Abstract: A computer-controlled ground mesh jacquard knitting machine. The machine includes a set of yarn feeders supported on the machine base, a set of needles mounted on a needle cylinder, a set of first needle jacks respectively coupled to the needles, a set of second needle jacks respectively coupled to the first needle jacks, a lifting cam device controlled to lift the needles and the first needle jacks. The lifting cam device includes needle lifting guide blocks and flat guide blocks and needle descending guide blocks respectively arranged in an outertrack thereof, and the needle lifting guide blocks are arranged in an inner track thereof, and a needle selector is mounted below the lifting cam device, wherein the needle selector is controlled to selectively drive the second needle jacks when the needles and the first needle jacks are moved by the lifting device causing the needles to achieve a ground mesh jacquard knitting operation.

Abstract: A machine for producing stitch bonded fabrics comprising means for supplying a layer of warp threads, means for continuously supplying a weft thread, means for supplying a plurality of stitching threads and means for stitching the warp layer and weft thread together with said stitching threads, the improvement being that the means for supplying and laying the weft thread consists of a pair of closely spaced plates, means for forwarding an individual thread towards the plates and means for imparting an oscillatory motion to the forwarded thread before it passes between the plates.

Abstract: Knitted underwear, such as panties, panty hose, leotard and the like formed with a terry patch simultaneously knitted with the fabric at the crotch or other areas. The garment is made on a circular seamless hosiery knitting machine. The resulting tube is tailored for the leg openings, then sewn to form the garment. Shaping of the terry patch is effected by using the usual needle selecting device, normally employed for heel patch reinforcement and modified with suitable cams. The machine is modified to use new dial elements, a new throat plate and a new manner of feeding the loop forming yarn and the base yarn above and below the plane of the dial elements respectively. The machine is operated in a new way and can also produce knitted fabric with eyelet pattern.

Abstract: Fine gauge knitting machines utilized in the production of hosiery and comprising needle cylinders three and three-quarter to four inches in diameter and carrying 300 to 469 needles are modified for the production of outerwear garments and the like knitted with relatively large loose loops by replacing the sinker caps thereof by sinker caps which are 0.060 to 0.100 of an inch less in interior diameter than those used in such machines for the production of hosiery, and replacing the sinker throw-in cam and the sinker throw-out cam by cams which differ from those used in the machine for the production of hosiery to use this additional space for sinker movement, by replacing the sinkers by sinkers having bottom legs 0.030 to 0.075 of an inch shorter than those used in corresponding conventional machines for the production of hosiery, and by replacing a stitch cam or cams by those which are 0.038 to 0.