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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8156767 | Forming a tubular knit fabric for a paint roller cover An apparatus and a method are provided for forming a tubular-shaped knitted covering for a paint roller, or the like, having a pile extending from an outer surface of the covering, through use of a dial needle knitting arrangement. A cylinder needle knitting arrange... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7908889 | Forming a tubular knit fabric for a paint roller cover A method and apparatus are provided for forming a tubular-shaped knitted covering for a paint roller, or the like, having a pile extending from an outer surface of the covering, through use of a dial needle knitting arrangement. A cylinder needle knitting arrangemen... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7634921 | Knitting a tubular fabric for a paint roller cover A method and apparatus are provided for forming a tubular-shaped knitted covering for a paint roller, or the like, having a pile extending from an outer surface of the covering, through use of a dial needle knitting arrangement. A cylinder needle knitting arrangemen... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7552602 | Forming a tubular knit fabric for a paint roller cover A method and apparatus are provided for forming a tubular-shaped knitted covering for a paint roller, or the like, having a pile extending from an outer surface of the covering, through use of a dial needle knitting arrangement. A cylinder needle knitting arrangemen... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7503190 | Forming a tubular knit fabric for a paint roller cover A method and apparatus are provided for forming a tubular-shaped knitted covering for a paint roller, or the like, having a pile extending from an outer surface of the covering, through use of a dial needle knitting arrangement. A cylinder needle knitting arrangemen... | 03/17/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7281396 | Medium- or large-diameter single-cylinder circular knitting machine with radially compact sinker ring A medium- or large-diameter single-cylinder circular knitting machine with a radially compact sinker ring, comprising a needle cylinder that has a vertical axis and a sinker ring that is connected coaxially to the needle cylinder proximate to the upper end of the ne... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7152436 | Circular knitting machine A circular knitting machine provides sinkers that are moved in an inclined manner in the sinker troughs to position yarn laps and prevent the sinkers from hitting yarn feeding plates. The sinker has a nose section to hold the yarn laps at a horizontal high point to ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7036342 | Yarn feeder A yarn feeder for circular knitting machines that have a plurality of knitting needles includes a first threading hole, a second threading hole and a jutting yarn guiding member on a lower edge for feeding three yarns corresponding to a knitting needle. The three ya... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6920767 | Method and device for producing automatically shaped tubular knitwear items and products obtained thereby The invention relates to tubular knitwear items (1) suitably shaped or modeled without the usual cutting and sewing operations and preferably without using elastic yarns. According to the jacquard design and/or to the work cycle of the textile machine, the in... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6766668 | Silver-knit material A sliver-knit material is formed from a base including at least one thread having a first material and a second material. The first material has a melting point lower than the second material. A sliver material is secured to the base. A portion of the sliver materia... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6370921 | Tubular knitting machine A device knits together a tubular structure of continuous fibers with a stitch yarn, to provide a reinforcing substrate, especially for use with roofing materials. The device brings together first and second sets of the continuous fibers at a cylinder wit... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6151920 | Circular sliver knitting machine for the production of knitwear with combed-in fibers A circular knitting machine for the production of knitwear formed of yarns and fibers tied into these yarns is described. The circular knitting machine contains a needle cylinder (1) with knitting needles (2), a sinker ring (15) which is rotatable about a... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5862681 | Pile fabric methods and circular knitting machines with improved pile elements for manufacturing aforesaid The present invention relates to improved pile fabrics containing courses in which at least two pile forming yarns are meshed across a complete course together cooperatively in various fabric constructions, and respectively into a ground fabric, and formi... | 01/26/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5713220 | Pile patterning mechanism for circular knitting machine and knitted article knitted by the circular knitting machine A pile patterning mechanism for a circular knitting machine comprises: a sinker bed provided with a plurality of radial, horizontal grooves and disposed on the outer circumference of an upper end of a needle cylinder; a plurality of pile sinkers fitted in... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5465467 | Method of making chemical fiber knitted towelling A chemical fiber knitted towelling making method which is to brush the pile yarn of the fabric and remove impurities from the pile yarn after the steps of knitting, dyeing and napping, and then to cut the pile yarn to a uniform length after brushing, and ... | 11/14/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5369859 | Method of making chemical fiber knitted towelling An improved method of making (100% heat-resisting) chemical or synthetic fiber knitted towelling which includes a step of primary shearing to cut the pile yarn of a knitted fabric, obtained after napping of the fabric; a step of brushing the knitted fabri... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5285661 | Tubular textile insert for strengthening material and a mechanism for its production A tubular textile insert for strengthening material is made of a stack of successive layers of parallel and interlinked threads. More particularly, there is a first-direction layer defining a cylindrical shape and form by several parallel threads arranged... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5279133 | Circular knitting machine for making plush fabric The invention concerns a circular knitting machine for making plush fabric. The circular knitting machine has a needle cylinder fitted with knitting needles, a sinker ring fitted with sinkers, wherein the sinkers have edges adapted to handle a ground yarn... