Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a knit, said method comprising the following steps:—a) knitting first yarns of biocompatible polymer materials, a second yarn, which is a monofilament yarn, and a third yarn, which is a monofilament yarn, which are made of the same biocompatible hot-melt material, the diameter of the second yarn being strictly greater than the diameter of the third yarn:—said second and third yarns generating loops protruding from one face of said knit,—b) thermosetting the knit obtained at a),—c) placing the face of the knit with loops flat on a heated cylinder, resulting in i) the complete melting and elimination of the loops formed from the third yarn, and ii) the partial melting of the loops formed from the second yarn, said partial melting causing the rupture of each loop and, therefore, the formation, for each loop, of two barbs protruding outwards from the face of said knit.

Abstract: A textile machine comprising a main shaft (10) to be driven in rotation, and a sensor (20) to detect at least one angular position (PA) of said shaft and generate a corresponding reference signal (SR); the machine (1) further comprises weaving members (30) to make a textile product (30), at least one beam (50) on which a yarn (60, 61, 63, 64) to be fed to the weaving members (30) for manufacture of the textile product (40) is wound, and an actuator to drive the beam (50) in rotation and unwind the yarn (60, 61, 63, 64). The machine (1) further comprises a controller connected to the sensor (20) and an actuator depending on the reference signal (SR).

Abstract: Using a control system, yarn ends unwound from at least one or more beams, small packages, or any or all combinations thereof may be directly fed to at least one or more knitting machines. The control system with its processing units in cooperation with various sensors control the rotation of at least one or more beams to allow the feedwheel units of circular or flat bed knitting machines to draw yarn therefrom. In addition, if small packages are used either alone or in combination with at least one or more beams, they should come from the same “batch” of yarn that were originally back wound together. This “batch” of small packages should be used and fed to circular or flat bed knitting machines together.

Abstract: A machine for producing braid or circular knit fabric has a withdrawal unit for the continuous product driven by a synchronous motor receiving its drive signal from a digital frequency converter. A pulse generator connected with the main motor of the machine produces pulses representing the speed of the main motor which are integrated and applied to a multiplier introducing the proportionality factor between the main drive and the withdrawal drive. That multiplier has an output which is applied as the input to the digital frequency converter.

Abstract: A yarn feed gearbox control system for controlling the let-off speed of a yarn feed gearbox. The control system is adapted for use with a warp knitting machine having a main shaft and a gearbox operative to control the feed rate of yarn delivery from a yarn beam, the gearbox including an adjustment spindle extending therefrom. The control system includes a yarn feed rate detector which measures the rate of yarn delivery from the beam, a computer which receives yarn feed rate signals from the yarn feed rate detector and generates control signals corresponding thereto, and a control device which controls the speed of rotation of the spindle in accordance with the control signals. The control system may be further provided with a main shaft detector to measure the speed of rotation of the main shaft of the knitting machine. The control system may also be provided with a beam revolution detector to generate a revolution signal corresponding to each revolution of the yarn beam.

Abstract: An arrangement for driving a warp beam employs a stepless adjustable drive (7) whose coupling element (8) is displaced by a setting member (11). The setting member (11) is controlled-by a computer (10) which provides an input arrangement (17) for the take-up of data of a predetermined thread provision (F); as well as data on the machine, the stepless adjustable drive (7) and the beam (3). The data includes a wind variable size (actual wind number w.sub.a), and data characterizing the actual wind circumference (U.sub.a). The computer has a calculating segment (18) and an output (19). With such an arrangement, the coupling element (8) can be brought into the correct target position, even before the start of the machine. The computing means can also serve as part of the control arrangement during the running of the machine.

Abstract: A process or apparatus can control thread provision in a warp knitting machine by means of a computer (6). The computer operation involves pattern data (MD) supplied as a sequence of numbers. These numbers are provided to a recognition routine (ER), which for every warp course (line W) determines the lapping type (LA) that should be formed and the shogging distance (SW) prescribed. Tables are stored for providing a thread provision value (FZ) for each combination of lapping type (LA), thread take-off value (WA), and a shogging distance (SW). Based upon (a) the determined lapping type, (b) the inputted fabric take-off value, (c) the inputtable external operating parameters or influences, and (d) the determined shogging distance, the thread provision value for this warp course is read out and utilized for controlling thread provision.

