide an indigo dyed yarn in a form suitable for knitting. The threads are wound onto individual spools, which may be rotated on a common shaft, or by individual motors. The indigo-dyed knitted cotton fabric produced shows the fading by abrasion, rather than washing out, normally associated with denim.

Abstract: The integrally knit earflaps are fashioned during the knitting operation and extend downwardly below the opposite side portions of the lower edge of the upper band of the cap. The crown of the cap is formed of single-ply fabric while the lower band, earflaps and selvage band are knit of two-ply fabric. The inner ply of the lower band and the earflaps are knit of a hydrophobic yarn while the remainder of the cap is knit of a hydrophilic yarn to aid in wicking moisture from the forehead and ears of the wearer.

Abstract: A process for the production of stable aqueous polymer dispersions which comprises polymerizing about 10-80 percent by weight based on the total amount of non-aqueous matter of olefinically unsaturated monomers under free radical emulsion polymerization conditions in the presence of about 90-20 percent by weight based on the total amount of non-aqueous matter of water-dispersible polyester derived essentially from components (1), (2), (3) and (4) as follows:(1) at least one dicarboxylic acid;(2) at least one diol, at least 20 mole percent of said diol component being a poly(ethylene glycol) having the formulaH--OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --.sub.n OHwherein n is an integer of from 2 to about 10,(3) at least one difunctional dicarboxylic acid sulfo-monomer containing a --SO.sub.3 M group attached to an aromatic nucleus, wherein M is hydrogen or Na.sup.+, Li.sup.+, K.sup.

Abstract: Fabrics produced from aromatic sulfide polymers are rendered water-repellent by heat treatment near, but below, the melting point of the polymer for a finite period of time. The resulting heat-treated fabric is suitable for flame retardant tents, waterproof clothing, filters, etc.

Abstract: Tenacity and boiling water shrinkage of poly(arylene sulfide) fibers are improved by a heat treatment at temperatures of at least about 100.degree. C (212.degree. F) but below the temperature at which fibers begin to stick to each other, for a time period sufficient to attain desired tenacity or boiling water shrinkage.

Abstract: A fabric in a tubular shape is provided suitable for slipping over an expansible member which can be filled with fluid to thereby expand the expansible member and the tubular shape of the fabric, the fabric being expansible by at least 200% and having a uni-directional recovery force to provide the force to dispense the fluid from the expansible member, the fabric being made of elastomer yarn providing the recovery force and yarn in engagement with the elastomer yarn to maintain the fabric position of the elastomer yarn so as to prevent blow out of the expansible member between the yarn of the fabric during expansion of the expansible member.

Abstract: Fabrics produced from aromatic sulfide polymers are rendered water-repellent by heat treatment near, but below, the melting point of the polymer for a finite period of time. The resulting heat-treated fabric is suitable for flame retardant tents, waterproof clothing, filters, etc.

Abstract: A reinforcement is provided for reinforcing a longitudinal edge of a stringer tape for a slide fastener, which reinforcement consists of an elongate core member and a tubular member holding the former centrally in place. The tubular member is a warp-knitted fabric formed by a Raschel or tricot double-needle knitting machine, the fabric having sinker loops interconnected with corresponding needle loops and urging the latter into fastening engagement with the core member.

Abstract: A knitted yarn and a method for knitting the yarn. The yarn comprises two strands formed into successive stitches alternately disposed about two needle axes. Alternate strands form the successive stitches along each axis. Each stitch on one axis is drawn through a preceding stitch on that axis. As a result, each stitch on each strand passes through an adjacent stitch formed of the other strand.Each stitch in a strand is formed at a single or one of two reciprocating latch needles which pull the newly formed stitches in each strand through preceding stitches in the other strand and cast off the preceding stitches. Then the needles extend to accept the next stitches formed in the strands. The yarn knitting apparatus feeds strands at a controlled rate to service bars which reciprocate and oscillate over the needles to form the stitches at the needles alternately each time the needles reciprocate.