Abstract: A method of knitting a knit-in rib or tubular jacquard of a double-jersey weave into a tubular body free or substantially free of a sewing process by forming a course of loops of either of the front fabric or the rear fabric with knitting needles from a first needle bed.

Abstract: Narrow contoured portions of a circularly knitted textile fabric may be elasticated by the selective insertion of elastic yarn segments in selected wales and courses defining the contoured area to be elasticated, preferably utilizing a circular knitting machine equipped with a computerized electronic needle selection system. In one application, a brassiere blank may be formed with curved elasticated annular contours to define borders of brassiere cups whereby a sports-type brassiere garment may be fabricated without a laborious cutting and sewing operation.

Abstract: Each stitch of the last course of a front knitted fabric of a tubular knitted fabric is overlapped with a stitch, one stitch interior, of an immediately preceding course of the front knitted fabric. Each stitch of the last course of a back knitted fabric is overlapped with a stitch, one stitch interior, of an immediately preceding course of the back knitted fabric. Prolongations of each stitch of the last course of the front knitted fabric crosses with prolongations of a stitch of the last course of the back knitted fabric.

Abstract: A method of knitting side-by-side brief blanks (BLK, BLK') in the form of a tube (T) on an electronically controlled circular knitting machine wherein the tube (T) is shaped by needle selection (50) between the brief blanks (BLK, BLK') to form apertures (AP, AP') which provide leg openings (LO, LO') by taking out of action needles (50') which would otherwise knit yarn across the apertures (AP, AP'). At the same time yarn feed (Y2) to the inoperative needles (50') is cut (42, 44) and trapped (46) whereby the apertures (AP, AP') are formed. End portions of the blanks (BLK, BLK') remain interconnected until the tube (T) is slit walewise to provide separate blanks (BLK, BLK') for making up briefs. Since yarn is not knitted across the apertures (AP, AP'), a considerable saving in the use of yarn is effected whilst shaping of leg openings (LO, LO') is facilitated.

Abstract: In a joining portion of a body and a sleeve of a pullover, only a front body is knitted, stitches of a front part of sleeve are transferred to the front body for joining the front body and the sleeve, and stitches of a back part of sleeve are shifted to the front part. In the back body, knitting of a whole width of the back body and knitting only a side edge are executed, during these operations stitches at the side edge are shifted inward, and an outer most stitch of the front body is shifted to the side edge of the back body.

Abstract: A method for producing tubular components, particularly for manufacturing hosiery or other items of clothing with a shaping effect by using circular knitting or hosiery-making machines, and a tubular component obtained with the method. The method consists in forming, during the production of the tubular component, certain portions of rows of knitting, for some rows, with a greater loop length than the preceding rows, the subsequent rows, and the remaining portions of the rows themselves, in order to form at least one lateral pouch along the extension of the tubular component.

Abstract: A method for producing knitted ready-made garments type waistcoat or jacket includes the step of: knitting a piece of tricot (10) having a rectangular configuration with two long sides (12, 13), two short sides (11) and at least two fold markings (18, 19, 21, 23, 24); folding the piece of tricot in at least two places, substantially in parallel with the short sides (11) for forming the back (14) and side parts (15) of the jacket; forming the remaining parts of the tricot piece at the short sides a divided front (16) with a substantially v-shaped front neck part; making an arm opening at each side part of the tricot piece; knitting each divided front part (16) with two or more fold markings (18, 19, 21, 23, 24), of which at least two of these markings (18, 19) extend substantially from the respective long side and meet each other in a vertex (20) at a distance from the short sides (11) of the tricot piece; and folding each divided front part (16) along the fold markings and is joined together to at least doubl

Abstract: A lower body garment for covering the legs, hips, waist and midriff of the wearer, formed from a tubular sleeve knit of successive yarn courses which includes a waistband, a midriff encircling portion integrally knit with the waistband and leg portions integrally knit with the midriff encircling portion. The leg portions are formed by slitting the tubular sleeve and joining the slit edges to provide a continuous longitudinal leg enclosing seam extending throughout the leg portions. Cuff portions are integrally knit with the leg portions and are also joined by the continuous longitudinal seam. The garment may be made with or without a lining.

