Abstract: In a textile machine including needles for forming a plurality of warp yarns into stitches and a guide bar for guiding the warp yarns to the needles, the guide bar is constructed to lay warp yarns in patterns without moving the entire guide bar by providing the guide bar with at least one guide block movable relative to a fixed point on the guide bar. Each of the guide blocks includes a respective guide for one or more warp yarns. At least one guide block is connected in a chain configuration to at least one distance altering element, and the distance altering element is controlled to variably alter the distance between the guide block and the fixed point.

Abstract: A platform, which has an elongate handle fixed thereto, has a pivotable limb coupled thereto to move an end of the limb away from, and into clamping engagement with the platform. An actuator is slidably secured to the platform by a trackway, and it has one end of a link captive in a diagonal slot formed in traverse of the actuator. The other end of the link penetrates the platform and is pivotably coupled to the limb. Slidable translation of the actuator along the platform causes the limb to pivot, to open a space between the platform and the limb, in which to insert an end or edge of a garment, and translation of the actuator in an opposite direction causes the limb to close toward the platform to clamp the garment securely thereto.

Abstract: The headband of the present invention is useful for bridal veils, tiaras, and other head pieces. The headband includes a plurality of securement loops adapted to receive a bobby pin or bobby pin for securing the headband to a person's hair. The loops are provided on the front and lateral sides of the headband so as to be concealed from view, and so as to stabilize and prevent movement of the head piece.

Abstract: The windsheet optical device for protective eye and facial wear on the head of a human user comprises a transparent flexible sheet including left, middle, and right integral sections of sufficient length to cover the front and at least part of the sides of a human face. The sheet has a plurality of vertically spaced slots adjacent to the outer edge of each of the left and right sections axially aligned across from each other and a nose notch extending upwardly from the bottom edge of the middle section dimensioned to seat upon the bridge of a human nose. A pair of buttons are provided at opposite ends of a resilient band and are dimensioned for releasable engagement in a pair of the vertically spaced slots.

Abstract: A pneumatic cushion or bolster adapted to function as a bumper for boats, as protective packaging and as pneumatic elements included in wearing apparel. The bolster is composed of a non-stretchable fabric casing shaped to define, when fully expanded, a bolster in a configuration appropriate to its intended use, the casing having a small, closable port therein. Inserted through the port in its unexpanded state is a rubber balloon whose stem initially projects out from the port to permit mouth inflation of the balloon to an extent causing it to engage and conform to the inner surface of the casing. The stem is then tied and pushed within the casing, after which the port is closed, thereby fully encasing the balloon to provide a bolster having pneumatic properties.

Abstract: In a flat knitting machine with adjustable sinkers (33), these sinkers are in each case arranged between a needle (43) and a fixed loop-forming web (31) of a needle bed (42) and designed in such a way that they can cooperate with the loop-forming webs (31) forming a draw edge when newly-formed loops are knocked over.

Abstract: A goggle including a unitary lens mountable about the head of a user is shown. A lens of the goggle is mounted in a frame. The lens has no nose opening and projects from near the forehead to the tip of the nose of the user. The frame of the goggle has a lower half which projects forwardly and has a nose opening in a horizontal plane to fit about the nose. Second or bottom lenses positioned in the lower half of the frame allow downward vision of the user.

Abstract: An athletic garment with an outer shell which is lightweight, waterproof, and porous having a "piston and cylinder" cuff arrangement to insure unrestricted movement of the arms of the wearer. A resilient insert which serves as a return mechanism is sewn between the shell and a tubing wristlet. A non-resilient gusset serves as a cylinder cuff stop mechanism. The insert and gusset cooperate to furnish the wearer with an extra five to six inches of cuff extension without having the sleeve ride-up the arm of the wearer.

Abstract: A non-scaling electric steam iron has a heating sole plate (1), a steam chamber (3), a water reservoir (5), a feed device (6) for supplying water to the steam chamber, and a demineralizing cartridge (7) placed in the water circuit which connects the reservoir (5) to the steam chamber (3). The demineralizing cartridge (7) is placed in a removable manner between the primary plain-water reservoir (5) and a secondary demineralized-water reservoir (25) which communicates with the water feed device (6). The cartridge (7) communicates with the Primary reservoir (5) and the secondary reservoir (25) by the use of valves (27a,27b) which prevent any outflow of water when the cartridge is removed from the iron.

Abstract: An insulated glove that has an increased area heat pocket and reduced length long finger portions. Each long finger portion is adapted to loosely fit each finger and thereby allow heated air to flow from the heat pocket outwardly to the fingertips. In the preferred embodiment, an oversized outer glove shell is used to enable the loose fit of the long finger portions.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine having knitting needles actuated by pattern bars, electromagnetic selectors for adjusting the knitting needles into various operating positions, mechanical controls cooperating with the electromagnetic selectors, selector elements biased by springs and slidingly displaceable in the pattern bars as well as first and second control cams for pivoting the pattern bars. Only one single, spring-biased selector element is mounted for displacement in each pattern bar. The electromagnetic selectors have individually controllable magnetic poles which are arranged one behind the other in the direction of rotation of the needle cylinder.

