Abstract: The machine comprises means for securing a piece of knitted fabric, pigtail guides for directing ends of yarn from the fabric to a former, a variable speed motor for rotating the former through a countershaft, a belt and a slip clutch. A traverse mechanism comprises a longitudinally movable shaft carrying pigtail guides for winding the yarn uniformly of the former. The formers comprise a number of wire stems projecting a number of wires stems projecting from a hub and having fittings with radial projections to prevent the yarn sloughing off. The countershaft is suspended by the belt.

Abstract: Device for forming a thread crossing or lease in a textile machine, including a first comb being disposed in the path of the threads and having laminations defining interstices therebetween, a second comb being disposed obliquely relative to the first comb and having laminations defining interstices therebetween and tips on the laminations, the tips of the laminations of the second comb being engageable with equal distribution into the interstices of the first comb, every other interstice of the second comb being partially filled in providing alternately long and short interstices being open at the top thereof, and the combs being slideable relative to each other when engaged, and a method of operating the device.

Abstract: A device to hold and hang garments, particularly trousers, and to maintain them ironed in any type of travelling bag, even in small soft bags, comprises at least two, preferably rectangular, frames of metallic wire, the long inner sides of which are both hinged in one central sleeve. Each outer long side of said frames is formed of overlapping portions of wire and is inserted in a separate sleeve. A third frame with a top hook can also be hinged in said central sleeve. The device can be inserted into an envelope-like container.

Abstract: An accessory for secure attachment upon a wire coathanger to provide an enlarged area for support of a shoulder of a garment, and comprising a two-part hollow moulded body having an enlarged support surface for the garment, a slot in one side for the entry of the wire at a lower corner of the coathanger, and a post formed in two parts integrally with respective halves of the moulded body and having a gap narrower than the wire diameter and defined by confronting oppositely inclined chamfers through which the wire is forcibly entered for positioning of the accessory upon the coathanger.

Abstract: A rosette includes a number of pre-pleated lengths of ribbon secured as radiating rings on a body part or carrier, the body part or carrier having a plurality of resilient clips which can be used for the securement of the ribbons. The rosette will preferably include a distinctive center and ribbon tails secured in position by a snap fitted rim element. Preferably, the body part or carrier is of thin-walled form, the resilient clips being pressed outwards from the plane of the thin wall.

Abstract: Several draw-in needles are arranged in parallel in a warp thread draw-in device. The draw-in needles can be coupled selectively individually or in combination to an advanceable carriage. When the carriage is advanced, only the selected and coupled draw-in needles are carried along whereby the draw-in procedure is carried out simultaneously. The selection of the draw-in needles as a function of the desired patterning can be implemented automatically by a program control.

Abstract: The arrangement can transfer with respect to a beam, elastic threads having a predetermined initial extension. The arrangement has a first device for imparting a first thread speed to the threads being transferred. Also included is a controller and at least one tension roller, the latter rotatably mounted between the beam and the first device. The roller can impart a second thread speed to the threads and can stretch them. The threads at the beam are transferred at a third thread speed. Among the first, second and third thread speeds the two furthest upstream have an adjustable speed ratio. The controller can measure the tension of the threads traveling to the tension roller. This controller is operable to alter the speed ratio in response to the tension of the threads, to hold this tension at a predetermined magnitude.

Abstract: A garment hanger having a pair of pivotable arms which are joined through a rack and pinion which allows the user to extend or collapse the hanger using only one hand. The rack and pinion provides for smooth pivoting of the arms and a latch is provided to secure the hanger in an extended posture. The arms have a greater thickness along their extremities to provide protection for the garments and to allow the arms to collapse in an overlapping fashion to provide for compact storage.

Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a housing defining a handle portion and a head portion with a nose portion extending therebelow. Mounted within the head portion is a cylindrical sleeve within which is reciprocally mounted a drive piston. A driver for driving fasteners is secured to the drive piston and reciprocates therewith. The tool includes a drive power control for controlling the penetration of the fasteners into a workpiece. The drive power control includes a choke encircling the sleeve to impede the flow of exhaust air from beneath the piston and under the sleeve during a driving stroke. The choke may be moved to a position spaced from the cylindrical sleeve wherein the flow of fluid below the piston is not inhibited. In addition, the tool includes a safety member with a workpiece engaging portion of at least one wear block secured thereto to engage the workpiece and protect the safety member from undue wear.

Abstract: A bulking device for making loop yarn, comprising a base with a blowing chamber, a pin insert with a yarn feeding channel and a jet insert with a yarn delivery channel, followed by a diffusor having resonance chamber just behind the inlet cross section from the yarn delivery channel.

