Abstract: An apparatus for securing and releasing an embroidery frame to a clamping rail comprises a connecting piece guide with a bore therethrough and a rod extending through the bore and extending along the clamping rail and guided in the bore for movement in the connecting piece guide bore. The rod carries a pressure piece which is movable with the rod. The clamping rail has a plurality of spaced apart embroidery frame pin receiving openings and embroidery frames are secured by inserting the pins of the frame into the openings. Each pin has a side with a cutout and each pin receiving opening has a fixed spacer plate adjacent the opening which carries a resilient holder which may be engaged in a cutout of the embroidery frame pin when it is inserted into the associated opening.

Abstract: In the tipping of neckties, that is to say the provision of a lining to the basic or face fabric at one or both ends, it is highly desirable that the seam by which the lining is attached to the face fabric should be set back from the edge of the tie on the reverse side thereof, but the technique as hitherto practiced has not given the desired neatness of the tie at the corners without the expenditure of considerable time and manual dexterity.The problem is mitigated by guiding the needle of a sewing machine to stitch the face and lining fabrics together along sets of first and second lines meeting at a corner and forming the face fabric into upwardly projecting pleats at the corner. Special means are provided to ensure that each pleat, which provides fullness in the face fabric, is not stitched down to the lining, and to avoid the stretching of the fabric while initially forming the pleats.

Abstract: This eye shield cap is formed of tubular knit stretchable open mesh fabric and includes a crown which snugly fits the head of the infant with a turned hem portion extending around the lower edge of the crown and adapted to extend behind the head and across the eyes of the infant. An elongate opaque fabric insert is positioned inside of the turned hem and extends across the area of the turned hem which covers the eyes and bridge of the nose of the infant. Lines of stitching extend along the turned hem and penetrate portions of the upper edge of the opaque fabric insert to retain the same in position. An upwardly curved bridge is formed in the medial portion of the lower edge of the elongate opaque fabric insert and is connected to the opaque fabric insert by additional stitching.

Abstract: In a knitting machine, electromagnetically controlled selector stations cooperate with sliding devices to enable them to assume two different positions. The sliding devices act in pairs on each needle of the knitting machine, and fixed vertical cams act on so-called two-arm levers to release them after selection, with the two-arm levers being retained or not by the sliding devices. Provision is made so that the two-arm levers can be oriented in four different positions. Each pair of sliding devices is composed of a first lower selector and a juxtaposed second lower selector, each of which can be moved into two different positions so as to produce the different four positions of the two-arm levers, in this way the needles may be controlled individually into tucking, out-of-action, standard knitting, and lengthened stitch knitting positions.

Abstract: A rotary scrubber-polisher base has a pair of vacuum liquid pickup attachment supporting mounts mounted from opposite side portions of the base and including laterally outwardly projecting mounting shanks for support of opposite side portions of the attachment therefrom. During periods of non-use of the attachment the latter is removed, but the mounting shanks therefor project outwardly from opposite sides of the scrubber-polisher base and thus prevent those opposite sides from moving into close proximity relative to stationary objects. The mounts are supported from the base in a manner such that they may be readily angularly displaced approximately 90.degree. relative to the base to thereby swing the mounting shanks fully inwardly of the opposite side peripheral portions of the base from which the mounts are supported.

Abstract: A workpiece holder for sewing the tip areas of neckties comprises a lower plate and a central folding device between which a lining cut and a necktie material cut are arranged. The center folding device has folding plates which can be displaced transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction and which, when moving together, draw in the material fullness in the necktie cut and gather it in a central fold. Lateral seams are sewn after the sewing of outer seams in the tip area of the cuts.

Abstract: A needle bar of a warp knitting machine, the needles of which comprise a needle shank bent at an angle, the bent portion of which is supported against a correspondingly shaped abutment on the needle bar. The bent portion bears against an end face of the needle bar with a face which extends substantially perpendicular to the direction of movement of the needle through the goods.

Abstract: A cam system for flat-bed knitting machines is provided with a needle cam unit which has at least one knitting cam and a transfer cam, integrated therein, for both carriage travel and transfer directions. The knitting cam has adjustable needle sinkers and a knitting cam/knitting element that projects the needles for knitting, and the transfer cam has at least one delivery transfer element and an associated receiving transfer element. The needles, which are supported in needle tracks of the needle beds, are controlled by intermediate jacks embodied as pressure elements, the pressure feet of which can be moved along various courses, which are located in the planes of pressure bars. In order to be able to perform combined loop formation and loop transfer in a single cam unit in a single operation, using a single needle, in such a cam system, the knitting cam/knitting element simultaneously embodies the receiving transfer element of the transfer cam.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel method and apparatus for making novel decorative fabrics wherein effect yarns are present on the fabric with the effect yarn being fed in a longitudinally compressed bulked condition imparting an expanded cross-sectional width to the effect yarn and wherein a stitching thread secures the effect yarn in the compressed bulked condition so that there is imparted to the fabric an appearance attendant to an effect yarn much larger than that actually present on the fabric.

