Abstract: In a flat knitting machine, the segments (10.1,11.1), of any desired width, which make up the needle beds (10, 11), are designed to be used with needles of different gauges, i.e. are formed with a different needle separation, so that needles of different gauges are used in adjacent needle bed segments (10.1, 11.1). On a flat knitting machine comprising a carriage (14/15) which can be traversed across the needle beds (10, 11) and has several cam systems (14.1-14.4; 15.1-15.4), the individual cam systems can be allocated to needles of different gauges, while at least one of the several cam systems may differ from the others by a different form of loop-transfer control curve.

Abstract: A tufting machine is provided with separate motors which drive the main drive shaft, control the feed of the backing material and control the bedrail height. A computer is electrically connected to these motors and to the yarn feed controls. The software indicates patterns to be produced, informing the computer to control the number of stitches per inch of backing, the weight of face yarn per square yard, the pile height, the amount of yarn fed to the needles and the linear length of carpeting produced. The computer also dictates the schedule by which prescribed lengths of additional patterns are produced by the tufting machine and can control a number of such tufting machines. When the pile height is to be changed, the computer automatically controls the main motors for rocking the main shaft, to reciprocate the needles while controlling the yarn feed controls and the motor to the bedrail.

Abstract: A yarn feed mechanism for a multiple needle tufting machine in which a plurality of yarn feed stub rolls are mounted on transversely spaced supports on the machine in such a manner that the stub rolls project in opposite directions from opposite sides of each support and have free ends which are spaced apart from the free ends of adjacent feed rolls to facilitate threading and unthreading the feed rolls. Each yarn feed support carries a plurality of first and second vertically spaced feed rolls on opposite sides of the support and each pair of coaxially aligned feed rolls are driven from a corresponding drive shaft adapted to be driven selectively at a high speed or a low speed.

Abstract: An overcoat that can be converted into a bag includes a zip-fastener having one set of teeth arranged in correspondence to the shoulders of the overcoat and on the two side parts down to a mid-line of the overcoat itself, and the other set of teeth arranged in correspondence to the lower edge of the overcoat and on the two side parts, from the bottom towards top, to a mid-line of the overcoat, the zipper being so arranged as to realize, when it is closed, the containment of all fore parts of the overcoat. Fasteners are provided crosswise on the overcoat at a mid-line to delimit at least one pocket that may contain various items when the overcoat is transformed into a bag. A handle is arranged at a position close to said fasteners. Projecting parts on the end of the belt engage the belt loops to form a shoulder-belt.

Abstract: A tufting machine comprises parallel looper and knife mechanisms independently driven via variable-stroke eccentric mechanisms and timing belt transmission arranged at least at one end but generally both ends of the machine, the driven parts of said mechanisms being longitudinally spaced from a parallel-disposed vertically-adjustable jute or cloth bedplate whereby the central area of the machine between the drive parts of the mechanisms and the bedplate is substantially free from driving shafts and ancillary driving components to give the operator substantial accessibility for maintenance and replacement purposes.

Abstract: A tufting machine for forming loop pile and cut pile selectively in the same row of stitching has a controllably actuated latch carried by a reciprocating bar member for selectively coupling to and driving a needle carrier to a first position into cooperation with a loop seizing member beneath the backing material. The bar member and needle carrier have cooperating abutment members which engage when the latch is not actuated, and the abutment members act to drive the needle carrier not as far downwardly as when the latch is actuated, so that the needle is not driven downwardly as far as the first level and cooperates with the loop seizing member at the higher level. When the needle is driven to the lower level a loop of yarn from the needle is seized and retained by the loop seizing member and is subsequently cut, while at the higher level the loop is seized and then shed to form loop pile.

Abstract: A sleeve arrangement on garments, protective aprons or protective clothing having a whole and unbroken front piece entails the material for the sleeves being in one piece and joined along a substantially coherent, preferably continuous join extending around both shoulders and straight across the upper and lower portion of the chest, and the two adjacent material segments lying within the join definition being removed to produce one common aperture for both sleeves.A method of manufacturing the sleeves of garments, protective aprons or protective clothing having a whole and unbroken front piece comprises stitching, glueing or welding the coherent sleeve piece to the front piece of the garment, preferably in a single continuous operation, along a substantially coherent, preferably continuous join extending around both shoulders and across the upper and lower portion of the chest, and removing the two adjacent material segments lying within the join definition to produce one common aperture for both sleeves.

Abstract: A warp-knit tape for hook-and-loop fasteners comprises a pile portion and selvage portions extending on opposite longitudinal edges thereof, the pile portion being constructed with pile threads, foundation threads and laid-in weft threads. The pile threads are knitted into a continuous chain of pile loops each having a rise portion and a horizontally extending flat portion and linking in interlaced relation with adjacent loops.

Abstract: The quilting machine includes a cloth-holder cylinder supported rotatable about a horizontal axis and provided with means for fastening the cloth along a cylindrical path. Externally to the cloth, along a generatrix of the cylinder, there moves a sewing head the motion whereof is coordinated with that of the cylinder so that the sewing line follows a predetermined trajectory.

