Abstract: A lacrosse head pocket and a related method of manufacture are provided to facilitate consistent, repeatable and/or custom manufacture of lacrosse equipment. The pocket can be constructed from multiple different sections joined with one another, or can be knitted, weaved or otherwise assembled on an automated assembly machine from strands, and/or can be formed as a unitary textile material having regions/sections with different physical and/or mechanical properties. The pocket can be integrally molded within portions of a lacrosse head to eliminate manually constructed connections between the pocket and lacrosse head. The lacrosse head can be integrally molded with a lacrosse handle to provide a one-piece unitary lacrosse stick. Related methods of manufacturing also are provided.

Abstract: A lacrosse head pocket and a related method of manufacture are provided to facilitate consistent, repeatable and/or custom manufacture of lacrosse equipment. The pocket can be constructed from multiple different sections joined with one another, or can be knitted, weaved or otherwise assembled on an automated assembly machine from strands, and/or can be formed as a unitary textile material having regions/sections with different physical and/or mechanical properties. The pocket can be integrally molded within portions of a lacrosse head to eliminate manually constructed connections between the pocket and lacrosse head. The lacrosse head can be integrally molded with a lacrosse handle to provide a one-piece unitary lacrosse stick. Related methods of manufacturing also are provided.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to improve yarn feeding conditions to a knitting needle and improve a loop pressing function and a yarn holding function for end stitches in a flat knitting machine provided with a compound needle. In a top portion 12 of a loop presser 11 advancing to a tooth mouth 10, a knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 and a loop presser portion 14 are formed. The knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 hides a tongue 25a from the yarn 22 at a wall portion 15 above the knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 so that the problem of yarn entanglement that the yarn 22 fed to a hook 24a of the compound needle 23 from a yarn feeding port 20 is surmounted on the tongue 25a may be solved. A pressing portion 16 below the knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 presses the yarn 22. The knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 holds the yarn 22 outside the end stitch by winding it around it.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to improve yarn feeding conditions to a knitting needle and improve a loop pressing function and a yarn holding function for end stitches in a flat knitting machine provided with a compound needle. In a top portion 12 of a loop presser 11 advancing to a tooth mouth 10, a knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 and a loop presser portion 14 are formed. The knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 hides a tongue 25a from the yarn 22 at a wall portion 15 above the knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 so that the problem of yarn entanglement that the yarn 22 fed to a hook 24a of the compound needle 23 from a yarn feeding port 20 is surmounted on the tongue 25a may be solved. A pressing portion 16 below the knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 presses the yarn 22. The knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 holds the yarn 22 outside the end stitch by winding it around it.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for lifting the knitted item made on a circular knitting machine for knitwear and hosiery. It includes a lifting pipe 15 coaxial inside the cylinder, rotating with this, moveable in height between a lowered position and a raised position and one bearing a summit bell 16 with a flared lip 19, which extends above the internal sinker crown to the close vicinity of the needs and which has radial slits 20 in line with the sinkers. The pipe with the summit bell is raised from the lowered position by dedicated control means to raise the item, also close to the needs to be picked.

Abstract: A method for producing tubular items, such as hosiery items and the like, which are closed at an axial end, using a single-cylinder circular knitting machine provided with a half-dial which faces, in an upward region, a first half of the needle cylinder and has hooks which can move in a radial direction with respect to the axis of the needle cylinder, each hook being arranged between two contiguous needles of the half of the needle cylinder that it faces. The half-dial can turn over about a diametrical axis of the needle cylinder so that its hooks face the needles of the second half of the needle cylinder. The hooks can move in a radial direction with respect to the axis of the needle cylinder in order to engage portions of loops of knitting formed by the needles of the first half of the needle cylinder before the half-dial turns over and in order to release the portions of loops of knitting to the needles of the second half of the needle cylinder after the half-dial has turned over.

Abstract: A dial or half-dial for single-cylinder circular hosiery knitting machines, particularly for producing tubular items closed at one longitudinal end, which comprises a dial or half-dial body which is substantially shaped like a disk or half-disk and is provided, on at least one of its two faces, with a plurality of radial slots, each of which slideably accommodates at least one hook. The hooks have a longitudinal slit which is open in the direction of the axis of the dial or half-dial body. The slit gives a portion of the body of the hooks a bifurcated shape which engages the two opposite faces of the dial or half-dial body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improved pile fabrics containing courses in which at least two pile forming yarns are meshed across a complete course together cooperatively in various fabric constructions, and respectively into a ground fabric, and forming pile loops one another alternatively in succeeding wales or areas. The fabric is manufactured according to a process in which needles are moved into a feeding position in which they remain, meanwhile in at least two succeeding sections, alternatively, pile elements are selected and raised and after the feeding of a pile yarn are retracted to an intermediate position. The pile yarns are controlled separately from one another and are unaffected in their movement to the loop-forming and meshing action.

