Warp knitting
In the intervening three years March likely had discussed the device with Morris who submitted a similar patent (No.1282) for a twisting machine for making Brussels point lace.
The fabric is held in the throats of the sinkers while the needles rise to clear and the new loops are knocked over in-between them.
Evidently, the demand for cotton towel knitting machines has been steadily escalating, prompting increased interest from customers.
A German firm used this machine to produce "Raschel" shawls, named after the French actress Élisabeth Félice Rachel.
[8] Raschel knits do not stretch significantly and are often bulky; consequently, they are often used as an unlined material for coats, jackets, straight skirts and dresses.
[5] The qualities of these fabrics range from "dense and compact to open and lofty [and] can be either stable or stretchy, and single-faced or reversible.
Stitch-bonding is a special form of warp knitting[9] and is commonly used for the production of composite materials and technical textiles.
Stitch-bonding machines are used for the sewing processing of nonwoven fabric, to increase its fastness and toughness.
The stitch-bonding warp knitting machine or Non-woven warp knitting machine is for producing technical textiles such as shoe interlining, shopping bag, geotextile dewatering bags, reinforced composite glass fiber textile and other fabrics.
As a method of production, stitch-bonding is efficient, and is one of the most modern ways to create reinforced textiles and composite materials [10] for industrial use.
The advantages of the stitch-bonding process include its high productivity rate and the scope it offers for functional design of textiles, such as fiber-reinforced plastics.
[10] Research is currently being conducted into the usage and benefits of stitch-bonded fabrics as a way to reinforce concrete.
[9] This then makes it possible for the layers of the stitch-bonded fabric to be arranged freely and be made symmetrical in one working step.
Kyosev and Renkens[14] created various versions of CAD software for 3D design of warp knitted fabrics[15] and contributed with it in a book with the fundamentals of the patterning,[16] where about 100 samples can be downloaded and viewed as 3D structure.
[18] Research is also being conducted into the use of warp knitted fabrics for industrial applications (for example, to reinforce concrete), and for the production of biotextiles.
Current research on animals "have confirmed that … the implantation of the device reverses the disease state, which makes this an alternative innovative therapy for patients who have side effects from traditional drug remedies".
