Abstract: An article of footwear including an upper incorporating a knitted component having color-shifting properties is provided. Color-shift properties can be generated by one or more lenticular knit structures disposed across the upper of the article of footwear. The lenticular knit structures are formed of unitary knit construction with the remaining portions of the knitted component. The lenticular knit structures have portions formed with different yarns. The different yarns on the portions of the lenticular knit structures generate a visual effect that changes the color of the article of footwear depending on the viewing angle.

Abstract: The present embodiments provide a knitted component including a knitted base portion located between a first non-planar structure and a second non-planar structure. The knitted base portion may include a first area located adjacent to the first non-planar structure, and the first area may include at least one course of a first base yarn. The knitted base portion may include a second area located adjacent to the second non-planar structure, and the second area may include at least one course of a second base yarn. The first base yarn may have a first visual property and the second base yarn may have a second visual property different from the first visual property.

Abstract: A jacquard fabric for a mattress ticking to be used for a bedding mattress and a method for knitting this jacquard fabric are provided. The method is for producing a jacquard fabric for a mattress ticking using a double-sided needle selection circular knitting machine of a rib gating type by which an arbitrary pattern is created by means of computer-based needle selection on a cylinder side, an arbitrary pattern is also created by means of computer-based needle selection on a dial side, and an arbitrary knitting structure is made in an arbitrary part by combining the pattern obtained on the cylinder side with the pattern obtained on the dial side. As a result of employing an irregular twill pattern as a background knitting structure serving as a base, a stretchable fabric that has a soft texture, a tight knitting structure, and strength similar to that of woven fabric is obtained.

Abstract: A preparation method of a jacquard sandwich fabric with a two-colored surface is disclosed, employing a jacquard warp knitting machine, comprising: 1) changing a guide bar configuration; 2) changing a jacquard control signal; 3) re-defining a basic stitch of a jacquard; 5) converting a designed pattern into a graphic diagram, and continuously modifying the pattern through the graphic diagram; 6) after finishing the pattern design, directly exporting a knitting document, importing the document into a machine file, and producing the jacquard sandwich mesh fabric with a two-colored surface. A weft laid-in stitch is added. The weft laid-in stitch can completely hide the yarns, so a two color effect can be obtained.

Abstract: A sheet material for a seat characterized in that the stress at 5% elongation (A) is from 40 to 300 N/4 cm width wherein A is a larger value between a stress measured in the longitudinal direction and a stress measured in the lateral direction, that the ratio A/B is from 1.5 to 15.0 wherein B is the smaller value obtained in the above measurement, and that the reduction in width (H) is from 0 to 15% when the sheet material is fixed on a frame at the one end and the opposite end while stretched and pressured.

Abstract: Multilayer sleeves for insulating or protecting elongated substrates are disclosed. The sleeves are continuously knitted in different sections integrally joined end to end, the sections being formed of different filamentary members chosen for desired characteristics. The sleeves are formed into the multilayer configuration by reverse folding the sleeves inwardly to place one section coaxially within another. Sleeve ends may be finished with welts to prevent raveling and serve as a clinch on the elongated substrates. Rib knits are used to form insulating air pockets lengthwise along the sleeves to augment the insulating effectiveness.

Abstract: In a fastening device with tape, made of synthetic resin, the tape is composed of a warp knitting structure including an attachment area composed of one or more wales disposed at the right and left edge portions in a width direction of the tape, and a fastener-molding area composed of plural wales in a center portion in the width direction of the tape. The warp knitted tape is entirely composed of a knitting structure by tangling of two needle stitch yarns and weft in-laid yarns. A chain stitch yarn is further knitted into the attachment area so as to suppress the stretching property an stabilize dimensional form in the warp direction of the attachment area. In the fastener-molding area, a predetermined stretching property in the warp direction and some extent of stability in dimensional form are secured. The fastening device can be adapted well to an attachment object such as clothes having a stretching property and may be engaged or disengaged securely and accurately.

Abstract: To provide improved beauty of an double jersey fabric at its side edge portion and improved productivity, the present invention provides a method for knitting the double jersey fabric including rib knitting such as Milano rib by a knitting equivalent to or higher than a double knitting by use of a flat knitting machine, wherein a piping is provided for at least one of a side edge portion of the fabric by the step that one or more needles of the front and back needle beds are introduced so that knitting of the side edge portion of the fabric on an ending side of a course knitting can be ended with the needle(s) of one of the needle beds and knitting of the side edge portion of the fabric on a beginning side of the subsequent course knitting can be started with the needle(s) of the other of the needle beds; and the step that the course knitting are performed orderly from the yarn feeder disposed on a frontwardly positioned track, when the knitting of the side edge portion is ended with the needle(s) of the back

Abstract: A multi-layer weft knit fabric for absorbing moisture and wicking it from a first fabric layer to a second layer is described, as well as a method for making the fabric. The multi-layer fabric includes a first hydrophobic layer and a second hydrophilic layer, with the layers being secured together by a series of courses forming spacer yarns which maintain the fabric layers in a spaced relationship relative to each other. The spacer yarns are adapted to wick moisture from the hydrophobic layer to the hydrophilic layer. The spacer yarns are preferably knit-in or laid-in to the respective knit fabric layers, and a plastic water-resistant layer can be secured proximate the hydrophilic fabric layer. A method of integrally knitting the multi-layer fabric on a circular knitting machine is also described.

