Abstract: Manufacturing a tubular knitted article on a flat knitting machine includes using at least two diametrically opposed needle beds, which has plain stitches and purl stitches in each stitch row, wherein purl stitches follow the plain stitches of a stitch row in a subsequent stitch row, and plain stitches follow the purl stitches of the stitch row in the subsequent stitch row.

Abstract: A method for making a textile web with a base web and at least one tubular knitting region (21, 21′, 23, 23′) extending transversely to a knitting direction on a straight and circular knitter with at least two opposite needle beds includes making the tubular region(s) (21, 21′, 23, 23′) on a needle bed, whereby from a starting knitting row (15, 15′), a part of the needles (B, F, J, N, d, n, 1) respectively hold the knitting of the base web without knitting and with the other needles, knitting rows for making the tubular region according to the desired length are formed, before knitting is formed again in an ending knitting row (16, 16′) of the tubular region with the needles (B, F, J, N, d, h, 1) holding the knitting of the base web. The free end of the tubular region is connected with the base web.

Abstract: A method of and an arrangement for designing tubular round knitted products on a flat knitting machine operates with the fine automation degree and a plurality of representing, designing and correcting possibilities.

Abstract: New stitches on knitting machines are formed by producing two stitches from one stitch suspended on a knitting needle, in that the stitch suspended on the knitting needle is transferred by a transfer element associated with the knitting needle and subsequently a new stitch loop is pulled from the knitting needle through the stitch suspended on the transfer element.

Abstract: A device for designing knit products to be manufactured on a knitting machine includes at least one storage device for storing data required for the production of the knit products on the knitting machine; at least one display device for displaying design images for the knit products; and at least one input device for altering the design images. Data to be exchanged between the storage, input and display devices is processed to generate at least one knit image presentation and at least one corresponding thread course presentation for display as the design images on the display device, and one of the presentations is simultaneously correspondingly altered as the other is being altered by using the input device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing tubular knitted articles for ready-to-wear clothes pieces, on a flat knitting machine with at least two oppositely located needle beds and a carriage with at least three knitting systems. In a first carriage passage narrowing of a knitted piece suspended on a front needle bed in one edge region, stitch formation for a knitted piece suspended on a rear needle bed, and reduction of a rear knitted piece in an opposite edge region of the knitted piece are performed. In a second carriage passage narrowing of the rear knitted piece in one edge region, stitch formation for the front knitted piece, and narrowing of the front knitted piece in an opposite region of the knitted piece are performed. The two proceeding steps are repeated until a desired narrowing of a knitted product is provided.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine has at least two oppositely located needle beds provided with stitch formers and/or comb gap plates, one of the needle beds having a wire which forms a knocking off base for stitches, so that for changing a comb gap width of the stitch formers and/or of the comb gap plates they are arranged jointly adjustable on the at least one needle bed.

Abstract: For producing knitted products with several knitting planes on a two bed flat knitting machine, all needles of one needle bed are usable for producing of stitches for a knitting plane, and the production of additional knitting plane is performed so that the stitches of another plane are transferred to the transfer element and held there, until new stitches for the knitting plane must be formed.

Abstract: Transferring of stitches on a knitting machine with transfer elements includes associating a transfer element with all needles on which stitches are suspended, placing a stitch which is held in a needle and has to be transferred on a needle element, introducing the transfer element into the stitch, withdrawing the needle from the stitch, so that the stitch is suspended alone on the transfer element and is available for a transfer, and transferring the stitch to a further element.

Abstract: A knitting article is produced on a flat knitting machine with at least two needle beds by providing a knitted article with at least one button-shaped knitted stitch structure as a fastener, and converting the structure into several successive rows by knitting with a local stitch aggregation. Also, the stitch structure can be produced by a wedge forming technique with subsequent closing with a knitted-in knot thread. Also, the stitch structure can be formed by knitting with a small knitting strip connected at both ends with the knitted article.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine has at least one needle bed, a carriage which slides along the needle bed which has at least one cam with needle section means and stitch cams, a sinking element which cooperates with the stitch cams and is arranged movably on the stitch cams, the sinking element being controllable independently from the stitch cams and together with the stitch cams forms sinking surfaces of different size and/or form depending on its position.

