Abstract: A needle includes a shank and a blade adjoining the shank. The blade has a conical length portion tapering in a direction away from the shank, a cylindrical length portion adjoining the conical length portion and a pointed tapering end portion adjoining the cylindrical length portion. The conical length portion is situated between the shank and the cylindrical length portion. An eye and a longitudinally extending groove are provided in the blade. Further, a circumferential, rounded constriction is provided in the blade adjacent the shank. The constriction which forms a predetermined breaking location, adjoins the conical length portion and is located between the shank and the conical length portion.

Abstract: A springbeard needle includes a shank having opposite ends, an upper edge, a lower edge and two opposite side faces; a head formed at one of the shank ends; a springbeard extending from the head and being oriented towards the upper shank edge; and a groove provided in the shank. The groove extends from the upper shank edge and is open at one of the side faces. An end portion of the springbeard projects into the groove from the upper shank edge. The groove has a longitudinal axis which forms an acute angle with the lower shank edge and which is oriented towards the head as viewed in a direction from the lower shank edge to the upper shank edge.

Abstract: A stamped knitting tool includes a shank and a window which is provided in the shank and which is bounded by a surrounding window-framing edge of the shank. Along at least a length portion of the window-framing edge a chamfer is provided which borders the window. A heterogenous material fills the window and is fixedly connected with the shank. The chamfer projects into the heterogenous material.

Abstract: A latch needle for textile machines has a needle shank having a longitudinal slot formed therein. The needle shank includes a needle hook located at one end of the needle shank, and two opposing shank cheeks each defining a lateral side of the longitudinal slot. A latch is pivotably disposed in the longitudinal slot. The latch has a bearing bore, and at least one annular ring projecting laterally outward from the latch and surrounding the bearing bore. A bearing device is attached to at least one of the shank cheeks and in communication with the bearing bore for pivotably seating the latch.

Abstract: A packing and storing receptacle includes a bottom panel and a top panel superposed on the bottom panel and defining a pouch therewith for receiving at least a longitudinal part of the contents. The bottom and top panels are formed by a single, flexible sheet and are separated from one another by a transverse folding edge defining an end of the receptacle. The top panel has a terminal edge remote from the transverse folding edge and defining, together with the bottom panel, a removal opening of the pouch. The bottom and top panels have longitudinal lateral edges extending generally perpendicularly to the transverse folding edge along the length of the receptacle. There are also provided lateral and/or transverse tabs cut out, bent out from and integrally attached to the flexible sheet for laterally guiding and positioning the contents. The longitudinal lateral edges of the bottom panel are directly and/or indirectly connected to the longitudinal lateral edges of the top panel at transversely opposite zones.

Abstract: A latch needle for a loop-forming textile machine includes a needle shank; a sawslot provided in the needle shank and being defined by two parallel-extending needle shank cheeks; a rivet traversing the sawslot and being rotatably supported in the needle shank; a needle latch pivotally disposed in the sawslot and having a latch spoon and a rivet-receiving bore; and an elongated spring element having a first end anchored in the needle shank and a second end extending into the sawslot. In the closed position of the needle latch the second end of the spring element is in a pressing engagement with a support surface of the needle latch and resiliently urging the needle latch into an intermediate opening position. The needle latch has an open-ended recess extending from an end of the needle latch remote from the latch spoon into the rivet-receiving bore. The needle latch has a wall face defining the open-ended recess at one side thereof and carrying the support surface.

Abstract: A compound needle has a needle member and a two-part closing element. The needle member has a head at a front end of the needle. The closing element is mounted on the needle member so as to be longitudinally displaceable with respect to the needle member and cooperate with the head. A first part of the closing element includes a shank, a beard on the shank and an anchoring butt formed on an end region of the shank remote from the beard. A second part of the closing member follows the first part in the longitudinal direction and has a control butt and a brake spring. The second part also has a housing section which receives at least the end region of the shank. The first and second parts are undetachably and rigidly connected together in a region of the anchoring butt.

Abstract: A knitting tool for textile machines has a shank which, beginning at its upper and/or lower edge, is provided in at least some regions with a slot-like recess extending in the longitudinal direction of the shank and forming a hollow space that is filled with vibration damping plastic material.

Abstract: A latch needle for machines producing knit goods includes a needle shank having a slot, a needle head, and a latch. The needle shank has a first longitudinal plane of symmetry and the slot has a second longitudinal plane of symmetry. The latch is pivotably supported in the slot in the needle shank so as to be pivotable about a latch axis extending transversely to the second longitudinal plane of symmetry of the slot. The second longitudinal plane of symmetry intersects the first longitudinal plane of symmetry at an acute angle.

Abstract: A knitting tool, such as a selector sinker or a needle for a knitting machine, includes a flat shank and a narrow elongate control spring projecting from a slot-like opening in a narrow side of the shank. One end of the control spring has a broader anchorage section at one end which is inserted into a recess provided at an inward end of the opening in the shank. The width of the recess, measured transversely to the longitudinal extent of the opening, is greater, at least at certain locations, than the width of the opening. The thickness of the anchorage section of the control spring is less than or equal to the depth of the recess. As a result, the control spring is rigidly anchored in the shank in a manner secure against rotation.

Abstract: A method for producing the latch bearing in a latch needle for textile machines of the type in which a latch is pivotably mounted in a longitudinal slot between two cheeks of a needle shank by a hinge pin passing through mutually aligned transversely extending bores in at least one of the cheeks and a bearing portion of the latch between the cheeks. In accordance with the method a cylindrical wire is provided with transversely extending notches at intervals corresponding to the length of a hinge pin. The notched wire is converted by hot or cold treatment into a bittle, hard state. Individual hinge pins are broken off from the wire at the notches, and are subsequently inserted into the bores in the cheeks and the bearing portion of the latch to be securely fixed there.