Abstract: A hook for single-cylinder circular knitting or stocking machines with cylinder and circular or semicircular plate. The hook comprises an elongated and flat hook body which has a claw-shaped longitudinal tip. The hook also comprises an elastic-lamina element which is associated with a lateral face of the hook body and has a claw-shaped tip which faces the claw-shaped tip of the hook body. A passage is formed between the lamina element and the hook body and is suitable to be crossed by a needle of the knitting or stocking machine; the claw-shaped tip of the lamina element can flex elastically towards and away from the hook body, respectively to close the claw-shaped tip of the hook body and to allow the extraction of the needle inserted in the passage towards the claw-shaped tip of the hook body.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine for knitting a sock having a pocket knitted integrally with the foot portion includes a needle cylinder carrying long and short butt needles, a drive train for oscillating the needle cylinder in a normal first mode and a second mode 180 degrees out of phase relative to the first mode, a pair of needle raising cams positionable so as to engage only the long butt needles during the knitting of the toe pocket, a lifter for holding the long butt needles in an up position during the knitting of the toe pocket, and a pair of stitch cam for engaging the needles to form the stitches. During the formation of the toe pocket, the short butt needles are pushed downwardly out of action below the knitting height while maintaining their stitches and the long butt needles are oscillated 180 degrees out of phase to form the toe pocket.

Abstract: A double knit machine which includes a series of sinker assemblies disposed corresponding to the cylinder needles of the machine for holding down the knitted fabric during the raising stitch of the cylinder needles, each sinker assembly comprised of a fixed sinker having a sinker rib for guiding out the knitted fabric, and a presser sinker reciprocated by the cam drive of the machine, the presser sinker being moved forward to press the knitted fabric against the sinker rib of the respective fixed sinker as the respective cylinder needle is extended out, or moved backward to release from the knitted fabric as the respective cylinder needle is received back.

Abstract: The single-cylinder circular knitting machine has a vertically arranged needle cylinder with a skirt defining a plurality of axial grooves. Each groove slidingly accommodates a needle. A platen is arranged coaxially above the needle cylinder, and a plurality of radial grooves is defined therein. Each one of the radial grooves accommodates a hook which is movable by the action of actuation cams which can be engaged, during rotation of the platen about its axis, with a heel of the hooks, from a position in which the hooks are retracted in the platen to an extraction position, and vice versa. The machine is provided with a hook locking device which is arranged proximate to the platen and is controllably engageable with the hooks to keep them in the retracted position in the platen.

Abstract: The single-cylinder circular machine comprises a substantially vertical needle cylinder which is rotatable about an axis and supports a plurality of needles which are arranged in axial grooves of the outer skirt of the needle cylinder and can move individually along directions which are parallel to the needle cylinder axis. A platen is arranged coaxially above the needle cylinder and is supported, so as to be rotatable about the needle cylinder axis, by the supporting structure of the machine. The machine comprises first connecting members which can be controllably activated or deactivated in order to rigidly associate the platen, in its rotation about the axis, with the needle cylinder, and second connecting members arranged on a wing of the platen which extends inside the needle cylinder and on a portion of the inner surface of the needle cylinder which faces the wing.

Abstract: A device for pneumatically tensioning and reversing tubular manufactured articles such as socks, upon completion, by a circular knitting machine. The device includes a small diameter rotating needle cylinder. The device has an external tubular casing and an internal element for forming an interspace with an annular cross section for pneumatic tensioning. The internal element forms an axial passage inside which the manufactured article is turned inward and reversed during a pneumatic operation where the article is reversed and conveyed away. Both the tubular casing and the internal element consist of two sections with different diameters. Upper sections with a smaller diameter are accommodated within the needle cylinder and the lower sections with a larger diameter are located outside and adjacent to the needle cylinder.

Abstract: The knitting machine has a device for raising and lowering the platen, which comprises a frame, associated with the supporting structure of the machine, which supports the platen above the needle-bearing cylinder. The machine also comprises at least one guiding column for sliding said frame with respect to the supporting structure of the machine along a direction parallel to the axis of the needle-bearing cylinder and a step motor which is connected to an electronic member for controlling the machine and which acts on moving means connected to said frame and to the supporting structure to perform the above described sliding according to a preset program.

