Abstract: An interlining comprising a non-woven substrate with a single or double bar ripple weft stitch knitted therethrough.

Abstract: The invention relates to an elastic belt for furniture articles or vehicle seats, wherein a plurality of weft yarns are interconnected by bonding yarns each with two elastic warp threads, preferably not adjacent warp threads. The weft yarns show longitudinal double S configurations allowing the weft to lengthen and shorten following the elastic warp threads. The invention further relates to a textile machine having elastic warp threads, a device for controlling the bonding yarns and a weft yarn guide with a plurality of passages for the plurality of weft yarns, the guide being acted upon to shift the weft yarns in both directions into alignment with two alternated warp threads, and to form the weft yarns double S configuration.

Abstract: An upholstered structure comprising a three dimensional support core having a fabric cover, and in which the fabric cover is a double jersey knitted structure, the technical reverse side of the fabric cover being located on the core side of the upholstered structure and exhibiting at least one identifying mark in a contrasting yarn to its surroundings, the mark being substantially not visible on the exposed technical face of the fabric.

Abstract: Warp and weft yarns are alternately laid one on top of the other and the weft yarns are stitched to provide a woven-like fabric appearance. At least one weft yarn is provided in each stitch course between the stitch loop and the underlap, the stitching forming no part of the interlacing and the woven-like fabric appearance.

Abstract: A flat textile body is composed of adjacent bands (2) that extend in a perpendicular direction to its main center-plane (M). Each band has marginal sections (4) made of woven or knitted warp (6) and weft threads (8). Between the marginal sections at least most of the weft threads are floating threads. Adjacent marginal sections (4) of adjacent bands (2) are not linked to each other by purely mechanical means, i.e. glued or soldered. The resulting flat body is easy to produce in a precise manner and is very versatile. In particular, it can be cut along its main center-plane (M) into two symmetrical pile carpet plates.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of an oriented thread structure for lamination and/or protective purposes is disclosed in which preferably glass, carbon, aramide, borax or ceramic reinforcing threads (1), in general are bound to form an oriented thread mat. The mat can be laminated inside a resin or other binder to form a strong shell structure, in which the strength of the shell is principally based on the strength of the above-mentioned reinforcing threads (1). The laminable thread structure can be easily formed on the surface of a mold and avoids air-bubbles in the laminate. The reinforcing threads (1) are bound to a basic knitted structure consisting of one-sided loops (2) by loops (3, 4) running transversely in the opposite direction.

Abstract: An improved male-female type connector assembly. A male connector includes hook elements while a female connector includes a composite of a flexible substrate having a knit structure with loops produced about at least a portion of same. Loop weight, loop density and/or configuration of the hook elements may be varied to produce an assembly that is intended for repetitive connective, disconnect operations, or a semi-permanent structural connection.

Abstract: The disclosed reinforcement sheet is a knitted fabric formed from a plurality of reinforcing yarns 5 and a plurality of matrix yarns 9, wherein the reinforcing yarns are held in the linear state without being bent, arranged in parallel to and spaced from one another in a matrix knitting structure, and the matrix yarns cover the linear reinforcing yarns, without bending the linear reinforcing yarns, to form the matrix knitting structure.

Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly has a seat frame, and an integrated elastomeric filament suspension and fabric cover in which the elastomeric filaments and yarn for the fabric are knitted together and stretched over the frame to provide a low profile finished seat or back rest which functions both as a suspension and as an aesthetic trim cover.

Abstract: A stretchable slide fastener includes a pair of stretchable stringer tapes each having a longitudinal edge, and a row of coupling elements mounted on the longitudinal edge at a pitch. The pitch of the row of coupling elements is variable as the longitudinal edge is stretched. Each of the coupling elements includes a coupling head having a height, and at least the longitudinal edge being longitudinally stretchable by at least 10% such that the pitch of the coupling elements remains smaller than an interval which is twice the height of the coupling head.

Abstract: Warp knit fabrics, especially sewn-knitted fabrics, are produced by a method and apparatus whch results in single and multiple layer sloping fabrics having oblique and diagonal endless filling threads with respect to the boundary of the fabrics. Spaced-apart chain conveyors transport a plurality of filling-thread sections, each of which contains a plurality of endless filling threads, to a stitch-forming site. The plurality of filling-thread sections are held between and transported by the conveyors by a plurality of hooks in the conveyors. Filling thread sections are laid onto the hooks by at least one filling laying device having a guide means for laying the filling thread sections onto the hooks.

