Device on a warp knitting machine for crocheting an elastic band with fleece and an elastic band produced by this device

A device on a warp knitting machine for crocheting a particularly fine elastic band having at least one broadside with fleece thereon, the warp knitting machine having a width and a mesh forming spot, said device comprising:

• a plurality of crochet needles, said plurality of crochet needles includes more than eight crocheting needles at a density of at least eight needles per centimeter of machine width and being disposed proximate said mesh forming spot;
• a needle bar reciprocally movable forward and backward, said plurality of crochet needles being fixedly attached to said needle bar and movable with said needle bar;
• a warp thread laying device, said warp thread laying device feeding an array of warp threads proximate to the mesh forming spot, said warp-thread laying device including a warp thread laying bar and first and second sets of warp thread eye needles physically coupled to the warp thread laying bar, said first and second sets of eye needles having heads and being fixedly arranged at an acute angle to each other so that the heads of the eye needles of the first set interengage with the heads of the eye needles of the second set, said warp thread laying bar being reciprocally movable forward and backward and capable of side shifting;
• at least one single weft laying device located proximate to the mesh forming spot, said single weft laying device feeding at least one weft thread;
• an elastic thread laying device located proximate to the mesh forming spot, said rubber thread laying device feeding an array of stretched rubber threads;
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• at least one weft array laying device located proximate to the mesh forming spot, said weft array laying device including sets of weft thread eye needles feeding an array of weft threads.