Category: Engineering & Technology
MACHINE knitting is a much older industry than most people realize, the first knitting machine having been invented in England about the year 1590. In spite of this early start the knitting industry has not made as great progress as some other lines of manufacturing. The great...
THE term “automatic” as applied to this class of machine means that all the changes are made automatically, as from plain stitch to half cardigan or full cardigan, or vice versa...
12. CHAPTER XIITHE FLAT JACQUARD MACHINE—HOW IT DIFFERS FROM THE PURL STITCH JACQUARD MACHINE—TYPE OF FABRIC PRODUCED—METHODS OF NEEDLE SELECTION—DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SINGLE JACQUARD AND DOUBLE...
11. CHAPTER XITHE flat latch needle automatic narrowing machine as built by Messrs. Claes & Flentje is shown in Fig. 73, and a piece of fabric from this machine narrowed down fourteen needles...
10. CHAPTER XFIGURES 64, 65 and 66 show some of the design effects which may be made on the links and links system of knitting. Fig. 64 is a basket weave design. To make this we will assume...
9. CHAPTER IXTHE purl stitch or links and links machine is a type which may be termed unique in the class of machinery built to make knitted fabrics. It is entirely a European development; i...
4. CHAPTER IVTHE rack stitch is used on many sweaters for a border on the bottom, also for a narrow strip on both sides of the shoulder seam, and a strip at the place the stitch changes from...
3. CHAPTER IIITHERE are numerous conflicting expressions or terms used in the knit goods industry, and one of the most common of these is the term “flat goods.” In the older underwear section...
2. CHAPTER IIALTHOUGH what is known as the spring beard needle was a part of the original invention of the knitting machine, and was in use more than 200 years before the latch needle was in...
5. CHAPTER VOur study of flat machines up to this point has dealt entirely with the class known as the single lock machines, or those that have but one set or pair of locks to do the knitti...
8. CHAPTER VIIIWE have explained what fashioned work is and how it is done by hand. Fig. 53 shows a machine built by Dubied & Co., which does this work by widening the fabric automatically in...
1. CHAPTER IMACHINE knitting is a much older industry than most people realize, the first knitting machine having been invented in England about the year 1590. In spite of this early start...
6. CHAPTER VIIf the garment to be fashioned is a sweater, the fashioning or shaping to be done is the sleeve, the neck opening, the collar, and at times in the better class of sweaters, the...