Flatbed knitting machines

Hatbed knitting machines are also used for the manufacturing of garments by the stitch shape and cut method however, they are mostly used for production of heavier fashion knitwear. Flatbed knitting machines knit flat garment preforms with a welt at... 

Figure 6.9 Stoll computerised flatbed knitting machine.

Computerised flatbed knitting machines (Figure 6.9) are suitable to produce these heating systems. 

In most conventional weft knitting machines, like a flatbed machine, the conductive threads can be knitted in the fabric only in one direction, that is, the course (or cross) direction. In order to keep the conductive element in a knit stmcture straight, one can insert a conductive thread in the course direction such that the conductive thread is embedded into the fabric between two courses formed from non-conductive threads. 

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