Abstract: A stamped knitting tool for textile machines, particularly knitting machines, including a shank having at least one butt and at least one closed or open-edged free space or opening formed in the shank and filled with a heterogeneous material firmly bonded to the needle shank. The shank edges outlining the free space or opening are given an irregular profile with which the heterogeneous material is anchored in the shank in a form-locking manner. According to a preferred embodiment, the shank has two spaced solid guide portions extending between its upper and lower edges with one of the guide portions being disposed in alignment with and below the butt, and at least one narrow web portion having a maximum height of 1.1 mm connecting the two guide portions together so that the facing edges of the guide portions and an edge of the web portion or portions defines the opening in the shank.

Abstract: A sweater having windbreaking characteristics especially usable by active sportsmen such as golfers who must concentrate on their golf swing, is disclosed. The sweater is a relatively thin pullover type which has an outer layer and a layer adjacent the wearer's body of flexible, quiet, warm and soft material with a very thin windproofing layer sandwiched between the outer layer and body layer. Said windproofing layer is divided into five sections or parts: a torso and two lower arm sections which are loosely attached to the inner-facing surface of the outer layer and two upper arm sections loosely attached to the outer facing surface of the body layer in a manner that the windproofing layer does not make any noise, can be very thin because it is protected by the inner and outer layer, and does not restrict the freedom of movement of the wearer.

Abstract: A knitted covering for a core, e.g. of hose or electrical cable or the like, is constituted as a circular warp knit in which each of a single system of warp yarns jumps over at least one and less than all of the wales of the system in passing from course to course. A method of making the knitted core covering is also described.

Abstract: Disclosed is a latch needle for knitting machine to be readily assembled from a latch having a pair of transversely protruded pivots and plastically formed from a synthetic resin, as well as an extended needle body consisting of a shank portion. A hook portion is formed at one end thereof and a butt portion at the other end, in which said shank portion has a slot defined by opposite side walls, each having a hole for engagement with each of said pivots. A pair of slanted bottom walls receive said latch for angular movement, which is also plastically formed from the synthetic resin. Owing to slanted face formed on said pivots or said side walls, the latch may be pushed or stricken down in the slot with resiliently spreading the side walls.

Abstract: A protective tip for a garment frame has lateral extensions at the recesses in the tip provided for the reception of barbs of the frame, the lateral extensions providing continuations of the peripheral contour of the tip at the locations of the recesses in order to minimize snagging of the tip as it is inserted into a channel formed in a garment.

Abstract: A cloth draw-off roller for flat knitting machines has individual roller elements rotatably mounted on a draw-off shaft and intermediate rings arranged with axial play relative thereto between the roller elements, which intermediate rings are rigidly secured to the draw-off shaft and are resiliently connected to respect roller elements. In order to ensure mutually independent operation of the roller elements, means are provided which establish a minimum axial spacing between mutually facing surfaces of axially sequential intermediate rings, which spacing is larger than the axial spacing of the two faces of the respective roller element coming into contact with these surfaces.

Abstract: Device for the offset displacement between two end positions, at which its offset movement is reversed, of a warp knitting machine guide bar shifted horizontally by a guide bar shaft and holding the yarn guides. A buffer is provided for at least one of the end positions, said buffer acting as an elastic stop with a short buffering path with respect to the needle division before the yarn guides can run up against the knitting needles.

Abstract: A device for the determination of the position of leading or trailing draw-down elements which can be shifted to operated in opposite directions in flat-bed knitting machines has a single step motor for shifting the draw-down elements, a position sensor and a switching element movable in relation to each other and cooperating with each other, the switching element indicating a basic position of the two draw-down elements. So that in such a device besides the basis position of the two draw-down elements the shifted position, i.e. which of the two draw-down elements is in the draw-down position, can be machine-internally determined, a second switching element is provided, which is operationally connected with the position sensor, the second switching element and the position sensor being movable in relation to each other and the second switching element being synchronously movable with the first switching element.

Abstract: Data processing apparatus for a flat knitting machine having several cam systems usable in both travel directions and having needles or needle jacks disengageable from the cam tracks of the cam systems, contains an optimisation circuit (15) with at least one microprocessor, with which circuit is achieved, with the data available from several store areas (16-20), whatever is the optimal limitation of the carriage stroke and at the same time an adjustment and pre-adjustment of the yarn guides (24) corresponding thereto, via thread guide carriers.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine with a take-down system comprising a rotatable take-down roller and a counter-pressure member, between which the knitted fabric produced is clamped to draw it down during the production of the fabric, is improved in such a way that the take-down system functions faultlessly with fabrics which gradually increase in width as well as with fabrics which involve a rapid and considerable increase in the number of needles.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for aligning a fabric prior to securing the fabric in a hooping frame. The apparatus comprises a platform with a first hooping frame holding means disposed on the platform. The first hooping frame holding means provides for an aligned mounting of the hooping frame relative to a second hooping frame holding means of an embroidery machine.

