Abstract: A knitting machine in accordance with the invention includes a thread guide that is associated with a runner. The runner is disposed to hold open the latches of driven out needles of a first group while the needles of a second group are being driven out. Due to the time-staggered driving-out of the latch-type needles and of a first group and a second group, and due to the alternating arrangement of the needles of the first group and the second group, a rising of the knit fabric while the needles are being driven out is prevented without the assistance of holding-down/knock-over sinkers. Inasmuch as a runner that is separate from the thread guide is used for holding open the latches, the position of said runner can be optimally adjusted independent of the position of the thread guide.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine is described which has a needle cylinder (1), at least one cylinder cam segment (6), a dial arrangement (9) having a dial (10) and at least one dial cam segment (11), an axis of rotation (7), which is coaxial with the needle cylinder (1) and the dial arrangement (10), and at least one thread guide element (25) intended to guide a thread (20). The cylinder cam segment (6) together with the thread guide element (25), and the dial cam segment (11) are rotatable about the rotational axis (7) relative to one another. The needle cylinder (1), and the dial arrangement (9) together with the thread guide (25) are moreover disposed displaceable relative to one another and parallel to the rotational axis (7). According to the invention, the thread guide element (25) is mounted moveable on the cylinder cam segment (6) (FIG. 2).

Abstract: A yarn feeder for circular knitting machines includes a jutting section located on a yarn feeding section of the yarn feeder. The jutting section has a yarn directing surface to allow the yarn to either slide over the surface without forming floss, or to retain the floss on the jutting section. Thereby, the yarn maybe fed smoothly and effectively above the knitting needle without rupturing to allow the knitting needle to raise and pick up the yarn as the knitting operation proceeds.

Abstract: A yarn guiding device for a knitting machine to guide a yarn unreeled from a creel located above the knitting machine before feeding the yarn to a knitting needle. The device includes a rectangular main body including a supporting member with a slot and connecting holes, and a yarn guiding member with a U-shaped recess for connection to the supporting member and yarn paths. A bracket joins the main body through a connecting member to allow the main body to pivot forward and is disposed in the knitting section of the knitting machine. The yarn guiding member is molded from 80 to 95 by volume of zirconium oxide and 5 to 20 by volume of yttrium oxide.

Abstract: A yarn carrier designed to minimize needle wear yet which is relatively easy to thread is described. The yarn carrier includes a yarn guide having an aperture for receiving a yarn and directing it to the needles of a knitting machine, and a flexible, nonmetallic guard plate secured to the guide such that at least a portion of the guard plate overlies at least a portion of the aperture in the guide plate, to reduce the tendency for the hooks of the knitting needles to enter the aperture. The guard plate is desirably made from a polymeric material such as polyurethane, and preferably has a Shore A hardness of about 50-70. The guard plate is desirably deformable so that an operator can readily bend it outwardly from the yarn guide while threading a yarn through the yarn guide aperture, yet when the bending force is released, the guard plate readily resumes its initial undeformed configuration.

Abstract: An impact protection device for a rod for positioning thread guides in a circular knitting machine. The thread guide has an approach and spacing unit formed of a rod and crank system. The end of the rod carries the thread guide and an intermediate region of the rod has a longitudinal slot which is slidably guided on a stud that is rigidly coupled to a fixed arm. The device has a compression spring mounted on the stud which presses the rod against the arm. Elastic elements mounted on a rod articulation pivot pus the rod against the crank. The spring and elastic elements allow small movements of the rod from the plane of arrangement of the path of the rod in case of impact with, or scraping against, another rod.

Abstract: A yarn carrier for a circular knitting machine has a swing member swingably attached to a support member and a spring between the swing member and the support member so that if an accidentally closed latch of a latch needle accidentally hits the swing member, such as may occur during unintended stopping of the machine, the swing member is pushed rearward, away from the latch needles, to effectively cushion the contact pressure and protect the latch needle from suffering physical damage. The swing member may also have two depressions, one to provide clearance for the latch needles when moving relative the swing member in a generally vertical direction as the thread is engaged, and one to provide clearance for the latch needles when moving in a generally horizontal direction, after the thread has been engaged and the latch needle is moving away from the support member.

