Abstract: The present invention discloses a multi-bar warp knitted fabric and a knitting method thereof. The fabric comprises a ground weave and at least one group of elastic yarns, wherein each group of elastic yarns is composed of two elastic yarns, characterized in that the two elastic yarns of each group are inlaid in opposite directions on at least 90% of the loops in one same wale of the ground weave. The fabric has excellent characteristics, including: in addition to maintaining the soft and comfortable hand feel and general physical properties of the fabric, the elastic yarns are not easy to wash out and fly out, and the fabric can be used with a lower finished density, thereby reducing production costs.

Abstract: Low porosity fibrous materials, articles formed therefrom and processes for their formation. Multiple plies of high tenacity, multifilament elongate bodies are optionally stitched together and pressed as a set without being laminated, adhered or thermally fused to each other. Pressing spreads the component filaments of the elongate bodies, forcing the filaments to occupy spaces between adjacent fibers and thereby reducing porosity of the complete multi-ply material.

Abstract: An engineered bra having preconfigured lockout and stretch zones with different stretch properties is provided. The different stretch properties may be achieved by adjusting one or more knitting or weaving techniques and/or materials throughout the bra, with at least a first portion of the bra including a common feature between multiple regions. The knit or woven bra may include varying knit or woven structures within the zones, varying the modulus of elasticity of the yarns used to form the zones, and/or varying the modulus of elasticity of the knit or woven material through specific knit stitch orientation or woven technique. In further aspects, different stretch properties correspond to individual yarn placement, integrated knit or woven structures such as channels, pockets, or shaping, and/or additional integrated knit or woven aspects used to create lockout in a first zone and stretch characteristics in an adjacent, second zone.

Abstract: The invention relates to a protective sheath designed, in particular but not exclusively, for an aircraft. The conduit is flexible and can have a small radius of curvature able to be obtained without torsion and allowing access, over the majority or entirety of its length, to the electrical wire or cable inside. The protective sheath (1) comprises a flexible body generally having a cylindrical shape, the flexible body being slit along at least a certain length and along a longitudinal axis, characterised in that the body has an open-work wall and in that the sheath is capable of being deformed along its length in order to be compressed/compacted on itself.

Abstract: A fabric for a pair of jeans is disclosed. The fabric has a plurality of warp threads and a plurality of weft threads. The plurality of warp threads include a jeans warp thread, such as cotton, disposed next to an insulating warp thread, such as wool, in a repeating series. The plurality of weft threads include a plurality of jeans weft threads disposed next to one another in a repeating series. The plurality of warp threads and weft threads are perpendicularly interwoven in a twill weave defining a front side opposite a back side. From the front side of the fabric, each jeans warp thread is woven over three jeans weft threads and under one jeans weft thread in a repeating series. From the front side of the fabric, each insulating warp thread is woven under three jeans weft threads and over one jeans weft thread in a repeating series.

Abstract: A textile sheet element having selectively applied arrays of surface projection elements defining raised zones across an active surface for cleaning and/or personal care, The textile sheet element is adapted for use by itself and/or for attachment to a user manipulated support with or without a handle such as a mop head or the like.

Abstract: An improved tubular openwork fabric or net for food products, the openwork fabric including alternating cojoined and intermediate members, each intermediate member including a filament assembly and each cojoined member including a pair of filament assemblies that are worked together, the filament assemblies being extensible and the open work fabric being extensible in both longitudinal and transverse directions.

Abstract: A plate for an article of footwear includes a substrate, a first strand portion attached to the substrate via first stitching, and a second strand portion disposed on the first layer. The first strand portion includes first segments that each extend between two different locations along the substrate to form a first layer on the substrate. The second strand portion includes second segments that each extend between two different locations along the substrate to form a second layer on the first layer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a knitted multi-layer fabric construction that provides the ability to cool skin to below a current temperature whether wetted or dry. The knit uses four separate yarns which collectively work together to produce enhanced cooling. Knits can include warp knit, seamless, hosiery, flat bed, spacer, and double knits. Various finishing methods may also be employed to enhance the cooling power of the fabric.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a knitted fabric embodying a basic knit, into which at least one functional yarn filament, such as an electrically conductive yarn filament, is incorporated as a vertical yarn filament (F3). The basic knit is formed from a first and a second yarn (F1, F2) using a plaiting technique. The vertical yarn filament (F3) is incorporated by a third yarn carrier (FF3) positioned, on a third yarn carrier rail located between respective yarn carrier rails for the first and the second yarn carriers (FF1, FF2), at a location at which the vertical yarn filament (F3) is to be incorporated. During formation of a sequence of stitch rows (MR1-MR7) using the first and second yarns (F1, F2), the first yarn (F1) is guided over the vertical yarn filament (F3) on a front side of the knitted fabric and the second yarn (F2) is guided over the vertical yarn filament (F3) on a back side of the knitted fabric.

