Abstract: The present invention provides a knitting method that when a knitted fabric having a wide rib structure formed by the plating using a front knitting yarn and a back knitting yarn different in color from each other, in particular, using a flat knitting machine, can make less noticeable a blur of the knitted fabric at an end of the knitting width to thereby produce a good looking wide rib structure. Using a flat knitting machine, a front stitch of the rib structure of one knitted fabric at an end of a knitted width thereof on the side on which the crossing of the knitting yarns used for the plating occurs is formed as a front stitch on the edge, and a back stitch of the rib structure of the other knitted fabric on that side is formed as a back stitch on the edge.

Abstract: A pile knitting method by a weft knitting machine is provided in which a compound needle can be used to form a pile stitch and simultaneously hold other stitches. After a hook of a needle body receives a fastening yarn fed thereto, a carriage brings together a yarn feeder for feeding a pile yarn and the hook receives the pile yarn. On a front needle bed, the needle body is raised to a tuck position in a state where an old loop is set on a tongue of a slider. The hook of the needle body holds therein the fastening yarn. When the pile yarn is fed to the hook from the yarn feeder, the hook holds therein the fastening yarn and the pile yarn. The pile yarn is set also on a tongue of a slider on a rear needle bed, which tongue has been already raised and advanced into a needle bed gap.

Abstract: The present invention provides a knitting method of a tubular knitted fabric with a projection part having stretch and a supporting performance and formed in an arbitrary shape and at an arbitrary location by using a flat knitting machine. The method comprises the step 1 of knitting a knitted fabric in a tubular form joined at both ends of a knitting width by a rib knitting, while inserting an elastic yarn in the tubular body by an inlay, and the step 2 of knitting only a part for the projection part to be formed on at least either of a front side of the tubular knitted fabric and a back side of the same by a flechage knitting, the step 1 and the step 2 being repeatedly carried out.

Abstract: The present invention provides a knitting method for knitting knitwear having raglan sleeves and knitwear thus formed, wherein a beautiful silhouette is gained when being put on, which knitwear is knitted in a seamless manner by using a flat knitting machine. It is a method of knitting knitwear with raglan sleeves formed by using a flat knitting machine, wherein the length of the back body is formed to be longer than the length of the front body. The sleeves and the front body are joined and then the sleeves and the back body are joined, while the bodies and the sleeves are knitted. After the sleeves and the front body are joined, the step 1 and step 2 are repeated.

Abstract: A knitted fabric joining method is provided wherein at least two tubular knitted fabrics are knitted and then those tubular knitted fabrics are overlapped with and joined to each other in such a manner that a joining region of a front knitted fabric part is different in number of wales from a joining region of a back knitted fabric part.

Abstract: Both sleeves and front and back bodies are joined using gores such that the gores between the front body and both front sleeves become larger than the gores between the back body and both back sleeves. The knitted fabric is rotated such that, for example, the border between the front side and the backside of the left sleeve is positioned between front and back needle beds. In this state, the left sleeve is joined to the front body. The knitted fabric is rotated again such that the border between the front side and the backside of the right sleeve is positioned between the front and back needle beds for joining the right sleeve to the front body.

Abstract: A body and both sleeves are knitted into cylindrical shapes, respectively, up to the underarm positions. Then, sleeve caps for both sleeves are knitted by flechage knitting such that the front sleeve caps become narrower than the back sleeve caps. Both sleeves are connected to the body using gores. The gores between the front body and both front sleeves are larger than the gores between the back body and both back sleeves. Then, the front body and the back body are knitted such that the knitting width of the front body becomes smaller than the knitting width of the back body. The front body and the back body are joined to both sleeves, and upper ends of the front body and the back body are joined together.