Abstract: An apparatus for laying groups of transverse weft threads for a warp knitting machine, the threads being laid on two longitudinal conveyors running to the needle bed by means of a carriage which is reciprocated between and transversely to the direction of travel of the longitudinal conveyors. The weft threads laid after the forward movement lie parallel to the weft threads laid after the backward movement and with the same spacing from the adjacent weft thread in each case. First groups of weft threads are laid as a first layer and then groups of weft threads are laid as a second layer on the first layer in a direction of their weft threads which forms, with the direction of the weft threads of the first layer, and angle, particularly of at least 20.degree., which opens transversely to the direction of travel of the longitudinal conveyors.

Abstract: A dry cleanable self-lined unfinished lustrous antique satin fabric having good hand, good crease resistance, and a woven look is provided. The fabric is a weft inserted warp knit (wiwk) fabric which has a multiple substrate, a single substrate with foam backing, or a single substrate with an additional sewn lining. The weft yarn is on the face of the substrate, and is a lustrous yarn such as rayon (as when producing non-washable draperies), or acrylic, bright polyester or acetate (as when producing washable draperies). The weft has a density equivalent to between about 36-52 single picks per inch, and at least part of the weft may comprise a novelty yarn. The warp yarn is stitching yarn, in a tricot stitch configuration. The warp yarn is a low-shrinkage filament yarn that is not fully oriented, and has a denier of between about 20-60, and an elongation of at least 15 percent. Non-woven inexpensive polyester substrate may be utilized; if a single layer is utilized it has a maximum weight of 2.

Abstract: Aesthetic warp-knit, weft-inserted fabrics are produced having multiple substrate layers, warp yarns extending in the warp-wise direction of the fabric, and weft yarns extending in the weft-wise direction of the fabric. The warp and/or weft yarns are interposed between the multiple substrate layers. Warp stitching yarns forming stitch wales spaced-apart along the warp-wise direction of the fabric and stitched through the substrate layers hold the warp and weft yarns in position relative to one another and relative to the substrates. The substrates may also be provided in juxtaposed relationship to one another so as to increase the opacity, esthetics, and dimensional stability of the resulting fabric. Thermoplastic fibers may be incorporated in the fabric such that upon plasticization and subsequent cooling, they assist in binding of the resulting fabric.

Abstract: A warp-knit tape is disclosed for use in hook-and-loop fasteners, which tape comprises a pile portion and selvage portions on opposite sides thereof, the pile portion including pile-loops arranged to extend longitudinally in a meandering fashion to prevent the same from tilting down flat on the surface of the tape.

Abstract: Warp-knit fabric having a two-course repeat pattern of alternating first and second bar yarns. The fabric is prepared by interlocking the first and second bar yarns using a combination of knit and layed-in stitches in opposite fashion.

Abstract: The circular knit two-layer upholstery fabric of the present invention has stability and limited stretchability in both coursewise and walewise directions to meet established industry standards. The fabric includes a first layer knit of thermoplastic base yarn and forming stitch loops in wales of successive courses to provide a technical face side. A second layer is formed of lay-in yarn extending generally coursewise and in a sinuous manner along the juncture of the stitch loops of certain courses of the first layer and provides a technical back side constituting the exposed wear surface of the fabric. The lay-in yarn is in the range of two to ten times larger than the base yarn so that the lay-in yarn substantially covers the base yarn and provides the tactile characteristics, appearance and hand of the lay-in yarn constituting the exposed wear surface of the fabric.

Abstract: Novel spatial warp knitted structures are knitted on a double needle bar Raschel machine or a spatial warp knitting machine formed by modifying a double needle bar Raschel machine. A basic spatial warp knitted structure including two warp knitted fabrics facing each other, uniting threads uniting the two warp knitted fabrics, and insert warp threads and/or insert weft threads inserted between and in parallel to the two warp knitted fabrics so as to intersect the uniting threads or to be interlaced with the uniting threads.

Abstract: This section element has a cross-sectional shape with reentrant or inside angles and/or concave parts or a hollow polygonal or other shape. A plurality of parallel threads are held taut and maintained in the longitudinal direction of the section element in a configuration which corresponds to the cross-sectional shape of the desired section element. These longitudinal threads are progressively displaced continuously in front of a group of knitting heads knitting in two dimensions which are orthogonal and perpendicular to said longitudinal threads. Each knitting head comprises a plurality of series of needles I, L1, L2, LA, A1 and A1' each of which covers a specific portion of the cross section of the section element.