Abstract: An ear seal for use with an earcup of a headset. The ear seal includes at least one ring of noise attenuating material, the material being a mixture of a dilatant silicone compound and a silicone fluid. A sheath is provided to enclose the ring of noise attenuating material. A ring of soft compliant material may also be used adjacent the ring of noise attenuating material for added comfort to the user. A sheath may be provided to enclose both the ring of soft compliant material and the ring of noise attenuating material.

Abstract: A jean jacket is developed by maximizing use of selected seamed components from three pairs of jean-type pants with minimized cutting and alteration. A first component forming the rear and side panels and shoulders of the jacket is made from a first pair of jeans. The collar, sleeves and top front panels are made from a second pair of jeans patterned and sewn to the first component and the front chest and waist portion with existing belt band and front pockets is made from a third pair of jeans sewn to the top front and side panels.

Abstract: A cloak-like garment having artificial sleeves and hands provided thereon so that when the garment is worn by a person having his arms and hands inside the garment there is an illusion of a person wearing a conventional sleeved garment with his arms and hands outside the body of the garment.

Abstract: A shoulder guard for placement on a garment hanger so as to lie between the garment hanger and a garment to be hung on the garment hanger includes a sheet manufactured, assembled and folded at the manufacturing site into a flat, collapsed condition and readily unfolded in the field into an erected condition for placement on the garment hanger, without the necessity for any additional assembly operation, to provide an appropriate and improved contour for the support of the garment on the garment hanger, the sheet including first and second legs folded into a generally deep V-shaped configuration, where the legs make an acute angle to one another in a flattened collapsed condition, and unfolded into an erected condition where the legs form a relatively shallow V-shaped configuration in which the legs make an obtuse angle to one another, are aligned longitudinally in the same plane for placement over the garment hanger, and are contoured to provide the appropriate support for the garment.

Abstract: A device for use in the process of embroidering fabric which has a generally rectangular appearance and is comprised principally of two elements, a bottom or base section and a corresponding and coincidentally alignable top section. Applied to the mating surfaces of each section are means to magnetically affix and secure the two sections together to ensure that the material held tightly in between provides a taut and flat surface suitable for embroidering. The device of the present invention also allows for the proper adjustment of the portions of the fabric overhanging the borders of the frame and is instrumental in avoiding the potential for distortion and the indelible marks that would otherwise appear on the fabric as a result of the embroidery operation.

Abstract: Sewing machine with an upper feed mechanism is provided with a stroke-adjusting system in which the drive connection between the upper feed foot and the presser foot has a three-position control device for automatic adjustment of the height position of the upper feed system. This is preferably a hydraulic control device, whose hydraulic cylinder is subdivided by its adjusting piston into two chambers. A hydraulic difference measuring unit is provided wherein the two chambers 82a, 82b of the hydraulic cylinder 59 are connected via two antiparallel-connected pressure relief valves 71, 71'. Each pressure relief valve 71, 71' preferably consists of a spring-tensioned check valve R and a pressure-limiting valve D arranged downstream of it.

Abstract: A knitting machine has at least one bed with a plurality of lands forming tricks for supporting knitting implements, and a cam arrangement for controlling the knitting implements and including a cam plate, at least one carrier mounted to the cam plate at a fixed spacing from the bed, at least one cam portion and a mounting element for non-rotatably mounting the cam portion to the carrier. The mounting element is disposed on the carrier and consists of a sliding guide for loosely and displaceably mounting to cam portion to the carrier with a sliding fit and without the use of fixing element.

Abstract: A bonding substance curing only very slowly or not at all in air is applied directly or indirectly to the outside of the palm surface of a glove, in particular a goalie glove. The bonding substance may be coated (directly). However preferably the application shall be indirect in that the bonding substance is admixed to a latex-foam layer fully or partly covering the outside of the palm surface of the glove material.A sports glove, in particular a goalie glove so treated with a bonding substance, is characterized by high adhesion that otherwise cannot be achieved even approximately by mere coating with conventional latex foam. Catching and retaining objects, in particular those with rounded, smooth surfaces such as soccer or hand balls, can be signficantly improved as a result.

Abstract: A jet type helmet including a cap body and a shield plate supported on the cap body at opposite sidewalls for opening and closing a window. An air intake is provided in a front wall of the cap body above the window for introducing air from a forward direction into the cap body when the shield plate is at its closed position in which the shield plate covers the window. The helmet further includes a diffuser disposed at an edge portion of the window to be communicated with the air intake hole and directing its opening toward an inner surface of the shield plate when in a closed position. Even when a wearer of the helmet is in a stooped position at the time of travelling, a cloud on the inner surface of the shield plate can be eliminated by introducing an air flow.