Abstract: A needle selection device for circular knitting machines for women's stockings, including a pusher jacks associated with each of a plurality of needles of a needle cylinder, each pusher jack having two heels including an upper heel interacting, in a selection position, with a lower cam and a lower heel interacting, in a selection position, with a pressure cam, acting in a radial direction with respect to the cylinder, and with a raising cam. A horizontal collar is provided formed of non-magnetic material anchored around the needle, the collar defining a plurality of radial grooves. A plurality of horizontal elastic selector jacks are positioned in one of the radial grooves. A permanently magnetized ring is fastened below the collar, facing the selector jacks, spaced a distance from the selector jacks to retain said selector jacks only when said selector jacks are inclined downwardly.

Abstract: A fingerless mitten is provided for allowing all the fingers of a hand to reside within a single defined cavity to maximize the benefits of body heat and for allowing all the fingers of the hand to be easily freed from the defined cavity while the mitten remains on the hand. A sleeve of material has coaxially aligned open ends such that one's hand can enter a first open end of the sleeve and pass freely through a second open end of the sleeve. Flap means are provided in cooperation with longitudinal portions of the sleeve and a portion of the second open end of the sleeve, whereby the single defined cavity is formed.

Abstract: This invention is a hinged knee joint for the ice hockey goaltender's protective leg pads. It is comprised of wedge shaped openings located in the side walls of the pad. These openings are covered with a protective plate that is attached to tracks to keep the plate flat against the sides of the pad and cover the openings during all possible degrees of movement.

Abstract: The invention relates to the production of non-woven fabrics in which an array of weft threads is created and then combined with a substrate, which may in itself comprise a set of warp threads. In the method according to the invention, the array of weft threads is formed by traversing a weft carrier which has a plurality of weft guides, across the weftspace between two sets of weft retainers. At the end of each traverse, the weft carrier is jogged (that is to say moved in the warpwise direction), so that at the next traverse, it lays a further set of weft yarns across the weftspace, and the weft yarns are hooked around the weft retainers.

Abstract: A device for washing a ball cap in a dishwasher formed from a male top frame assembly and a female bottom frame assembly that nest together in a stacked formation. The front ends of the respective frame assemblies are pivotally secured to each other and there is structure for latching their rear ends together. There is a sufficient spacing between the respective frame assemblies when they are assembled together so that a ball cap placed between them is not wedged therein but free to move about. The ball cap device has been designed to be placed in a conventional dishwashing machine for washing a ball cap.

Abstract: A one-piece protective garment of the type affording barrier and thermal protection against hot and/or corrosive liquids. The garment includes a generally continuous outer shell of woven aramid fabric covered by a liquid impervious layer and a corresponding inner multilayer thermally insulating liner inside of the outer shell. The inner liner is fabricated from at least one layer of low density nonwoven fabric fastened to a woven fabric. An elongated leg inseam opening is provided on the underside of the torso portion of the liner fabric and which extends from the position of the wearer's crotch downwardly into and along the inside of each leg. The garment also has an underarm inseam opening under and partially around each arm of the liner extending upwardly from the position of the wearer's armpit along the front and back seam between the sleeve and the torso portion of the inner liner.

Abstract: A garment hanger including a body having a neck with a hook and a pair of shoulders having a plurality of apertures. An anti-slip insert including a plurality of raised portions corresponding to the number of apertures in the shoulders is inserted onto the garment hanger through the apertures. The construction prevents garments from slipping off of the hanger.

Abstract: A protective garment for shielding a wearer from snake bites upon the lower portion of the leg is disclosed. The garment is a legging made of woven fabric which will protect against snake bites even when the snake has fangs longer than the thickness of the material. The legging has two separate side edges extending all along its length and includes a strap, fabric fastener strips, and snap and socket fastener in order to provide adjustability, prevent gaps between the side edges, and minimize the risk that the fabric fasteners would become separated.

Abstract: An accessory item including a cap having a cut-out through which the wearer's hair may rearwardly extend. A decorative hair band is attached to the rear of the cap. In an alternate embodiment, a hair piece is attached to the hair band to simulate a natural braid or ponytail.

Abstract: A kneepad has a shell of soft rubber material with two sidewalls and a forward cup-shaped portion with respective inner sidewall surfaces, outer sidewall surfaces and upper edges. The sidewalls have a thickened portion with a slot. A padding of foamed rubber material extends over the entire inner surface area of the shell and is fixedly connected thereto by gluing. The padding has cutouts in the area of the slots, whereby these cutouts extend to the upper edges. A retaining strap penetrates the slots and forms loops to fasten the retaining strip to the kneepad. The inwardly oriented portion of the loops rests at the inner sidewall surfaces of the shell in the area of the cutouts and the outwardly oriented portions of the loops rest a the thickened portion of the sidewalls. The thickened portion extends outwardly and has a width which is approximately twice the wall thickness of the shell.