Abstract: A fire resistant fabric (10) suitable for use as an inner thermal barrier layer in a layered firefighters' turnout garment (30). The fabric is a 3-end knit fleece having stitch yarns (12), tie yarns (14), and nap yarns (18), all made of fire resistant fibers. The nap yarns are pulled away from the stitch and tie yarns to form a fleece.

Abstract: A binding off method for binding off stitches of at least two fabrics which form a tube requires a plurality of steps. A first step is providing a flat knitting machine with a first needle bed and a second needle bed, with each needle bed having a plurality of needles, and being slidable relative to each other. The needle beds are configured to hold stitches, with the stitches being transferable between the first and second needle bed. A second step is knitting a first knit fabric and a second knit fabric, with the first knit fabric corresponding to the first needle bed and the second knit fabric corresponding to the second needle bed. The first and second knit fabrics are configured to face each other on the first and second needle beds.

Abstract: A lower body garment for covering the legs, hips, waist and midriff of the wearer, formed from a tubular sleeve knit of successive yarn courses which includes a waistband, a midriff encircling portion integrally knit with the waistband and leg portions integrally knit with the midriff encircling portion. The leg portions are formed by slitting the tubular sleeve and joining the slit edges to provide a continuous longitudinal leg enclosing seam extending throughout the leg portions. Cuff portions are integrally knit with the leg portions and are also joined by the continuous longitudinal seam. The garment may be made with or without a lining.

Abstract: This invention discloses a circularly knit brassiere having integrally knit-in support panels and cup fullness. The brassiere is knit on a circular knitting machine, and the support panels have a modified knit structure to provide them with a greater resistance to stretching, particularly in the coursewise direction. The support panels are separated by differentially-shaped breast cups, which can be formed by way of the feeding-in of an additional yarn or yarns to form additional courses in the cup area, or through the provision of a gathered center panel. The entire brassiere is produced in the form of a tubular blank, and portions are cut and removed to define shoulder straps and a neck opening. The straps are seamed together to form a completed brassiere having only a minimal number of seams, and banding or the like may be provided on the arm and neck openings.

Abstract: In knitting a knit fabric, knitting needles in a range corresponding with a desired knitting width for the fabric are fed with a draw yarn to form a course of stitches from the draw yarn. The knitting needles may be taken from a pair of needle beds which are sometimes referred to as the front bed and the rear bed. All or part of the knitting needles used for knitting the draw yarn are next fed with a knitting yarn and a course of stitches form from the knitting yarn. Thereafter, knitting needles from the front and rear needle beds in the range corresponding with the desired knitting width are fed with the knitting yarn and the initial portion of the fabric is knitted. Subsequently, knitting needles from either the front or rear needle beds are fed with knitting yarn and thereafter knitting needles from another needle bed are fed with knitting yarn to knit plan tubular stitches until the fabric is completed. The draw yarn is drawn out of the fabric after completion of the knitting.

Abstract: The process for manufacturing a complete garment on a two needle bed flat knitting machine, which operates with latch needles, which process consist of the fact that at least at the beginning of the manufacture of the garment, half of the needles of the front needle bed are put to work with the empty (idle) needles of the rear needle bed and viceversa in order to perform, during the steps of forming of the tubular portions of said garment, also an operation of narrowing of the knitted product in pre-established areas of said tubular portions.

Abstract: A garment with sleeves comprising a stretchable, knitted fabric, wherein an underbust area of the garment comprises a high-gauge knitting with relatively high density, shoulders and upper back area of the garment comprise a low-gauge knitting with relatively low density, and cuff areas of the garment comprise a medium-gauge knitting with relatively medium density.

Abstract: The present invention entails a panty having a crotch area that is specifically designed to kill and inhibit the growth of yeast, bacteria and fungi. In particular, the panty includes a crotch made up of an open knit construction that is formed of both treated and non-treated yarn. The treated yarn is treated with an antimicrobial agent that is capable of killing and inhibiting yeast.

Abstract: A method of producing a fashioned, one-piece flat knitted article for a garment includes knitting several knitted article parts having a front part, a rear part and two sleeves separately and sequentially so that in each knitted article part always several loop rows are knitted in accordance with a pattern for said each knitted article part before transferring to a next knitted article part, knitting the front part and a shoulder region of any shape and pattern after finishing the sleeves with the formation of an arbitrarily shaped neck opening between the front part and the rear part, transferring connecting rows of the sleeves in a loop-like manner inwardly in a direction of the shoulder region and the front and rear parts until sleeve connecting edges are completely turned inwardly relative to the front part and rear part, and subsequently finally knitting a last knitted article part in correspondence with a pattern for said last knitted article part.