Abstract: A wound dressing comprising an absorbent layer, the absorbent layer being gathered in a longitudinal direction by one or more resilient yarns.

Abstract: The invention relates to a prosthetic porous knit based on a monofilament of a biocompatible polymer material, the pattern followed for the knitting of said monofilament on a warp knitting machine having two guide bars B1, B2 being the following, according to the ISO 11676 standard: Bar B1: 1.2/4.5/4.3/4.5/4.3/1.0/1.2/1.0// Bar B2: 4.3/1.0/1.2/1.0/1.2/4.5/4.3/4.5// The invention further relates to a method for producing such a knit and to a hernia prosthesis comprising such a knit.

Abstract: An architectural mesh panel includes a plurality of spaced rods and a plurality of adjacent rows of pickets, each of the rows of pickets including at least a plurality of first links, a plurality of second links and a plurality of third links, the plurality of first links have a first spacing, the plurality of second links have a second spacing, and the plurality of third links have a third spacing, wherein each of the rows of pickets includes at least two adjacent first links defining a closely spaced link area, wherein each of the rows of pickets includes at least one second link disposed adjacent the closely spaced link area on each side thereof, wherein the closely spaced link area creates a simulated moiré appearance of a moving stripe to an observer whose viewpoint is continuously changing from one side of the architectural mesh panel towards the other.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an article of footwear includes providing a knitting machine having a processor programmed to cause the knitting machine to knit a wool pile fabric having a plurality of footwear components and simultaneously knitting wool fibers and a scrim to form the wool pile fabric including the footwear components.

Abstract: An upper for an article of footwear is configured to be connected to a sole structure. The upper includes a knitted component having a base portion that is configured to be disposed adjacent the sole structure. The base portion defines an interior surface and an exterior surface of the knitted component. The base portion defines a base portion passage between the interior surface and the exterior surface. Also, the upper includes a tensile strand that extends through the base portion passage.

Abstract: A stitch-bonded fabric construction in which broadly spaced parallel linear stitch lines are applied through a very low weight fibrous substrate to stabilize the substrate in the machine direction. Texture is imparted by applying significant overfeed conditions to the stitching substrate thereby causing a substantial bunching of the substrate at the stitching position. The resulting product has an arrangement of alternating ridges and valleys running predominantly in the cross-machine direction. The stabilizing linear stitch lines lock in the puckered texture.

Abstract: A textile product and a method of making the same is described wherein the textile product includes a layer of metal elements, an array of stitches, and wherein the metal elements are encased between the legs of the stitch and the underlap of the stitch. Preferably, the overlaps and/or underlaps span between at least two stitch lines. This provides an improved metal element based textile product for preparing reinforced articles. The metal element based textile product of the present invention allows improved processing and improved performance as compared to conventional metal element based textile products.

Abstract: An air belt having mesh webbing sufficiently strong and sufficiently expandable in the circumferential direction of a bag-shaped belt and an air belt apparatus including the air belt are provided. An air belt includes a folded member being a bag-shaped belt folded in a band shape and mesh webbing covering the folded member of the bag-shaped belt. The mesh webbing hardly expands in the longitudinal direction of the air belt, and is flexibly expandable in the circumferential direction of the bag-shaped belt. The mesh webbing is made of a raschel-knitted material. The knitted material is arranged such that the extending direction of knot portions of yarn threads and corresponds to the longitudinal direction of the air belt.

