Abstract: A steering system for controlling the operation of a warp knitting machine performing the function of a conventional jacquard mechanism includes an electromechanical mechanism to maintain the steering element in one of its two possible terminal positions. The system includes a steering mechanism disposed generally above and in relatively close proximity to the guidebar drive levers of the knitting machine and is operably coupled to a plurality of steering elements which are disposed proximate the guides of the machine. Activation of the electromechanical device coupled to a predetermined programming device causes the steering elements to be maintained in one of its two stable conditions which may be synchronized with the source of machine driving power.

Abstract: The pawl is retracted from the intermittently rotatable input shaft via a controlled abutment and a spring biased lever-mounted or piston-mounted roller. The abutment serves to start retraction of the pawl while the spring biased roller presses against a non-circular surface of the cam plate on which the pawl is mounted to complete removal of the pawl from the recess. The cam plate also has one or more cam surfaces for resetting the abutment after the pawl has been engaged in the shaft.

Abstract: A warp knitting machine having at least two guide bars, a needle bar, and a cooperating driving means utilizes a plurality of slider needles affixed to the needle bar and in combination with a trick plate member disposed between the guide bars in front of the needles is adapted to interact with the fall plate threads and the needles, to provide a trick plate weft thread lay in bound by the ground thread without the fall plate thread forming a stitch.

Abstract: A fabric is produced in a stitch-through type machine such as a Malimo maching 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 substrate and design elements against relative displacement and to form thereby an integrated fabric structure.

Abstract: There is provided an improved warp knitting machine utilizing latch needles. The improvement comprises the provision of a latch opening means operating in conjunction with the guide bars. The latch opening means may be brush formed when used with latch needles having extra long latches.

Abstract: The hook needle type knitting machine for the manufacture of ribbons comprises weft thread guiding means which include a pair of vertically movable side plates which support for axial movement at least one bar supporting the weft guides. The bar has a circular cross-section and is protected against inflections and rotation about its axis by an intermediate clamping member and a guiding rod slidably passing through a side plate. The guiding rod is secured to the bar by clamps which act as a thrust member for driving cam mechanism of the bar. The side plates and the needle bed are driven respectively, by a linkage including a driving eccentric shaft and a connecting rod. The needle bed is supported on two pivotable arms the length of which substantially exceeds the arcuate displacement of the needles so that this displacement can be considered as rectilinear.

Abstract: A warp knitting machine produces an unusual effect by including a weft thread inserting device capable of operating over a relatively large number of needles eliminating the chain stitches which normally occur at narrow intervals.

Abstract: A patterning device employs an elongated strip which is fixed between an operating element, such as a guide bar of a warp knitting machine, and a fixed support point. In addition, the patterning device has a displacing element in the form of a rotatable eccentric or a reciprocally mounted roller which is used to deflect the strip between two points intermediately of the length of the strip so as to exert a pulling force on the guide bar. The amount of deflection of the strip determines the amount of movement of the guide bar. The guide bar can be returned by way of a spring or by a second strip which is deflected in similar manner as the first strip by a displacing element. In one embodiment, a single displacing element is used for deflecting purposes while in other embodiments, a multiplicity of displacing elements are used. The strips may be attached directly to the guide bar or indirectly, for example, over a pivotally mounted lever.

Abstract: A knitting machine has a weft thread laying unit for laying weft threads for linking with warp threads by means of needles, comprising a guide bar extending across the machine, and a slider slidable along the bar, the slider having a weft thread guide to lay a weft thread in front of the row of needles. The unit may have at least one pair of oppositely movable sliders to reduce inertia force in the unit.

Abstract: The present yarn guide tubes are fixed on one face of profile plates which are in turn carried on a support bar operated from the carrier rods of the knitting machine. The centers of the yarn guide tubes are spaced the same distance as the spacing of the needles and the free ends are sufficiently spaced apart to at times to permit the needles to pass therebetween. Selective positions on the support bar, or the entire support bar, may be provided with the profile plates and inlay yarns are fed through the selected tubes where it is desired to produce zig-zag striping, diamonds and various other motifs in the knit fabric.

Abstract: This racking control is particularly adapted for warp knitting machines of the type including weft inlay yarn feed tubes to which a limited range of step-by-step racking movements may be imparted to produce zig-zag striping, diamonds and various other motifs in the knit fabric. The present racking control is utilized to substantially increase the normally limited racking movement to thereby increase the size of such motifs which may be formed in the knit fabric. The normal amount of limited racking movement is imparted by a main pattern chain acting on a main carrier rod and an auxiliary carrier rod is selectively latched to the main carrier rod for providing additional racking movement by means of an auxiliary pattern chain.

Abstract: This reverse racking mechanism is particularly adapted for use with warp knitting machines of the type including inlay yarn guide tubes supported on carrier rods with each of the carrier rods being racked or shogged by a separate pattern chain to form various types of zig-zag patterns on the knit fabric. As step-by-step racking movement is imparted to a particular carrier rod, the present mechanism imparts the same racking movement in a reverse direction to an adjacent carrier rod. The present mechanism includes rack means carried by the adjacent carrier rods with a pinion supported between and in engagement with the two racks so that any racking movement imparted to one carrier rod is imparted to the adjacent carrier rod but in a reverse direction.

Abstract: A displacing means is used to move at least one guide bar by at least one needle space in order to remove the loops on a terry cloth towel material such as knitted on a warp knitting machine. The displacing device basically comprises a transfer means for driving a second pattern gear wheel from a conventional first set of gear wheels, a cam follower arrangement operatively associated with the second set of pattern chains; a clutch means actuated by the cam follower mechanism, another cam actuated by the clutch and a cam follower and linkage mechanism associated with the clutch cam for moving the guide bar in the direction of its normal motion by at least one additional needle space. The transfer means comprises first and second coaxially mounted gears which are driven by an idler gear mounted near the periphery of the circumference of the first set of pattern chain wheel.

Abstract: The guide bars of a warp knitting machine include a compensation means which allows the guides on the guide bar to pass more precisely between the gaps in the needles of an associated needle bed. The compensation means is located between a pattern wheel follower and a push rod which is rotatably attached at one end to the guide bar. An adjustable lever is attached at one end to the push rod and at the other end to a rotatable pin. The rotatable pin is associated with a housing which contains an eccentric roller cam. The eccentric roller cam is directly connected to the rotatable pin and is displaceable in direct response to the rotation of the rotatable pin. A short rod having an angled face is adapted to make contact with the eccentric roller cam. The other end of the rod is pivotally connected to one end of the push rod by a ball joint. When the guide bar is displaced from one needle bed to another the push rod and accordingly, the lever follow that motion.

Abstract: A warp-knitted fabric with surface interest patterning is formed from at least two full sets of threads being fed to separate guide bars of a warp knitting machine then to a single needle bed for knitting by supplying one of the full set of threads from two partial beam sets of threads. The two partial beam sets of threads are fed at different rates to the operating guide bar in a pattern. The pattern is predetermined groups of threads from one partial beam set of threads with each group being separated by at least one thread from the other partial beam set of threads.

Abstract: A drive for a guide bar on a Raschel knitting machine to permit shogging across the full width of narrow fabrics. The drive is by cam, double lever linkage with adjustment slots and pins at at least two points on the levers. For maximum fabric width, for example significantly wider than 1.25 inches, there is also a minor modification of the guide bar supports themselves. These involve pins, and the pins are enough longer so that the bar can move a greater distance without interfering or striking other portions of the knitting machine.