Abstract: The device comprises a small plate elastically flexible, longitudinally flanked by a needle for plain knitting, or purl knitting, and movable in a direction longitudinal with respect to it. The needle has on one of its sides an inclined area with which at least one inclined area engages, defined by a bend of the small plate at the moment of its motion relatively to the needle. In this manner an elastic flexing of the small plate is obtained moving away from the needle which defines a loop within which a needle for purl or plain knitting can be inserted, in order to transfer a loop of knitting retained around the loop.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine, in particular for knitting hosiery, is disclosed, wherein the dial is rotated by the needle cylinder through a rod extending coaxially with the cylinder and dial and rotatively connected to the latter. The rod can be shifted axially from a position of engagement with a drive element rigid with the cylinder, to a position of disengagement therefrom, and viceversa. In the former condition, the dial will be rotated in timed relationship with the cylinder, whereby the fabric is knitted normally, whereas in the latter condition, the knitted fabric is discharged. The rod axial movement may be obtained by pneumatically or hydraulically operated cylinder, whose piston is rotatably connected to the rod itself. It is further possible to make the dial raisable vertically through a pneumatic or hydraulic cylinder, such as to make the loop formation area fully accessible.

Abstract: Machine for knitting a tubular fabric, in particular stocking articles, comprising a needle cylinder, a cylinder holder, a dial, suction and discharge ducts for the produced tubular fabric and means for driving the cylinder holder. A shaft extends coaxially through the needle cylinder and the cylinder holder and is affixed to the dial. A tube-like body is mounted coaxially within the cylinder holder wherewith it rotates. The tube-like body is displaceable axially in the cylinder holder from a position whereat it is coupled directly to and made rigid for rotation with the shaft, to a position whereat it forms with the shaft at least one annular passage for communication with the suction and discharge ducts for the produced tubular fabric. A control member is provided of essentially lever-like configuration for axially displacing the tube-like body.

Abstract: A circular ladies hosiery knitting machine is provided having a conventional rotatable needle cylinder and dial. The dial includes radially movable transfer jacks which, when fully extended, cooperate with the needles to form loops on the jacks. A selectively operable device positions a de-looper element in the path of loops carried by the transfer jacks whereby the loops are lifted out of engagement with the jacks without the jacks having to be retracted.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a tubular fabric such as stockings and the like having a closed toe by knitting same on a circular knitting machine having two needle beds in which two layers are formed when reaching the toe, the two layers then being twisted relative to each other through at least 180.degree. and then joined by a connected course so that a welt is formed whereby the stocking is more comfortable.

Abstract: A method for forming a closed end on a tubular knitted fabric, such as a stocking, on a circular knitting machine, in which two annular tubular layers are formed as continuations of the tubular knitted fabric at separate stages by needles operating in the same cylinder of the machine. The two layers are supported on separate circles of support members while a relative rotation through at least 180.degree. between the circles of support members is effected, and a final few rows of substantially run-proof close knitting are made before the fabric is cast-off from the needles.

Abstract: Knitting elements for a single cylinder knitting machine adapted to be reciprocatingly mounted in the grooves of the dial knit loops and to transfer the loops to the needles. The knitting elements comprise a pair of blade-like members movable with respect to each other. One of the members has an operative end forming an upwardly directed finger having a forward tip and a front and rear yarn receiving beds on its upper edge, the second of the members has an operative end forming a downwardly directed finger having a forward tip above the level of the surface of the front bed of said one member, an upper edge rising from the tip thereof to the level above the rear bed of the one member and a lower edge forming with the front bed of said one member a space therebetween for gripping a yarn loop.

Abstract: An arrangement in a circular hosiery machine in which a motion drive device is provided between the needle cylinder and the dial. A program chain advances with each revolution, and a program drum advances intermittently with the action of the chain. A clutch couples and disengages two members of the drive between the cylinder and the dial, and a control of the clutch is made dependent on the program chain. The rotational motion of the dial is interrupted when the members thereof are not required, and an engagement is provided in at least one predetermined relative angular position.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine for stockings, particularly for the manufacture of stockings closed at the toe directly on the machine, having a coupling joint for disengaging the lower needle cylinder from the upper needle cylinder or from the welt dial. The coupling joint consists of a substantially flanged element rigid with the shaft driving the lower needle cylinder and of a gear wheel mounted idly and axially displaceable on the shaft. The gear wheel engages with a corresponding crown gear for rotation of the upper needle cylinder or the welt dial. The flanged element and the gear wheel have means for mutual engagement and the machine further comprises means for the axial displacement of the gear wheel to disengage it from the flanged element, these means being responsive to the machine program.

Abstract: The invention is a process for knitting a plurality of convergent tubular portions on a circular knitting machine having a dial and cylinder and the resulting article, especially the two legs and body portion of a panty-hose, wherein the knitting operation is continuous with no sewing of separate pieces together, and the height of the body portion may be varied without dependency on the needle cylinder diameter which also includes a crotch closure.