Abstract: A warp knitted heat resistant separation fabric is provided, having at least two sets of warp yarns. A first set of warp yarns is positioned over the width of the fabric and formed with pillar stitches; and a second set of warp yarns positioned over the width of the fabric shows in its repeat in the fabric an underlap under at least two pillars that are formed by the first set of warp yarns.

Abstract: A paper machine clothing, in particular a press felt for a paper, cardboard or tissue machine, includes a load bearing base structure that extends in the longitudinal and cross directions of the clothing and which is formed, for example from a longitudinal reinforcement module substantially providing the dimensional stability in longitudinal direction of the clothing, and a transverse reinforcement module substantially providing the dimensional stability in the cross direction of the clothing, which is arranged on the longitudinal reinforcement module and is connected with same. The transverse reinforcement module is a warp knit fabric, which includes at least one system of warp threads arranged parallel to each other and one system of stitch-forming sewing threads extending substantially perpendicular thereto into which the warp threads are integrated to form a textile fabric.

Abstract: A warp knitted fabric having the isotropy of strength. The warp knitted fabric is provided with a fabric weave and insertion yarn groups (14, 16). The insertion yarn group (14) comprises four yarns (Y4a-Y4d) of the same type. The insertion yarn group (16) comprises four yarns (Y5a-Y5d) of the same type. The yarns (Y4a-Y4d, Y5a-Y5d) are inserted into a warp-knitted fabric weave in the warp direction while being arranged parallel to each other at an interval of one wale in the weft direction. Each of the yarns (Y4a-Y4d, Y5a-Y5d) comprises a portion (14a) extending as a whole in the direction crossing the warp direction, a portion (14b) extending as a whole in the direction crossing the warp direction, and a portion (14c) extending as a whole in the direction extending along the warp direction and connecting the portions (14a, 14b) to each other. One of the yarns (Y4a-Y4d) is overlapped with a corresponding one of the yarns (Y5a-Y5d) when viewed from the thickness direction.

Abstract: An elongation resistant fabric, devices, and methods can include an elongation resistant yarn laid in a knit structure of the fabric between knit loops in selected adjacent wales and partially about the loop in one adjacent wale in predetermined courses. In this manner, the fabric can be adapted to resist elongation in a walewise direction along the length of the fabric. The elongation resistant fabric can be a mesh fabric. In a mesh fabric, the size and a shape of pores in the fabric can be maintained when the fabric is pulled in the walewise direction. The elongation resistant yarn can have a diameter larger than the individual diameters of other yarns in the fabric. The elongation resistant yarn can be, for example, a monofilament yarn, such as a polypropylene or polyester monofilament yarn.

Abstract: The repair fabric includes a dual bar warp knit mesh for use in repairing soft tissue and muscle wall defects, including hernia repair and chest wall reconstruction. The repair fabric may be produced according to a first bar pattern chain of 4/2 4/6 4/2 6/8 6/4 6/8 and a second bar pattern chain of 6/8 2/0 6/8 4/2 8/10 4/2.

Abstract: A medical bandaging product having a predetermined length suitable for a given medical use, including an enclosure formed of a moisture-impervious material sealable to prevent entry of moisture and a medical bandage material positioned in the enclosure and sealed therein against entry of moisture until use. The medical bandage material includes a substrate formed from a single integrated knitted fabric layer having a plurality of interconnected knitted fabric yarns forming a three-dimensional structure. A reactive system is impregnated into or coated onto the substrate. The system remains stable when maintained in substantially moisture-free conditions and hardens upon exposure to sufficient moisture to cooperate with the three-dimensional structure to form a rigid, self supporting structure. A soft, flexible protective wrapping encloses the substrate along its length for providing a cushioning barrier interposed between the substrate and a patient when the medical bandage material is in use.

Abstract: The invention provides methods for finishing knitted fabrics and fabrics finished by the novel process. In one embodiment, the method of finishing a knitted fabric includes the steps of: (a) stretching the fabric above about 5% but less than about 25% in width, and above about (?)7% but less than about 10% in length, (b) heat-setting the fabric to the stretched width and length at a temperature above about 120 degrees Centigrade and lower than about 250 degrees Centigrade, and (c) applying a polymeric protective binder coating resin to the fabric at a concentration of at least 5% but less than 25% based on the weight of the fabric.