Abstract: A process for making a double-knit fabric from elastic yarns and hard yarns and the double-knit fabric product. The double-knit fabric does not have to be heat-set prior to use.

Abstract: The double-faced knitted fabric, notably for leisure clothes, according to the invention, has one face with a surface in a first material, preferably cotton, whether pure or in a mixture, and the other face with a surface in a second material, preferably wool, whether pure or in a mixture. The knitted fabric is obtained on at least three feeds, two feeds with a full cardigan type knitting with a yarn of the first material and a second yarn of the second material and one feed with a jersey type knitting using a third yarn having the first material at least on the surface.In particular, this third yarn can be an elastic yarn, comprising for example, a covered elastomer yarn whose cover is in the first material.

Abstract: A double-knit fabric having non-run and stretchability characteristics and method and apparatus for knitting the same in which multiple yarns are knit into cylinder needle and dial needle wales, in which two yarns are knit together into stitch loops in each wale, the stitch loops in adjacent wales in each course being knit of one yarn from the stitch loop in the adjacent wale in the same course and a yarn from a stitch loop in the adjacent wale from an adjacent course.

Abstract: A knit fabric is made of a combination of a corespun yarn having a core of a resilient continuous filament yarn covered by a cotton fiber and a cotton yarn. These yarns are knit together in such a manner that one side of the knit fabric exposes only one of the yarns while the other side of the knit fabric exposes the knit combination of both yarns. The knit fabric is easily and comfortably manipulated while posessessing improved mechanical properties such as strength, durability, and stretch and recovery.

Abstract: In knitted fabric there is provided at least one area contained by a tension thread which is tied by means of tuck loops into individual stitches of the adjoining fabric in such a way that its two ends lie on the same edge side of the contained fabric area. As a result of a pull on the ends of the tension thread the edge of the fabric area contained by the tension thread is pulled together and thereby the fabric area is curved out of the plane of the fabric as a whole or divided into individual segments.

Abstract: Open-work textile structure of the type constituted by a warp knit fabric produced with yarns coated with a thermoplastic material, the coating being partly melted and bonding the yarns together in those areas where they are in contact.According to said structure, the open-work takes in the form of regular polygons of which some of the edges at least are slanted with respect to the length of said structure, the stitches of said knitted fabric imprisoning a weft yarn which extends in substantially a straight line parallel to the edges of the formed open-work.

Abstract: Weft double knitted fabric has a looped structure with some knitted loops drawn in one direction and other knitted loops drawn in an opposite direction. Yarns of some courses are drawn into knitted loops in both directions to form knit stitches on both faces of the fabric. Yarns of other courses are drawn into knitted loops in a first direction only to form knit stitches on one face only of the fabric. Yarns of still other courses are drawn into knitted loops in the second direction only to form knitted stitches on the other face only of the fabric. An inlay yarn is formed exclusively into tuck stitches extending in both directions, with different yarns drawn through the tuck stitches to form knit stitches on opposite faces of the fabric.

Abstract: A fabric having open areas is knitted from a plurality of body yarns interspersed at intervals with locking yarns having a lower melting temperature by casting off selected loops in selected body yarns, causing the cast-off loops to unravel toward but not past the respective locking yarn, and heating the fabric to cause the locking yarns to fuse to the touching body yarns, thereby preventing the cast-off loops from unraveling past the respective locking yarn.

Abstract: A knitted rib or purl stitch fabric the ground structure of which has two faces of knitted loops drawn in respectively opposite directions. Courses of the loops of one face have inserted into them unknitted weft yarn contrasting with the ground structure. The inserted yarn is, without itself being knitted, knocked-over with knitted loops in spaced wales of said one face so as to be locked into the ground structure by virtue of being trapped between needle loops and adjacent sinker loops of both faces. Elsewhere the inserted yarn is floated across the fronts of knitted loops in intervening wales of said face and across the backs of oppositely drawn knitted loops of the other face.

Abstract: The inlaid yarn is incorporated in a rib or double knit fabric by forming groups of held stitch loops on the face side of the fabric. The inlaid yarns extend behind the held stitch loops and are maintained in position by the rearwardly facing stitch loops on the reverse side of the fabric. The groups of held stitch loops are staggered coursewise so that the inlaid yarns are deflected and extend diagonally between the groups of held stitch loops to provide unique surface patterns on the face side of the fabric.

Abstract: A double knit fabric having a high relief of small puffs on the back of the fabric and a substantially smooth surface on the front of the fabric wherein said puffs are elliptical in shape and alternate in vertical rows with a depressed portion of the fabric that is double knitted and alternate in a checkerboard pattern with adjoining rows of puffs.