Abstract: A process for the manufacture of knitted goods with integrated weft and/or warp threads on a knitting machine having at least one needle bed by way of an actuatable thread guide which is movable in a controlled manner in the direction of the needle bed independently of a thread guide of a knitting feed system of the knitting machine. In the process, a thread is fed to a knitting region of the knitting machine by the thread carrier, which is guided along the needle bed in order to insert a warp thread corresponding to a desired length over several needles. The thread is inserted without intermeshing into the knitting region by the insertion of a warp thread over several courses of loops of the knitted goods, and remains in place without the thread being laid on tuck or intermeshed, and by the insertion of a diagonally extended thread, is moved along the needle bed during the formation of the loops of the knitted goods in the knitting machine.

Abstract: An apparatus for the production of knitted goods having integrated weft and/or warp threads, comprising a knitting machine having at least one needle bed, a guide extending along the needle bed in the vicinity of a knitting region of the knitting machine for the controlled movement of a control-actuatable thread carrier independently of a thread guide of a knitting feed system of the knitting machine, a guide carriage of the thread carrier which carriage is movable on the guide, a thread feed member provided on the thread carrier and having a feed region from which at least one thread is fed to the knitting region, and a control for the actuating of the guide carriage of the thread carrier.

Abstract: The textile spacer material is a material for replacing foamed substances; it consists of two knitted or woven covering layers that are connected by a pile thread structure. The pile thread structure produces the compressibility known from flexible foams and the large air fraction. The elasticity can be determined by the length and density of the pile threads and the material used. When recyclable materials are used, an environmentally compatible foam substitute can be obtained. Moreover, the textile spacer material can also assume chemical or physical properties through the use of treated starting material or a treatment during or after production and thus be used as a filter or catalyst material, for example.