Abstract: When a new yarn is received by a hook to form a new stitch loop, to prevent old stitch loops from going beyond the top end of the slider and being knocked over, the advanced position of the slider into the trick gap is maintained, and the new stitch loops are pulled into the old stitch loops. Next, the hook of a compound needle of the opposing needle bed is inserted into the old stitch loop, and said slider is lowered and retracted, and at the same time, the old stitch loops are transferred onto the hooks of the opposing needle bed to make split knit.

Abstract: An apparatus for guiding yarn into a hook or to a predetermined position of a rear face of a needle of a flat knitting machine, and for guiding the yarn without making large horizontal advancing and retracting movements of a yarn guiding member of the yarn guiding apparatus. The apparatus guides the yarn, when a yarn pushing down operating edge at an end of the yarn guide member is engaged with and pushes down the yarn so that the yarn is slidably moved, without applying a high resistance to the yarn and parallel needles and sinkers, on at least one pair of needle beds having head portions opposed to each other with respect to the center of knock-over edge portions. Yarn holding members, each having a yarn pushing down edge operating at an end thereof, are supported for sliding movement toward the knock-over edge portion, with means for moving each of the yarn pushing down operating edges downward during or after sliding advancement of the yarn holding member.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine having a transferring mechanism using transfer jacks wherein the transfer jacks each have (i) at a front end thereof a loop engaging portion; (ii) at a rear end thereof a selected engaging projection extending rearwardly from a rear end of the jack groove when the transfer jack is in its retracted position; and (iii) at an upper edge of a jack body thereof an advance-and-retreat controlling butt which extends from an upper surface of the jack groove and is engageable with the transfer jack operating cam to control the transfer jack to move forward and backward; andwherein the carriages each include (i) a cam which driven by an actuator so that it can be selectively engaged with the selected engaging projection of the transfer jack to guide the transfer jack in its retracted position from the engaged position to its pushed-out position and which is arranged in association with the selected engaging projection of the transfer jack; (ii) a raising cam which is engageable with the butt pro

Abstract: A compound needle, of which slider and needle body can be moved forward and backward independently of each other, is guided by a cam lock into four routes, knit, tuck, transfer and receiving. As for the slider, the knit route is branched from the tuck route, and branching from the tuck route to the transfer route is made by a movable cam at the center of the cam lock. As for the needle body, the knit route is branched from the tuck route to reach the knit level then joining the tuck route. The transfer route is branched from the knit route and the needle body is retracted to a point between the tuck level and an inactive position, and the receiving route advances the needle body from the center of the cam lock to the tuck level.

Abstract: The invention's object generator utilizes two frames, a y-frame that is atop an x-frame. The y-frame (or the x-frame) is divided into two halves. Each half of the y-frame (or the x-frame) contains a number of needles and latches. The needles in one half of the y-frame are opposed by the needles in the other half of the y-frame. Similarly, The needles in one half of the x-frame are opposed by the needles in the other half of the x-frame. The invention also includes a "head" which comprises a bobbin/tensioning mechanism along with other components. The object generator's head is movable to any location on a grid formed by the y-frame and x-frame. The head dispenses yarn under direction of a custom control software. A computer operating the invention's object generator has stored therein a three dimensional image of the object to be generated. The computer dissects the three dimensional image into two dimensional layer data.

Abstract: In joining fabrics on a flat knitting machine, more specifically joining sleeves to a body, stitch courses are formed on both of the body and the sleeves. A stitch of the edge portion of a sleeve is overlapped with a stitch of the edge portion of the body. Stitch courses are formed on the body and on the edge portions of a sleeve. At least one stitch of the edge portion of the sleeve is overlapped with at least one adjacent stitch of the sleeve. With the decrease in knitting width, when joining the body and sleeve, double stitches are formed in two wales, on the edge portion of the body and on the edge portion of the sleeve.

Abstract: The wale of a collar closest to the body side is transferred from a front body to a back body, then the wale is moved towards the neck hole side. Next, said wale is moved further towards the neck hole side, and a new wale of the collar is transferred onto the needle of the back body before said move. Each wale of the collar that has been transferred is moved towards the neck hole side. In a similar manner all the wales of the collar are transferred.

