Abstract: For the production of plush knitted goods containing stitches made from main and plush threads, main threads and plush threads are fed to hooks and sinkers, at least the plush threads are pre-formed to plush thread loops by drawing back the knitting tools from a plush thread receiving position into an intermediate position and by, in so doing, drawing and holding taut the plush threads over associated ones of the sinkers, then stitches are formed with the main threads and plush thread loops by drawing back the knitting tools farther into a knocking-over position and by, in doing so, controlling the sinkers in such a way that the pre-formed plush thread loops are held in taut during the stitch formation and that the risk of shortening or undoing of pre-formed plush thread loops during such stitch formation is greatly diminished.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plush or pile knitted fabric comprising a basic knit including a multiplicity of courses and plush yarns or pile fibres which are bound into the basic knit. The basic knit comprises a plain knit formed with at least one basic yarn (1). In accordance with the invention at least one second basic yarn (5) is incorporated into each course in such a way that it is knitted to form stitches (19) at least in selected courses formed with the first basic yarn (1), or forms single-yarn float loops (7) which are disposed between same.

Abstract: A strand or thread feed device, especially for circular knitting machines, is described, having a rotatable storage drum, onto which a predetermined amount of thread is wound and from which the thread is withdrawn in dependence on the thread usage. A brake ring (25) is fitted on the storage drum and consists of a base ring (29) and elastic, bristle-like elements (30) fixed thereon, preferably inclined opposite to the direction of rotation (v) and radially inwardly. In order that the storage drum may be able to accelerate abruptly to its operating speed from rest, without the brake ring (25) being retarded or even not entrained, the peripheral surface of the storage drum is provided with means, e.g. grooves with a sawtooth cross-section, which form abutment surfaces (44) transverse to the longitudinal direction of the elements (30) and with which the bristle-like elements (30) cooperate and ensure form-locking coupling between the brake ring (25) and storage drum in the direction of rotation (v).

Abstract: A knitting machine has a bed, knitting implements which are mounted displaceably in the bed and which each have at least an operating and a pivotably first control butt, and at least one patterning arrangement which has a cam portion intended for guiding the butts, with at least one respective non-knitting, tuck and knitting track formed by cam member, and a selector intended for pivoting the control butts, by means of which the butts are distributed to a respective one of said tracks. The selector has a first control unit for controlling selected knitting implements into the non-knitting track and a second control unit for selectively distributing the other knitting implements to the tuck or knitting track.

Abstract: The cam arrangement for a knitting machine has a first support in the form of a cam support (11) and at least one second support in the form of a segment (14) and at least one cam part (16) mounted on the segment. For rapid fixing of the segment on the cam support there serves a fixing device (31), which includes a first claw (32) associated with the cam support and a tightening device associated with the segment (14). In accordance with the invention the tightening device consists of a coupling pin (36) with a threaded section (37), a second claw (33) fitted thereon and cooperating with the first claw (32) and a tightening element (38) screw-connected with the threaded section (37) and mounted rotatably on the associated segment (14) (FIG. 2).

Abstract: A yarn feed device for circular knitting machines includes a yarn guide (12) by which the yarn (4) is fed to to the knitting implements (3) of the knitting machine from the side. For reliable feed of the yarn the yarn, guide has a downwardly open guide channel (26) with an exit section (29). The channel angle (b) is smaller than the yarn angle (a), at least at the exit section. A passage (14) passing through the yarn guide is provided as a further yarn guide, of which one bounding wall preferably has a yarn threading opening (31) in the form of a slot opening to facilitate threading the yarn.

Abstract: The invention relates to a carrier (1) of annular, cylindrical, plate or disc form or the like in a circular knitting machine for mounting needles, sinkers, cam parts or the like. The carrier (1) comprises at least one flow channel, which serves for the transport of a gaseous or fluid medium intended for heat exchange and/or lubrication. This flow channel consists of a recess (9) formed in the carrier, adjoining a surface of the same, and a cover (10) covering the recess, sealed to the carrier (1) and comprises at least one connection (11, 12) for the feed and/or removal of the medium (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A knitting machine has at least one bed with a plurality of lands forming tricks for supporting knitting implements, and a cam arrangement for controlling the knitting implements and including a cam plate, at least one carrier mounted to the cam plate at a fixed spacing from the bed, at least one cam portion and a mounting element for non-rotatably mounting the cam portion to the carrier. The mounting element is disposed on the carrier and consists of a sliding guide for loosely and displaceably mounting to cam portion to the carrier with a sliding fit and without the use of fixing element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a yarn feed arrangement with at least one yarn guide (12) for a circular knitting machine comprising a needle cylinder (1), knitting implements (3) which are mounted movably therein and which have hooks (5) for receiving a yarn (4) fed thereto by the yarn guide, and a cam (7) which acts on the knitting implements in such a way that the hooks are guided on a track which has an extension section, a retraction section and a maximum disposed therebetween. The yarn guide has a through opening (14) for guiding the yarn and a guide surface (28) which is intended for guiding the yarn and which is disposed on its front side (21). In that arrangement the guide surface (28) is provided on an extension portion (26) which is disposed at the underside of the yarn guide (12) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: The knitting machine has knitting elements including needles, sinkers, and the like and guide parts for the knitting elements, including cam parts, guide tricks and the like, these groups of parts moving relative to each other and being provided with mutually contacting sliding surfaces or faces. To reduce heating during operation, the need for auxiliary lubricating devices, and to lower power requirements during operation the opposing sliding surface or faces of the moving parts of the knitting machine are at least partially provided with a friction-reducing and wear-resistant coating of diamond-like carbon. This coating is applied by a plasma CVD process (FIG. 3).