Abstract: Knitting structure with a processed end portion of a vent portion provided at a knit fabric which is knit in a tubular configuration using a flat knitting machine. A knitting yarn is turned back at an intermediate portion of each course after a predetermined course among knitting course of a knit fabric to form the vent portion and loops constituted from the turned back knitting yarns which form the vent portion are racked by a suitable pitch in a next course at the vent portion.

Abstract: A knitted fabric for winterweight garments comprising two confronting webs, one overlying the other and united at intervals by a stitch of the yarn of one web engaging the other web. One of the webs has thick and thin yarns grouped in adjacent courses, the grouped courses of thick yarns alternating with the grouped courses of thin yarns to produce a ridged effect in the web. The thick yarns produce ridge lines and the thin yarns intermediate said ridge lines produce air-entrapping channels in the one web. The other web is preferably smooth on both surfaces. When fabricated into a garment the ridged web is on the inside and the smooth web is on the outside of the garment.

Abstract: A method for determining a sleeve and body pattern so that each sleeve is the same vertically as related to the body. The body is arranged so that the vertical height of an armhole between a shoulder point and an underarm point is equal in height of a set-in region of the sleeve pattern. The sleeves are joined to the body of the garment by a knitting process.

Abstract: A pantyhose or the like garment having a novel waistband construction comprising an anchor portion and an integrally knit wide band portion. The waistband is substantially wider than conventional waistbands, the anchor portion consisting of a narrow turned welt portion and a wide single ply band portion, each incorporating textured nylon and elastomer yarns.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine provided with at least a pair of needle beds, either or both of the needle beds arranged for movement lengthwisely thereof. Two tubular knit fabrics being coupled each other at both ends, are provided in linear symmetrical relationship about a boundary line of adjointed ends. Two loops at the joint portion of each tubular fabrics are jointed, overlapping the new loop on the first overlapped loop. The method incorporates by repeating a predetermined number of times of a process of binding off the new loops, the cast-on of each tubular knit fabric is controlled so that the seams. Of the two tubular knit fabrics can be knitted in the same course.

Abstract: The present invention presents a connective knitting method of tape-shaped knit ends capable of joining the end portions nearly simultaneously when knitting a tape or rope and a tape-shaped knit fabric having the end portions linked in a knit state, which comprises two pieces of tape-shaped knit fabric knitted by an arbitrary number of needles in different ranges across the boundary in the longitudinal direction of the needle beds disposed at least in a pair of front and rear sides, wherein symmetrical loops of the final course of both knit fabrics across the boundary are overlaid and knitted by binding off.

Abstract: A method of knitting in pleats according to the present invention comprises the steps of: knitting a succession of surf ace knitted sections, fold-back knitted sections, and overlap knitted sections with the use of arrays of knitting needles mounted on at least a pair of front and rear needle beds, one or both of which are arranged movable leftward and rightward; removing the fold-back knitted sections from the corresponding needles after fastening of thread ends; displacing the surface knitted section and/or the overlap knitted section close to the needles, from which the fold-back knitted sections are removed, so that they are located next to each other; loading a succession of the surface, overlap, and surface knitted sections onto the array of needles on one of the two needle beds; after moving the other needle bed in a direction opposite to the fold-back direction of the bold-back section, loading the overlap or surface knitted section onto the knitting needles of the other needle bed; after moving the o

Abstract: The process consists in producing a body of knitting having a substantially tubular extension, with portions which are to be removed and a remaining part. The remaining part is knitted with a plurality of threads. The portions which are to be removed are knitted with fewer threads than the remaining part.

Abstract: A knit garment blank includes a tubular body portion having a first section knit with desired stitches and second sections knit with yarn from selected spaced courses of the first section, for example, such as every fourth course. In each second section, selected spaced courses continuing from the first section are looped through other selected spaced courses. At a given course during knitting, needles knitting the front of the first section and the second sections are pressed off and a plurality of courses appending from the remaining stitches of the course forms a rear panel. A brief is formed by cutting away selected portions of the blank to define leg openings and sewing a crotch piece to the body and the rear panel.

