Abstract: This tube sock is of a medium or dress weight so that the sock may be comfortably worn with dress shoes and includes very long and fine terry loops in the heel and sole area to provide the sock with cushion and comfort characteristics of the type normally provided in heavy weight athletic type socks. The sock is knit on a fine gauge machine of the type normally employed in knitting ladies' sheer hosiery and panty hose, usually provided with 400 needles. The sock is knit on every other or alternative needles so that it contains only 200 wales instead of the normal 400 wales usually contained in ladies' sheer hosiery articles. The terry loops formed in the heel and sole area are formed on dial instruments projected outwardly over an idle needle so that unusually long terry loops are formed of a fine cotton yarn which are three to five times as long as the stitch loops formed of the body yarn.

Abstract: An arrangement in the cam systems for circular knitting machines in which movable cams having variable positions cooperate with fixed cams to define a needle track, so that this track is substantially free of severe curvatures. The cams cooperate in different working positions to maintain the needle path parallel during the entire track, and independent of the variable position of the movable cams, so as to increase the speed of the dial and needle cylinder of the knitting machine while protecting the dial and needle cylinder against breakage and reducing the number of cam systems to increase the yield of the loom.

Abstract: Process for forming a panty-hose with a continuous rotational motion of the needle cylinder, in a circular hosiery machine.After forming a first leg portion, the body porton is formed by going on knitting along a needle arc, by cyclically activating and disactivating, along two semiarcs, variable needle arcs by anchoring the produced partial courses to the continuous ones, thus forming two about disc shaped areas - front and rear - and an arcuated and tapered knit; after closure of said disc shaped areas, working is resumed to form the second leg portion.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing stockings and like articles having Jacquard pattern over ribbed knitwork, made of plain and purl stitches making use of at least two different thread feeds, e.g. of different colors, and of needles arranged in two distinct support structures which rotate in timed relationship, comprising at least one knitting step wherein the needles of one first of the structures pick up the thread from each feed during one course of knitting and the needles of the other structure arranged between the needles of the first structure pick up the thread each from one feed for every course of knitting and at least one heel knitting step including reciprocation of the structures wherein a portion of the knitwork is retained by a corresponding part of the needles of the first one structure and the heel portion is knitted by all the needles of the other structure which all pick up the thread from the same feed during the reciprocation of the support structures.

Abstract: A cylinder and dial circular knitting machine is provided with:1. a striping box that may feed a draw thread or yarn,2. adjustable placer and raise cams, and3. means for controlling the operation of such striping boxAnd cams so as to cause the machine to knit fabric separable at single courses of draw threads into strips of predetermined widths with locked and non-running edges.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing double-knit goods or fabrics having additional fleece threads incorporated into one face or both faces thereof and a nap or fleece is imparted from these threads by napping. The method comprises feeding the backing or ground yarn only to the needles of both needle sets (dial and cylinder) which are fully raised for stitch formation, while feeding the additional fleece thread to the needles of one needle-set (cylinder) which form stitches and tuck loops, and/or feeding the backing yarn and the additional fleece thread in successive steps of operation and knitting them into common stitches on one needle set (dial) and into stitches and tuck loops on the other needle set (cylinder).

Abstract: A cushion cam is provided in association with an adjustable stitch cam and is rendered adjustable with the stitch cam such that a constant gap is maintained between the stitch and cushion cams regardless of the position selected for the stitch cam.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine having a thread guide fixed to the machine is formed with a thread insertion slot, and a plurality of thread guiding eyes holding threads for insertion. A thread entrainment element is located below the thread guide, travelling synchronously with the progression of movement of the needles between idle and knitting position. The thread entrainment element has a segment projecting radially under the thread guide means, and formed with an inwardly, rearwardly inclined guide surface to entrain and insert threads held by the eyes on the thread guide means into the thread insertion slot when the respective eyes are in working position.

Abstract: A thread feed device for a circular knitting machine of the type having a fixed needle cylinder and needle dial and rotatable cams, for manufacturing open fabric. The needle cylinder and needle dial have a needle-free sector and the feed device comprises a stationary support for a plurality of thread spools, and a plurality of thread guides and levers arranged adjacent the needle-free sector. The thread guides and the levers associated therewith are selectively pivotable between a position in which they feed a selected thread to the needles and a position in which they hold the thread in a non-feeding position. Each thread is fed to the needles by means of a rotatable hooked member which entrains the thread around the needle cylinder. Each thread after being fed to the needles and having been knitted thereby is cut before reaching the needle-free sector.