Abstract:
A double raschel warp knitting machine including: a pair of frontside jacquard bars JB2, 3 and a pair of backside jacquard bars JB4, 5 as jacquard bars, in which each of the frontside jacquard bars JB2, 3 and the backside jacquard bars JB4, 5 is a half-gauge jacquard bar; and at least one frontside ground guide bar GB1 provided on the front side of the frontside jacquard bars JB2, 3 and at least one backside ground guide bar GB6, 7, 8 provided on the back side of the backside jacquard bars JB4, 5, as ground guide bars. The double raschel warp knitting machine is characterized in that the four half-gauge jacquard bars have jacquard guides at the same positions in the width direction of the knitting machine.
Abstract:
A process for production of knitted articles is disclosed. The process may be performed using, for example, a linear knitting machine including a first needle bed, a second needle bed, a first jacquard bar with odd thread guides, a second jacquard bar with even thread guides, a third jacquard bar with odd thread guides, and a fourth jacquard bar with even thread guides. The process includes producing at least a portion of a knitted article by means of a base movement of the jacquard bars, in which: the first and the third jacquard bar are each moved with an identical shog movement; the second and the fourth jacquard bar are moved with a respective shog movement identical to one another; and the second and the fourth jacquard bar are moved with a respective shog movement identical to one another.
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:
A needle and needle bed assembly for flat and circular knitting machines for making right-right and left-left knitted articles, includes at least one horizontally-disposed needle bed having a generally concavely-shaped upper surface which has formed therein a plurality of transversely-extending, generally arcuately-shaped grooves, and a plurality of generally arcuately-shaped needles, each of which is slidably supported within one of the grooves of the bed for movement between a push-out position and a drawing-in position, in which positions one end of the needles extends beyond a lateral edge of the bed. The needles are guided in the grooves such that the angle defined between the ends of the needles, as measured by the tangent thereto, and the vertical axis of the bed, decreases as the needles are moved from the drawing-in position to the push-out position.
Abstract:
A method and machine for knitting three strands of yarn in two interlocking chains, wherein stitches in first and second strands of said yarn are formed about one reciprocating latch needle of said machine and stitches in said second strand and a third strand are formed about a second parallel reciprocating latch needle of said machine. Each needle pulls a newly formed stitch through a preceding stitch and casts-off the preceding stitch.
Abstract:
Tubular fabric is warp-knitted to have a plurality of narrow openings or tubular portions spaced laterally apart at an end of a single wide tubular portion and oriented parallel or perpendicular to that wide end. Knit articles are so formed with continuity of knitting action and stitch throughout and are useful for garments in which the wide tubular portion surrounds at least part of the trunk or body of a wearer thereof and the narrow openings or tubular portions accommodate adjacent parts of the wearer''s limbs. Examples include tights, panties, panty hose, panty girdles, leotards, undershirts, sweaters, ski pants, and similar outer and undergarments.
Abstract:
This invention relates to machine knitting of fabric, especially warp-knitting of tubular fabric. It provides a method of continuously forming seamless tubular fabric on a Raschel or similar flat-bed machine having a pair of parallel needle bars, particularly seamless tubular fabric having a different number of tubular portions for a given bed width at one part of the run than at another part. Continuity of knitting action and stitch is maintained throughout, including during conversion between different numbers and widths of different tubular portions.
Abstract:
Continuous, back-to-back tubular undergarments, having sheer, lock-stitched 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 chain-stitched wales of one strand, the wales being connected by zig-zag stitches of another strand. The chain stitches 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.