Abstract: The invention relates to V-shaped briefs which can be produced in one piece and which consist of a preferably elastic crotch or gusset part and two side bands of essentially uniform width made of a decorative knitted border. The briefs are produced by continuously knitting single or double layer material widths which after having separated only need to be worked on along one seam or not at all in order to obtain the finished briefs. In addition, it is possible to sew on stocking parts with a very steep leg line. Production is considerably simplified and costs greatly reduced without adversely affecting the wearing properties and the fashionable appearance of the garment.

Abstract: The process has: a first step of formation of an elastic border, a second step of formation of a tubular body of knitting starting from the elastic border for a preset number of complete rows, a third step in which a first group of needles and a second group of needles of the machine, which operate on mutually angularly spaced portions of the tubular body, are excluded from working to define a pair of missing portions which constitute the leg apertures of the briefs; the needles excluded from working gradually increase in number for a widening of the missing portions. In the second step, during the knitting of the last complete rows of the tubular body, a preset number of needles, which operate in the mutually angularly spaced regions, and, in the third step, a preset number of needles proximate to the first group and to the second group of needles, are fed with yarn and with elastic thread for the formation of an elastic border around the leg apertures.

Abstract: Knit sport shirts and the like characterized by having the body portion and the trim of exactly the same color shade are manufactured by circularly knitting the same type of yarn to form first and second tubular fabrics and then simultaneously dyeing both the first and second tubular fabrics together to obtain the same color in both fabrics. The second tubular fabric is unraveled and the unraveled yarn is used in knitting the trim on a flat knitting machine. The first tubular fabric is cut and sewn to form the body blank and the knit trim is attached to the body blank to complete the sport shirt.

Abstract: A composite garment blank is knit to provide first and second individual panty garment blanks having portions in intermating relationship. The panty portions of the individual panty blanks are positioned on opposite end portions of the composite garment blank and include corresponding fashioned front and rear sections which extend inwardly of the composite panty garment blank and are offset in 90 degree relationship to each other so that the inwardly extending fashioned front and rear sections of one individual panty blank intermate or nest with and are spaced apart by unknit areas between the fashioned front and rear sections of the other panty garment blank. This intermating arrangement of the inwardly extending portions of the individual panty blanks permits the simultaneous knitting of the inwardly extending portions of one panty blank with and while not knitting between the inwardly extending portions of the other panty blank.

Abstract: The present seamless knit tubular blank is particularly adapted for use in forming body garments, such as panties and the like. In one embodiment, the panty is formed of a single seamless tubular blank while a second embodiment of the panty is formed of two seamless tubular blanks. In each embodiment, the seamless tubular blanks are provided with a visual cutting guide which is formed during knitting of the blank for providing a visually detectable different appearance and a visual separation between first and second fabric portions of the blank. The second fabric portions of the blank are adapted to be removed from the first fabric portions to impart the requisite shape to the first fabric portions for use in forming the body garment.

Abstract: This invention relates to methods of manufacturing blanks for brassieres, brassieres, and the products of such methods. In particular, the methods and products involve circular knitting operations in which the blank is produced as a cylindrical tube, and thereafter cut and sewn to produce a garment having straps knit integrally with a frontal torso portion having breast cups and a dorsal torso portion cooperating with the frontal torso portion in forming a torso band.

Abstract: A moldable fabric of improved hand warp knitted on a 28 gauge tricot warp knitting machine using spun polyester stable yarn.

Abstract: A method of knitting a blank for a garment comprises the steps, carried out in a sequence involving knitting from one waist line to the other in the blank, of (a) knitting two front panels for the garment body with courses extending lengthwise of each front body panel and wales extending in the direction across each front body panel, in the finished garment; (b) knitting two sleeve panels for the garment with courses extending lengthwise of each sleeve panel; and (c) knitting a single rear panel for the garment body with courses extending across the rear panel and wales extending lengthwise of the rear panel. During the knitting, joins are formed between the front panels and the associated sleeve panels by a process involving the procedures of taking needles out of action while holding knitted loops on those needles, and then reintroducing the inactive needles to knitting action, at least one of said procedures being carried out progressively so that suture joins are produced.