Abstract: Knitted loops of a neckline of a right breast portion or a left breast portion knitted by dividing a breast are transferred to a needle bed where a back is retained, and a front collar knitting portion is knitted on a neckline of the other breast portion. The front collar knitting portion is cast off from knitted loops at a center portion edge of a torso to a position where knitted loops of at least one neckline do not overlap with at least knitted loops of the other neckline. The knitted loops of the front collar knitting portion are transferred to a needle bed wherein knitted loops of the back are retained, the knitted loops of the one neckline are returned to an original needle bed, and a front collar knitting portion is knit on the one neckline. A predetermined number of stitches are cast off from knitted loops of a center portion edge of a breast of the front collar knitting portion.

Abstract: Seamless knitwear of mixed set-in and raglan sleeves, and a method of knitting the same seamless knitwear. The knitwear of the present invention comprises a body and sleeves. A front body of the body has armhole parts and shoulder-line parts extending along one's shoulder line formed when wearing the knitwear, and a back body of the body has slant-line parts extending obliquely from neckline to side parts of the body. The front and back bodies are knitted in tubular form in a seamless manner, and the sleeves are knitted in tubular form in a seamless manner. The sleeves are joined to the armhole parts, the shoulder-line parts, and the slant-line parts of the front and back bodies in a seamless manner, and a neckline is formed by a part of the sleeves. The number of courses of the front and back bodies knitted in the course of joining of the sleeves to the armhole parts of the bodies is set so that the number of course of the back body knitted is decreased below the number of courses of the front body knitted.

Abstract: A knitting method for knitting a knitted fabric having a half cardigan knitting structure of well-balanced loops without getting out of loop shape. The half cardigan knitting structure comprises first wale in which knitted loops and tuck loops are formed and second wale in which only the knitted loops are formed are formed alternately with alternate needles. The knitted loops of the first wale are supplied to a front needle bed (FB), and the knitted loops of the second wale are supplied to a back needle bed (BB). The knitted loops of the first wale are transferred to confronting empty needles of the back needle bed (BB). Then, the loops of the second wale are formed on the back needle bed (BB), while the tuck loops are formed on the needles of the front needle bed (FB) which confront the needles of the back needle bed (BB) hooking the knitted loops of the first wale and also the knitting yarn is temporarily held on adjoining needles to that needle. Then, the temporarily-held knitting yarn is released.

Abstract: A stitch presser in a weft knitting machine installed on a carriage that slides in a reciprocating fashion on a needle bed and configured such that a presser bar fitted through a presser bar supporting arm joined to a rotation shaft of a motor is advanced into a mouth portion of the weft knitting machine with an electric power supplied to the motor driving the predetermined presser bar in conjunction with the directional switching of the reciprocating motion of the carriage, including a rotation energizing mechanism for rotating the rotating shaft of the motor to a side retracting the presser bar of the weft knitting machine when the electric power is not supplied to the motor for driving the presser bar advanced into the mouth portion.

Abstract: A knitting method of a tubular knit fabric uses a flat-knitting machine comprising at least one pair of facing needle beds that extend in the sideways direction and face each other front to back. At least one of the facing needle beds is capable of racking in the sideways direction, and the flat-knitting machine is capable of transferring stitches between facing needle beds. The tubular portion with directionality toward (oriented with respect to) another tubular portion is turned by a predetermined amount by transferring of stitches of the tubular portion with directionality and by racking of the needle bed. Knitting is performed so as to link the tubular portion with directionality to the other tubular portion in a state wherein the state of being turned is sustained.

Abstract: In knitting a neck hole, a left front body is knitted on a front needle bed while making widening stitches, and stitches of the neck hole and a right front body both being in halt are transferred onto a back needle bed, and with widening stitch, the back needle bed is racked in a direction moving away from the left front body. After knitting the neck hole of the left front body, the left front body and the neck hole are transferred onto the back needle bed, and the right front body is transferred back to the front needle bed, and the right front body is knitted while making widening stitches. With the widening stitch of the right front body, the back needle bed is racked in a direction moving away from the right front body. In knitting the neck hole (12), wales extending from a take down roller to the knitting point are brought close to the perpendicular direction so that an appropriate take down force is applied to the stitches being knitted.