Abstract: The open mesh warp knit fabric of the present invention includes a base fabric knit with electrically nonconductive base yarn and forming an open mesh pattern of lightweight construction having spaced openings to provide ventilation therethrough. Electrically conductive filaments are incorporated in the base fabric and provide an open grid extending throughout the entire area of the base fabrics with the conductive filaments being incorporated predominantly in only one side of the base fabric. The conductive yarns provide only about one-half of one percent of the total weight of the fabric and are of a relatively fine denier so that the conductive yarn is substantially invisible to the naked eye. Various types of garments and accessories are illustrated as being formed of the electrostatic dissipating fabric.

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: An improved male-female type connector assembly. A male connector includes hook elements while a female connector includes a composite of a flexible substrate having a knit structure with loops produced about at least a portion of same. Loop height, loop density and/or configuration of the hook elements may be varied to produce an assembly that is intended for repetitive connective, disconnect operations, or a semi-permanent structural connection.

Abstract: In a method of producing composite sheet material by forming longitudinal rows of stitches 7 in a paper sheet material 1, the length of paper sheet material 1 used per stitch 7 is increased so that there is entrapped within each stitch 7 in each longitudinal row of stitches 7 a portion of paper sheet material 1 having a length greater than the length of the completed stitch 7. In consequence there are formed in the composite sheet material a longitudinal series of laterally extending corrugations, ridges or ribs which, in the case of a crepe paper sheet material 22, constitute a gross crimp imposed without distortion of the crimps in the initial crepe paper sheet material 22.

Abstract: Stitch bonded fabrics were found to be suitable substrates for coated abrasives when the fabric has a strength in the warp direction of at least 30 dekanewtons (daN) per centimeter (cm) of width, a fill yarn cover factor of at least 40%, and stitch yarns with a tensile strength of at least 0.5 daN. For substitution of the established commercial classes of abrasives known as X and Y weights, the fabrics are preferably made on a Malimo machine, with 14-22 warp yarns of 840-1300 denier high tenacity multifilament polyester or glass per 25 cm of fabric width, at least 64 fill yarns of staple or texturized multifilament polyester per 25 cm of fabric length, and stitch yarns of 70-140 denier high tenacity multifilament polyester.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for laying groups of transverse weft threads for a warp knitting machine, the threads being laid on two longitudinal conveyors running to the needle bed by means of a carriage which is reciprocated between and transversely to the direction of travel of the longitudinal conveyors. The weft threads laid after the forward movement lie parallel to the weft threads laid after the backward movement and with the same spacing from the adjacent weft thread in each case. First groups of weft threads are laid as a first layer and then groups of weft threads are laid as a second layer on the first layer in a direction of their weft threads which forms, with the direction of the weft threads of the first layer, an angle, particularly of at least 20.degree., which opens transversely to the direction of travel of the longitudinal conveyors.

Abstract: A camouflage fabric having (1) opposed surface areas of a size sufficient to extend over the object or personnel to be camouflaged and (2) a weight per unit surface area within the range of 1 to 16 ounces per square yard. The camouflage fabric comprises a knit yarn fabric formed of a multiplicity of knit stitches and a multiplicity of parallel longitudinally extending inserts held in the knit fabric by longitudinally extending stitch sections of yarn between the inserts and transversely extending stitch sections of yarn on opposite sides of the inserts spaced longitudinally therealong. The strips are held by the knit yarn fabric so that opposite surface areas thereof correspond with opposite surface areas of the camouflage fabric and so that each side edge of each strip is disposed in spaced parallel relation with an opposite side edge of an adjacent strip.

Abstract: A thermal insulating fabric is described. The fabric is a stitch-bonded, fibrous, nonwoven web of microfibers that average about 10 micrometers or less in diameter.

Abstract: A warp knit weft insertion fabric has a plurality of warp yarns and weft insertion yarns of a denier of at least about 1000, each of which yarns is separated from its neighbors by a plurality of yarns of a lower denier of about 220 to about 1800, the ratio of denier of the heavier yarn to lighter yarn being about 1.5 to about 6:1. The arrangement of yarns in both warp and weft is optionally symmetrical, i.e. there are the same number of yarns per inch and the same number and denier of the lighter weight yarns separating the same number and denier of the heavier yarns in both directions. In a particular feature of the invention the yarns in one or both directions are formed in situ by feeding two or more yarns of lower denier in tandem during the knitting process to form a single yarn of higher denier in the finished fabric.The fabric is employed as a reinforcement for sheet material of thermoplastic synthetic resin (by lamination or coating techniques and the like).

