Abstract: A method for producing knitwear formed at least partially as single jersey knitwear with a perforated structure and a functional textile based on the knitwear, provide very fine knitting stitches and perforated structures with large holes meeting demands of sportswear and underwear. The knitwear is produced on a double jersey knitting machine with first and second oppositely disposed needle carriers and a machine gauge of >24 needles/inch. The first needle carrier has a needle number/inch of latch-type needles corresponding to the machine gauge and the second needle carrier has transfer needles. The needle number/inch of the transfer needles is at most half that of the latch-type needles of the first needle carrier. The transfer needles form loop accumulations with at least one tuck loop per hole subsequently transferred with or without at least one knitting stitch from the transfer needles onto the latch-type needles.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine includes sinkers and selector jacks corresponding thereto that are provided as separate components. The selector jacks are arranged radially outside the sinkers, and are provided with selector butts such that the selector butts of circumferentially adjacent selector jacks are arranged at different radial positions. An actuator that acts on the selector butts is arranged radially outside the cylinder. The circular knitting machine prevents a failure of sinker selection, while increasing a rotation speed of a cylinder holding knitting needles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a knitting device for making a double-sided textile comprising two outer laps (1,2) that are knitted and joined to one another by means of a ground yarn (4). This device comprises two groups of needles (6) that move in translation on a respective needle bed (5) following a continuous rectilinear trajectory in a respective plane (P1, P2). The positions of the hook (7) of a needle (6) of at least one group respectively between its knitting station and its bonding station are situation on both sides of the intersecting straight line (D) between said two planes (P1, P2). In addition, the lift of the needle (6) between its knitting removal station is less than the lift of the needle (6) between its removal station and its bonding station.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine. The apparatus includes: a knitting cylinder; a bed for supporting the knitting cylinder; a plurality of cam blocks; a dial or double cylinder for forming a rib stitch; and a reduced height cam for forming a tuck stitch on the cylinder needle. Also, in the preferred embodiment, the present invention includes an actuator for selectively disengaging the second feed needle clearing cam. The present invention also includes a rib knit, tubular article having at least two rib stitches per cylinder stitch section.

Abstract: A double knit circular knitting machine is provided having a first needle bed in which transfer needles are mounted and a second bed in which ordinary needles devoid of transfer function are mounted in a double density to that of the transfer needles for knitting a high density fabric in any one of several predetermined patterns. A method of knitting high density fabric is provided utilizing such transfer and ordinary needles to form courses of stitch loops and, as dictated by the pattern, to transfer stitch loops from selected transfer needles to correspondingly selected ordinary needles.

Abstract: A lock arrangement for a knitting machine, which comprises knitting implements (3, 3a) mounted to slide in a longitudinal direction (w), with working and control butts (6, 6a; 7, 7a). The lock arrangement (8) includes a take-down lock part (61) associated with the control butts (7, 7a), slidable in the longitudinal direction (w) and each adjustable into an advanced and a retracted position, these lock parts being provided with raising cams (43, 46) running obliquely to the longitudinal direction (w), arranged one after the other and raising the knitting implements (3, 3a) into a tuck position or a knit position, as well as with hold-down cams (42, 45) running transverse to the longitudinal direction (w). In accordance with the invention the slidable lock parts (10, 10a; 11, 11a) are so constructed and arranged that selected raising cams act in their retracted position on the control butts (7, 7a) and selected hold-down cams (42, 45) act in their advanced position on the control butts (7, 7a ). (FIG. 8).

Abstract: A double knit machine which includes a series of sinker assemblies disposed corresponding to the cylinder needles of the machine for holding down the knitted fabric during the raising stitch of the cylinder needles, each sinker assembly comprised of a fixed sinker having a sinker rib for guiding out the knitted fabric, and a presser sinker reciprocated by the cam drive of the machine, the presser sinker being moved forward to press the knitted fabric against the sinker rib of the respective fixed sinker as the respective cylinder needle is extended out, or moved backward to release from the knitted fabric as the respective cylinder needle is received back.

Abstract: A method of making a sock especially adapted for use as a ski sock. The sock is designed to avoid sock pull down or drag down problems by utilizing a stabilizing band of elastic yarn knit in plated relationship with the body yarn and extending around the apex of the heel. The method of manufacturing this split-heel construction uses a circular hosiery knitting machine having short, medium and long butt needles. The needles are selectively lifted out of and dropped in to the knitting track of the machine to form the desired split-heel which prevents sock ride down.

Abstract: A knitting machine has a bed, knitting implements which are mounted displaceably in the bed and which each have at least an operating and a pivotably first control butt, and at least one patterning arrangement which has a cam portion intended for guiding the butts, with at least one respective non-knitting, tuck and knitting track formed by cam member, and a selector intended for pivoting the control butts, by means of which the butts are distributed to a respective one of said tracks. The selector has a first control unit for controlling selected knitting implements into the non-knitting track and a second control unit for selectively distributing the other knitting implements to the tuck or knitting track.

