HEADING 84.47 - KNITTING MACHINES STITCH-BONDING MACHINES AND MACHINES FOR MAKING GIMPED YARN TULLE LACE EMBROIDERY TRIMMINGS BRAID OR NET AND MACHINES FOR TUFTING.

47 COMMODITIES

- Circular knitting machines :

8447.11 - - With cylinder diameter not exceeding 165 mm

8447.12 - - With cylinder diameter exceeding 165 mm

8447.20 - Flat knitting machines; stitch-bonding machines

8447.90 - Other

This heading covers all machinery for the production of fabrics or trimmings by knitting stitch-bonding gimping braiding netting tufting etc. or for embroidery work on any ground whether using unspun rovings textile (including peat fibre) yarns other yarns (e.g. of metal glass or asbestos) or wire.

(A) KNITTING MACHINES

These consist of two main groups :

(1) Flat machines for producing flat fabric of even width or by increasing or decreasing the number of stitches in the rows flat but shaped pieces of fabric to be subsequently made up by sewing (e.g. into stockings or socks). Flat machines include machines for ordinary knitting (e.g. Cotton's frames) and warp knitting (Raschel milanese locknit etc. looms). These machines range from the very simple type to large machines with many rows of needles in some cases equipped with Jacquard or similar mechanisms to produce various designs.

(2) Circular machines which produce either a straight tubular fabric or by varying the size of the stitches in the rows a shaped tubular piece (for stockings socks sleeves of garments berets fezes or similar knitted headgear etc.).

This heading also covers small domestic knitting machines and machines designed to knit just the few stitches necessary for repairing stockings. Machines for joining two pieces of knitted fabric by simply sewing together the loops forming the knitted edges are classified in heading 84.52.

(B) STITCH-BONDING MACHINES

This group includes all kinds of stitch-bonding machines which produce fabrics by a chain-stitching process. The following are included :

(1) Machines incorporating a needle mechanism for attaching the " warp " yarns and the " weft " yarns by chain-stitching.

(2) Machines for inserting loops of yarn in a fabric backing previously produced on a conventional weaving loom and attaching them to the backing with knitting stitches.

(3) Knitting-sewing machines operate by stitching seams in loose-fibre fabric already made by other machines (for example cards and garnetting machines) and so produce a consolidated sheet of textile material used as filtering material carpet underlay insulating material etc.

(C) MACHINES FOR MAKING KNOTTED NET TULLE LACE BRAID OR TRIMMINGS FOR GIMPING YARNS FOR EMBROIDERY FOR TUFTING ETC.

These include :

(1) Machines for making nets or netting for any purpose either in the piece or to the shape of finished articles (e.g. fishing nets).

(2) Machines for making plain tulle (e.g. Roller machines).

(3) Machines for making figured tulle lace etc. (e.g. Levers machines and Nottingham lace machines).

(4) Machines for making bobinot tulle bobinot curtains and bobinot mechanical lace which manufacture flat netting or flat net curtains as well as mechanical (woven) lace from warp and weft strands. However the warp and weft strands are not interlaced at right angles as in weaving but are surrounded and tied by the to and fro movement of a shuttle by a large number of warp strands (bobbin threads) arranged on small bobbins.

(5) Embroidery machines which by means of needles embroider various designs with one or more threads on an existing ground of woven fabric or other material; these machines may be equipped with Jacquard or similar mechanisms. The heading also covers thread drawing machines which withdraw and bind the remaining threads into open-work embroidery.

The heading does not cover chain or blanket stitch machines (mainly used to edge certain textile articles but which can also do simple embroidery) nor sewing machines which can do simple embroidery work in addition to ordinary sewing (heading 84.52).

(6) Gimping machines. These wrap one yarn in close spirals round a generally thicker core (e.g. of metal wire rubber thread unspun fibres or of one or more coarser yarns). These machines can also be used to gimp fine electrical wiring.

(7) Machines for making various trimmings by interlacing in various complex ways yarns or unspun rovings (sometimes gimped) of various textiles (braiding looms hook looms etc.). The heading also covers machines for braiding a wire sheath on hose of rubber plastics etc. or for braiding tubular plaits from wire provided they have the essential mechanical parts characteristic of the textile machines referred to in the preceding paragraph.

(8) Machines for covering buttons tassel cores etc. with textile threads.

(9) Tufting machines for inserting loops or tufts of textile yarn in a fabric backing in order to produce carpets mats or lightweight articles (bedspreads bath robes etc.).

PARTS AND ACCESSORIES

Subject to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Explanatory Note to Section XVI) parts and accessories of the machines of this heading are classified in heading 84.48.

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