Abstract: A covering for a damping form roller prepared by knitting fabric into a cylindrical form consists of a pile yarn, a ground yarn and an elastic annex yarn. This elastic yarn knitted to straightly extend in a direction of a course, and to be caught and bound by base knit loop.The shrinking of a covering fabric of the invention which is inserted on the roller is more larger in the direction of circumference than in the direction of axis, and this shrinking in the direction of circumference sticks the inner surface of a covering fabric fast to the outer surface of roller, the shrinking in the direction of axis is very small. Thus the covering fabric sticks so fast to a roller without inequality that it is not necessary to bind both side ends of a covering fabric on the shaft of roller in mounting it on a roller, and can be supply water to the plate cylinder in a smooth and uniform manner, aiding in producing fine and beautiful prints continuously for a long period of time.

Abstract: An integral waistband construction is characterized by having side by side lengthwise extending portions of different construction one of which provides roll resistance and the other of which provides decorative and comfortable wearing character to the fabric.

Abstract: A separable slide fastener to be attached to a knit fabric has a pair of warp-knit stringer tapes each with a series of openings. Each of the stringer tapes may include a reinforcement film bonded to a lower end portion thereof and having a recess which allows some of the tape openings to be exposed for use in attachment to the knit fabric. The recess may be covered with a thin layer penetratable by knitting needles. A separble bottom end stop may be injection-molded on the reinforcement films bonded to the stringer tapes. Knitting needles are inserted in the openings, and a fabric is knitted thereon to form successive courses. To this end, a row of loops of a course are looped with transverse longitudinally spaced thread portions which define ends of the openings.

Abstract: An improved fabric for covering dampener rolls comprising a ground yarn, a water shrinkable inlay yarn and a hydrophilic pile yarn. The fabric is fashioned into a cylindrical tube and is securely fastened to a roll by thoroughly wetting the tubular fabric and roll in water until the water shrinkable inlay yarn shrinks causing the fabric to tighten down on the roll. When the inlay yarn of the dampener cover shrinks it does so in a widthwise or circumferential manner, thereby exerting a force upon the surface of the dampener roll similar to the force exerted by a series of rubber bands, thus securing the dampener cover to the dampener roll. This unique fabric construction also allows for a reduction in lengths of fabric needed to cover a roll, because the fabric shrinks circumferentially and not lengthwise. Thus, a cover may be measured more precisely to the length needed to cover a specific roll.

Abstract: A two bar warp-knitted loop fabric comprises a ground of separate knitted warp chains formed by the front bar at half gauge and lay-ins formed by the back bar at full gauge in pattern repeats in which each lay-in thread forms at least three successive course-to-course free loops located alternately in the unoccupied positions on either side of a knitted warp chain followed by at least three successive course-to-course caught loops located alternately in adjacent warp chains.

Abstract: A knitting technique in which opposed needles reciprocate towards and past one another in a time-varying motion which is at least principally lengthwise of the needle. One needle approaches and picks up a yarn-end from another needle and forms a loop in the yarn and over the one needle while the other needle withdraws. The other needle then approaches in its turn to pick up a yarn-end and form a further loop while the one needle sheds its loop on to the yarn-end now picked up to form the further loop, the cycle continuing to produce a seam of linked loops. Shogging action by needles and/or associated yarn-control elements produces seam interaction to link seams weft-wise as a knitted fabric. More complex interaction produces patterned fabrics and other knits where yarns link across several wales. An apparatus to carry out the technique includes a needle motion drive using linkages to produce a durable and precise drive action.

Abstract: An improved warp knit fabric that can serve as a base fabric for producing full weight, self-lined drapery material as well as sheer drapery material and the process and apparatus therefor. The base fabric is primarily comprised of three groups of yarns knit together to form a sheer fabric that creates the visual effect of being woven. The full weight is formed by incorporating one or more additional groups of yarns into the base fabric. One group is added to produce a self-lining on the rear side of the material while another group can include a "laid-in" top effect yarn. This top effect yarn can be fed with varying tension control so that a relatively wide variety of effects can be created.

