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: The circular knitting machine for socks, stockings or the like, in particular for producing knitting with towelling stitches, comprises, at the set of knitting-forming cams which actuate the motion of the needles during the engagement of the thread or threads at one feed of the machine, an additional cam. The additional cam is arranged above the central cam and defines a descending portion which is engageable with the heel of the needles, excluded from knitting at that feed and raised with respect to the needles which knit at that feed. The controlled lowering of the needles which do not knit at the feed facilitates the positioning of the thread or threads fed at the feed and the correct forming of the loops by the needles which knit at that feed.

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: 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: A fiber opening and cleaning machine includes an opening roll provided with inclined beater elements. Such beater elements have a wave shaped design and are considerably less in diameter than the relatively larger diameter beater rods customarily used in such machines. The advantage of the wave shaped beater elements lies in the grasping and spiral conveying of the fiber flocks fed into the machine.

Abstract: An attractive jacket design having removable and changable panels that has the overall effect of lowering the cost of sport jackets. With this invention, chest, shoulder and back panels on the jacket are easily removable and changeable in order to allow a user of the jacket to use one set of patches with the jacket for one purpose or event and to remove those patches from the jacket and put another set of patches on the jacket for another purpose or event, which permits the manufacture of a set of patches for various teams rather than a set of jackets, thus reducing overall manufcturing cost.

Abstract: A sleeve with the horizontal seam worn on the medial side of the elbow or knee and a vertical seam worn on the lateral side of the joint disclosed. Placing the seams on opposite sides of the sleeve prevents bunching of material on the medial side opposite the knee or elbow when the limb is bent. The vertical seam on the lateral side of the knee or elbow reduces irritation in the particularly sensitive areas on the medial side which would occur if the vertical seam were on the medial side of the limb. The elbow sleeve is made of a double laminate with an elastomeric material such as neoprene on the outside and a polymer material such as nylon on the inside. The outside surface on the elbow brace is patterned to produce a roughened textured surface so the ball may be carried in the crook of the arm without slippage. The knee brace is made of a triple laminate with elastomeric material such as neoprene sandwiched between two layers of nylon.

Abstract: A weather protective garment constructed to better protect an infant seated in a stroller from rain. The infant wears a poncho to which a cape has been attached in the back. The cape is sized to be drapable over the back of the stroller to keep rain from falling into the space between the infant and the back of the stroller, and then onto the stroller seat. This prevents water from pooling on the seat while, at the same time, maintaining the infant fully protected by the poncho.

Abstract: The portable sewing kit includes an elongated housing for holding a needle with a point at one end and an eyelet at the other end. A spool section is integrally connected to the housing and extends away from the housing. The spool section has a width which is smallest at the end connected to the housing and increases to reach a maximum at the end furthest from the housing. A button is integrally connected to the spool section and is coplanar with both the spool section and the housing. The button has a diameter which is substantially equal to the maximum width of the spool section.

Abstract: An improved warp knit having colored surfaces comprised of three or more colors can be made across the same wales. Threads having a color which is covered in one colored surface run as floats, and threads with a color forming the colored surface are placed in a pattern connecting the floats with one another. A fabric or twill pattern extends across at least a number of wales which is less by 1 than the number of colors. Accordingly adjacent floats consist of at least two differently colored threads.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pants belt of the "English belt" type sewn into the upper part of a pair of extensible pants. This belt comprises an elastic band (3) of which the inner face is covered with upper (6) and lower (7) sheaths, composed of bands of bias fabric obtained by weaving non-extensible threads and cutting on a bias. The lower lining (7) comprises a floating part (7a) which may be connected to the pocket sacks by attaching points (12). The belt of the invention combines high aesthetic qualities, inside and outside, permitting mounting it on high quality pants, with remarkable qualities of elasticity, remanence and tension.

Abstract: Protective body padding comprising a plurality of foam modules interconnected by a membrane. The foam modules and/or membrane have a plurality of perforations extending completely therethrough and a matrix of interconnecting air channels designed to provide breathability and cooling capacity to allow venting of heat and moisture from the skin. In a preferred embodiment, the foam in the modules is of a variable density, wherein the density of foam closest to the skin is less than the density of foam immediately above. For sports use, the modules can be positioned between the upper and lower resilient layers in a variety of positions to articulate with vulnerable body parts. Moreover, the foam can be colored or provided with an array of tradenames, trademarks and/or logos to enhance the aesthetic and fashion qualities thereof.

