Abstract: There is provided a warp knitting machine with a weft thread arrangement M having two jacquard guide bars 11 and 12. These are subject to shogging in the sense of a tricot stitch. In substantially each working cycle, a portion of the guides 13 of first jacquard guide bar 11 are displaced in the sense of a pillar stitch. The selection of the so displaced guides alters itself, but periodically. Thus certain needles 7 remain unlaid by warp threads of the first guide bar 11. The guides bar 14 of the second jacquard guide bar 11 lay warp threads around the said needle 11 left free by the warp threads of guide bars 11 while laying thread around other needles 7. This permits the provision of a patterned fabric which is exceedingly stable two-dimension.

Abstract: A guidebar shogging linkage arrangement for warp knitting machines includes a pair of shogging guides, each having slider bars movable in a longitudinal direction pivotably connected to a common keying element by means of a pair of elongated levers. A shogging lever has its position determined alternately by the position of the first slider bar and then the second slider bar which position is programmed into the shogging guide by means of a predetermined program fed to a jacquard mechanism. The shogging lever is capable of moving the guidebar in fixed increments parallel to the needle bar. The shogging lever also includes a means for adjusting the amount of incremental shogging distance for the same incremental setting of the guide apparatus. A compensating drive means may also be coupled to the shogging lever to compensate for arcuate movements of the shogging lever.