Abstract: A knit article having an edge portion subject to raveling including a plurality of knitting courses in said edge portion. Each of the edge portion knitting courses is knitted with at least one strand of a heat fusible yarn, the heat fusible yarn including: i. at least one low melt fiber strand; and ii. at least one additional strand. The low melt fiber strand and the other strand are combined by air interlacing to create a single combined strand and to expose a sufficient amount of the one low melt fiber strand to facilitate a bond to an adjacent yarn strand.

Abstract: A cut-resistant fabric machine-knitted two-ends-in from two different yarns, one of which contains cut-resistant fiber and the other of which contains fibers having a hardness that tends to dull a cutting blade.

Abstract: Protective articles that provide an unprecedented level of safety and comfort are made of a composite fabric in a continuous, one-step process. The composite fabric incorporates two or more dissimilar yarns or materials, such as thermoplastics, elastomers, metals and other materials not commonly viewed as textiles, each having dissimilar mechanical properties and characteristics that provide optimum protection against the threats of injury associated with a particular application. The continuous, one-step manufacturing process overcomes the disadvantages of the existing labor intensive, costly process of piecing together a protective article from a plurality of separate fabrics made of different materials. Thus, the invented process is both cost effective and minimizes the inefficient use of a heavy weight fabric in regions of the article where exceptional protection is not critical to avoid the accompanying loss of tactile sensitivity and increase in the stiffness and rigidity of the article.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bath glove woven out of yarns formed from twisted artificial fibers. The yarns are hooked and pulled in specific manner to form bottom, middle, and top layers of yarns. The bottom layer of yarns form loops to sequentially tighten the middle and top layers of yarns at predetermined intervals, such that parts of the yarns of middle and top layers between two adjacent points tightened together by the loops of the bottom yarns become loosely and upward projected. The top layer of yarns are guided in the course of weaving to loosely wind round an upper part of the upward projected portions of the middle layer of yarns, such that a difference in height exists between the middle and top layers of yarns to form a wavy, elastic and fluffy texture of the bath glove that traps more bubbles for better cleaning and massaging effect without undesirably scratching skin.

Abstract: An elastic protective material is disclosed. The protective material comprises a three-dimensional fully fashioned knit structure made by single jersey knitting at a machine gauge of at least 10 needles per inch. This knit layer is completely surrounded on both surfaces by an antiseptic and sterilizable elastomer or polymer. A method of making the elastic protective material is also disclosed.

Abstract: A knitted glove including a thumb and a body, a crotch defined between the thumb and the body, and a thickened knitted portion along at least a portion of the crotch. The present invention is further directed to a method and apparatus for forming such a knitted glove.

Abstract: A knitted glove including a thumb and a body, a crotch defined between the thumb and the body, and a thickened knitted portion along at least a portion of the crotch. The present invention is further directed to a method and apparatus for forming such a knitted glove.

Abstract: A process for knitting tubular fabric on a straight knitting machine having two main needle beds, two auxiliary needle beds and a racking device. An edge stitch is transferred from each main needle bed to respective auxiliary needles beds, the needle beds are racked with respect to each other, the stitch is transferred back to the main needle beds and then knitted.

Abstract: A flexible, uncoated glove made from nonmetallic fabric comprising at least one fiber is disclosed. The glove is characterized by either weighing no more than about 30 g or having a thickness of no more than about 1.25 mm (0.05 inch), being cut resistant over some portion thereof by enduring without cutting through at least 5 cycles of an impact cam cut test, having compliance so that the wearer has a high degree of tactility, and having a cut resistance of at least 5 cycles of an impact cam cut test after a disinfectant treatment with sodium hypochlorite. The gloves are particularly useful in the medical field where they provide excellent cut protection and can be disinfected at least once while maintaining an acceptable level of cut resistance. In an alternate embodiment, a similarly characterized glove is made from a layer of fibrous material adhered to a surface of an elastomeric glove without being fully encapsulated thereby.

Abstract: A method for knitting gloves and a glove so knitted by a flat knitting machine which includes forming stitches of several circumferential courses of the knitted material which make up the wrist edge aperture domain. The method uses a knitting process in which the wrist-edge aperture domain of the glove can be turned into a pouched tubular shape in which at least one course on the top edge of the pouched tubular domain is knitted by means of a thermofusing yarn and then thermally fused.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of making a protective garment, a garment produced in accordance with the method, and a strand material used in the method and garment. The strand material comprises cut resistant material such as Kevlar, aramid, metallic, and combined Kevlar and metallic strands, or the like, which are extrusion coated with vinyl, polyurethane or other suitable fluid impervious material. Coating the strands with fluid impervious material results in a cut resistant high strength fabric which is resistant to staining. The method comprises manipulating the strand material using substantially conventional textile fabric forming technology such as knitting to form a fabric and a garment, and may include coating the finished garment to achieve enhanced characteristics. One such characteristic which may be achieved is to make a garment fluid impervious, by coating a substrate with fluid impervious materials such as flexible urethane to protect the wearer.

Abstract: This invention is a cut resistant article comprising a cut resistant jacket surrounding a less cut resistant member. The jacket comprises a fabric of yarn and the yarn consists essentially of a high strength, longitudinal strand having a tensile strength of at least 1 GPa. The strand is wrapped with another fiber or the same fiber. In another embodiment, the invention is a highly cut resistant yarn of at least two nonmetallic fibers. One fiber is inherently cut resistant like high strength polyethylene, polypropylene or aramids. The other fiber in the yarn has a high level of hardness.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of making a protective garment, a garment produced in accordance with the method, and a strand material used in the method and garment. The strand material comprises entwined strands of metallic material such as a multifilament bundle of continuous filament stainless steel and a transistory material such as polyvinyl alcohol or polyester which can be removed by agents which are harmless to the metallic material. The method comprises manipulating the strand material using substantially conventional textile fabric forming technology such as knitting to form a fabric and a garment, and may include coating the finished garment with coating to achieve enhanced characteristics. The garments may be in the form of gloves, sleeves, aprons and the like.

Abstract: A knitted article such as a glove having a wrist cuff includes an edge binding which is activatable by the application of heat thereto to prevent unraveling of the cuff edge. The bound edge is defined by first and second yarn ends which are knitted together, wherein the first yarn includes a heat activatable, thermoplastic outer covering and the second yarn is defined by a nonthermoplastic, elastic material. The first and second yarns are knitted in a manner to form crossover points therebetween. The edge binding is subjected to heat in order to melt the thermoplastic outer covering of the first yarn, thereby joining the first and second yarns at the crossover points. The articles may be formed on conventional, automatic knitting machines. The knitted articles are ejected from the machine and are gravity fed into a heated chamber in order to melt the thermoplastic outer covering of the first yarn, and thereby bind the edge of the article.

Abstract: A loop support device of the present invention is used for transferring loops from needles of one needle bed to the needles of the opposite bed in a flat knitting machine. The loop support device comprises a plate-like main loop support having a notch which main loop support is slidably mounted below the lower face of hooks of the needles and a plurality of rodlike auxiliary loop supports which are disposed parallel to the top edge of the main loop support which can project slidably toward the notch in the main loop support.