Abstract: Knitting machine with at least one needle bed in which knitting tools exhibiting feet are mounted for camming up and camming down, with at least one cam transportable past the feet and influencing the latter, which exhibits at least one cam-down part mounted movably but lockably and unlockably and adjustable as to its cam-down depth, and with a switching apparatus arranged outside the needle bed which exhibits means for unlocking, means for adjusting and means for locking the cam-down part, while the means for adjusting the cam-down depth exhibit an adjustable guide rail intended to slide the cam-down part and a switching device to adjust the guide rail according to pattern before the cam-down part rides up (FIGS. 1 and 6).

Abstract: Knitting machine with a needle bed in which knitting tools having projections are mounted for raising and lowering, with a cam unit which can be transported past the projections and which has at least one lowering cam acting on the projections of the knitting tools which is adjustable with regard to its lowering depth, on which a runner is movably fastened having a plurality of pathways interacting according to pattern with the runner during the carrying of the cam unit past the projections of the knitting tools for the adjustment of the lowering cam to a preselected lowering depth, and with a controller acting before each passage of the cam unit past the feet of the knitting tools for the shifting of the runner to the position required for the interaction with a selected pathway (FIG. 7).

Abstract: Knitting machine for performing knits having a beginning and an end, which has at least one needle bed in which knitting needles are mounted for extension and retraction, which has a plurality of thread carriers running successively along an endless path and having at least one thread inserter and one thread gripper, the thread carriers being transportable through a working section and through a return section for the return transport of the threads from the end of the knit to the beginning of the knit for the insertion of threads into select needles, and having furthermore at least one thread clipper for severing the threads after they have been worked by the last active needle each time and after they have been gripped in the corresponding thread gripper, and having a control apparatus suitable for varying the knit width for the opening or closing of the thread grippers for the purpose of the release or of the gripping of the thread ends produced by the clipping device and carried by the thread carriers in

Abstract: A thread guide system for feeding a plurality of threads to a plurality of thread carriers moving in tandem in an endless circuit.

Abstract: The clamping means, which has a clamping position and an open position for material in thread, ribbon or strip form, has an element which, in accordance with the invention, is resiliently bent double hairpin-wise in a first plane and has two arms of substantially equal length, the end of the first arm being bent double to a U shape in a second plane such that the gap between the two limbs of the U formed by this bend is smaller than the cross section of the portion of the free end of the second arm which cooperates with it, and the ends of the two arms being offset from one another parallel to the second plane such that, in the closed position, the free end of the second arm engages both limbs of the U in the area of the gap.

Abstract: An apparatus for feeding yarn, or the like vice yarn guides which travel on an endless O-shaped floating-mounted track to present the yarn, or the like to the instrumentalities of a textile machine.