Abstract: The direct drive circular knitting machine has a main structure rotatably supporting a needle cylinder having a needle cylinder axis. An electric motor is provided for rotating the needle cylinder with respect to the main structure about the needle cylinder axis. The electric motor has a rotor rigidly and coaxially connected to the needle cylinder, and a stator located adjacent to the rotor and supported by the main structure.

Abstract: A bobbin comprises a hollow hub adapted to cooperate with a latch and post on a bobbin casing housed in a sewing machine. The latch and post enter the hub and guide the bobbin into place in the sewing machine. Thread previously wound around the hub is adapted for paying out for use in the sewing machine. Before the bobbin is inserted for use in the sewing machine, a membrane is placed across the hub at one axial end to seal that end and form a reservoir within the hub, and a lubricant such as sewing machine oil is added to the reservoir. Another membrane is placed across the hub at the other axial end of the hub to seal that end and completely seal the oil within the reservoir. When the bobbin is inserted into the bobbin casing, the latch punctures both membranes, the post guides the bobbin so that it is properly seated within the bobbin casing, and the sewing machine oil contained in the reservoir drains out and lubricates the sewing machine.

Abstract: The tubular knit product with a pocket and a method for forming the pocket using reciprocating motion in tubular knit hosiery manufacturing. The method uses a circular knitting machine fed by a plurality of yarn feeds which all participate in the formation of the pocket by a reciprocating motion. During the reciprocating motion, part rows of stitches from yarns of the various feeds are formed in a sequence on a course. For the next preceding opposite course, the part rows of stitches from the yarns of the various feeds are formed in a sequence which is opposite. For each subsequent course, the sequence is opposite to the preceding course, and the course direction is opposite (reversed). On each successive reversed course, the yarns of the various feeds form rows which progressively decrease in a first part of the construction of the pocket and progressively increase in a second part of the construction of the pocket.

Abstract: A golf glove has a glove body including a back member and a palm member, and a binding band. The binding band has a wide base portion for preventing the back of the hand inserted in the glove from bending backward, an intermediate portion for preventing the thumb from bending backward contiguous with the base portion, and a narrow end portion continuous with intermediate portion for preventing the thumb from bending. A pair of detachable surface fasteners are secured to the back of the base portion and to the back member. Another pair of detachable surface fasteners are secured to the back of the end portion and to the palm member.

Abstract: A flexible cable support is provided in a flat knitting machine for supporting power supply cables. The flat knitting machine comprises a carriage that reciprocates along a needle bed. The flexible cable support and the power supply cables are connected at one end to a terminal unit on the needle bed at a position representing approximately the middle of the travel path of the carriage. The other end is connected to the reciprocating carriage. The flexible cable support is composed of a series of joint sections pivotally connected to each other forming a continuous flexible support so that, as the carriage reciprocates, the cables supported on the flexible support are allowed to freely bend and move with the carriage.

Abstract: A protective eyewear assembly includes a protective eyeglasses portion including a protective lense portion and a frame portion, a corrective lense assembly including a corrective lense frame, a pair of corrective lenses in the corrective lense frame, a nose pad assembly on the corrective lense frame, and a clip assembly for releaseably securing the corrective lense assembly on the protective eyeglasses portion. The clip assembly preferably includes a clip portion on the protective eyeglasses portion and a tongue portion on the corrective lense frame which is releaseably securable in the clip portion for securing the corrective lense assembly to the protective eyeglasses portion.

Abstract: In an air intake device in a helmet, an air introducing unit is comprised of a base plate, a cover, and a shutter contained in a shutter chamber defined between the base plate and cover, and the base plate is detachably secured to a mounting plate within a cap body at a point facing to an inlet hole in the cover. If an air intake device mounted to the cap body to ventilate the inside of the cap body becomes dirty due to the entering of dusts, muds or the like the shutter and the like of the air intake device can be removed and readily cleaned by washing with water or the like.

Abstract: An adjustable children's garment is provided that utilizes hook and loop type connections for adjustments. There is also provided an adjustable connection for garments that includes three flaps. The second flap may be adjustably or removably connected to the first flap and a third, cover flap may be connected over the first and second flap to protect the hook and loop connection. The three flap a arrangement provides for a more secure fastener.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating a fiber bale having a soiled surface. The apparatus includes a cleaning device arranged for engaging a bale surface to remove soiled material therefrom and a displacing arrangement for effecting a relative motion between the fiber bale and the cleaning device.

Abstract: A garment having the combined appearance of a brassiere and a camisole is provided with a camisole top, the brassiere function of the garment being provided by non-stretchable shoulder straps that extend across the interior of the breast cups, and, which are securely connected with the brassiere frames, the shoulder straps extending on a diagonal of the breast cups, portions of the breast cups being reinforced to provide for the support of the weight of the breast.