Abstract: A knitting method for knitting, by a double knit electric jacquard circular knitting machine with needle selection on dial and cylinder, a knitted fabric in which a pattern on a front face of the knitted fabric is knitted by using one of a cylinder and a dial, boundaries between motifs of the pattern in a wale direction being continuous at the same position in the wale direction in a plurality of successive courses, and a pattern on a back face of the knitted fabric is knitted by using the other of the cylinder and the dial. The knitted fabric is knitted such that knit structures adjacent, on the back face of the knitted fabric, to a border line in the wale direction that is formed by the boundary between the motifs on the front face of the knitted fabric in at least one course of the number of successive courses that is fewer by one than the number of types of jacquard knitting yarns used are successively knitted.

Abstract: A single cylinder circular knitting machine (1) for men's socks with needles on the dial, comprises a dial provided with a plurality of radial beams (146) which form radial seats (16) for the sliding of the dial needles (18). The beam (146) has a discharge groove (154) on the working side (148a), which the transfer spring (186) of the dial needle faces, which limits the raising of the needle.

Abstract: A rib jacquard knitting machine including dial needles arranged on the dial, cylinder needles arranged on the needle cylinder to knit loops with the dial needles, transfer needles and pelerine needles respectively arranged on the needle cylinder to make transfer stitches and eyelet stitches. A knit selector selectively drives the pelerine needles and the transfer needles into operative positions.

Abstract: The device comprises a small plate elastically flexible, longitudinally flanked by a needle for plain knitting, or purl knitting, and movable in a direction longitudinal with respect to it. The needle has on one of its sides an inclined area with which at least one inclined area engages, defined by a bend of the small plate at the moment of its motion relatively to the needle. In this manner an elastic flexing of the small plate is obtained moving away from the needle which defines a loop within which a needle for purl or plain knitting can be inserted, in order to transfer a loop of knitting retained around the loop.

Abstract: A needle dial for single-cylinder circular hosiery knitting machines for producing ribbed knitting includes a disc having a plurality of radially extending angularly equidistantly spaced dividing walls. Each adjacent pair of dividing walls sets-off therebetween a radially extending groove, and each groove is defined by a bottom wall of the disc and one wall each of adjacent pairs of the dividing walls. The one walls have upper wall portions in generally spaced parallel relationship to each other and to a longitudinal axis of the groove defined thereby. A lower radially outermost wall portion of one of each of the one walls defining each groove is circumferentially off-set from a radially innermost wall portion thereof and from its associated longitudinal axis thereby being adapted to receive therein a distal arch of an associated composite needle.

Abstract: A device for selecting the needles on the dial plate of single cylinder circular knitting machines for the manufacture of ribbed fabric, said device comprising a coaxial sleeve secured on top of the dial plate and revolving with the dial plate and, as many swinging elements or jacks as there are needles on the dial. Each jack slides in a vertical groove which is defined in the sleeve and which coincides with a needle groove in the dial. Slides are selected to vertically displace the jacks from an operating position into a rest position. A pinned drum controls selectors and cams to control the swinging motions of the jacks when they are in operating position in order to control the radial displacements of the corresponding needles by means of the thus operated jacks.

Abstract: An air blast is utilized to close the latch of a dial needle carrying a loose loop of yarn on its shank portion. Such latch closing precludes possible snagging of the needle hook on the loose loop as it is cast off. The air blast does not directly impinge the needle or its latch but, rather, is directed away from the hook end of the needle along the longitudinal axis of the needle, wherein a low pressure area is created generally at the hook of the needle, an inrush of air to fill such low pressure area flipping the latch of the needle to a closed position. Such method of latch closing finds particular use in the circular rib knitting of cotton or wool yarn during the transfer of a loose loop from a dial needle to an associated cylinder needle.

Abstract: In a single-cylinder, hosiery knitting circular machine of the kind having a device for making knitwear articles with a ribbed pattern, the improvement is disclosed wherein each couple of needles, as formed by a horizontal needle and a vertical needle, or cylinder needle proper, lies on the same radial plane with respect to the axis of the cylinder. Each horizontal needle has its shank bent through 90 degrees and is fastened to an L-shaped selector member which is guided for radial movement. A special cambox is provided for the selector members and the horizontal needles so as controllably to bring the selector members and the attendant horizontal needles out of the way of the vertical paths over which the vertical cylinder needles run. By so doing, the loop shift from the horizontal needles to the corresponding vertical cylinder needles takes place smoothly and a regular ribbed pattern is obtained for the finished knitwear article.

Abstract: A circular dial and cylinder knitting machine equipped for the forming of pouches with reciprocating motion with inclusion and exclusion pickers. The machine includes in combination: descent cams for needle butts and descent cams for selection jacks at each feed; cams for the raising of the selection jacks (and thus of the needles) for each feed. The raising cams are at different levels to act on butts at these different levels in the selection jacks and remain fixed during the forming of the pouches. The selection jacks include, for the forming of the pouches with a reciprocating motion and with several feeds, butts at a first level coincident with the entire arc of needles arranged for the forming of the pouch and butts at additional levels on smaller arcs offset from one another. The exclusion and inclusion pickers act on the first level of the jacks butts. The dial and cylinder needles can cooperate to form rib fabric with loop transfer. The loop transfer location can be proximate an active yarn feed.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine and method of knitting in which the machine has a knitting cam track, an idle track and means for transferring selected needles from one track to the other, the machine having at least one set of needles movable through a knitting cycle by the cams in said knitting cam track and movable rearwardly to an inactive position in said idle track.