Abstract: A medical bandage consists of a knit fabric made from loop yarns without inlaid yarns. The loop yarns are multifilament yarns having at least one elastic filament, a plurality of synthetic microfilaments and a plurality of cellulose or cellulosic filaments. The bandage has a linear and a non-linear stretching regime, with an operating point lying between them. When it is applied to a patient, it is elastically stretched to the operating point, which allows to generate reproducible, well defined compression forces.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a reinforcing textile material that comprises a weft-inserted warp knit fabric, in which the warp yarns are configured in a pattern having a majority of successive flat stitches that are used in conjunction with a minority of subsequent successive round stitches. The warp yarn configuration may be represented by the expression x+y, where x is the number of successive needle positions in which a warp yarn is positioned in a flat stitch arrangement and y is the number of subsequent successive needle positions in which the same warp yarn is positioned in a round stitch arrangement. The present weft-inserted warp knit fabrics possess improved dimensional stability, high tensile strength, high tear strength, and a relatively smooth surface, making them well-suited for use as reinforcements in roofing membranes, signs, banners, tents, and the like.

Abstract: The repair fabric includes a dual bar warp knit mesh for use in repairing soft tissue and muscle wall defects, including hernia repair and chest wall reconstruction. The repair fabric may be produced according to a first bar pattern chain of 4/2 4/6 4/2 6/8 6/4 6/8 and a second bar pattern chain of 6/8 2/0 6/8 4/2 8/10 4/2.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sweat absorber and headwear using the sweat absorber. The sweat absorber is formed by a porous panel including a first layer that is knitted in a warp direction to have a plurality of first porous structures, a second layer that is knitted in a warp direction to have a plurality of second porous structures, and a plurality of connecting yarns for connecting the first layer and the second layer. The porous panel may be a double raschel fabric panel. The sweat absorber may semi-permanently maintain a shape of a crown portion of a headwear and may be prevented from being contaminated from sweat. In addition, a contaminated part may be replaced.

Abstract: A double needle bar spacer knit fabric is provided. The fabric includes a first layer that has a plurality of yarns that are knitted together. At least one of the yarns of the first layer is an elastomeric yarn that functions to impart stretch and recovery properties to the first layer. A second layer that has a plurality of yarns that are knitted together is also present. The first layer and second layer are connected to one another by way of a connecting layer that has a plurality of traversing yarns that are knitted to and extend between both the first layer and the second layer. The first layer provides technical properties to the fabric, and the second layer provides the fabric with desired aesthetic properties.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a reinforcing textile material that comprises a weft-inserted warp knit fabric, in which the warp yarns are configured in a pattern having a majority of successive flat stitches that are used in conjunction with a minority of subsequent successive round stitches. The warp yarn configuration may be represented by the expression x+y, where x is the number of successive needle positions in which a warp yarn is positioned in a flat stitch arrangement and y is the number of subsequent successive needle positions in which the same warp yarn is positioned in a round stitch arrangement. The present weft-inserted warp knit fabrics possess improved dimensional stability, high tensile strength, high tear strength, and a relatively smooth surface, making them well-suited for use as reinforcements in roofing membranes, signs, banners, tents, and the like.

Abstract: In the field of garment manufacture there is a need for an improved manner of joining two stretchable fabric portions to one another, in a desired configuration, that produces an unobtrusive join of sufficient strength which is able to accommodate stretching of the fabric portions.

