Single bar lock-stitch lofted fabric construction

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A fabric having a novel lock-stitch construction is made on a stitch-through type machine equipped with a single knitting thread guide bar and comprises a flexible substrate such as a layer of textile yarn filling elements a plurality, of warp elements laid on the substrate in the longitudinal or warpwise direction, and knitting thread forming a multiplicity of warpwise stitches in a lock-stitch configuration. The knitting thread lock-stitch configuration comprises a sequence of three-needle atlas stitch courses on a given knitting thread wale to bind together into an integrated structure the substrate and warp elements, to secure the substrate and warp elements against relative …