Chapter I: Preface

When the City of New York established a textile school in 1919 I was asked to take charge of the class in knitting. Although very busy in manufacturing lines, I decided to give up a part of my time to this educational work, believing it to be my duty to do my bit toward helping to fill a long felt want in the industry.

There being no suitable text book available, particularly on the elementary subjects, I was obliged to prepare my own material for the instruction of the students. The results of this work are contained in this volume, which is devoted to the various types of flat latch needle machines. It is my intention to follow this with other volumes covering circular latch needle machines, spring needle machines, etc., with their products.

The various chapters of this work have been published in the knitting technical section of TEXTILE WORLD but I believe their usefulness will be increased by this revision and publication in more convenient book form.

One of the greatest needs for the advancement of the knitting industry to the position it should occupy in the world of textiles is available technical information, and it is hoped that this volume with the ones to follow will supply, in some degree, this need.

H. D. BUCK.

Woodhaven, L. I., New York,
September 1, 1921.

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CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. Development of the Industry How Cloth is 9
Constructed—Study of Loop.

II. Latch Needle Knitting Making Jersey 16
Cloth on the Lamb Type of Machine.

III. Rib Fabric Group How Stitch is Made for 26
Different Cloths.

IV. The Rack Stitch Making Shaped 35
Collars—Opportunities in Designing
Fabrics.

V. The Double Lock Flat Machine How 44
Different Stitches Are Formed.

VI. Fashioned Goods 51

VII. Automatic Flat Latch Needle Machines 57
Single Lock.

VIII. Automatic Widening Machine Explanation 78
of Mechanism Used.

IX. Purl Stitch, or Links and Links Machine 86
For Hand or Manual Power.

X. Designs on Plain Purl Stitch Machines 97
Automatic Jacquard Type—Details of
Jacquard-Designing on Jacquard
Machine.

XI. Flat Latch Needle Automatic Narrowing 113
Machine

XII. The Flat Jacquard Machine How It Differs 129
From the Purl Stitch Jacquard
Machine—Type of Fabric
Produced—Methods of Needle
Selection—Difference Between Single
Jacquard and Double
Jacquard—Explanation of Design and
Pattern Cards.

INDEX 143

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FLAT MACHINE KNITTING AND FABRICS