Knitted tubular ribbon for cladding bearings is composed of one yarn in full rows of stitches and a second yarn bonded to the first yarn stitches by tuck loops to give evenly distributed yarn floats on one side

摘要

The tubular ribbon material (14), to clad bearings, is knitted using a twin yarn system where one yarn (16) forms a full row of stitches (20). The second yarn (18) is bonded into the row of stitches (20) with the first yarn (16) by tuck loops (28) to give yarn floats. The second yarn (18) is knitted in a consistent sequence of tuck loops (28) and yarn floats (30). The yarn floats (30) are offset from each other in different rows using the second yarn (18), and are offset by one stitch (22) in successive rows. The first yarn (16) is composed of synthetic fibers or filaments, with a thickness of 900-2000 dtex. The second yarn, of synthetic filaments, has a thickness of 500-1800 dtex. The knitted tubular ribbon (14) is heated for stabilizing at a temperature of at least 200[deg]C, and preferably at a temperature of 200-300[deg]C for a duration of 0.5-2.0 minutes.