Abstract: The warp knitting machine for jacquard-patterned pile-knit fabrics includes pile yarn carriers which are individually movable, according to a selected pattern, in the place of each needle to form a shed of the selected pattern forming and the non-selected pile yarns whereby the tip of the shed is at the knock-over point of the needle. A guide reed is movably arranged between the pile yarn carriers and a pile sinker and includes a laying edge which crosses the pattern-forming pile yarn of the shed. The guide reed performs lateral and sinking movement to overlay the selected pile yarn.

Abstract: In knitted goods, particularly pile-knit goods, with pile yarn tied into the loops and with weft elements extending at least over two-needle spacings, the pile-forming pile yarns are tied together only in every second course. This may be implemented by tying-in the pile yarns as loop jointly with the meshing yarn while weft yarns and dead piles are preferably tied as weft into the in-between courses. When tying the patterning piles as weft into every second course, dead pile and weft are also ties into these courses, while the in-between course will preferably consist only of the meshing warp yarn.

Abstract: In a flat-knitting machine having a needle bed and a plurality of carriages which orbit the needle bed in a predetermined path, the needles which are to knit in accordance with a predetermined pattern are selected by advancing electromechanical controllers in a path other than the predetermined path and transmitting activating signals to them via trailing cables from a stationary control unit when the controllers move in the same direction as and parallel to the carriages.

Abstract: A warp knitting machine has a row of needles, a row of warp thread guides for feeding to the needles warp threads which form the chain stitches of a ground fabric and a row of weft thread guides for feeding to the needles weft threads which form the inlay of the ground fabric. At least one row of pile thread guides is used to feed a respective pile thread to each needle. A row of pile-thread reserve-forming supports is provided, each support being individually shiftable, by a jacquard mechanism, from a reserve-forming position to a reserve-releasing position. The reserve-forming support, when in the reserve-forming position, forms a reserve length in a respective pile thread, by increasing the length of the path which the pile thread takes to a respective needle. Each and every pile thread is provided with such a reserve length in each and every course of the fabric. Each needle is provided with a clamp which clamps the pile thread to the needle.

Abstract: A warp knit machine produces patterned plush-loop warp knit fabric and includes a row of hooked needles, a pillar bar for forming interlaced adjoining chains of the ground fabric and an inlay bar for laying inlay thread into the ground fabric. Each needle has a set of pile-thread guiders swingably mounted between non-selected and selected position. A guide comb structure comprises a row of blades defining first inter-blade gaps alternating with second inter-blade gaps. All pile threads are guided through the first gaps, but the selected pile threads differently located in the gaps. During certain phases of operation, the needles extend through the second gaps, and also a row of pile-thread-laying sinkers pass through the second gaps. The guide-comb structure is shogged to overlap selected pile threads, which the pile-thread sinkers then lay into the needle hooks. Also, the guide-comb structure is so configured that it underlaps the non-selected pile threads beneath the needles.

Abstract: A cam carriage, provided with a jack-filled pattern wheel followed by a knitting cam system, travels along a needle bed of a flat-bed knitting machine. Those pattern-wheel jacks which are selected for operation by a jacquard mechanism cause selected needles to be transversely shifted away from the knitting cam system. The pattern wheel has a first and a second circumferential succession of jacks, and two jacks per interneedle interval of the pattern-wheel circumference. The needle-controlling portions of the jacks of the first succession are located at different heights from those of the second succession. Some groups of needles have jack-engaged members located at the height of the needle-controlling portions of the first jacks. The other groups of needles have jack-engaged members located at the height of the needle-controlling portions of the second jacks.

Abstract: The device for feeding yarn in a textile machine comprises a set of feed driving rollers rotating at a speed exceeding the maximum yarn processing speed in the machine, a first yarn brake downstream of the driving rollers, a first swing support upstream of the rollers, a second yarn brake and a second swing support. Each swing support includes a movable member exerting by its weight a tension against the yarn which causes the latter to engage frictionally the driving rollers. The frictional force exceeds the force of the first yarn brake and advances the yarn about a length which is sufficient to cause the moving member of the first swing support to abut against a fixed stop member so that the tension is released from the yarn and the holding friction changes to a sliding friction which is lower than the braking force of the first brake and thus stops the decoiling of the yarn.

Abstract: A fabric composed of a fleece or backing of fibrous material with parallel rows of single thread, sewn-knitted, run resistant, stitches superimposed thereon; a method of making the fabric and a warp knitting machine which is suitable for the production of the sewn-knitted fabric. The fabric can advantageously be used for outer garments, household or space textiles.

Abstract: A fabric composed of a fleece or backing of fibrous material with parallel rows of single thread, stitch bonded, run resistant, stitches superimposed thereon; a method of making the fabric and a warp knitting machine which is suitable for the production of the stitch bonded fabric. The fabric can advantageously be used for outer garments, household or space textiles.