Abstract: To produce pattern work and plain jersey, and comprising sets of selection levers for controlling needles which are to be lifted to a higher loop-clearing height and to a lower loop-retaining height, interacting with oscillating selectors, the machine comprises in combination: symmetrical lifting cams (20, 32); symmetrical lowering cams (441; 442; 443; 444) and corresponding counter cams (461; 462; 463; 464) defining two adjacent zones of maximum lowering; pushing cams (490) arranged between these two zones, to exclude the butts of the needles from the action of the secon zone of maximum lowering; symmetrically arranged pushing realignment cams (501A, 501B; 502A, 502B; 503A, 503B; 504A, 504B and 511A, 511B; 512A, 512B; 513A, 513B; 514A, 514B), to prepare all the butts in a row of butts of selectors for selection; partial-lowering cams (20C) to predispose for selection; and cams (701; 703) for the partial re-lifting of selectors of unlifted needles, and for their realignment with the selectors of needles previ

Abstract: A contractible (elastic) and a non-contractible (non-elastic) yarn are knitted together with the contractible yarn floating over at least some needles in a course of knitting. The non-contractible yarn also floats over at least some of the needles where the contractible yarn floats, with the result that a loop pile fabric is produced.

Abstract: The method of production of a double knit fabric for sports garment, namely sweater and hockey includes repeating a pattern of predetermined courses containing wales of consecutive selected groups of tuck and welt stitches to form holes in and throughout the knitted fabric. The pattern is repeated to provide a fabric with a considerable number of holes aligned in a predetermined geometrical arrangement. The method making holes resides in knitting one to two adjacent wales on the cylinder by a combination of many tuck stitches in consecutive courses with welt and knit stitches associated thereto in the courses preceding and following same tuck stitches. The fabric can be knitted in uniform color but may also be knitted to provide horizontal color bands of various widths and colors depending on the yarn color and the number of consecutive courses with a different color of yarn and the desired color arrangements.

Abstract: In a knitting machine, a needle selector having jacks fitted respectively in needle grooves formed in one of a cylinder, a dial and a needle bed is provided. A jack groove cam has a raising cam face for moving the jacks along their respective axes. A control electromagnet is arranged in facing relation to one of the jacks at a yarn feeding position on a stationary side. The control electromaget is excited in response to a needle-selecting signal to attract the jack to bring its butt into engagement with the raising cam face. A jack holding cam is arranged in juxtaposed relation to the other rocking end of the jack at the yarn feeding position. The jack holding cam has a cam face which is so magnetized as to attract the jack toward the jack groove cam. A welt cam is arranged at such a position as to clamp the jack between the cam face of the jack holding cam and a cam face of the welt cam, which is magnetized to attract the jack.

Abstract: Several pairs of tubular articles are formed on two circular fixed fronts of needles using threads reciprocating transfer mechanism. The articles are alternatively formed by the two fronts by using sets of needles whose number may also vary. By using adjacent sets of needles, the two tubular, leg-shaped articles of each pair are successively formed to make up a body, that is, the panties portion for a pantyhose garment.

Abstract: A dial of a knitting machine has jacks (14) at least the operating part (18) of which is made of a cominutable, preferably plastics material, to ensure broken off parts are ground up so as not to damage the dial.

Abstract: A needle selection device for use in a knitting machine having revolving needle carriers and including pivotable selectors that operate to bring one end of each selector into actuating relation with a respective needle. A jack is coupled to the needle and, depending upon the pivot position of the selector, moves between an active position to cause that needle to be selected for operation and an inactive preset position by which that needle is not selected. A spring is associated with the jack to bias the jack to its active position. The pivot position of the selector is electromagnetically controlled.

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: In a circular knitting machine, needle selection is controlled by pattern keys mounted on a pivoted pattern key carrier and having patterning butts which are selectively engageable with vertically stacked selector slides. The selector slides are engageable selectively with selector butts on pressers associated with needle jacks. When a presser is engaged by a selector slide the corresponding jack is pressed in so that a control butt on the jack is not engaged by a needle-operating cam. Pivoting of the pattern key carrier is controlled by a boat-shaped cam follower which is carried on an arm on the pattern key carrier and travels in one or another of circular tracks concentric with the needle cylinder. Means is provided for switching the cam followers from one track to another, thereby pivoting the pattern key carrier to bring other pattern keys into engagement with selector slides.

Abstract: To permit selective needle projection, under control of a patterning arrangement, the needle jacks are made for rocking movement about an axis transverse to the direction of needle projection during knitting, and the camming system for the needle jacks is formed with two tracks, located one above the other (by a deeper cut, or camming elements of different heights) or, longitudinally staggered, one adjacent to the other, the cam tracks being arranged for selected projection of the needles to tuck or knit position; the needle jacks having either a butt projecting far enough to selectively engage either of the superimposed cam tracks, depending on the extent of rocking of the needle jack about the fulcrum, or the needle jack being formed with two butts, one on either side of the fulcrum, and selectively engaging the adjacent cam tracks, depending on the direction of rocking of the jack from a center position.