Abstract: A method and a machine for automatically handling a flat rectangular sheet, located in a bin, which ultimately grasps two adjacent corners, allowing the rest of the sheet to hang freely, making the sheets ready to be dried, pressed and folded. First, the sheet is grasped in an arbitrary location and dragged until the farthest corner is found. Second, this corner is grasped by a gripper, which is attached to a rail, allowing the sheet to be dragged and shaken until the diagonal corner is located. Third, this diagonal corner is grasped by a second gripper. Fourth, the two remaining corners are separated through the use of a separation guide. Fifth, one of these remaining corners is grasped by a third gripper. Sixth, the first gripper is released. Finally, the sheet is moved, through the use of the second and third gripper attached to independent rails which finally become parallel, to a location where the sheet can hang freely from the two grippers attached to adjacent corners.

Abstract: To produce pattern work and plain jersey, and comprising sets of selection levers for controlling needles which are to be lifted to a higher loop-clearing height and to a lower loop-retaining height, interacting with oscillating selectors, the machine comprises in combination: symmetrical lifting cams (20, 32); symmetrical lowering cams (441; 442; 443; 444) and corresponding counter cams (461; 462; 463; 464) defining two adjacent zones of maximum lowering; pushing cams (490) arranged between these two zones, to exclude the butts of the needles from the action of the secon zone of maximum lowering; symmetrically arranged pushing realignment cams (501A, 501B; 502A, 502B; 503A, 503B; 504A, 504B and 511A, 511B; 512A, 512B; 513A, 513B; 514A, 514B), to prepare all the butts in a row of butts of selectors for selection; partial-lowering cams (20C) to predispose for selection; and cams (701; 703) for the partial re-lifting of selectors of unlifted needles, and for their realignment with the selectors of needles previ

Abstract: An axis of a needle is inclined with respect to an imaginary plane perpendicular to an axis of a lower shaft. The lowermost position of the needle where it comes closest to a loop taker is spaced from the loop taker in the axial direction thereof in proportion to the degree of inclination of the axis of the needle. As a result, the length of a bobbin accommodated in the loop taker can be extended along the axis thereof, thereby permitting the amount of thread loaded on the bobbin to be increased. The amount of thread drawn by a needle thread take-up may remain the same and need not be changed.

Abstract: In threading an eyelet of a looper of a sewing machine, a slide member is displaced until a positioning portion of the slide member comes into contact with the looper. In this contact condition, a thread pushing projection for pushing a looper thread is displaced to penetrate into the eyelet of the looper so that the looper thread pushed by the thread pushing projection passes through the eyelet of the looper. The looper thread having passed through the eyelet is grasped by a grasping portion of the slide member. Thereafter, the thread pushing projection is retracted from the eyelet of the looper, and the slide member is returned to an original position, thus completing the threading operation.

Abstract: The invention concerns an improved method and apparatus for forming pile fabric where the pile loops are controlled during the knock-over action of the needles. The sinker ring mounted sinkers include separate pile and loop forming ledges. The base thread is fed into the throat of the sinker, and with the sinker positioned with their loop forming ledges between adjacent needle stems, the alternate raising different sets of needles to feeding positions and the subsequent retraction to a tuck on the latch position and the subsequent clearing of the pile threads from the loop forming ledges assures that in the knock-over action of the needles the pile loops remain under the control of the pile forming ledges.

Abstract: An adjustment mechanism for a button stitching machine includes a shaft rotatably mounted in a support block and having a threaded, forwardly extending portion and a rearwardly extending portion. The threaded forwardly extending portion threadedly engages a bore provided in a rear end of a rear tongue of the button stitching machine. Rotation of the shaft causes the rear tongue to advance and retreat accordingly. A potentiometer-type dial provides an inner scale graduated for indicating fractions of a turn and an outer scale which counts the number of turns.

Abstract: A brassiere construction has breast cups provided with a central diagonally extending panel that is stretchable in vertical directions, and which is non-stretchable in horizontal directions, thus to accommodate different volumes of breast tissue falling within a determined range of volumes.