Abstract: The invention relates to a laminate reinforcement for fibre-reinforced sunthetic resins and has for its object to provide a laminate reinforcement of highly resistant and high elasticity modulus fibres for extremely heavy-duty, yet light-weight and indent-resistent floating bodies and provides to that purpose such a reinforcement in which the laminate reinforcement is obtained by means of at least two parallel tissue tapes forming by their tissue seams a paunch gap, which is covered with a similar, but narrower covering tape, doubling of the reinforcing fibres in the area of the paunch gap in parallel relationship producing a Stringer effect, in which the warp and weft yarns of the tissue tape are made from reinforcing fibres having a higher elasticity modulus and a higher specific tensile strength than glass fibres, said fibres consisting of carbon, aramid, boron fibres or the like, the warp yarns of carbon and aramid being in intimate contact with one another and the weft yarns of aramid or carbon being spa

Abstract: Method for knitting a sock, wherein for casting on the yarn the feeder is brought behind the knitting point, while the clamping means retaining the yarn end is before the knitting point as viewed in the direction of rotation of the needle cylinder, and after engagement of the knitting yarn by the first needles, the clamping means is moved to a yarn feeding position for knitting. After the first needle, one or a plurality of needles is brought into a position in which the yarn is not engaged at the knitting point, so that the yarn initially present between the feeder and the first needle is included in the fabric by the needles initially not engaging the yarn during the knitting of the subsequent courses.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for knitting socks by means of a circular knitting machine in which the socks are knitted in a continuous string wherein a few courses are knitted with a soluble yarn between the toe portion of each sock and the welt portion of each subsequent sock, during which the string of socks is drawn rotatingly in downward direction out of the knitting cylinder, with the string of socks being passed from the circular knitting machine directly into a liquid flow wherein the soluble yarn with which the successive socks in the string are interconnected dissolves.

Abstract: In knitting socks in a string of such socks on a circular knitting machine, a double fabric is knitted in order to close the toe, further courses then being knitted with a heat-shrinking yarn, followed by knitting courses with a washable yarn, after which a start is made with knitting the welt of the next sock to be knitted. Thus by immersion of a string of such socks in a hot bath the washable yarn disappears to separate the socks and the shrinkable yarn shrinks to provide a run-free cast off.