Abstract: The flatbed knitting machine includes opposing needle beds (V,H) with longitudinally movable needles (11,12); a carriage provided with cams (14,15,16) and sinkers (17,18; 17',18'; 17",18") having a closed position (S1), an end position (S2) and an open position (S0) and movable between the needles (11,12) with the help of the cams (14,15,16) in the carriage. The sinkers (17,18; 17',18'; 17",18") each have a hook-shaped projection (25, 26; 25', 26') that occludes or encloses from above a side of a loop on an adjacent needle in the needle beds when the sinkers are in the closed position.

Abstract: A method of knitting a knit-in rib or tubular jacquard of a double-jersey weave into a tubular body free or substantially free of a sewing process by forming a course of loops of either of the front fabric or the rear fabric with knitting needles from a first needle bed.

Abstract: Stitch loops are securely pressed down and retained. The pressing and retaining position of the loop presser is properly adjusted according to the tension in the stitch loops. The loop presser 460 of a flat knitting machine is stored in a groove 445 of an auxiliary bed, and the loop retainer 462 is energized downward by an arm 465 and a cam 422. The loop retainer is swung downward by the cam 422 when it is advanced, and the retainer is swung back to the initial position when it is retracted. The top end of the loop retainer 462 is made to move forward to and over the opposing needle bed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for knitting a seamless tubular fabric of 2.times.1 rib stitch uses a flat knitting machine having at least one front needle bed and at least one back needle bed. The beds extend sideways and abut against each other in a front-back relationship with a trick gap between them. The needles are preferably arranged in units consisting of six needles on the front needle bed and six needles on the back needle bed. The first and sixth needle on both the front and back beds are used to form face stitches. The second and forth needles of one needle bed and the third and fifth needles of the other bed are used to form back stitches. The remaining needles are used to align the stitches. At least one of the needle beds is preferably capable of racking sideways and transferring stitches between the needle beds. The resulting tubular fabric is especially suited for rib hem parts and similar fabric components.

Abstract: Each stitch of the last course of a front knitted fabric of a tubular knitted fabric is overlapped with a stitch, one stitch interior, of an immediately preceding course of the front knitted fabric. Each stitch of the last course of a back knitted fabric is overlapped with a stitch, one stitch interior, of an immediately preceding course of the back knitted fabric. Prolongations of each stitch of the last course of the front knitted fabric crosses with prolongations of a stitch of the last course of the back knitted fabric.

Abstract: Needle beds are provided with needles, needle jacks and select jacks and selectors, and the selectors are provided with three butts. The front butt is made to contact the reference plane of the carriage to serve as the fulcrum of rocking. The second butt is used to withdraw the selector, and the tail butt is used to advance the selector. Two pressing cams of the carriage press the tail butt to make the selector to be attracted by a permanent magnet. Two raising cams of the carriage advance the selector to the H position and the A position.

Abstract: A method of knitting a single knit fabric comprising the steps of successively advancing a plurality of needles corresponding to a non-knitting section within which a yarn from a yarn feeder forms a transit yarn portion beginning with a needle on the side of a starting point of the transit yarn portion to lower the yarn from the yarn feeder below the needles, and engaging the yarn from the yarn feeder by another needle on the side of the yarn feeder closer to the yarn feeder than the advanced needles.

Abstract: Needle beds are provided with needles, needle jacks and select jacks and selectors, and the selectors are provided with three butts. The front butt is made to contact the reference plane of the carriage to serve as the fulcrum of rocking. The second butt is used to withdraw the selector, and the tail butt is used to advance the selector. Two pressing cams of the carriage press the tail butt to make the selector to be attracted by a permanent magnet. Two raising cams of the carriage advance the selector to the H position and the A position.

Abstract: The invention provides a method by which a transit yarn fastening portion can be formed with a comparatively small number of steps by a flat knitting machine. The method of forming a transit yarn fastening portion is performed in a method of forming, by a flat knitting machine including a yarn carrier and two needle beds, a knit fabric having a transit yarn section in which a yarn from the yarn carrier is not knitted and forms a transit yarn portion and a knitting section in which the yarn from the yarn carrier is knitted, and includes the steps of successively forming two or more loops of the transit yarn by one of needles of that one of the needle beds which does not contribute to knitting which needle is located in the proximity of a boundary between the transit yarn section and the knitting section, and transferring the loops formed in the first step to one of needles on the other needle bed which contributes to knitting.