Abstract: The body bulge controlling portion of the panty hose has elastic yarn incorporated therein to provide a medium amount of compressive force against the body of the wearer and is positioned between portions of the panty hose having a relatively great amount of compressive force and a relatively small amount of compressive force. The compressive force against the body is thereby varied in a stepped or gradual manner so as to eliminate or minimize the abrupt outward bulging of the underlying portion of the body of the wearer. In one embodiment of the panty hose, the body bulge controlling portion is positioned between a panty girdle portion with a great amount of compressive force and the sheer legs which include very little if any compressive force. In another embodiment, the bulge controlling portion is positioned between the elastic waistband and the upper portion of the panty of the panty hose.

Abstract: In knitted goods, particularly pile-knit goods, with pile yarn tied into the loops and with weft elements extending at least over two-needle spacings, the pile-forming pile yarns are tied together only in every second course. This may be implemented by tying-in the pile yarns as loop jointly with the meshing yarn while weft yarns and dead piles are preferably tied as weft into the in-between courses. When tying the patterning piles as weft into every second course, dead pile and weft are also ties into these courses, while the in-between course will preferably consist only of the meshing warp yarn.

Abstract: Novel stitch bonded fleece fabrics are made on two guide bar machines with the front bar knitting pillar stitch and the back bar with incomplete e.g. half set threading, traversing adjacent wales of the front bar and forming stitches in only one of said adjacent wales and having fewer stitches than courses. Stitches that have both front and back thread loops are made significantly smaller and tighter than stitches with front bar thread loops only, and this gives rise to a compact bunching of the fleece fibres giving a marked woven weft effect.

Abstract: Novel stitch bonded fleece fabrics are made on two bar machines with the front bar knitting pillar stitch and the back bar, with incomplete e.g. half set threading, traversing adjacent wales of the front bar, the tension of the back bar threads in relation to that of the front bar threads being such as to pull adjacent wales of the pillar stitches together. The back bar threads are alternately knitted and laid in, which results in large and small loops causing the fleece fibers to bunch into weftway fiber bundles. The combination of wales pulled together and the weft effect can simulate the appearance of a leno weave fabric.

Abstract: A laminated structure for use in wall construction is disclosed which comprises a rigid support and an integrally self-lined textile material having a front surface and a rear surface and adhesively bonded on its rear surface to the rigid support. The textile material comprises, in one embodiment, (i) a nonwoven spun fibrous batting constituting the rear surface of the textile material and capable of being stitched-through without substantial loss of strength by knitting thread; (ii) a layer of filling disposed upon the batting; (iii) one or more warp elements disposed upon the filling so as to constitute the front surface of the textile material; and (iv) a single system of knitting thread wales, each wale comprising a multiplicity of warpwise looped stitch courses which engage and hold together the batting, filling and warp elements into an integrated unitary textile structure.

Abstract: An elastic warp knit fabric having ravel resistant features made of a number of base yarns which are knitted to form a plurality of closed loops extending in a warp direction to form wales including interior wales, an end wale and an adjacent wale adjacent to the end wale. Elastic yarns are laid into the adjacent wale and interior wales. Filler yarns are included which extend in a weft direction and which are laid into the closed loops of each course. A locking yarn to prevent unraveling of the end wale is knitted into the end wale to form open loops in alternate courses and knitted into the adjacent wale to form closed loops in alternate courses.The end wale may have the elastic yarn eliminated therefrom in order to form a soft edge of the fabric in which event the adjacent wale then has a further elastic yarn to compensate for the elastic yarn removed from the end wale.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for knitting fleece fabrics on a knitting machine having two sets of needles disposed for movement in planes disposed at angles to each other to form a fabric construction; and wherein one set of needles is employed exclusively to knit a jersey ground construction from relatively lightweight yarns, while selected of the other set of needles are employed with selected needles of said one set to inlay a much heavier yarn along selected courses to pass alternately over and be tucked under groups of one or more consecutive wales of the knit ground construction without forming stitches therein. The heavy inlay yarns are drawn by the selected needles of the other set to appear primarily on one face of the fabric, and these selected needles which hold the inlay yarn are retracted to less than full welt position to dispose the inlaid yarn below the plane of knitting movement of certain of the needles of said one set.

Abstract: A stitch knitted fabric, for example a stitch bonded web of fibres, is made on a two guide bar machine with the front bar (which may exhibit missed thread patterning) knitting pillar stitches and the back bar (which may have part, for example, half set threading) forming stitches and/or laid-in sections and/or floats of thread extending over at least two wales of the front bar system and repeating over not less than four courses, the back bar system distorting, through thread tension, the front bar system and/or filling to give a pattern or texture effect.