Abstract: A tubular knitted fabric (11) having a first knitted fabric and a second knitted fabric joined together continuously at both ends thereof and a laminating part (4) formed in the first knitted fabric at which the knitted fabric is partly laminated in two or more layers is knitted by the method comprising the step of forming the tubular knitted fabric via a full-gauge loop arrangement, the knitting width widening step (s3) of shifting loops of wale where the laminating part (4) is formed and loops of wale positioned closer to a side end of the knitted fabric than the wale where the laminating part (4) is formed, to provide a half-gauge loop arrangement wherein empty needles for stitch transfer are arranged between needles used for forming the loops of the wale where the laminating part (4) is formed, and the step (s4) of knitting the first knitted fabric and the second knitted fabric, while the loops of wale where the laminating part (4) is formed are formed to be fine in size so that when the knitting is ended

Abstract: A method of knitting an intarsia pattern fabric that can prevent occurrence of a yarn catching even when a tubular knitted fabric with an intarsia pattern and the like is knitted by using a four-bed flat knitting machine and also can eliminate the need of a split knitting to provide improved productivity. The flat knitting machine has intarsia-pattern knitting function of allowing change of position of the knitting yarn fed from the yarn feeding member to a needle before or after the knitting of the intarsia pattern, and the knitted fabric opposite to the knitted fabric to be knitted to insert the intarsia pattern (3, 8) therein is knitted in such a condition that the knitting yarn (11) extending from a needle (K) holding a final loop of the intarsia pattern (3, 8) to the yarn feeder (10) of the yarn feeding member is hooked with an empty needle of the needle bed on the upper side of the needle bed to which the needle (K) belongs.

Abstract: A neckline (8) is formed between right and left bodies in a first body (2) of a tubular knitted fabric comprising the first body (2) and a second body (3) by a flechage knitting. Widening is performed in the center of the neckline to form outer-layer-neck knitting loops and inner-layer-neck knitting loops. A first neck (5b) is formed from a whole or a part of the inner-layer-neck knitting loops in the condition that the outer-layer-neck knitting loops are held by the alternate needles on the first needle bed. Whenever a proper number of courses are knitted, the first neck is moved to overlap the loops of the first neck with the loops of the neckline so as to form loops of the next course. This step is repeatedly performed. Then, a second neck (5a) are formed from a whole or a part of the outer-layer-neck knitting loops. Whenever a proper number of courses are knitted, the second neck is overlapped with the loops of the neckline to form loops of the next course. This step is repeatedly performed.

Abstract: A knitted fabric having a set up portion comprising stitches on a front side and stitches on a back side formed by a knitting yarn for forming the knitted fabric extending zigzag from a stitch on the front side to a stitch on the back side and vice versa, wherein the knitted fabric has a set up structure wherein part 15a of the knitting yarn extending from the respective stitches on the front side to the respective stitches on the back side and part 15b of the knitting yarn extending continuously from the respective stitches on the back side to the respective stitches on the front side are crossed with each other, thereby providing less slackness in the set up portion than in a conventional set up portion.

Abstract: A method of forming gussets in armpits of knitwear in the process of joining together sleeves and a body of the knitwear to form a tubular body, while reducing the tubular body in diameter from the underarms toward the shoulders to form armholes.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to improve yarn feeding conditions to a knitting needle and improve a loop pressing function and a yarn holding function for end stitches in a flat knitting machine provided with a compound needle. In a top portion 12 of a loop presser 11 advancing to a tooth mouth 10, a knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 and a loop presser portion 14 are formed. The knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 hides a tongue 25a from the yarn 22 at a wall portion 15 above the knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 so that the problem of yarn entanglement that the yarn 22 fed to a hook 24a of the compound needle 23 from a yarn feeding port 20 is surmounted on the tongue 25a may be solved. A pressing portion 16 below the knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 presses the yarn 22. The knitting yarn holding portion for end stitches 13 holds the yarn 22 outside the end stitch by winding it around it.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to obtain an intarsia pattern fabric which is not likely to cause yarn entanglement, eliminates the need for divided knitting, and provides good productivity even when a cylindrical knitting fabric is to be knitted. in a double bed flat knitting machine, a carriage and an intarsia carrier capable of knitting with two sets of cams are used to knit two courses of knitting fabric by moving a carriage six courses. An intarsia pattern is knitted at a front needle bed FB, and a knitting yarn between the intarsia carrier halted near a boundary and a knitting needle F is used to perform kick-back of the intarsia carrier by the third-course movement of the carriage. A back body is knitted while the yarn is hooked on an unused knitting needle F in a back needle bed BB. The sixth-course movement of the carriage releases a knitting yarn from the knitting beed F in the back needle bed BB while the back body is being knitted.

