Abstract: Knitting machine with a needle bed in which knitting tools having projections are mounted for raising and lowering, with a cam unit which can be transported past the projections and which has at least one lowering cam acting on the projections of the knitting tools which is adjustable with regard to its lowering depth, on which a runner is movably fastened having a plurality of pathways interacting according to pattern with the runner during the carrying of the cam unit past the projections of the knitting tools for the adjustment of the lowering cam to a preselected lowering depth, and with a controller acting before each passage of the cam unit past the feet of the knitting tools for the shifting of the runner to the position required for the interaction with a selected pathway (FIG. 7).

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of contoured pile ware on a conventional double needle bar warp knitting machine yields textured pile fabric with an unusual appearance. The pattern is formed of pile threads of different length and in different positions in the pile ribs and are bound together with the base fabric. The ware is formed on a twin bed warp knitting machine and subsequently is cut to form two individual panels.

Abstract: A tufting machine hood module having a number of hooks embedded within a common cast body member in side-by-side disposition. The hooks are of the staggered type with alternate hooks having a first blade length and the intermediate hooks having a second and different blade length. The throats of all of the hooks are transversely aligned so that when the hooks require regrinding the throats may be ground as a unit.

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus for gripping and manipulating pipe members, including a plurality of slip carriers mounted on an equal number of carrier actuators. The carrier actuators are arranged within a drive sleeve and constrained by radial T-slot connections to a base ring. Sloped T-slot connections link each of the carrier actuators to the drive sleeve. Longitudinal movement of the drive sleeve in one sense propels the carrier actuators and the slip carriers radially inwardly whereby slips mounted on the slip carriers may grip a pipe member positioned within the drive sleeve; longitudinal movement of the drive sleeve in the opposite sense withdraws the carrier actuators and slip carriers from the pipe member. Cooperating wedging surfaces between each of the slip carriers and the corresponding carrier actuator permits the application of holding or moving force on pipe members in either longitudinal sense.

Abstract: A knife block for mounting four knives in staggered needle fine gauge tufting machines having a pair of dovetail shaped inserts slidably received within a pair of dovetail shaped cavities formed on opposite sides of a central web in a block body member. The inserts include a pair of rectangular grooves sized to receive tufting knives. One groove cooperates with the web to form a knife receiving channel and the other groove, which is laterally offset from the first grove by the machine stagger, is undercut from the outer face of the insert to provide another knife receiving channel. A clamping member locks both outer knives in the channels, and screw members lock each of the inner knives in the respective channels.

Abstract: A multi-embroidery machine with a common carrier for the individual embroidery frames, the carrier being mounted moveably in the longitudinal axis of the embroidery machine as well as perpendicularly thereto and being adjustable by a pantograph drive; displacement movements of the pantograph drive, which are executed by a pantograph bar (which bar extends parallel to the carrier behind the sewing heads), are transmitted to the embroidery frame carrier by connection struts. For the longitudinal movement of the embroidery frames as well as for the transverse movement, one data carrier-controlled drive each is provided, which data carrier-controlled drives are controlled directly by the pantograph drive, and the displacement movements of the drives are fed to the pantograph bar.

Abstract: A knife block and looper mounting block having a plurality of grooved retaining plates positioned between and joined to the flanges of a body member. At least certain of the retaining plates have slots in the upper surface for receiving a clamping member for acting on the gauge parts. A multi-knife mounting block has the grooves of adjacent plates progressively disposed closer to one of the flanges and further than the other to correct for disalignment due to the rise in pitch angle between the knives and loopers.

Abstract: A combining reduction and accessory gear box receiving power input from a multiple of gas turbine engines includes provisions for providing separate accessory drives for each engine used therewith, and an output drive that is driven by any number or all of the engines. Each gas turbine engine, as well as the gears associated therewith and its connection to the output drive, is totally independent of the other engines.

Abstract: A tufting machine needle module having a body member attachable to the needle bar of the tufting machine. The module has a plurality of longitudinally spaced needles formed integrally with the body member and depending therefrom in parallel relationship. The body member includes co-operable male and female formations on respective front and rear faces thereof spaced at equal distances longitudinally on the respective face with those of one face offset longitudinally relative to those of the other face by a distance equal to an odd number multiple of one-half the pitch of the needles carried by the body member. The modules are arranged in two rows one behind the other with the male and female formations of modules in respective rows cooperating with those of the other row so that the modules in a row are offset from the modules in the other row by one-half the pitch of the needles on each module.

Abstract: A needle support assembly including a needle support member, such as a needle bar, a row of knitting needles arranged against the support member, and a spacer between each two successive needles. The spacers are independent of the needles and support member, and are of precisely equal thicknesses, so that each two successive needles in the row are spaced apart the same predetermined distance. As a result, the usual series of parallel slots in the needle bar, or other support member for the needles, can be eliminated. The needle support member may have a groove for accommodating a butt projecting laterally from each needle and spacer, or the support member may have a ridge or ridges over which a notch or notches in each needle and spacer fits. Thin plates extend across the groove or ridges at regularly spaced apart locations, and a predetermined number of needles and spacers fit between each two plates, the spacers abutting the plates being slightly thinner than the other spacers.