Abstract: A three-dimensional continuously weft knitted fabric cover characterized by a wale-wise orientated pouch and a method of knitting the same, in which a knitting pattern for knitting the fabric cover in a single operation is made by forming a two-dimensional development of the object and the pouch, determining the wale-wise direction for knitting, performing a geometric rearrangement on the two-dimensional development so that any non-horizontal edges to be joined together in the knitting operation have the same length, and said edges are biased at equal angles to the course-wise direction.

Abstract: A continuously weft-knitted three-dimensional fabric cover having sutures to accommodate its three-dimensional format in which each suture defines a straight line or a series of straight lines joined end-to-end, each straight line lying at an angle of between 0.degree. and 50.degree. to the course-wise direction of the fabric.

Abstract: Needle beds are provided with needles, needle jacks and select jacks and selectors, and the selectors are provided with three butts. The front butt is made to contact the reference plane of the carriage to serve as the fulcrum of rocking. The second butt is used to withdraw the selector, and the tail butt is used to advance the selector. Two pressing cams of the carriage press the tail butt to make the selector to be attracted by a permanent magnet. Two raising cams of the carriage advance the selector to the H position and the A position.

Abstract: A binding off method for binding off stitches of at least two fabrics which form a tube requires a plurality of steps. A first step is providing a flat knitting machine with a first needle bed and a second needle bed, with each needle bed having a plurality of needles, and being slidable relative to each other. The needle beds are configured to hold stitches, with the stitches being transferable between the first and second needle bed. A second step is knitting a first knit fabric and a second knit fabric, with the first knit fabric corresponding to the first needle bed and the second knit fabric corresponding to the second needle bed. The first and second knit fabrics are configured to face each other on the first and second needle beds.

Abstract: A flat bed knitting machine includes a pair of needle beds arranged in a hape and at least one cam carriage arranged for movement relative to the needle beds. A thread readying device is movable independent of the cam carriage on a rail.

Abstract: A pair of needle beds are provided with head portions thereof opposed to each other and a plurality of sinkers are provided in a juxtaposed relationship at the top portions of the needle beds, and first and second needles each having a transfer element are provided for sliding movement between each adjacent ones of the sinkers. The first and second needles are either provided alternately in a spaced relationship by an equal distance from each other throughout each needle bed or individually provided in an equally spaced relationship from each other but such that the distance between the first and second needles positioned on the opposite sides of each of the sinker plates is different from the other distance.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of knitted goods with integrated weft and/or warp threads on a knitting machine having at least one needle bed by way of an actuatable thread guide which is movable in a controlled manner in the direction of the needle bed independently of a thread guide of a knitting feed system of the knitting machine. In the process, a thread is fed to a knitting region of the knitting machine by the thread carrier, which is guided along the needle bed in order to insert a warp thread corresponding to a desired length over several needles. The thread is inserted without intermeshing into the knitting region by the insertion of a warp thread over several courses of loops of the knitted goods, and remains in place without the thread being laid on tuck or intermeshed, and by the insertion of a diagonally extended thread, is moved along the needle bed during the formation of the loops of the knitted goods in the knitting machine.

Abstract: A carrier of a flat knitting machine is configured to make a preparatory run in synchronization with a carriage, then the carrier is caught by a pin of the carriage. During this catching, the servo motor of the carrier side is driven to generate a constant torque in the direction for braking a carriage.

Abstract: A front fabric 20 is transferred to the opposing needle bed to reverse the order of stitches sidewise. Next, the back fabric 21 is transferred to the opposing needle bed without altering the order of stitches. Then the front fabric 20 is transferred with the order of stitches reversed again. As a result, the curls of the front fabric 20 and the back fabric 21 appear on the outer side, and the binding-off is made under this condition. A first collar and a second collar are formed on the circumference of a neck hole of the front body, and then a back collar of which wale directions are continuous to those of the collars is formed on the back body.

