Abstract:
Continuous, back-to-back tubular undergarments, having sheer, lockstitched body portions and spaced, reinforced toe, heel, welt, or panty portions, are produced on a double-needle-bar Raschel knitting machine having at least 12 guide bars. The basic body knit is chainstitched wales of one strand, the wales being connected by zigzag stitches of another strand. The chainstitches are converted to a jersey 2-0, 2-4 stitch in the reinforced area so that no guide bar must move more than one needle space to form the garment.
Abstract:
A double faced warp knit fabric is made on a double needle bar in each successive course of each pair of opposite wales of each opposite face warp knitting machine having a common guide bar and common chain stitch thread forming chain stitches on one needle bar and then on the other needle bar to bind and unite the two knit structures into a unitary double faced fabric. The common chain stitch thread may also be looped coursewise around adjacent chain stitches in adjacent wales to not only serve as the body yarn for both faces but to also serve as the weft portions of a simulated weave, in cooperation with a pair of inlaid warp yarns in each knit structure.
Abstract:
Foundation garments having a front panel of a different fabric construction than that of the rear panel are made in continuous web form on a double needle bar warp knitting machine, then cut from the web along transverse lines and inverted. One warp-knit, single fabric is power net with stretchable-retractive yarns extending wale-wise thereof to form a circumferentially stretchable rear panel in each garment. The other warp-knit, single fabric is in a simulated weave pattern and made of less stretchable warp yarns, to form a front restraint panel of woven appearance in each tubular garment, in which the ''''weft'''' portions extend axially.
Abstract:
A warp-knit fabric is given a simulated weave appearance by chain stitching one set of warp yarns into wale-wise pillars and looping a portion of each chain stitch in a course wise direction from its pillar, over and around a chain stitch of another pillar in the same course, and back again to its pillar, thus producing ''''weft'''' portions in the chain stitch warp yarns. A second set of warp yarns are alternately overlaid and underlaid walewise of the weft portions to produce the simulated weave. The ''''weft'''' yarns and chain stitch yarns are one and the same and carried on a single guide bar. The chain stitch yarn forms chain stitches only on one pillar, or wale, and is carried course-wise to wrap around another chain stitch in another pillar, rather than forming a conventional chain stitch therein.
Abstract:
A simulated-weave, warp-knit fabric is produced on a warp knitting machine by using short latch, long shank needles combined with a high rise needle bar motion. A chopper bar is eliminated, thus freeing guide bar space while avoiding impact, dwell and delay. Either a high set chain stitch guide bar, or a needle bar timing control, may be used as a collision avoidance means. The short latch needles are wrapped in one course and different short latch needles wrapped in the next course to produce the weft appearance. There is a double guide bar stroke for each needle bar stroke, but the provision of two needle bars restores production rate to that of a one to one ratio.