Abstract: For a multi-feed knitting machine or hosiery machine, the system of selection of the needles is equipped, per each thread feed, with at least a stationary electromagnetic actuator, suitable for acting by magnetic attraction on wire springs incorporated inside selection sinkers inserted inside the slots under the needles and the needle pushers. An extraction cam extracts the selection sinkers and the needle pushers coupled with them from the slots, in order to bring the heels of the needle pushers to interfere with a lifting cam. A loading cam brings the springs of the sinkers into contact with the face of the actuator, wherein they are retained by magnetic force. A narrow area of the face of the actuator can be de-magnetized by impulses emitted by an electronic control system. If this area is demagnetized, the springs of the sinkers are taken by a blanking-out cam, which pushes the sinkers into their relevant slots and the heels of the needle pushers out from the field of action of the lifting cam.

Abstract: A shirt including an interior panel preventing the shirt from becoming open. A security cloth having opposite ends is fastened to the vertical seams of the shirt which extend downwardly from the arm holes. The security cloth includes top ends fastened to seams extending on the shirt from the uppermost portion of the arm holes to the neck opening. Fastening means in the middle of the security cloth allow the security cloth to be opened and closed when the shirt is put on and taken off.

Abstract: A hunting apron or vest which is comprised of a base material which is cut and fashioned into the general overall shape of the apron or vest, to which, over a substantial majority of the outer surface, is loosely attached a net-like mesh material. The purpose of the loosely attached mesh material is to form pockets into which game, food, equipment and other items can be carried while a hunter, or other user, wears the apron or vest.

Abstract: A garment has a collar/lapel which is produced by folding a part of the boundary area between a body piece and a flyback. A first expansible and contractible interfacing member is fitted to an area of the body which becomes the rear side of the collar/lapel when it is folded but no interfacing is fitted to the area of the flyback which becomes the front side of the collar/lapel when it is folded. A second expansible and contractible interfacing member is fitted to the area of the flyback which becomes a rear side of the collar when it is folded. A stitch by means of which the first expansible and contractible member is sewn to the body is provided in the proximity of the position where the first expansible and contractible interfacing member fitted to the body is folded as a collar.

Abstract: An individually controlled needle tufting machine having loopers with beaks pointing in the same direction as the backing material being fed through the machine so as to form loop pile has means for laterally shifting the backing material continuously first in one direction and then in the other. The method is disclosed utilizing this apparatus for forming zig-zag backstitches with selective needles by stitching during each cycle of the machine, while in other selective needles linear backstitches are formed by driving those needles during alternate cycles. Fabrics are produced utilizing this method wherein the loop density produced can be selectively chosen for various portions of the fabric so as to provide patterning effects. By foregoing the shifting of the backing material similar, but less pronounced patterning effects may be attained.

Abstract: A process and apparatus is disclosed for feeding weft threads to a warp knitting machine including longitudinal conveyors traveling towards the knitting instrumentalities. Weft thread rakes are arranged outside of the longitudinal conveyors and are movable between a starting position in which the weft threads are placed into the longitudinal conveyors and the rakes, and a racking position against the traveling direction of movement of the longitudinal conveyors. After reaching the racking position, the weft threads are transferred onto the longitudinal conveyors and the rakes are then returned to the starting position in the direction of travel of the longitudinal conveyors. The move of the rakes from the racking position to the starting position is effected by a temporary coupling connection of the rakes with the longitudinal conveyors. After transfer of the weft threads, this coupling connection is cancelled as the rakes reach the starting position.

Abstract: A knife holder apparatus for a cut pile tufting machine including a knife block fixed to a depending mast which is slidably mounted within a corresponding slot in the knife bar and a wedge clamp member adapted to clamp or lock the knife bar carrying a plurality of knives in an operative position relative to the knife bar in which the knives cooperatively engage their corresponding looper hooks. The knife holder apparatus supports the knives at their predetermined tension and pitch angles relative to the looper hooks and in a manner in which the knife holder module and knives may be easily and quickly removed and replaced.

Abstract: In the flat knitting machine the trailing cable (15) supplying electricity to the drivable machine carriage (10) is guided over at least one trailing cable holder (17) which is movable simultaneously with the carriage, the cable thus forming at least two cable loops. When the machine carriage (10) is on short stroke, these cable loops are prevented from swaying by a support arrangement having, at least between the cable end (21) at the carriage (10) and the cable holder (17), two linked guides (22, 23) whose total length is approximately the same as the length of the cable loop to be supported and with which the cable (15) is coupled at least one point (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A device for the offset control of the needle beds of a flat-bed knitting machine has a servomotor for the adjustment of one of the needle beds in relation to the other and has a position control circuit controlling the servomotor.

Abstract: A latch needle having an elongated spring element, one end thereof attached to the bottom of a recess in one portion of the slot, the other end of said spring element bearing on the extended end portion of the latch biasing the latch to a partially open position.

Abstract: A front yarn guide element (11) of the yarn stop motion (10) has the shape of a yarn guide eye (12) formed by a wire spiral into which a yarn can be introduced from the side and deflected to all sides without danger of slipping out. The yarn guide eye (12) is provided with a supporting part (17) located so as to be longitudinally movable in the housing (18) of the yarn stop motion (10), so that the spacing of the yarn guide eye (12) from the position (B) at which the yarn stop motion (10) is secured is adjustable.