Abstract: A three-dimensional continuously weft knitted fabric cover characterized by a wale-wise orientated pouch and a method of knitting the same, in which a knitting pattern for knitting the fabric cover in a single operation is made by forming a two-dimensional development of the object and the pouch, determining the wale-wise direction for knitting, performing a geometric rearrangement on the two-dimensional development so that any non-horizontal edges to be joined together in the knitting operation have the same length, and said edges are biased at equal angles to the course-wise direction.

Abstract: The sinker actuating apparatus has a sinker actuator which is displaced on a needle bed so as to move a movable sinker to a pressing or releasing position. A connector for connecting the actuator is non-fixedly provided to a needle moving device so that the actuator is moved in response to the movement of the needle mover. First and second stopper are provided for restricting the advanced or retracted positions of the sinker actuator. A resilient member is arranged to give an advancing force to the actuator.

Abstract: A yarn guiding apparatus for a flat knitting machine in which a pair of opposed needle beds defines a knock over edge area and a center line therebetween. A yarn holding member is arranged between a needle and a sinker mounted on a needle bed. The yarn holding member is moveable relative to the knock over edge area and has an operating face for pushing down a yarn fed from a yarn feeder to the knock over edge area. The operating face is configured for contacting the yarn and for pushing the yarn down toward a needle when the yarn holding member is advanced toward the knock over edge area. The yarn holding member is advanceable to a position in which a portion of the yarn holding member extends beyond the center line defined by the opposing needle beds.

Abstract: A knitting yarn feeding apparatus has a base body provided along the longitudinal direction of a front needle bed and a rear needle bed, and plural lace bars movable reciprocally on the base body in the longitudinal direction. Holding blocks are easily attached to and detached from the lace bars. Plural feeder tubes, are detachably fitted to each holding block. From the front end of the feeder tubes, knitting yarn is supplied to the knitting needles of the front needle bed, and the lapping motion is effected by the reciprocal drive of the lace bar in the longitudinal direction. Moreover, the knitting yarn feeding apparatus oscillates and displaces about a swing shaft by an oscillating mechanism provided beneath the front needle bed 11 and rear needle bed, and the front ends of the feeder tubes make a swing motion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rib knitting method for use with a flat knitting machine having at least one pair of front and back needle beds and a yarn feeder, and more particularly to improvements in the aesthetic appearance and durability of the side border of a rib stitch knitted parts or fabric. Using the needles [(A-H)], (a-h)] on a front-back pair of needle beds [(1), (2),]. A rib stitch knitting is carried out with no yarn feeding to the outermost needle [(I)], then the yarn is fed to needle [(I)] with the yarn feeder [(3)] being reversed, and the yarn feeder [(3)] is again reversed. The yarn feeder [(3)] is reversed once more for yarn to be fed to the needles [(A-I), (a-h)] in order.

Abstract: A method of forming piping at an end of a knitted fabric for a knitted garment by using a flat knitting machine. At a point at which piping is to begin loops which compose the knitted fabric are held on the front or rear needles and the other needles are held empty and elastic yarn is hooked by specified front and rear needles. The piping fabric part is knitted only by the knitting needles on one side or by both the knitting needles on one side and the empty needles on the other side. The loops at the end of this piping fabric part and the previously hooked elastic yarn are joined together to form the piping and then the loops of the joined part are released from the knitting needles using the elastic yarn.

Abstract: A sinker is disposed at the front end of a needle bed of a flat knitting machine so as to be capable of swinging displacement. A groove guiding advancing, retreating and swinging of the sinker is formed at the front end of the needle bed. A knitting yarn holding part is formed at the front end of a sinker plate. A knitting yarn drop preventive part, for preventing knitting yarn between a knitting needle and the sinker from dropping into the groove during knitting, is disposed adjacent to the sinker.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for knitting a cross pattern texture on a flat knitting machine comprising front and rear needle beds, each needle bed having a plurality of needle grooves parallel and equally spaced along a length of the needle beds and each of such grooves having a needle therein, needle cams for selectively advancing and retracting the needles in the needle grooves transverse the needle beds for forming knit stitches on the needles in yarn fed to the needles as such needles are advanced and retracted in the needle grooves, a transfer jack supported above each of the needle beds and each moving transverse of the jack beds in jack grooves in the jack beds, a transfer cam for selectively moving each of the transfer jacks in the jack grooves, a lift cam protruding into a cam groove of the transfer cam and means for moving the lift cam into and out of the cam groove, wherein each of the transfer jacks is retracted in the jack groove or remains forward depending on the lift cam's position in the cam groov