Abstract: This yarn fabric comprises warp yarns and weft yarns, and also a slashing size present solely at the periphery of the warp yarns. This slashing size comprises at least one filler capable of modifying the properties of this fabric.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a reinforcing textile material that comprises a weft-inserted warp knit fabric, in which the warp yarns are configured in a pattern having a majority of successive flat stitches that are used in conjunction with a minority of subsequent successive round stitches. The warp yarn configuration may be represented by the expression x+y, where x is the number of successive needle positions in which a warp yarn is positioned in a flat stitch arrangement and y is the number of subsequent successive needle positions in which the same warp yarn is positioned in a round stitch arrangement. The present weft-inserted warp knit fabrics possess improved dimensional stability, high tensile strength, high tear strength, and a relatively smooth surface, making them well-suited for use as reinforcements in roofing membranes, signs, banners, tents, and the like.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present application, a knitting method is disclosed for a knitting fabric capable of eliminating the need of stitch transfer during knitting and easily knitting even a thick and less stretchable knitting fabric. Three types of stitching including knits marked with “O,” tacks marked with “V,” and missings marked with “-” are knitted repeatedly in a course direction and a wale direction. The thickness of the clothing fabric of a knitted product is 1.5 times that by plain knitting or thicker which is equal to a thickness obtained by rib knitting. The elongation of the knitted product in the course direction is approximately 1.5 times that by the other methods which is approximately half an elongation obtained by plain knitting which is approximately three times that by the other methods. The elongation of the knitted product in the wale direction is approximately 1.7 to 1.8 times that obtained by the other methods which is equal to an elongation obtained by plain knitting.

Abstract: The corduroy fabric includes a plurality of transverse weft yarn sets. Each consists of at least three yarns and includes a plurality of pile yarn warp loops consisting of yarns having yarn forming at least one pile end, and a plurality of binding yarn warp loops consisting of at least two yarns. Each of the binding yarn warp loops is located respectively at two sides of a selected number of the pile yarn warp loops and has one common yarn winding a selected number of the pile yarn warp loops to form a binding yarn cross with the pile end. The pile yarn warp loops and the binding yarn warp loops of one transverse weft yarn set are crossly woven consecutively with longitudinal neighboring pile yarn warp stitches and the binding yarn warp loops of a next transverse weft yarn set to form a plurality of longitudinal warp loop pile zones.

Abstract: A knitted spacer fabric includes an upper textile, a lower textile and mutually crossing supporting threads arranged between the upper textile and the lower textile which connect the upper and the lower textiles to one another. Portions of the supporting threads are connected to one another at crossing points.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a raschel knit net having square meshes is provided. The method consists of providing a raschel knit net having diamond meshes, and cutting diagonally across the net from selvedge to selvedge. Multiple pieces of cut net are rotated and aligned, selvedge to selvedge, such that the meshes are square shaped with the mesh strands running generally lengthwise and widthwise. The aligned selvedges are then joined together, creating a net having square meshes, such that the dimensions of the net are fixed lengthwise and widthwise. The joined selvedges create a dimensional control portion extending diagonally between lengthwise edges of the net.

Abstract: A fabric has an upper layer and a lower layer. The lower layer connects partially to the upper layer to integrally form multiple connecting segments formed on the upper layer and the lower layer. The at least one channel is formed on the upper layer and the lower layer and is formed respectively between adjacent connecting segments. The fabric is produced by a sewing step and a connecting step. The sewing step comprises sewing multiple raw fibers to respectively form the upper layer and the lower layer. The connecting step comprises connecting partially the upper layer to the lower layer by fiber to integrally form the connecting segments and the at least one channel. Thus, time and a cost of a production of the fabric can be reduced to relieve customers' burdens.

Abstract: An air bag substrate fabric utilizing a tying yarn knitting arrangement wherein a portion of the tying yarns are threaded to engage needles so as to form two stitches with one on either side of the inlay warp yarn at rows of stitch formation. The neighboring stitches resist yarn separation and resultant combing while also blocking the commencement and propagation of de-knitting when a tying yarn is broken.

Abstract: A prosthetic knit for medical or surgical use which has a structure made of monofilament and/or multifilament yarn which is biocompatible and optionally partially bicabsorbable. According to the invention, this knit comprises a monofilament sheet forming, on one face of the knit, spiked naps which protrude perpendicularly with respect to said sheet, that is to say naps each having a substantially rectlinear body and, at the free end of this body, a head of greater width than that of this body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayered, breathable fabric and especially, but not exclusively, to a textile fabric for clothing purposes. In a special embodiment, the invention relates to a fabric for manufacturing articles of work clothing for protection against the effects of heat, flames or arcing and the like. Therefore, the invention also relates to an article of fire protection clothing with a novel, breathable, moisture-transporting fabric as the inner layer. However, the textile fabric can also be used in the leisure sector, for example, to manufacture functional undergarments.