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5275021 | Circular knitting machine A circular knitting machine for manufacturing hosiery comprises a lower needle cylinder (1) having a cam section arrangement (5, 6, 7, 8, 9) and a verticle trick (2) grooved on the needle cylinder (1) near the arrangement (5, 6, 7, 8, 9). The cam section ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5207079 | High speed yarn knitting apparatus A knitting machine is described in which the elastic thread packages (26) are mounted in a stationary position away from the knitting head (22). This results in reducing the revolving mass and the space necessary to accommodate the revolving mass. Further... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5186025 | Plush or pile knitted fabric and circular knitting machine for the production thereof The invention relates to a plush or pile knitted fabric comprising a basic knit including a multiplicity of courses and plush yarns or pile fibres which are bound into the basic knit. The basic knit comprises a plain knit formed with at least one basic ya... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5170649 | Circular knitting machine for socks, stockings or the like, in particular for producing knitting with towelling stitches The circular knitting machine for socks, stockings or the like, in particular for producing knitting with towelling stitches, comprises, at the set of knitting-forming cams which actuate the motion of the needles during the engagement of the thread or thr... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5167133 | Process for producing a patterned plush fabric as well as a multisystem circular knitting machine for carrying out the process The invention concerns an improved method and apparatus for forming pile fabric where the pile loops are controlled during the knock-over action of the needles. The sinker ring mounted sinkers include separate pile and loop forming ledges. The base thread... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5001909 | Circular weft knitting machine Circular weft knitting machine apparatus that includes a selectively contoured terry instrument displaceably contained in a guide channel in an independently rotatable cage member disposed above a knitting needle support cylinder that includes a pair of e... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4989421 | Process for producing a patterned plush fabric as well as a multisystem circular knitting machine for carrying out the process A method and apparatus for forming pile fabric where the pile loops are controlled during the knock-over action of the needles. The sinker ring mounted sinkers include separate pile and loop forming ledges. The base thread is fed into the throat of the si... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4986090 | Method of knitting A method for operating a conventional circular knitting machine, provided with indepenent and continuously operating pattern wheels, to develop patterns including knit, tuck, welt and terry stitches in the same course(s). By synchronizing the sinker selec... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4955211 | Circular knitting machine for producing single face plush articles A circular knitting machine for producing a single face plush article of base threads and plush threads has a needle cylinder provided with a plurality of needles and a plate ring provided with separately controlled and differently shaped plates. A first ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4926660 | Method of knitting jacquard knit fabric by circular knitting machine The methods of knitting the pile jacquard fabric are carried out on a circular knitting machine including needles and sinkers, and a plurality of adjacent yarn feeders. The fabric includes successive courses of plain jersey stitch wales knit of a ground y... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4671988 | Camouflage knitted article A camouflage fabric having (1) opposed surface areas of a size sufficient to extend over the object or personnel to be camouflaged and (2) a weight per unit surface area within the range of 1 to 16 ounces per square yard. The camouflage fabric comprises a... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4665718 | Circular knitting machine for the production of plush goods A circular knitting machine for the production of plush goods by means of needles and cooperating sinkers created to form plush and plain loops. The invention improves fabric quality especially when using cotton thread to form plush loops by providing bes... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4633683 | Method for the manufacture of patterned pile fabrics and circular knitting machine therefor Patterned pile (terry or plush) fabrics are made on circular knitting machines with cylinder and sinker ring or latch needles and pile elements (pile sinkers, pile hooks, latch needles). The pile elements are not selected, but perform their pile forming m... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4628709 | Apparatus and method for producing knitted hook-type fastener material A knitted material is disclosed having on one side a multiplicity of upstanding hook-like engaging elements suitable for repeated face-to-face engagement and disengagement with a material having a multiplicity of upstanding pile loop-like mating engagemen... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4612784 | Circular knitting machine and method of producing jacquard-patterned plush webs A multi-system circular knitting machine for producing jacquard-patterned one-face plush webs of one main thread and at least one plush thread has a needle cylinder provided with a plurality of needles, a plate ring provided with pairs of controllable loo... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4535608 | Circular knitting machine for producing one-face plush webs A circular knitting machine for producing one-face plush webs of main threads and plush threads has a plurality of needles, a plate ring provided with plate members, and a plurality of cam members for controlling the longitudinal movement of the needles a... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4409800 | Method of and apparatus for knitting cut-pile fabric A process and apparatus for producing knitted cut-pile fabric on a conventional circular knitting machine having a cylinder containing conventional latch needles and a dial containing dial elements each having a hook, a yarn cutting edge spaced from the h... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4297857 | Apparatus for knitting terry loops on a circular hosiery machine Apparatus is disclosed for knitting terry loops on a circular hosiery machine having at least one feeding station. The apparatus includes a cylinder that carries a plurality of needles individually guided in a groove provided on the cylinder. The needles ... | 11/03/1981 |