Abstract: The invention relates to a yarn feed arrangement with at least one yarn guide (12) for a circular knitting machine comprising a needle cylinder (1), knitting implements (3) which are mounted movably therein and which have hooks (5) for receiving a yarn (4) fed thereto by the yarn guide, and a cam (7) which acts on the knitting implements in such a way that the hooks are guided on a track which has an extension section, a retraction section and a maximum disposed therebetween. The yarn guide has a through opening (14) for guiding the yarn and a guide surface (28) which is intended for guiding the yarn and which is disposed on its front side (21). In that arrangement the guide surface (28) is provided on an extension portion (26) which is disposed at the underside of the yarn guide (12) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved knitting machine, either with latch needles or with compound needles, in which for each feeding station a thread guide is provided which is placed at a certain distance above the rising zone of the needles and is fitted with a horizontal supporting cam preventing the thread from fluttering while it is fed. The sinkers of the machine are fitted with an additional bearing surface designed to support the thread as it is fed by the thread guide till it is picked up by the needles on their down path immediately after their upward motion.

Abstract: The needle latch cushioning member is formed of resilient material and includes an elongate body portion with a free end portion. The elongate body portion is supported in a groove on a yarn feed finger so that the free end portion is positioned to be engaged by and interrupt the swinging movement of the latches of the needles to the closed position as the needles are lowered to stitch loop forming position. The engagement of the latches of the needles with the free end portion of the resilient cushioning member serves to reduce the impact force of the latches against the hooks of the needles and thereby increases the wear life of the needles, without interfering with the feeding of the yarn into the hooks of the needles. When properly positioned, the free end of the resilient cushioning member can be used to guide the yarn into the hooks of the needles.

Abstract: A yarn feeding and guide device for knitting machines has at least one yarn feeder, which delivers the yarn arriving from a yarn package and being supplied as needed at a predetermined tension by a yarn delivery unit or fournisseur to the needles of a row of needles. The yarn feeder is disposed in a stationary manner on the machine such that it does not contact the needles of the needle row, and yarn guide elements located in the path of the yarn are associated with it.

Abstract: A thread guide has a front edge that is inclined relative to the running direction of the needles, a first thread guide hole for a thin back thread and a second thread guide hole for a thick pattern thread. The needles are movable along a knitting curve which has a first partial zone which lies in front of the front edge of the thread guide, which includes the needle latch opening zone, and a second partial zone which lies behind the thread guide. A knitting position adjoins the knitting curve. For a thin back thread, a first withdrawal curve follows the knitting position, a thread insertion position follows the first withdrawal curve, and a third withdrawal curve follows the thread insertion position and extends to a knocking-over position disposed beneath the knocking-over edge. For a thick pattern thread, a second withdrawal curve extends from a thread reception position at a greater angle to the knocking-over edge than the third withdrawal curve.

Abstract: Two-piece yarn carrier for feeding yarn to the circle of cylinder latch needles of multi-feed circular knitting machines, the carriers comprising a yarn guide having a yarn feeding aperture therein and a guard plate secured to the yarn guide, the guard plate overlapping the yarn guide and being interposed between the yarn guide and the circle of needles. The guard plate overlaps and covers the exit end of the yarn feeding aperture to keep needle hooks and latches out of the yarn feeding aperture. The guard plate also returns prematurely closing latches of needles back to their opened position.

Abstract: The invention relates to circular weft knitting and according to the method described, those stitches which are formed between a cylinder needle and a dial needle are formed around a guide member which lies in the angle between the verges of the cylinder and the dial, these stitches sliding off one end of the guide member. The guide member lies in at least that region of the machine where the needles begin to lift, and preferably extends beyond the position at which the needles slip the loops so that the stitches formed between the cylinder needles and the dial needles are completely formed over the guide member.The invention is particularly useful for controlling the insertion of a lay-in effect yarn, since the guide member provides a containing effect which restricts movement of the lay-in yarn out of the mouth between the stitches already formed on the cylinder needles, and those about to be formed on the dial needles. It is possible to use lay-in yarns of large diameter.

Abstract: A tubular knit fabric article having a two ply end portion that is confined to a reduced tubular size at the outer end thereof by an auxiliary yarn disposed between the plies in an unknit constricting loop and with the ends of the auxiliary yarn knit in the fabric of the plies. The constricting loop is formed by feeding the auxiliary yarn to the needle circle of a circular knitting machine during the knitting of a welt-like portion using an auxiliary yarn feeding attachment that first feeds the auxiliary yarn for knitting the leading end in the tubular fabric, then feeds the auxiliary yarn under tension in a non-knitting position at which the yarn is drawn by the previously knit leading end around the tubular fabric in a constricting loop or loops, and then cuts the trailing end of the auxiliary yarn, which is disposed in the needle circle for knitting in the tubular fabric.