Abstract: A slide fastener stringer includes a warp-knit stringer tape comprising a first set of yarns forming a knit ground structure containing stitch loops in every course and wale of the tape, and a second set of yarns knit in the ground structure and each extending coursewise across at least one wale, the yarns of second set comprising textured yarns. A third set of yarns forms a plurality of chains of loops knit in the ground structure and extending along wales in at least one edge portion of the tape. A fourth set of yarns is laid in the ground structure and extends in and along the wales in the tape edge portion, on which a row of coupling elements is mounted. With the stringer tape thus constructed, the tape edge portion is tight and resistant to walewise stretch and the remainder portion is relatively coarse and roughened.

Abstract: A unidirectional reinforcing fabric and a resinous laminate made therewith, which fabric includes a weft knit yarn fabric formed of a multiplicity of weft knit stitches and a multiplicity of parallel longitudinally extending warp inserts held in said weft knit fabric. A bi-directional fabric is also disclosed which includes in addition to the above a multiplicity of parallel transversely extending weft inserts. Each insert includes a multiplicity of continuous monofilaments extending longitudinally in parallel relation with respect to one another without crimp or twist and grouped closely together so that the outline cross-sectional configuration of the group is approximately in the shape of an elongated rectangle. Each monofilament of each insert is formed from a material taken from the group consisting of glass, carbon and aramid and has a cross-sectional diameter of between 0.00032" and 0.00095". Each insert has the thickness of the rectangular cross-sectional configuration thereof between 0.003" and 0.

Abstract: Method of manufacturing a padding cloth for belts said cloth having a latent curvability property, in which a belt-like cloth having a plurality of thermal shrinkage rates in the widthwise direction is subjected to heat-treatment under a relaxed condition so as to thermally stabilize the portion of the lowest thermal shrinkage rate, while retaining the residual latent shrinkages of the portions of higher thermal shrinkage rates. An adhesive powder is applied on the cloth and is secured firmly thereto by melting. If required, a supporting cloth having an adhesive applied on its upper face is further superposed on the belt-like cloth and is secured firmly to it with the adhesive of the supporting cloth.

Abstract: A fabric composed of a fleece or backing of fibrous material with parallel rows of single thread, stitch bonded, run resistant, stitches superimposed thereon; a method of making the fabric and a warp knitting machine which is suitable for the production of the stitch bonded fabric. The fabric can advantageously be used for outer garments, household or space textiles.

Abstract: A fabric is produced in a stitch-through type machine such as a Malimo machine using the apparatus and method of the invention which has at least two warp yarn design elements laid on a flexible substrate (e.g., a layer of textile filling elements) along rectilinear or non-rectilinear paths and on which a plurality of adjacent design elements are twisted (e.g., symmetrically at 180.degree. per twist) in an aesthetically pleasing configuration at spaced intervals along the warp direction. The design elements are bound to the substrate by knitting thread which forms a multiplicity of warpwise loop chains (e.g., a half-tricot stitch) to secure the substate and design elements against relative displacement and to form thereby an integrated fabric structure.

Abstract: A slide-fastener stringer half has an elongated warp-knitted tape having a pair of opposite faces and a pair of opposite longitudinally extending edges. The tape is knit with a plurality of chained warp yarns each forming a respective longitudinally extending loop chain or pillar defining a respective longitudinally extending wale, a first weft filament laid into and extending over two of the chains at one of the edges of the tape, a group of second weft yarns lapped into the chains across the full width of the tape, and a group of third weft yarns laid into all of the chains except that chain immediately at the one edge. A continuous mono-filamentary coupling element having a succession of turns is secured to one face of the tape along the one edge by stitching which overlies the turns, extends through the tape, and has a needle thread on the other face of the tape between two of the chains at the one edge.

Abstract: A double knit fabric of a given gauge (usually fine gauge) is provided with an inlay of a coarser gauge yarn on a knitting machine with two needle beds. One side of the fabric is formed of only relativey fine gauge yarn and the relatively coarser inlay yarn is confined to the other or surface side of the fabric. Selected needles in one of the needle beds are replaced by drive elements. The inlay yarn is laid in by an inlay wheel driven in synchronization with the needle bed by said drive elements.