Abstract: A method for producing a knitted article with a spatial main knitted element and at least one spatial partial knitted element on a flat knitting machine with at least two opposite needle beds, a needle displacement device and a loop transfer device, the method has the steps of producing the main knitted element and the at least one partial knitted element parallel on the machine until at least the partial knitted element is finished and the main knitted element reaches a point of coupling with the at least one partial knitted element, connecting loops of the main knitted element and the at least one partial knitted element by a transfer technique with one another, and then arranging loops of the at least one partial knitted element by the needle bed displacement device on one needle bed opposite to the loops of the main knitted element on the other needle bed, with which they must be connected.

Abstract: The knit article is provided with several spatially overlapping structures. It is made by a continuous knitting process on a knitting machine with at least two opposing needle beds (H,V) as a seamless tubular manufactured product.

Abstract: A method of connecting two knitted parts on a flat knitting machine with at least two opposite needle beds, a needle bed displacing device and a stitch suspending-over device, has the steps of suspending over of both knitted parts in neighboring needles of one needle bed, subsequently suspending of stitches of one knitted part by so many needle distances in direction toward the other knitted part that both corresponding bordering stitches are located on one needle and knitted together, before a new suspension over of stitches of one of the knitted parts is performed by so many needle distances that the bordering stitches overlap one another and knitting off of the bordering stitches is performed, and repeating of these steps until all stitches of both knitted part are connected with one another.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine has a needle bed support, a machine base, the needle bed support and the machine base being formed as a single assembly.

Abstract: For producing a knitted product on a flat knitting machine with simultaneous supply of two threads of different elasticities to needles of the machine, for each stitch to be formed the length of the thread of the higher elasticity to be supplied to a needle is calculated from the supplied length of a thread of the lower elasticity and the data about the material property of the thread of the higher elasticity, and a feeding device is controlled for the thread of the higher elasticity in correspondence with the calculated thread length to be supplied.

Abstract: A method of producing of spacial, single or multi-layer knitting articles on a flat knitting machine having at least two needle beds and a loop transfer device, has the steps of knitting of knitting rows with a number and width a corresponding to a spacial structure of a knitting article to be produced and corresponding to material and machine properties, selecting a sequence of the knitting rows so that a maximum possible uniform distribution of the knitting rows of different width and thereby reverse points in a knitting direction over the knitted article is provided, and for each loop row selecting a loop size so that a desired geometrical structure of the knitting article is obtained in an optimal manner.

Abstract: A knitted article is produced on a flat knitting machine with a carriage and at least one cam system, wherein the carriage speed is controlled within a knitting row in dependence on pattern types produced by individual needles or needle groups, as well as on the properties of knitting thread or threads continuously so that the carriage at each location of the knitting row is moved with a maximum possible speed at which it is guaranteed that no knitting thread is torn.

Abstract: A knitting machine has a needle bed, a plurality of needles, plates arranged between the needles, each of the plates having a front operational part provided with edges engaging in a loop forming region and displaceable about an axis extending along the needle bed between a front position and a rear position, and a shaft part arranged substantially parallel to the needles and longitudinally displaceable for driving the plates, the operational part and the shaft part being connected by an elastic springy web to form a one-piece element.

Abstract: A method for producing a knitted article on a flat knitting machine with two opposite needle beds and a stitch hanging over device has the steps of providing a knitted article with a base knitted structure and at least one parallel partial knitted texture which partially overlaps the base knitted structure, equipping at least in a region of the parallel partial knitted structure at most each second needle of one needle bed with a stitch of the base knitted texture, emptying a needle of another needle bed which is opposite to the equipped needle of the one needle bed, producing stitches of at least one parallel partial knitted texture in needles which are not equipped with base knitting stitches, hanging over stitches of the base knitted texture in a region of at least one parallel partial knitted texture before producing of stitches for the parallel partial knitted texture on the other needle bed.