Abstract
The quality of knitted fabric panels is of considerable importance to the knitwear industries. The latest development in flat bed knitting technology improves the efficiency of the production by knitting fully fashioned fabric panels that are to exact shape and size. This greatly reduces the cutting waste and length of time for the making-up process, but garment manufacturers are still facing the difficulty of retaining dimensional stability of the knitted panels. One of the significant factors influencing this undesired property is input yarn tension variation. The analysis of this problem is described and a new method of yarn feeding is also suggested. This method utilizes storage yarn feed to eliminate the undesired effect of yarn feed speed variation and has been applied as a prototype. The results show a promising and satisfactory improvement in the fabric quality.
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