Abstract: A knitting machine is comprised of a first pair of cooperating flat needle beds and a second pair of cooperating flat needle beds positioned behind the first. Cam slides are provided with cams for controlling the motions of the needles in the needle beds. The cam slides are mounted for travel in a single direction along a closed path extending around the two pairs of needle beds. At least one, but preferably all, of the cam slides is provided with cam arrangements capable of causing needles to perform normal-knitting motion, loop-delivery motion for loop transfer and also loop-acceptance motion for loop transfer. As the cam slide makes one trip in one direction along one pair of needle beds, it can cause loops to be transferred in both directions during the single trip. When a switchover to normal knitting is to be made, the cam slide need not be replaced but is merely reset for normal knitting.

Abstract: Patterning apparatus for pile knitting machines for manufacturing patterned knitted pile fabrics on crochetting machines having a row of side-by-side needles, and multiple pile thread guides provided with a pile thread selecting sinker for each needle, the thread exit openings of the multiple pile thread guides being disposed in spaced relationship one to the other along lines substantially in parallel with the longitudinal axes of the needles; the selecting sinkers being supported on a vertically movable bar for pivotal movement about axis parallel to the row of needles to selected thread exit openings of their respective multiple pile thread guide via patterning spacers operable adjacent the upper ends of the sinkers, the sinkers incorporating stop elements on said upper ends operative with stop linkages shared in common by all thread selecting sinkers.

Abstract: A loop-controlled slide needle for the forming of loops by a loop forming textile machine, comprising a shaft, a hook integral with one end of the shaft, the hook having a tapered free end, the shaft tapering in the plane of the hook at the juncture of the shaft and the hook, a longitudinal groove formed in the shaft, and a slide bar slidably mounted in the groove for movement between one position in which the slide bar closes the hook and another position in which the slide bar leaves the hook open, the slide bar having an end which faces the free end of the hook and which has a recess for receiving the tapered end of the hook when the hook is closed by the slide bar.

Abstract: Patterning apparatus for pile knitting machines for manufacturing patterned knitted pile fabrics on crochetting machines having a row of side-by-side needles, and multiple pile thread guides provided with a pile thread selecting sinker for each needle, the thread exit openings of the multiple pile thread guides being disposed in spaced relationship one to the other along lines substantially in parallel with the longitudinal axes of the needles; the selecting sinkers being supported on a vertically movable bar for pivotal movement about axis parallel to the row of needles to selected thread exit openings of their respective multiple pile thread guide via patterning spacers operable adjacent the upper ends of the sinkers, the sinkers incorporating stop elements on said upper ends operative with stop linkages shared in common by all thread selecting sinkers.

Abstract: A cam system for a circular knitting machine includes a cam retainer having an aperture for receiving a cam carrier, so that the cam carrier may be held in the retainer in a fixed position. The cam carrier may be fixed in the cam retainer at a number of predetermined positions, and the cam carrier has affixed thereto at least two cam surfaces which may be selectively positioned in opposite relationship in the knitting machine.

Abstract: In a warp knitting machine comprising a row of reciprocable needles having hooks, knock-over means and counter means spaced from the knock-over means so arranged that the reciprocation of the needles traverses the respective knock-over means and counter means, means for feeding a non-woven fabric between the knock-over means and the counter means, and means for opening and closing the hooks of the needles, the improvement comprising means defining a recess in the path of each of the needles, the recess being in the form of a space into which the fabric bulges as the needles are withdrawn from the fabric.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine in which the pattern drum has cams shiftable between operative and inoperative positions about a pivotal axis, the movement between the positions being less than 90.degree. and there being locking means which is effective to secure the cams in one of the two positions. The selector members which are operated by the cams have associated with them means by which they may be disengaged from the cams.

Abstract: In a fabric constituted lengthwise of stitched warp threads and, transverse thereto, an array of weft threads substantially parallel to one another, the array of weft threads is in the form of repeating sections, each section comprises a plurality of discrete portions of weft threads and each discrete portion extends in a continuous line at least twice from one lateral border of the fabric to the other lateral border of the fabric and forms a U at at least one of the borders of the fabric. This fabric is made by a method and with an apparatus in which the weft threads are transferred to two feeding means which transport the weft threads to a zone in which warp threads are stitched into the array of weft threads, the transferring being effected by a weft layer which moves between the feeding means transversely to the direction of motion of the feeding means and, at selected intervals, parallel to the direction of motion of the feeding means.

Abstract: An improvement in an apparatus for feeding shuttles into a spiral groove between nose-like projections of driving hooks on a weave cylinder in an automatic wave shed loom which apparatus has a feeding apparatus comprising a conveyor means for inserting the shuttles into the spiral groove, the improvement comprising a plurality of vertically disposed drive pins on said conveyor means which pins engage said shuttles positively and move them into said spiral groove.