WARP-KNITTING MACHINE FOR MAKING JACQUARD PILE KNITTED FABRICS

A crochet galloon machine for making of jacquard-patterned pile loop knitted fabrics, has sliding latch needles 1 which are reciprocable horizontally between vertical plates 5 which support the pile loops and includes a thread guide bar 8 for feeding the knitting threads, a guide bar 6 carrying thread guides 7 for laying a partial weft in a ground fabric, a plurality of pile thread guides 11 associated with each needle 1, means 13 for selecting the patterning pile thread 10a, plates 18 for laying the patterning pile thread 10a in the needle hooks, and means for underlapping each non-patterning pile thread 10, the threads 10, 10a being guided by a reed 15 displaceable horizontally in the direction of the row of needles 1 and also vertically. The reed 15 is movable substantially above the bottom edge of the needles 1 and has for guiding threads 10, 10a first gaps closed on the knocking-over side as far as the bottom edge of the reed 15. Second gaps in reed 15 between the first gaps can receive the needles 1 and plates 18.