Abstract: A permanent elastic net-shaped bandage including a fabric with elastic threads as warps and with non-elastic threads transverse thereto forming wefts. More specifically, the warps are designed as fringe warps of non-elastic threads and are independent of each other while being backed by an elastic synthetic thread. The non-elastic wefts comprise upper and lower wefts which always rest on the same spot of the fringe warp, which is engaged by the adjacent upper and lower wefts, and between the skips from fringe warp to fringe warp are in an arc-shaped manner lying a plurality of times on the fringe warp.

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 pressure sensitive tape composed of a polyethylene base film; a warp knit, weft inserted, continuous filament substrate and a pressure sensitive adhesive applied to the film through the substrate.

Abstract: A wall covering has a textile element secured to a backing by a thermo-fusible material. The textile element is formed of compacted zig-zags of the warp formed by a crocheting machine and held on the backing by chain stitching parallel to the direction of movement in the machine. The chain stitching along the selvage edges of the element precut the backing for removal of excess backing by tearing. The covering is coupled by a final step of fusing the thermo-fusible material.

Abstract: A fabric having a novel warp lift-off-resistant construction is made on a stitch-through type machine equipped with a single knitting thread guide bar and comprises a flexible substrate such as a layer of textile yarn filling elements, a plurality of warp elements laid on the substrate in the longitudinal or warpwise direction, and knitting thread forming a multiplicity of warpwise stitches in a warp lift-off-resistant configuration. The knitting thread warp lift-off-resistant configuration comprises, in one embodiment, a combination of at least one half-tricot stitch course and one or more consecutive chain stitch courses on a given knitting thread wale to bind together into an integrated structure the substrate and warp elements, to secure the substrate and warp elements against relative displacement, and to stabilize the fabric against running or lifting off of the warp elements from the fabric surface.

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: A plurality of elongate warp-knit webs are connected side by side by water-soluble connecting threads along their longitudinal edges. The warp-knit webs are arranged in connected pairs each having a pair of opposed marginal edge portions for supporting a pair of rows of coupling elements, respectively. The connecting thread extends between and interconnects inner wales adjacent to the outermost wales in the opposed marginal edge portions in each pair of the warp-knit webs. The outermost wale is formed solely with a single thread and is shifted into contact with the inner wale, thereby providing a single widened wale along a longitudinal edge of the web. Between the opposed longitudinal marginal edges of the paired webs, there is a gap or clearance that is small enough to make a slide fastener sightly and resistant to being split open under accidental conditions.

Abstract: An elastic warp knit fabric having a relatively stiff monofilament inlaid in the fabric between the courses thereof in a sinusoidal fashion so that the reverse portions of the monofilament did not extend to the outer extremities of the fabric. In one form of the invention a skirt is provided on one side of the fabric to decrease the possibility of cutting the monofilament when being connected for use as a waistband for body conforming garment.

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 permanent elastic net-shaped bandage including a fabric with elastic threads as warps and with non-elastic threads transverse thereto forming wefts. More specifically, the warps are designed as fringe warps of non-elastic threads and are independent of each other while being backed by an elastic synthetic thread. The non-elastic wefts always rest on the same spot of the fringe warp which is engaged by the adjacent weft and between the skips from fringe warp to fringe warp are in an arc-shaped manner lying a plurality of times on the fringe warp.

Abstract: A warp knit fabric and method of making it wherein said fabric which is adapted to constitute reinforcing plastrons for apparel is generally constituted by a stitch fabric having, on the one hand, a sheet of mutually parallel reinforcing yarns giving the fabric the required wiry properties and, on the other hand, a sheet of napped or roughened yarns which gives one face of the fabric adhering properties with respect to the fabric of the apparel or to its lining and, simultaneously, a light volume effect which provides a "fuller hand" of the frontal portion of the apparel thus replacing the conventionally attached felt-like layer.

Abstract: A dimensionally stable filter structure for high temperature applications and method of making it. The filter structure comprises at least one batt of relatively brittle fibers, known to possess outstanding degredation resistance at elevated temperatures, stitch-knitted with high temperature and corrosion resistant yarns.

Abstract: Covered warp yarns or cords are produced by feeding to a warp-knitting device thick warp yarns, especially of elastomeric material, and thin yarns which are knitted around the respective thick warp yarns as rows of chain or other loop stitches. The warp cords so produced are woven as warp threads in a conventional manner with weft threads in a loom which preferably includes the warp-knitting device.

Abstract: A lightweight, porous knitted elastic bandage is produced from a warp of false-twist synthetic yarns with a filling inlay of regular yarns. The filling yarns are arranged in varying patterns across the warp yarns so that a portion of their length lies in looped and cursive configuration upon the surface of the bandage, and the structure is so open that overlapping layers of the bandage cling to each other in substantially non-displaceable relationship.

Abstract: A warp-knit slide-fastener stringer half comprises 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 warp yarns forming longitudinally extending parallel wale-forming chains, a first group of weft yarns laid into and each extending over only three of the chains, and a second group of weft yarns laid into and each extending over only two of the chains. A continuous monofilamentary coupling element having a succession of turns lies on one face of the tape along one edge thereof and is secured thereto by double-lock 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 wales formed by the chains at the edge. The warp-chain-forming yarns and the weft yarns or either of these in the alternative can be composed of shrinkable threads and thermofixed.

Abstract: A warp knit fabric which is stretchable in the direction of the wales by virtue of elastomer yarn forming the wales is made ravel resistant when cut in a transverse direction, by having a plurality of ends of elastomer yarn form each wale, with each yarn end having alternating knitted and laid in portions, each for a succession of stitches, the knitting and laying in of one yarn end being out of phase with the knitting and laying in of another yarn end. The wales are interconnected by inelastic yarn to form the fabric.