Abstract: A device for the control of a flat-bed knitting machine for the positional determination at lift reversal of the carriage assembly driven by a reversible motor has a phase-shifted pulse generator device on the carriage assembly which can be moved back and forth and a stationary pulse generator board device in the area of the needle bed arrangement. With such a device a reproducible lift reversal can be performed in the area of the ends of the needle bed as well as at any desired location along the needle bed arrangement, the pulse generator board device has a pulse generator board extending along a needle bed of the needle bed arrangement.

Abstract: The control device comprises a switching valve acting on the pneumatic circuit for passing from a first tensioning phase to a second transport phase and vice versa, and a step motor operated by an electronic machine control member and operatively connected to the cutoff element of the switching valve. The step motor allows to perform, according to a preset program, the passage from the first phase to the second phase and vice versa, and to achieve, at least in the first phase, a choking of the flow which crosses the switching valve to adjust the tension to which the product is subject.

Abstract: A device for the control of a flat-bed knitting machine for needle selection and/or the determination of the position of the carriages on the needle beds is provided with a pulse generator device having magnetically controllable resistors in the form of double differential magnetoresistors and being fixed on a first machine element, and with a magnetically conductive pulse generator board device being fixed on a second machine element. The two machine elements are movable in relation to each other and the magnetoresistors generate separate and phase-shifted in respect to each other pulse sequences during the relative movement to the pulse generator board device.

Abstract: A nonwoven fabric comprises a layer of substantially nonbonded layer of textile-decitex fibers. The layer is multi-needle stitched with an elastic stitching thread which causes the fabric to contract to less than 40%, preferably to 30 to 20%, of its original area. The nonwoven fabric is particularly suited for use as a dust-cloth.

Abstract: A clothing article surrounds a wearer's upper torso. The article includes connected front and back portions, a collar, and sleeves. A pocket is formed in the back portion. The pocket has a closable opening which is spaced from the upper edge. A scarf is connected to the upper inner portion of the pocket. The pocket is shaped and dimensioned to neatly receive the scarf in folded condition when the wearer does not desire to use the scarf. The scarf is easily removable through the pocket opening so that it can be unfolded and worn around a wearer's neck.

Abstract: A mechanism selects and controls the raising and lowering of needles in circular and flat bed knitting machines having a plurality of adjacent needles. A rocking pusher is provided for each needle to move each needle back and forth between an outwardly projecting active position and an inward inactive position. Each rocking pusher is engaged with a corresponding cam when the needle is in the engaged position, and is disengaged from the cam in the inactive position. A deflector corresponds to each rocking pusher, and is engageable with a cam profile, which determines the movement of the deflector for its engagement with the rocking pusher. This moves the rocking pusher from the active position to the inactive position. A controllable retaining member engages the deflector to cause the engagement of the deflector with the cam profile. The retaining member is controlled by a control program member, which is controlled by a control program.

Abstract: A baby's night gown which includes a front piece, a back piece, and a left and a right belly band and which is characterized by having practical and useful advantages and benefits, such as, maintaining stable location and being ready to wear, etc. is disclosed.

Abstract: A method for knitting a flat knitted fabric, wherein all knitting needles of the flat knitting machine are individually connected to an actuator, and each actuator of the corresponding knitting needle is activated in accordance with the predetermined knitting plan, and a flat knitting machine for implementing the above-mentioned knitting method. Preferably a linear direct current motor is used as the actuator. The flat knitting machine in accordance with the present invention can be operated at a higher speed than known conventional knitting machines and can provide a novel flat knitted fabric which cannot be knitted by the conventional flat knitting machine, by individually changing a retracting length of a needle.

Abstract: An automatic flat knitting machine needle beds feature equidistantly spaced slots, perpendicular to the direction of travel of a carriage, inside each of which is inserted a needle and a sinker for selecting the latter, the needle featuring a butt that is mounted on it by means of a spring extension bent towards the inside of its related slot, so that the butt of the non-selected needle is not struck by the operational cams of the carriage, whereas the butt of the selected needle is struck by the operational cams of the carriage, due to the fact that the extension is bent towards the outside of the slot as a result of its having been struck by the upper head of the selection sinker.