Abstract: Novel construction of a stuffer box crimper by means of multiple precision ground plates held together in side-by-side contacting relationship and dowel-aligned so that the crimper rolls and other movable components are readily and properly aligned.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for individually separating heddles bunched into packs and arranged on heddle slide rails, the lifting of individual heddles from the pack being implemented by suction nozzles and the heddles being moved into position for drawing-in the associated warp threads. A blow tube is provided to generate the suction effect and is angularly bent at its front end constructed as a blow nozzle. A small tube is so inserted into the wall of the angular bend that its part within the wall of the tube forms an ejector nozzle and its external end acts as a suction nozzle to lift individual heddles off a pack. The blow nozzle may be brought into line with the direction of advance of the heddles whereby a blast of air issuing from the blow nozzle effects the further motion of a lifted heddle following the drawing-in of the warp thread.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method of threading in a thread into a texturing nozzle known as such, and an apparatus for implementing the method. The texturing nozzle is brought from a working position into a threading-in position for threading-in, in which position a treatment chamber provided with slots and located upstream from the outlet opening of the texturing nozzle is subject to a vacuum for sucking in a thread brought to a position in front of the inlet opening of the texturing nozzle.

Abstract: A clothes hanger hook has a fixed part with a shank and a crook with a free end and a movable part hinged to the crook. The movable part has a nose, wings extending from the nose and straddling at least a part of the crook and a bottom wall bridging and connecting the wings below an adjacent surface of the crook. A spring seat extends into the nose part, and a spring with one end mounted on the seat and another on the crook biases the nose section of the movable part toward the shank and the bottom wall of the movable part into engagement with an inner surface of the crook.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the finish processing of stripe-matched tubular knitted fabric in the manner to effect accurate, uniform alignment of the sewn seam at the edge extremity of the fabric tube, as it is being finished and gathered in flat form. Stripe-matched tubular knitted fabric has been slit longitudinally, adjusted to convert stripes from spiral to circular form, and resewn its entire length. An equipment and method is provided for finish processing of such fabric, wherein a novel arrangement is provided for rotationally manipulating a laterally distended fabric to maintain accurate, uniform edge alignment of the sewn seam.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for singeing cane material to remove the protruding cane fiber that naturally exists with cane material. Cane is moved through gas flames which singe or burn off the cane fibers while leaving the basic cane body undamaged by the flames.

Abstract: A process is provided for mechanically surface-finishing a textile fabric which comprises continuously feeding said fabric from a source of supply, such that said fabric lies in a single plane, subjecting successive adjacent sections of the fabric to intermittent mechanical impact with an abrasive means across the width of said fabric thereby avoiding substantial sustained contact between the fabric and the abrasive means, the mechanical impact being at a force and frequency sufficient to cause a substantially uniform modification of the surface characteristics of the fabric. Textile fabrics with modified surface which may be made by the above process are also provided. Apparatus for mechanically surface-finishing a textile fabric according to the aforedescribed process is further provided.

Abstract: An improved process (and apparatus) for intermingling filaments of a yarn or yarns with a fluid-jet device employs long narrow tubular guides to peripherally constrain vibrations in the yarn upstream, and optionally downstream, of the intermingling zone. The apparatus and process can be used with differentially dyeable bulked supply yarns to make a heather dyeable yarn for carpets.

Abstract: An improved stuffer box crimping apparatus of the type in which tow is fed into a rectangular cross-section crimping chamber off-set from the bite of a pair of feed rolls, the apparatus employing a crimping chamber wherein one wall is predominantly formed by a single doctor blade and an opposite wall is formed by a portion of the rotating surface of one of the cylindrical feed rolls of the feed roll pair, the doctor blade being pivotally mounted on the feed roll nearest the tip portion of the doctor blade. The cross-sectional area of the crimping chamber diminishes toward the exit portion thereof, whereby crimped filamentary material within the crimping chamber is subjected to both back pressure and a constant forwarding action by the rotating surface of the cylindrical feed roll. The pivotal mounting of the doctor blade provides precise clearance and allows the volume of the crimping chamber to adjust in accordance with tow variations.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, entrained, dense particulate materials are removed from an elongated body of less dense fibrous materials being transported by a moving fluid stream by reducing the velocity of said fluid stream by an amount and for a time sufficient to release a substantial portion of said dense particulate materials, but insufficient to stop the transport of the elongated body of less dense fibrous material by the moving fluid stream.