Abstract: The process for manufacturing a complete garment on a two needle bed flat knitting machine, which operates with latch needles, which process consist of the fact that at least at the beginning of the manufacture of the garment, half of the needles of the front needle bed are put to work with the empty (idle) needles of the rear needle bed and viceversa in order to perform, during the steps of forming of the tubular portions of said garment, also an operation of narrowing of the knitted product in pre-established areas of said tubular portions.

Abstract: The machine comprises two knitting beds (2, 3) and at least one pair of opposed cam carriers (4, 5). These cam carriers are independent and are driven individually, for example by notched belts (10, 13) and motors (12, 15). The elimination of the bow of the carriage makes it possible to provide a large number of bars (17 to 22) for yarn guides driven individually. The yarns arrive at the yarn guides along the shortest path, and the working speed can be increased considerably.

Abstract: A knitted fabric presser unit includes pressers corresponding to respective reciprocal directions and installed in a carriage. A first presser presses a knitted fabric when the carriage is being moved in a first knitting direction, during which a second presser is in a rest position. The first presser moves in conjunction with displacement in one direction of a sliding plate due to a follower engaged with a grooved cam. Similarly, the second presser moves in conjunction with displacement in another direction of the sliding plate due to a follower engaged with a grooved cam. Displacement of the sliding plate is caused by a rack engaged with a pinion fixed at a rotation axis of a motor. Movement traces of the first presser and the second presser are determined so that the two pressers are prevented from interfering with each other on movement thereof between a respective pressing and rest positions.

Abstract: A flat bed knitting machine has at least one needle bed having mobile nees and stationary comb sinkers disposed in the needle bed. Movable holding-down sinkers are added to the needle bed to ensure that stitches are held in place.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine with a transferring mechanism comprising a pair of needle beds arranged facing each other to form an inverted V-shaped form in a side view and to form an aperture between adjoining end portions of the needle beds, knitting needles arranged in needle grooves formed on the needle beds, a yarn feeder arranged above the aperture between the needle beds, each carriage being reciprocally movable on each of the needle beds and having cam surface on a lower surface of the carriage for moving the knitting needles forward and backward, each transferring jack bed is supported by a supporting member above each of the needle beds, a transferring jack having a transfer jack selected member and arranged swingably and movably forward and backward in a jack groove formed on each transferring bed, and a transfer jack selecting unit acting on the transfer jack selected member and arranged at an edge portion of the carriage, which is adjoining to the aperture.

Abstract: A method of producing a fashioned, one-piece flat knitted article for a garment includes knitting several knitted article parts having a front part, a rear part and two sleeves separately and sequentially so that in each knitted article part always several loop rows are knitted in accordance with a pattern for said each knitted article part before transferring to a next knitted article part, knitting the front part and a shoulder region of any shape and pattern after finishing the sleeves with the formation of an arbitrarily shaped neck opening between the front part and the rear part, transferring connecting rows of the sleeves in a loop-like manner inwardly in a direction of the shoulder region and the front and rear parts until sleeve connecting edges are completely turned inwardly relative to the front part and rear part, and subsequently finally knitting a last knitted article part in correspondence with a pattern for said last knitted article part.

Abstract: A method of knitting a multi-dimensional fabric for use in upholstery is accomplished by simultaneously knitting rib and jersey wales. The resultant fabric creates a layered or convex pocket appearance similar to that of pleated fabric formed by sewing. The method uses movement of the rib forming carriage to form pockets that are connected by the jersey stitches on the rear face and rib stitches on the face of the fabric.

Abstract: In a needle bed in which plural rows of needle plate grooves are provided in a lower needle bed base, lower needle plates are inserted into the needle plate grooves, and a lower needle groove is formed between the lower needle plates, wherein a part of the lower needle plates is extended upwardly, the extended portion serves as an upper needle bed supporting member, a fixing member for stopping an upper needle bed base is provided on the upper needle bed supporting member, and an upper needle bed base is supported above the lower needle bed by the upper needle bed supporting member.