Abstract: The device herein described comprises a pair of pulling rollers 3 which engage a manufactured article 4 produced by knitting members 5 acting upstream of the pulling rollers themselves, in order to interlace weft yarns with warp yarns 4a. A first driving mechanism 6 connects the pulling rollers 3 to a rotating main shaft 7, so that the pulling rollers too are rotated in order to pull the manufactured article apart from the knitting members during the operation of the loom. The device further comprises feed rollers 17, 18 rotated by a second driving mechanism 22 connecting them to the first driving mechanism. Feed rollers 17, 18 act upstream of the knitting members, upon the warp yarns 4a to move them forward towards the knitting members 5 and give them an appropriate tensioning.

Abstract: This invention relates to a warp knitting machine in which the knitting elements and each of the warp beams are driven by separate electric motors, powered from a common electrical network. An electric clutch is included in the drive connection between each warp beam and its electric motor and said clutch is energized by the same electric network which powers the electric motors. The electric clutch is energized when electric current is supplied to it by the network and connects the warp beams with their own electric motors. Whenever the electric current in the network is interrupted, the electric clutch is disengaged.

Abstract: A yarn supply apparatus for yarn-using textile machinery has a rotatable yarn supply element (4) supplying yarn under slip free conditions at a predetermined tension, which is driven by a speed-controllable electric drive motor (6), the speed of which is controlled in accordance with the output signal of sensing means (7, 9) monitoring the travel speed of the yarn (11) supplied by the yarn supply element. In order to provide an apparatus which operates independently of external synchronizing means, the arrangement is such that the speed of the drive motor is synchronized with the sensing means output signal (36), which is representative of the yarn supply speed, and the sensing means (7, 9) are located at a distance behind the yarn supply element (4), as viewed in the direction of yarn travel.

Abstract: An apparatus for maintaining the warp threads in a multi-beam loom at a constant tension includes tension sensors for each beam, and a microprocessor-based control circuit which provides individual speed control signals to the motors during each beam. The circuit samples the warp tension at regular intervals and recalculates the optimum speeds for each motor by taking into consideration the transverse effects on each beam caused by adjacent beams.

Abstract: A takeup motion control device for a loom includes an input setting unit for producing functions of a repetitive period and a takeup speed, a function generator for storing the functions in relation to r.p.m. of the loom, an arithmetic control unit for successively reading out the selected functions from the function generator in synchronism with rotation of the loom to generate a digital takeup command signal, a driver circuit for generating a drive signal in response to the takeup command signal and applying the drive signal to a servomotor for driving a winding roll to wind a woven fabric, and a digital feedback circuit for feeding an amount of rotation of the servomotor back to the arithmetic control unit.

Abstract: In a weft thread magazine arrangement for a warp knitting machine there are provided a pair of transport arrangements positioned on each side of the machine. Also included is a carriage which lays threads in a continual manner from the transport arrangement on one side to the transport arrangement on the other. There is also provided a roller delivery arrangement to deliver the weft threads over a directional turning arrangement. The drive of said roller delivery arrangement is continually influenced by the speed and position of the carriage at any given moment. Suitably, this may be achieved by a computer controlled DC motor.

Abstract: In a control arrangement for the motor of a winding arrangement, such as a partial warp beam in a warp knitting machine, there is provided a controller. The controller controls the rate of rotation of the motors of the turning arrangements that influence thread consumption and ware takeoff, in dependence on a main shaft signal, a feedback signal and an input size signal. The control arrangement is equipped for the storage of a program containing many input sizes which are addressable sequentially for the control arrangement, in dependence upon the main shaft signal. In particular, a data memory may be provided with a plurality of addresses for the production of differentiable input sizes. An address caller is controlled by the main shaft signal and calls out sequentially the different input sizes for the control arrangement. As a controller, a digital computer is foreseen.

Abstract: A warp knitting machine has a main shaft driven by an electric motor which is powered by a main circuit. The machine has at least one supplemental, electrically driven arrangement for influencing the thread takeoff of the machine. This electrically driven arrangement is connected to the main circuit. Also included is an electrically operable brake coupled to the main shaft for braking it in response to interruption of the main circuit.

Abstract: A yarn runner-length controller for warp beam knitting machines utilizes information of the yarn unwinding rate from a warp beam section and continuously compares this information to a signal related to the desired runner-length of the yarn. This continuous comparison yields an error signal with a magnitude proportional to the difference between the desired runner-length and the actual runner-length. The error signal is sampled and this sampled error signal activates a control device operating on the angular velocity of the warp beam section so as to adjust this velocity in the direction that reduces the difference between the actual runner-length and the desired runner-length. The magnitude of the sampled error signal is reduced to zero before the next sampled error signal is received by means of a signal from the control device related to the amount of adjustment made to the beam section's angular velocity.