Abstract: A restoring device for a needle selecting apparatus of a circular knitting machine has a housing mounted on the needle selecting apparatus, and a slider located in the housing for each set of selecting plates of the selecting apparatus. Each slider is displaceable in a direction of displacement of the selecting plates and is provided with a pressing surface and a withdrawal surface. The pressing and withdrawal surfaces of each slider act on all selecting plates of a respective set to displace the selecting plates to their operating and rest positions, respectively.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine for producing a single face plush article of base threads and plush threads has a needle cylinder provided with a plurality of needles and a plate ring provided with separately controlled and differently shaped plates. A first plate has a slot for receiving a base thread and a stepped ridge for applying a plush thread, and a second plate is provided with a recess in the region of the slot of the first plate. The second plate has a plate tip formed above the recess and is provided for a plaiting with a plush thread-pressing edge. The plush thread-pressing edge is formed on the plate tip and extends in an inclined manner to the slot of the first plate and to a shaft of an associated one of the needles. The plush thread pressing edge being movable to a point before a step of the stepped ridge of the first plate.

Abstract: A dust removal device for yarn supply carriers and thread guides of textile machines comprises blowers movable past the yarn supply carriers and supported on a common supporting bar. The blowers and all driven by a single common drive motor which not only rotates the vanes of the blowers but also imparts to the same the movement past the yarn supply carriers.

Abstract: Knot catcher for yarns and threads includes two rotary rollers spaced from each other to form therebetween a thread-receiving through opening which is limited at two ends thereof by two opposite walls of the housing of the knot catcher. The size of the opening can be adjusted by adjusting the rollers relative each other.

Abstract: In a multiple system circular knitting machine having an electromagnetic needle selection, the needle and jack cam races are supported on a stationary support ring which rests on a plurality of radially directed and mutually spaced ribs. To improve operational reliability and maintenance of needle selection devices, each selection electromagnet is mounted at an end portion of an elongated holder and is situated in a circumferential recess in the needle cylinder opposite end portions of respective selecting jacks. The magnet holders are adjustably secured to the lower surface of the support ring. The needle selecting cams include a pair of circumferentially staggered and axially superposed pressing cams of which the leading lower pressing cam first engages the lower end portion of the selecting jack and moves the same radially inwardly to a point where the upper pressing cam takes over and presses an armature surface of the end portion of the jack against an electromagnet.

Abstract: An apparatus for pneumatic dedusting of yarn supply supports and thread guiding elements of textile machines comprises at least one blowing element which forms a blowing air stream in a dust forming region occupied by a yarn supply support and a thread guiding element, and at least one filter lattice wall which bounds the dust forming region on its periphery at least locally, so that the blowing air stream which exits the dust forming region is directed to the filter lattice wall.

Abstract: In a knitting machine, a selection latch having two end positions for selecting a knitting-needle is actuated so as to engage a cam which moves the selected latch towards a second end position. The actuation of the selection latch in two stages reduces the displacement brought about by the actuating means and increases the selection frequency. According to the invention the latch is actuated by a thin needle similar to a needle-printer needle, producing an impact on the latch, resulting in transmission of motion with high efficiency and moving the latch into an intermediate position in which the cam brings the latch into its second end position. This substantially eliminates friction between the actuating means and the latch, and enhances the selection frequency.

Abstract: In a multisystem knitting machine with longitudinally displaceable needles and also displaceable and pivotable sinkers which are alternately positioned in a carrier, an adjusting shaft and an adjusting head for each cam system are positioned on a movable slide on which a plunger of a central adjusting device acts so as to move that slide.

Abstract: A pressure oil lubricating device, particularly for knitting machines, comprises an oil storing container, at least one oil spraying nozzle, an electromagnetically actuatable oil pump having a suction side connected with the oil storing container and a pressure side connected with the at least one oil spraying nozzle, a pressure conduit connecting the pressure side of the oil pump with the at least one oil spraying nozzle and being branched into several branching pressure conduits, a plurality of electromagnetic valves each opening and closing a respective one of the branching pressure conduits, an oil distributing chamber with which each of the branching pressure conduits is connected, a plurality of nozzle supplying conduits also connected with the oil distributing chamber and each provided with a connecting nipple with a return valve, and control unit provided with a microprocessor and operative so as to activate automatically and arbitrarily at will a driving of the oil pump and a successive opening of th

Abstract: A knitting machine for producing mesh products has a needle carrier provided with a plurality of guiding grooves having an upper groove end and a base, a plurality of needles and a plurality of plate members alternatingly arranged in the guiding grooves so that the plate members are longitudinally displaceable and turnable in the guiding grooves and have a rear side abutting against the base of the guiding grooves. The knitting machine further has a device for cleaning at least one location and supplying an air stream which raises in the guiding grooves upwardly toward the groove end into a space formed between the rear side of the plate members and the base of the guiding grooves and limited from below by a turning region by the plate members.