Abstract: A method and garment is provided for maintaining the body temperature of a patient undergoing surgery in an operating room where the ambient temperature is normally below the normal body temperature. The garment is constructed of cut segments of stretchable circular knit seamless fabric and includes arm and leg portions which extend beyond the length of the corresponding hands and feet of the patient. The cut segments are oriented so that the free open ends of the components of the garment are formed by the ends of the cut segments which will not ravel and it is not necessary to seam or hem the free open ends. The garment is constructed in an economical manner so that the garment may be disposed of after the surgical procedure is completed and the stretchable knit fabric provides a snug fit on a wide range of body sizes and shapes.

Abstract: A method of knitting a blank for a sleeved garment wherein the blank is knitted in one piece in the form of a cross starting at the waist of a body panel, subsequently knitting fabric constituting a sleeve and shoulder region of the blank and finally knitting a further body panel in the direction from the neck region to the waist. In knitting the portion of the first body panel above the arm pit level, progressively shorter courses are formed and in knitting the portion of the further body panel above the arm pit level, progressively longer courses are formed, whereby the outer parts of the sleeve and shoulder fabric are inclined with respect to the courses in the body panels.

Abstract: A method of knitting a blank for a sleeved garment on a knitting machine comprises the steps, not necessarily in the order specified, of knitting fabric for one sleeve and for an associated sleeve shoulder portion of a yoke for the garment, in which knitted courses extend lengthwise of the sleeve fabric and through the associated sleeve shoulder portion towards the neck of the garment, knitting front and rear body fabrics and associated front and rear body shoulder portions of the yoke, in which knitted courses extend in the waist-neck direction in the body fabrics and continue towards the garment neck through the body shoulder portions, and knitting fabric for the other sleeve of the garment and for an associated sleeve shoulder portion of the garment yoke, in which knitted courses extend lengthwise of the sleeve fabric and through the associated sleeve shoulder portion towards the garment neck, whereby the garment yoke comprises front and rear fabrics, each of which comprises a body shoulder portion and a p

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a knitted garment to cover at least the upper body, for example a jacket, involves knitting two front panels to form the front of the garment, each of these panels being started from a non-run set-up, and incorporating each of these front panels in a garment so that the line of each of the non-run set-ups is located in the front of the garment and extends in an up-and-down line when the garment is worn, whereas the knitted wales of each of the panels extend from the set-up line of the panel, horizontally in the garment when worn, to an associated side of the garment front. Each front panel may incorporate a strip of fabric, disposed in an up-and-down direction when the garment is worn, which is distinguished from the main part of the panel by color and/or stitch structure.Methods of joining the front panels to sleeve panels, and the sleeve panels to one or more rear panels, on a knitting machine are described.

Abstract: A method of knitting a blank for making up into a sleeved garment includes the steps of knitting a tube on opposed needle beds of a knitting machine to constitute a sleeve for the garment, each circular course of this tube being located partly on one of the needle beds and partly on the other, knitting fabrics each on a different one of the needle beds to form the front and rear of the garment, respectively, each of these two fabrics being knitted integrally with the aforementioned sleeve tube, having courses extending in the direction from the neck to the waist of the garment and having wales which are a continuation of the wales of the sleeve tube, and knitting a further tube on the opposed needle beds to constitute the other sleeve of the garment, each circular course of this further tube being located partly on one of the needle beds and partly on the other, this further tube being knitted integrally with the aforementioned two fabrics and having wales which are a continuation of wales in these two fabric

Abstract: A method of knitting a blank for a sleeved garment includes the steps of commencing knitting from an end of one sleeve and knitting in succession a single piece of fabric constituting this sleeve, a shoulder region of the garment and the second sleeve thereof with the wales of the knitting extending continuously through the sleeves and the shoulder region. Contemporaneously with the knitting of the first piece of fabric there is knitted a piece of fabric constituting the body of the garment which is started at an edge of the body part of the blank and has its wales extending across the body part. During the knitting of these pieces of fabric, at least a portion of the body part of the blank and the shoulder region are knitted so that courses are continuous between this body portion and the shoulder region, so that the blank comprises, in one piece of knitting, body, sleeve and shoulder parts of the garment.