Abstract: In the thread-guide arm (11), the thread-guide members (15 to 17) arranged above the thread-guide pulley (12) are formed in a thread-guide star (20) which is arranged immediately in front of a thread-restraining plate (21) and is preferably made in one piece with the latter. The thread-restraining plate (21) has a smooth outer edge having no acute angles, and the exposed edges of the thread-guide star (20) are rounded or bevelled, so that no threads can catch on the thread-guide star and the thread-restraining plate.

Abstract: An improved golf glove used as a training aid having an adjustable strap that forms a loop for the thumb attached to back of the glove extending approximately forty-five degrees from a line taken through the middle finger of the glove, a second strap attached to the index and middle finger of the glove approximately midway between the tip of the finger and the base of the finger stalls forming a loop between the back of the inner portions of the index and middle fingers of the glove.

Abstract: A knitted fabric having improved electrical charge dissipation, absorption, stain resistance, anti-pilling and linting and tensile strength properties, constructed so as to form a conductive matrix capable of discharging an electrical charge along any direction of the course and wale of the fabric.

Abstract: A pile yarn feeding device in tufting machine comprising a plurality of rolls installed above and below the upper part of the tufting machine and rotated at a different speed to each other and some idler roll devices oppositely arranged against each of the rolls and having idler rolls advanced to and retracted from the rolls.

Abstract: A headphone cushion comprises two concentric rings of nonliquid gelatin-like silicone on a layer of soft, slow recovery foam enclosed in a thin stretchable layer of polyurethane skin.

Abstract: A fabric feed-on apparatus for a linking machine having a rotatable dial of points, the device including a fabric push-on device operable to push fabric onto and down the shanks of the points during rotation of the dial of points, and a fabric uncurling device movably mounted for movement between an operative position and an inoperative position, the uncurling device in said operative position being located adjacent to and upstream of the push-on device so as to be able to guide and uncurl fabric edges to the push-on device during rotation of the dial of points to thereby cause the fabric edges to be impaled on the points, the uncurling device in said inoperative position being located at a remote stowed location so as to provide clear access to the dial of points.

Abstract: A protective garment in the form of a suit comprising gloves, boots, hood and facial mask. The suit is provided on its back region with a vertically extending slit which can be tightly closed by a zipper. Inside the garment, two protective skirts are respectively fastened along opposite portions of the slit; these are mutually connected by auxiliary protective portions situated at the opposite ends of the slit. The protective skirts are provided with respective gripping handles adapted to bring them, together with the auxiliary portions, from a rest position in which they are enclosed within the garment, to an operative position in which they are reversed astride the corresponding edges of the slit.

Abstract: The device comprises drums, which are coaxial and supported by an axle, located below needle beds subjected to a constant torque acting with springs being provided inside the drums as a mechanical connection between them and the axle.Two pressure rollers for each drum are fitted to a number of arms mounted on a bar and holded in contact with the related drum, while electromagnets are provided to rotate one of the rollers by a predetermined amount in order to cause the related drum to be rotated in in synchrony with the formation of a corresponding portion of the last row of the fabric, that runs between the row of drums and related pairs of pressure rollers.

Abstract: A dry cleanable self-lined unfinished lustrous antique satin fabric having good hand, good crease resistance, and a woven look is provided. The fabric is a weft inserted warp knit (wiwk) fabric which has a multiple substrate, a single substrate with foam backing, or a single substrate with an additional sewn lining. The weft yarn is on the face of the substrate, and is a lustrous yarn such as rayon (as when producing non-washable draperies), or acrylic, bright polyester or acetate (as when producing washable draperies). The weft has a density equivalent to between about 36-52 single picks per inch, and at least part of the weft may comprise a novelty yarn. The warp yarn is stitching yarn, in a tricot stitch configuration. The warp yarn is a low-shrinkage filament yarn that is not fully oriented, and has a denier of between about 20-60, and an elongation of at least 15 percent. Non-woven inexpensive polyester substrate may be utilized; if a single layer is utilized it has a maximum weight of 2.

Abstract: A baseball catcher's mitt having front and back walls secured at the periphery of the mitt to form a mitt body. A back panel member is secured to the back wall of the mitt for substantially covering the back of the hand. The back panel member and body of the mitt having unconnected lower edge margins defining a hand opening at the bottom of the mitt through which the hand may be inserted up into the mitt between the back panel member and the back wall of the glove. A pair of laterally spaced slots extend up from the lower edge margin of the back panel member. These slots are expansible in width to enlarge the size of the hand opening and contractible in width to reduce the size of the hand opening. Independently operable quick-operating mechanisms are provided for adjusting the widths of the slots and for releasably maintaining the slots at their selected widths.

Abstract: A one piece patient garment (10) includes sleeves (12, 14), pants legs (16, 18), and a midriff section (20). The inside of the pants legs have longitudinal slits (22, 24) a short distance at the crotch (26) and material from a front section (28 or 30) of one pants leg extends upwardly to overlap material from a front section (28 or 30) of the other pants leg in front of the crotch and material from a rear section (32 or 34) of one of the pants legs extends upwardly to overlap material from a rear section (32 or 34) of the other pants leg at the back of the crotch. The overlapping material at the front of the crotch is sewn together along an approximately horizontal seam (36) above the crotch so that the material naturally overlaps. The material forming overlapping flaps (38, 40) at the back of the crotch has tie strings (42, 44) for wrapping about a patient with one of the tie strings (44) passing through a hole (54) in material at the midriff section, to pull the flaps together.