Abstract: In a safety device, in particular for flat-bed knitting machines, with which, by means of a shutoff device, stoppage of the carriages associated with a drive apparatus of the machines in the event of a change in the power of the carriages as compared with applicable normal operation resulting from disruptions in removal of the goods, loop formation and yarn insertion, excessively high loop tightness specification or the like, is effected. A measuring device is provided for detecting a torque-proportional variable of the drive mechanism. Actual values of the torque-proportional variable are deliverable to a central processing unit and an adjustable comparator device, and the comparator device is provided by the central processing unit, with threshold values for this torque-proportional variable, serving as processed actual value for the torque-proportional variable. Finally, by means of the comparator device, the shutoff device is triggerable as soon as the applicable threshold value is exceeded.

Abstract: A tufting machine has a needle mounting construction including a multiplicity of needle support carriages, each carriage being slidably mounted in guides for controlled movement in a direction normal to the path of reciprocation of the tufting machine push rods. Pneumatic cylinders are operatively connected with each carriage to effect movement in accordance with a predetermined pattern. A pair of needle holders are mounted within each carriage, each holder supporting a needle. The holders have slots for coupling onto a detent reciprocating with the push rods. The carriage may be moved so that one or the other or neither needle holder is coupled to the reciprocating push rods. When a needle holder is coupled, the needle attached thereto reciprocates and may cooperate with a hook to form pile. Each needle of a pair may be threaded with different type yarn so that unique patterning affects may be obtained.

Abstract: The flat knitting machine has the thread-leading ducts (15) which envelop the threads conveyed to the thread guides (10) and which with their thread exit point on the side nearest the thread guide are adaptable to the changing distance between thread guides (10) and needle bed ends.

Abstract: A fabric draw-off arrangement for flat knitting machines has a driven fabric draw-off member consisting of a plurality of roller elements and pressure rollers of a fabric pressure member associated with the roller elements which are mounted on a common rocker shaft and are adjustably and resiliently pressable against the respective roller element. In order during knitting to achieve automatically adjustable reproducibly uniform knitting draw-off, the pressure rollers are together pivotable by motor means into variable end positions and are pivotable from these positions and the pressure force of each pressure roller is individually adjustable by motor means.

Abstract: In a flatbed knitting machine with electronic control and comprising programmable fixed-word stores and freely accessible stores, all the data for the operation of the machine is split into five divisions, namely motif pattern draft, needle set-up, knitting plan, function number schedule, and plan run. Data for the knitting of standard patterns, comprising the whole of the knitting plan division and part of the function number schedule division, is stored permanently in the fixed word stores. The stored data for the operation of the machine can be extracted and archived. Parts of the data of the divisions can be extracted to compose new patterns. Certain knitting courses can be suppressed and certain needle groups can be selected for adjustment without altering the already stored data. Information as to gauge can also be entered.

Abstract: In a flatbed knitting machine with electronic control and comprising programmable fixed-word stores and freely accessible stores, all the data for the operation of the machine is split into five divisions, namely motif pattern draft, needle set-up, knitting plan, function number schedule, and plan run. Data sub-groups from the needle set-up division, together with associated special function numbers for call-up, are stored in the fixed-word stores. Motif designs are created using the data stored in the divisions for needle set-up and plan run and by means of external selector switches on the machine. Facilities are provided for mirror-imaging and for suppression of part or all of a motif.

Abstract: A cam carriage for flat-bed knitting machines has at least one leading and trailing draw-down element, having a drive top plate and a bottom plate with a draw-down track located at opposite sides of a cam plate in which a draw-down element is placed movably between an alignment position and several casting-off positions in a guide slot, and the driven top plate is rigidly connected with a drive element at least in the direction of the draw-down position.

Abstract: An automatic and operator-unattended apparatus and method for forming a stitched coin pocket in a ply of material. A continuous length of material is provided to a folding station, which imparts a generally Z-shaped fold in the material by moving parallel plates along paths substantially parallel to each other, while the material is held by holding plates. A carriage with gripping fingers holds the fold in place while moving the length of material out to a predetermined length. A cutter cuts the material into a predetermined length. The carriage then pulls the ply of material through a sewing station where the fold is stitched. The carriage then places the sewn folded ply atop a stack of similarly formed articles by positively depositing same on the top of the stack. An improved stacking apparatus presents a substantially flat stacking surface for the article by allowing tilting of the stacking table to compensate for the increased thickness at one end of the ply due to the presence of the folded region.

Abstract: Novel spatial warp knitted structures are knitted on a double needle bar Raschel machine or a spatial warp knitting machine formed by modifying a double needle bar Raschel machine. A basic spatial warp knitted structure including two warp knitted fabrics facing each other, uniting threads uniting the two warp knitted fabrics, and insert warp threads and/or insert weft threads inserted between and in parallel to the two warp knitted fabrics so as to intersect the uniting threads or to be interlaced with the uniting threads.