Abstract: This invention relates to decorative fabrics wherein effect yarns are present on the fabric with the effect yarn being in a longitudinally compressed bulked condition imparting an expanded cross-sectional width to the effect yarn and wherein a stitching thread secures the effect yarn in the compressed bulked condition so that there is imparted to the fabric an appearance attendant to an effect yarn much larger than that actually present on the fabric. Related method and apparatus are also disclosed for forming such decorative fabrics.

Abstract: A double head flat knitting machine includes at least one front and one r needle bed (1,1) and two carriages (S1, S2) movable to-and-fro over the needle beds (1,1) by means of a drive (3). In order to be able to knit both normally and also oversize knitting on a single flat knitting machine with maximum effectiveness, only two needle beds (1,1) of double operative width are provided with a through-going needle space and with needles lowered into the needle beds (1,1), the drive for the carriages is a reversing drive (3) with a selectively-adjustable carriage stroke (SH) and the carriages (S1,S2) are detachably connectible with the reversing drive (3) in at least two positions.

Abstract: A flat-weft knitting machine for producing a weft-and-warp-knit fabric, e.g., a stitch knitting machine, employs a weft yarn insertion device, which moves backward and forward, for constantly guiding a continuous thread or yarn group. The insertion device transfers one weft yarn group of the yarn group to first and second weft yarn conveyor means. The weft yarn group is then separated from the insertion device and the yarn group. The weft yarn group thus has free ends at both ends and is then conveyed by the weft yarn conveyor means to a looping point, for connection with loop-forming warp yarns to form a fabric.

Abstract: Warp knit technology is applied to produce a multi-layered fabric using a four bar stitch construction with spandex yarn in the last guide bar with knit or laid in stitch.

Abstract: A needle bar of modular construction for use in a tufting machine wherein each of the modular units has a mounting bracket with a plurality of uniformly spaced apart tubes soldered thereto and each tube receives the shank of a tufting needle therein with fastener means penetrating the tubes for engaging and securing the tufting needles within the tubes.

Abstract: A plurality of compound needles 1 are arranged in corresponding needle tricks 20, their butts 11, 14 being selectively caused to sink into the needle tricks during the movement of a carriage. A stitch receiving course raising cam 41 which acts on the butts 14 of individual needle bodies at welt position (WC) is disposed on a cam plate 31 of the carriage and in a space defined between a pair of cam faces 32a of a tuck position raising cam 32 which act on the butts 14 of individual needle bodies. Above the cam 41 there are provided stitch receiving courses (REC) for the butts 14 which lead to a tucking course (TC) through the space 40, and a stitch transfer position raising cam 37 which acts on the butt 14 of each needle body raised to a tuck position or knit position.

Abstract: A plurality of compound needles 1 are arranged in corresponding needle tricks 20, their butts 11, 14 being selectively caused to sink into the needle tricks during the movement of a carriage. A stitch receiving course raising cam 41 which acts on the butts 14 of individual needle bodies at welt position (WC) is disposed on a cam plate 31 of the carriage and in a space defined between a pair of cam faces 32a of a tuck position raising cam 32 which act on the butts 14 of individual needle bodies. Above the cam 41 there are provided stitch receiving courses (REC).sub.1, (REC).sub.2 for the butts 14 which lead to a tucking course (TC) through the space 40, and a stitch transfer position raising cam 37 which acts on the butt 14 of each needle body raised to a tuck position or knit position.

Abstract: A knitting machine has at least one needle bed equipped with longitudinally displaceable needles controlled by a needle cam curve, and between the needles are protruding sinkers controlled by a sinker cam curve. The sinkers are movably supported in at least the longitudinal direction of the needles and being controlled such that at a given feed, after the locking in of the yarn, they are moved counter to the lowering movement of the associated needles and after casting off of the loop are moved counter to the needle raising movement. The needle and sinker cam curves have adjoining steadily curved arc portions that in the case of the needle cam curve are sinusoidal and merge steplessly with one another. To reduce noise and wear, especially at very high knitting speeds, the sinker cam curve is substantially sinusoidal, at least in the loop forming zone.

Abstract: The knitted clothing article has a nonfeltable base mesh layer. On the outside surface of said base mesh layer a yarn layer is knitted in a said base mesh and consisting of feltable textile fibres and forming loop pile meshes. Due to the interaction of the inner base mesh layer with the outer plush layer, a climatic zone is built up that, especially in sports clothing, hosiery and health clothing, assures a good moisture removal and an agreeable body temperature.

Abstract: A knitted waistband curl-preventing strip is disclosed in which the monofilament stiffener element is knitted into the strip as a part of the courses, but is not inlaid through the outer most lateral wales so that the monofilament stiffener does not extend from lateral edge to lateral edge of the strip. The waistband curl-preventing strip provides soft of flexible edges, and a larger turning radius for the monofilament stiffener which prevents breakage of the monofilament stiffener.

Abstract: A thermal insulating fabric is described. The fabric is a stitch-bonded, fibrous, nonwoven web of microfibers that average about 10 micrometers or less in diameter.