Abstract: A latch needle for loop forming textile machines includes a steel needle shank and a nonmetallic latch. The steel needle shank has upper and lower edges, a sawslot defined in the needle shank and a needle hook at one end of the needle shank. The needle also includes an axle which extends transversely across the sawslot and contacts the needle shank. The latch is pivotally mounted on the axle and is provided with a noucat at one end. The latch is pivotal between an open and a closed position. When the latch is in the closed position, the noucat rests on the needle hook and when the latch is in the open position, the back surface of the latch contacts part of the needle shank. The nonmetallic material which the latch is composed of is a fiber reinforced thermoplastic homopolymer or copolymer plastic.

Abstract: A stamped knitting tool for textile machines and particularly for knitting machines is provided with a shank member and a working member. The shank member includes upper and lower edges and first and second end surfaces, and has at least one butt extending from one of the edges and a recess defined in the first end surface and laterally bounded by a web portion of the shank member on each side. The recess is divided into a guide region adjacent the first end surface and a following anchorage region at the rear, and the edges of the web portions facing recess have an irregular profile in the anchorage region. The working member has a needle head or needle hook disposed at one end and a connecting member portion disposed at the other end, with the connecting member portion being positioned in the recess of the shank member so that it is held in a form-locking manner by the web portions in the guide region and so that it is anchored to the shank member in the anchorage region.

Abstract: A stamped knitting tool for textile machines, particularly knitting machines, including a shank having at least one butt and at least one closed or open-edged free space or opening formed in the shank and filled with a heterogeneous material firmly bonded to the needle shank. The shank edges outlining the free space or opening are given an irregular profile with which the heterogeneous material is anchored in the shank in a form-locking manner. According to a preferred embodiment, the shank has two spaced solid guide portions extending between its upper and lower edges with one of the guide portions being disposed in alignment with and below the butt, and at least one narrow web portion having a maximum height of 1.1 mm connecting the two guide portions together so that the facing edges of the guide portions and an edge of the web portion or portions defines the opening in the shank.

Abstract: A latch needle for a textile machine including a latch displaceable in a longitudinal slot of a needle shank and pivotally mounted by means of a continuous bearing bore on two coaxial shaft stubs disposed at needle shank cheeks which laterally delimit the longitudinal slot. Each shaft stub projects into the longitudinal slot and comprises a separate cylindrical bolt which is inserted with a tight fit into a continuous bore in the associated needle shank cheek and is fixed therein so as to be secure against displacement.

Abstract: A latch needle for a textile machine. The latch needle has a latch which is displaceable in a longitudinal slot of a needle shank and is pivotally mounted by means of a continuous bearing bore on a one-piece, cylindrical shaft bolt which is inserted into corresponding coaxial bores of needle shank cheeks on either side of the longitudinal slot and is fixed therein so as to be secure against displacement. The length of the shaft bolt is less than the thickness of the needle shank along the pivot axis. The outwardly oriented, free frontal faces of the shaft bolt lie in the depth of the bores of the needle shank cheeks. Fixing elements for the shaft bolt are shaped of the material of the needle shank cheeks in the vicinity of the free frontal faces of the shaft bolt.

Abstract: A latch needle for knitting machines has a needle latch supported such that t is pivotable in an undamped manner, and the seating surface on the latch spine is formed in wedge shape with converging surfaces. Seating surfaces adapted to the seating surface on the latch spine are provided on the upper edges of the side portions of the longitudinal slot of the needle, and this longitudinal slot is provided, in the region below the latch pivot, with an aperture or slit extending to the lower edge of the needle shank.

Abstract: To enable the latch (5) of a latch needle to be capable of absorbing great tresses without danger of damage to the needle latch, or to the needle itself, the latch has at least one through-aperture (11, 19) or opening in the region between its pivot bore (8) and the latch spoon (9).

Abstract: To provide for damping of vibrations or oscillations exerted on the shaft or shank (7) of a knitting element, and thus reduce breakage of the shaft or shank and failure of the head portion thereof, the shaft or shank is formed with solid guide portions (10) of which at least one is in alignment with a butt extending from the shaft or shank. Two solid guide portions are connected by at least one connecting bridge portion (12) of only up to 1.1 mm height, and which defines an opening (11, 11a, 11b) therebeneath, with respect to the remaining edges of the shaft, which opening is filled with vibration or oscillation-damping material, such as a plastic or a metal, flush, or slightly recessed with the side surfaces of the shaft, and securely bonded to the edges of the adjacent bridge portion and the spaced solid guide portions facing the opening. The guide portions may be of different longitudinal dimension, for example have a dimension of only of that in the order of the bridge portion.

Abstract: A stamped knitting tool for knitting machines, for instance a latch needle, compound needle, bearded needle, plush hook or the like, has a hook formed on a stem with an intermediate neck, the hook being entirely made of a profiled material of substantially rectangular cross section, up to the end of the hook or the beginning of a hook point embodied there.In order to assure that the hook is capable of withstanding the great stresses occurring during the knitting process without the danger of premature breakage or bending open of the hook or other damage while keeping the hook at an appropriately small size, the hook (5), beginning at a maximum value (3) of the cross-sectional dimensions close to the neck (4), formed with steadily decreasing tapering cross-sectional dimensions from the vicinity of the neck (4) toward the end of the hook or the region of the beginning of the hook point (9).