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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7757515 | Cut pile fabric and method of making same A knit fabric may be formed by providing a plurality of cylinder needles and a plurality of cutting needles having a cutting surface. A first yarn may be fed to the plurality of cylinder and the plurality of cutting needles to form loops during a knitting cycle. A s... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7716955 | Sinker set for the manufacture of plush A sinker set comprising a coulier sinker (11) and a plush sinker (12). The sinkers (11, 12) can be moved together in a direction transverse to a knitting needle (2). The sinkers have spaced apart edges for the accommodation of stitches. I... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7293432 | Apparatus for producing a knitted fabric with interspacing An apparatus according to the invention for producing a knitted fabric with interspacing is embodied in the form of a circular knitting machine with knitting cylinders or with a knitting cylinder and a dial. Between the two needle beds for the needle assemblies defi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7146829 | Yarn clamp assembly of a knitting machine A yarn clamp assembly of a knitting machine uses a wrap knitting method to knit a fabric having a side of a loop surface or a cut pile surface, and the base yarn of the base fabric forms two fixing loops fixed onto the wool yarn of the loop or the wool yarn during r... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7127920 | Knitting machine for manufacturing plush fabrics A knitting machine for manufacturing plush fabrics includes latch-less cylinder needles in a cylinder, latch needles located on a needle dial and a cutting unit. The loop formed by a plush thread can be directly knitted in a fabric formed by ground threads to form a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7117692 | Yarn guide of a knitting machine A yarn guide of a knitting machine assists a knitting machine to weave a fabric having a yarn ring surface and comprised of a base yarn for forming a base fabric and a wool yarn for forming a yarn ring surface. A needle disc is shifted to enter the wool yarn and the... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6128930 | Process and circular knitting machine for manufacturing a patterned pile fabric and pile element therefor A patterned pile fabric with uncut and severed pile loops is manufactured on a circular knitting machine in which pile elements (1) are arranged in a cylinder (C) provided with an upper and a lower pile forming ledge divided by a holding hook. For the kni... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6125662 | High-low plush knitwear and method and apparatus for making it A high/low plush knitwear with a ground fabric including a plurality of stitch courses and plush yarns (72,81) bound thereinto is disclosed. The ground fabric consists of knitting formed from at least one ground yam (68) and comprises at least one first p... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6094944 | Cutting apparatus in a pile forming textile machine A pile forming textile machine (circular knit, tufting, raschel, stitch-bonding or needle punch machine) is equipped with a plurality of pile elements (1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71) drawing out pile loops from pile yarns or fibers incorporated into a gro... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5791162 | Method and sinker for producing plush fabrics The invention relates to a method, a knitting machine and sinkers (1, 2) for producing plush fabrics. The method is distinguished in that core and plush thread loops (48, 54) are preformed on selected sinker edges and are transferred prior to the actual s... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5775132 | Sinker arrangement in a knitting machine and knitwork formation methods using said arrangement The main object of the invention is to obtain knitwork the density of which is not influenced by the tension of the previously formed loops (15). In the particular case of terry cloth the terries are hence particularly uniform and stable. This is achieved... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5511393 | Sinker system for knitting face-loop and reverse-loop fabrics as well as face-loop jacquard and reverse-loop jacquard fabrics A sinker system for a knitting machine, including a sinker plate holder having a master sinker slot and an auxiliary sinker slot; a master sinker having a throat, a nose, a flank, and a sinker butt; a face-loop sinker of size fitting the master sinker slo... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5477707 | High speed sinker for circular knitting machines A sinker having a sinker body and a butt for engaging a sinker cam. Upper and lower nibs protrude from the sinker body. A first throat is defined between the upper and lower nibs for receiving a yarn. First, second and third knitting platforms are defined... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5463882 | Circular knitting machine with cut pile mechanism A circular knitting machine includes a loop cutting mechanism to cut the loops made by the relative movement of the dial needles and cylinder needles, the loop cutting mechanism including a first sinker and a second sinker reciprocated horizontally along ... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5390511 | Method of manufacturing a jacquard pile fabric and sinkers used therein A method of and circular knitting machine for knitting jacquard pile fabric in which a ground yarn feeder section, two pile yarn feeder sections and a stitch forming section are provided and a ground loop forming sinker and a pile loop forming sinker are ... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5239843 | Knitting machine for the production of plush goods For the production of plush knitted goods containing stitches made from main and plush threads, main threads and plush threads are fed to hooks and sinkers, at least the plush threads are pre-formed to plush thread loops by drawing back the knitting tools... | 08/31/1993 |
| 4127013 | Knitting machine and needle for manufacture of knit plush fabric having a nap, or pile loops To make knit plush fabric having a base knitted fabric which base yarn is knitted to four knit stitches or loops and an inlay or plating plush yarn having loops in side portions is interknitted with and anchored in the base fabric, one of the beds, for ex... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4026126 | Method of knitting knit plush fabric having a nap, or pile loops An inlay or plaiting yarn is passed through knit stitches of a plain knitted fabric, the plaiting yarn is wrapped around the side portions of the knit stitches of the base fabric by a needle having a main latch and an auxiliary, angled latch, is knocked o... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3990268 | Plush fabric knitting apparatus Plush fabrics are produced on a conventional double jersey knitting machine by feeding a plush yarn to conventional cylinder and dial latch needles and feeding a ground yarn to the dial needles only, whereby long loops are formed in the plush yarn and sho... | 11/09/1976 |