Abstract: A method of knitting a blank for a sleeved garment includes the steps, in either order, of knitting a piece of fabric constituting the body of the garment having front and rear body parts with wales extending in the direction from the waist to the neck of the garment, and knitting another piece of fabric comprising sleeves for the garment with courses extending in the length direction of the sleeves, and also comprising a shoulder region of the garment located between the two sleeves with courses continuous between the sleeves and the shoulder region, the latter being knitted as an extension of the body of the garment with wales continuous between the body and the shoulder region.Various methods of knitting the blank are described which result in the sleeves, in the finished garment, either being disposed at right angles to the body or being downwardly inclined from the shoulder region, and which give various styles of the border lines dividing the sleeves from the shoulder region.

Abstract: A method of knitting a blank for making up into a sleeved garment includes the step of knitting fabric to form the sleeves and the front and rear body shoulder regions of the garment by forming knitted courses each of which extends the full length of each sleeve and across one of these body shoulder regions. Subsequent to, or prior to, this step, body fabric for the blank is knitted by forming simultaneously front and rear body portions of the blank by knitting courses which extend across these body portions in the finished garment, the body fabric being integral with the sleeve and body shoulder region fabric and having knitted wales which are continuous with knitted wales in the front and rear body shoulder regions.Different ways of performing the method on a knitting machine with opposed beds are described, with knitting commencing either at the upper edge line of each sleeve and the upper shoulder line of the body of the blank or at an underarm line in the blank.

Abstract: A method of knitting a blank for a sleeved jacket or cardigan having overlapping front body panels, on a knitting machine with opposed needle beds containing independently operable needles. The method includes the steps of knitting a set of sleeve fabrics for the blank on the two opposed needle beds and knitting a set of body fabrics for the blank on the two opposed needle beds, the body fabrics comprising two front body panels and a rear body panel.

Abstract: A method of knitting a body panel for a garment, for example a jacket, in which the panel is provided with a non-run set-up along at least one edge to serve as an edging for the panel. The method involves knitting an edge portion for the panel comprising a non-run set-up, knitting on from the edge portion on some only of the needles holding loops of the edge portion while maintaining inactive further needles holding loops of the edge portion, and introducing these inactive needles holding loops of the edge portion into knitting action subsequently during the knitting process, thereby shaping the panel. The edge portion may consist exclusively of the non-run set-up or it may have a non-run set-up followed by a further strip of fabric. This further strip of fabric may be distinguished from the fabric of the main part of the body panel by color and/or stitch structure. Methods of joining together two or more of such body panels on a knitting machine are described.

Abstract: A method of knitting a blank for a sleeved garment on a knitting machine having two opposed needle beds containing independently operable needles, comprises, in either order, the steps of forming two sleeve portions of the blank, each extending between a cuff and an underarm level of a sleeve of the garment, by knitting in reciprocatory manner on needles of the two opposed needle beds at two locations to form U-shaped courses, the joined ends of the two arms of each U-shaped course of a sleeve portion lying on the needle beds adjacent the joined ends of a corresponding U-shaped course of the other sleeve portion, and forming two body portions of the blank by knitting separately two pieces of fabric one on each of the two needle beds.The method also comprises forming a shoulder region of the blank to constitute a connection between the sleeve portions and the body portions.

Abstract: A knitted structure and method of making same which includes simultaneously knitting two concentric tubes and interconnecting the tubes by knitting to produce seams which define a garment of juxtaposed portions of the two tubes. Each concentric tube includes a plurality of feeds per course knitted separately on the dial and cylinder needles, respectively, of a circular knitting machine.

Abstract: Fine gauge knitting machines utilized in the production of hosiery and comprising needle cylinders three and three-quarter to four inches in diameter and carrying 300 to 469 needles are modified for the production of outerwear garments and the like knitted with relatively large loose loops by replacing the sinker caps thereof by sinker caps which are 0.060 to 0.100 of an inch less in interior diameter than those used in such machines for the production of hosiery, and replacing the sinker throw-in cam and the sinker throw-out cam by cams which differ from those used in the machine for the production of hosiery to use this additional space for sinker movement, by replacing the sinkers by sinkers having bottom legs 0.030 to 0.075 of an inch shorter than those used in corresponding conventional machines for the production of hosiery, and by replacing a stitch cam or cams by those which are 0.038 to 0.