Abstract: A flat bed knitting machine has two beds supported on either side of a central knitting region. The upper bed is supported on the lower bed by a series of specifically shaped needle plates which extend upward from the a grooved plate bed. The shape of the plates allows the upper bed to slide in separate movement from the lower bed. The shape of the supports also allowing for mounting and removal of the upper needle bed from the lower bed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a flat knitting machine having a simple construction and provided with rocking sinkers capable of stably operating for high-speed knitting operation without damaging the yarns, and a method of operating the rocking sinkers. The flat knitting machine is provided with rocking sinkers (8), sinker operating means (3) for operating the sinkers (8), needle operating means (19), and a power transmitting mechanism (4, 21) interlocking the needle operating means (19) and the sinker operating means (3) to operate the sinker operating means (3) by at least part of the motion of the needle operating means (19).

Abstract: A sinker mechanism for a flat knitting machine having at least one front needle bed and one rear needle bed, is provided with a row of sinker assemblies, each sinker assembly having a needle plate, a swingable sinker next to a front region of the needle plate, and a yarn guide sheet fixedly mounted to a needle bed, the swingable sinker having at front end a yarn holding portion, the yarn guide sheet having at front end a yarn guide edge, and when the swingable sinker turns forward with its yarn holding portion moving down, the yarn guide edge of the yarn guide sheet comes above the yarn holding portion of the swingable sinker and projects outwardly of the front end of the sinker towards an intermediate position between the front ends of the opposite needle beds.

Abstract: The multibed flat knitting machine has upper needle beds, lower needle beds disposed under the upper needle beds, respectively, with their heads located adjacent to those of the upper needle beds. Knock-over bits are placed in the heads of the upper needle beds so as to slide parallel to the sliding directions of the upper needles. The knock-over bits are capable of being advanced to a position where the loop holders of the knock-over bits are beyond a corresponding position of the needle hooks of the advanced upper needles to support the needle heads of the upper needles of the upper needle beds.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine which can carry out changing of knock over timing and changing of an elevating amount of a needle, in which a knock-over plate provided at its extreme end with a loop pressing plate having an end edge in contact with a knitting yarn is inserted into a bottom of a needle groove of a head portion of a needle bed so that the knock over plate can be slidably moved in a direction of forward and backward movement of a needle. Further, a knock over plate cam for operating the knock over plate in engagement with the knock over plate is provided on a carriage, and the knock over plate is moved forward and backward by the cam.

Abstract: A method of knitting a double needle bed fabric in which an inlay thread or yarn 12 is interlaced into the fabric by transferring stitches from the active needles (10) of one needle bed to the needles of the other bed. In this way the inlay 12 is interlaced or "woven" into the fabric without actually forming loops in the inlay 12. This enables materials that cannot be knitted to be incorporated into fabrics securely.

Abstract: In the fabric structure (10.1) which can be produced in one piece on a two-bed flat-bar knitting machine, a first fabric web (11.1) and a second fabric web (12.1) are connected to one another by means of at least one third fabric web (13.1), a knitted connection being made at the coupling places (15) of the third fabric web (13.1) with the other two fabric webs (11.1, 12.1) respectively.

Abstract: In a flat knitting machine equipped with a manually movable handlebar (11) which is oriented parallel to a needle bed, the eccentrically mounted handlebar (11) is connected to a pivoting lever (15) which is the carrier of an armature (19) for a stationarily arranged electromagnet which can be excited via a control device and which, in the excited state, keeps the handlebar in an end position. The arrangement is such that, when the handlebar (11) is struck from above, the magnetic coupling can be released and it is also thereby possible to switch off the machine drive by hand in the quickest way possible.

Abstract: In the process for the fully-fashioned knitting of intarsia jacquard fabric on a two-bed flat knitting machine, intarsia yarns floating on the back of the fully-fashioned fabric are avoided even in intarsia regions of changing width by effecting a yarn-guide adjustment at points of change of direction of the intarsia regions, and the resulting floating intarsia yarns are subsequently bound into the fabric.