Abstract: A fabric article useful for the cushioning surface of a car seat and like items is formed from thick main elastic yarn which is thicker than main stitch yarn, and main inserted yarn which is more bulky and thicker than the main elastic yarn in apparent thickness, are knitted in line in the knitting width direction or in the knitting length direction of a mesh-like base knitted fabric which is knitted up with main stitch yarns by using a warp knitting machine and which have openings which are larger than the needle loops formed from the stitch yarn and extend over plural knitting courses.

Abstract: A fabric construction utilizing a tying yarn knitting arrangement wherein a portion of the tying yarns are threaded to engage needles so as to form two stitches with one on either side of the inlay warp yarn at rows of stitch formation. The neighboring stitches resist yarn separation and resultant combing while also blocking the commencement and propagation of de-knitting when a tying yarn is broken thereby enhancing seam strength character.

Abstract: This invention provides a fastener tape and a stinger for a slide fastener constituted of a warp knitting or weaving structure and including a tape main portion and a fastener element attaching portion, wherein a warp and a weft, which are composition yarns of the fastener tape, are composed of multifilament yarns and a size of a composition filament of the warp is 1.0 to 2.0 dTex, and a size of that of the weft is 2.0 to 5.0 dTex, these sizes of the single filaments being not larger than ¼ of the conventional composition filament, thereby achieving advantages that they adapt well to a fabric when and after a slide fastener is sewed to a thin fabric having flexibility and excellent drape performance and secure tape strength and coupling strength required as a slide fastener, the fastener tape and stringer ensuring flexibility and soft feeling.

Abstract: A fabric construction utilizing a tying yarn knitting arrangement wherein a portion of the tying yarns are threaded to engage needles so as to form two stitches with one on either side of the inlay warp yarn at rows of stitch formation. The neighboring stitches resist yarn separation and resultant combing while also blocking the commencement and propagation of de-knitting when a tying yarn is broken thereby enhancing seam strength character.

Abstract: A wire-reinforced webbing material is disclosed for use in furniture, bedding and the like. The webbing includes a flat knitted fabric comprised of substantially elastic yarns such as polyester. A plurality of reinforcement wires are integrally knitted into the fabric structure in a lengthwise direction. The wires may be thin-gauge titanium or titanium alloy wires. Elastomeric yarns or cards may also be integrally knitted into the fabric structure parallel to the reinforcement wires. The reinforcement wires and elastomeric cords combine with the knitted fabric to yield a webbing material having both a high tensile strength and a resilient responsiveness to applied external loads.

Abstract: An improved process for making stitchbonded fabric in which a feed material that has a visible pattern on it is surface is multi-needle stitched with a contractible yarn and then the stitched material is contracted to form an attractive, novel surface pattern that is quite different from the original pattern on the feed material.

Abstract: Among knitting yarns forming stitches of a fastener element attaching portion of a warp knitted tape for a slide fastener composed of multiple wales, a dry heat shrinkage ratio of one or more knitting yarns disposed across adjoining wales such that they at least entangle with another knitting yarn on the wales in the fastener element attaching portion is set lower than a dry heat shrinkage ratio of other knitting yarns composing the warp knitted tape. Preferably, a multifilament yarn composed of fine filament fibers of 0.5 to 4 dTex is used for all the knitting yarns. With such a structure, fastener elements can be sewed accurately, so that a soft warp knitted tape having no hardness due to thermal setting and an excellent drape performance can be obtained, this knitted tape allowing a smooth opening/closing operation of a slider after the fastener elements are mounted.

Abstract: A reinforced webbing material is disclosed for use in furniture, bedding and the like. The webbing includes a flat knitted fabric comprised of conventional yarns such as polyester. Elastomeric yarns or cords may also be, but are not necessarily, integrally knitted into the fabric structure in a warpwise direction. One or more high-performance polymeric reinforcement yarns are integrally knitted into the fabric structure in a lengthwise direction. The reinforcement yarns may comprise aramid fibers, ultra high molecular weight polyethylene, or other suitable high tensile strength polymeric yarns. The reinforcement yarns and elastomeric cords combine with the knitted fabric to provide a substantially elastic webbing material having a finite amount of stretch that is limited by the high performance yarns.