Abstract: A lace pattern comprised of a repetitive pattern of squares circumscribing small six-sided figures and a method for its manufacture on a raschel warp-knitting machine. The lace closely approximates laces made on bobbin-net machines and is dimensionally stable along both of its principal axes.

Abstract: A slide-fastener support tape is made in a warp-knitting machine which chains a plurality of relatively thin warp yarns to form an array of longitudinally extending and transversely spaced wales. One of the needles of the knitting machine is left empty so as to space the edgemost warp yarn from the other warp yarns by a gap corresponding to the transverse width of one wale. A relatively thick warp yarn is blind-lapped into this gap. A group of first weft yarns is laid into the warp yarns to one side of the thick yarn and a group of second weft yarns is lapped into the warp yarns with loop formations to the other side of the thick yarn. It is also possible to provide a second such thick yarn in the tape, held in place by a group of third weft yarns which are also lapped into the tape.

Abstract: A net jointing structure has a pair of warp-knitted net adapters for use in coupling or jointing net ends together. Each of the adapters has a net region and a web region, the net region being subdivided into at least two net sections one of which is smaller in mesh size than the other. The net section of a smaller mesh size is formed of a plurality of meshes made of warp chains and is coupled to the web region. The net section of a larger mesh size is adapted for connection with one of the net ends. The web region includes a plurality of warp chain pairs spaced uniformly along the length of the web region, the warp chain pairs being an extension of the warp chains, and the web region further including inlaid threads fastening the warp chain pairs together.

Abstract: A fabric having unidirectional stretch and recovery force properties suitable for providing the force for dispensing fluid from a container is provided in a fabric construction comprising chain stitches of inelastic yarn, elastomer yarn laid into each course of the fabric providing it with the unidirectional stretch, and substantially inextensible yarn laid lengthwise in said chain stitches to limit the stretch of the fabric in the direction of the chain stitches.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for knitting a narrow band in which a special effect yarn for use in the band and the band itself, are knitted simultaneously on one machine and the special effect yarn is taken off and guided directly to the needles knitting the band.

Abstract: A warp-knitted fabric comprises one set of threads forming a multiplicity of inerconnected, contracted loop and two sets of laid-in threads arranged in pairs. Each of the threads of the pairs of lay-ins includes in each repeat of a knitting pattern at least two short lay-ins between wales and at least two long lay-ins between wales, there being for each long lay-in between wales of each thread of each pair a corresponding short lay-in between wales of the other thread of the pair which is located in the same course as and extends in the opposite direction from the said long lay-in between wales. The threads of each pair of laid-in threads form mirror images of each other which are offset from each other by at least two courses and are thus of substantially equal total lengths in each repeat.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing fringed braid comprising a reciprocable weft guide for meshing weft yarn with warp to form a braid with projecting loops of the yarn. A sliver guide is reciprocable to form loops of fringe sliver. One guide is displaceable from one side to the opposite side of the other guide whereby the yarn and sliver loops are formed interlooped. Sliver loop halves are interconnected by warp threads. A similar apparatus has an additional weft yarn guide, two braids being simultaneously produced, with projecting yarn loops of each being interlooped with loops of a single sliver.

Abstract: Multiple wale lapping stitch loop chains are knit of additional yarn and extend over at least a pair of adjacent wales along at least one selvage edge of the elastic tape to prevent ravelling of the edge of the tape. The knitted elastic tape also includes a plurality of stitch loop chains knit of stretchable yarn and forming adjacent wales extending longitudinally of the tape and successive courses extending from one side of the tape to the other. An elastomeric yarn is inlaid in and extends along selected ones of the plurality of stitch loop chains and filling yarn extends back and forth across the tape so that the tape is stretchable in the lengthwise direction but substantially unstretchable in the widthwise direction.

Abstract: An elastic warp knit fabric with ravel resistant features having a plurality of base yarns where each base yarn is knitted in successive courses to form a plurality of closed loops which extend in a warp direction and which form a plurality of individual wales. At least one of the wales is a locking wale forming one lateral edge of the fabric and another of the wales is an intermediate wale. An elastic yarn is laid into at least one of the intermediate wales and one of the locking wales. A first filler yarn extends in a weft direction in each course and is contained within the closed loops of adjacent wales to connect the wales together. A locking yarn is knitted in a locking wale to form an open loop in alternate courses where a portion of the locking yarn extends in a weft direction along with the filler yarn whereby the locking yarn prevents unraveling of the lateral edge of the fabric.

Abstract: A warp knit fabric having an embossed-appearing broken or interrupted strip on one side wherein the fabric comprises a plurality of base yarns each knitted in successive courses to form a plurality of successive closed loops extending in a warp direction to form an individual wale. A filler yarn extends across a side of the fabric to connect adjacent wales and an elastic yarn is laid into each wale. At least one wale has a pattern or color yarn knitted therein to form a plurality of open loops for a number of successive courses and then is laid in the same wale for a number of successive courses wherein the knitted portion of the pattern yarn overlies the knitted base yarn portion of the same wale to give an embossed broken or interrupted stripe effect.

Abstract: A ribbon-like bandage fabric which is stretchable in the lengthwise direction but substantially unstretchable in the widthwise direction. The fabric includes a plurality of walewise parallel stitch loop chains knit of stretchable yarn, a pair of filling yarns extending back and forth across the fabric and being held in the courses of the stitch loop chains, and elastic yarns inlaid in and extending along selected ones of the parallel stitch loop chains. This knit bandage fabric is lighter weight than conventional woven bandage fabric but has substantially the same elastic characteristics and may be produced in a more economical manner.