Needle arrangement for warp knitting machines and warp knitting machines equipped therewith

Abstract

A knitting needle set for a warp knitting machine has a needle bar and a plurality of hooked needles each of substantially equal length clamped to the needle bar. The plurality of needles each have a hook end and each have at substantially the same distance from its clamping position an insertion opening bordered by the hook end. This insertion opening leads to an interior hook space. The plurality of needles are divisible into at least two groups. The spacing from the zenith of the concave surface of the hook space to the hook end in each of the needles of a given one of the groups differs from that of another one of said groups.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.