Abstract: A method for making a textile web with a base web and at least one tubular knitting region (21, 21′, 23, 23′) extending transversely to a knitting direction on a straight and circular knitter with at least two opposite needle beds includes making the tubular region(s) (21, 21′, 23, 23′) on a needle bed, whereby from a starting knitting row (15, 15′), a part of the needles (B, F, J, N, d, n, 1) respectively hold the knitting of the base web without knitting and with the other needles, knitting rows for making the tubular region according to the desired length are formed, before knitting is formed again in an ending knitting row (16, 16′) of the tubular region with the needles (B, F, J, N, d, h, 1) holding the knitting of the base web. The free end of the tubular region is connected with the base web.

Abstract: A knitted fabric having a set up portion comprising stitches on a front side and stitches on a back side formed by a knitting yarn for forming the knitted fabric extending zigzag from a stitch on the front side to a stitch on the back side and vice versa, wherein the knitted fabric has a set up structure wherein part 15a of the knitting yarn extending from the respective stitches on the front side to the respective stitches on the back side and part 15b of the knitting yarn extending continuously from the respective stitches on the back side to the respective stitches on the front side are crossed with each other, thereby providing less slackness in the set up portion than in a conventional set up portion.

Abstract: What is described is a knitting machine with an electromagnetic selecting device for the three-way technique. In order to reduce the space requirement for the selecting device in height and width, assigned to each of the knitting tools (7) is a pivotable control jack (8) having two raising butts (17, 18) and to which, per selecting device, two control magnets (31, 32) arranged one after the other in the running direction of the knitting tools (7) are assigned. Depending upon which of the two control magnets (31, 32) is selected for a selecting procedure, the control jacks (8) find their way with one raising butt (17) onto a knitting cam (28) or with the other raising butt (18) onto a tuck cam (29) (FIG. 2).

Abstract: A flat knitting machine (1) comprising a number of needles (15) arranged in needle grooves (13) formed on needle beds (5, 6) in such a manner as to be freely advanced or retracted; sinkers (41, 123), arranged between the needles (15, 15), to work to form loops; and at least a pair of front and back needle beds having a front edge portion (53, 121) and arranged to confront each other across a needle bed gap, wherein the sinker (41, 123) and the front edge portion (53, 121) of the needle bed are both supported on the needle bed in such a manner as to be movable in an advancing and retracting direction of the needle and also control means (60, 151) is provided for controlling an advanced or retracted motion of both of the sinker (41, 123) and the front edge portion (53, 121) of the needle bed, to adjust a dimension of the needle bed gap between the front and back needle beds (5, 6).

Abstract: In a process of knitting a fabric during which at least a part of loops in the flechage knitting region are transferred between the front and back needle beds to move the loops laterally, loops in a stitch move region which are moved laterally whenever an adequate number of courses of the flechage knitting region are knitted are transferred to an opposite needle bed and then the front and back needle beds are moved relative to each other. Then, loops of wale which are put in the rest state in a process of the flechage knitting are held on the needle bed opposite to the needle bed on which loops of a next course are formed in a sequent flechage knitting until the stitch move is completed. Only the loops of the wale in which the loops of the next course are formed in the sequent knitting are transferred back to their originally retained needle bed prior to the forming of the loops of the next course. This knitting is repeatedly performed.

Abstract: The knitting that loops of rows of binding-off loops are formed with respect to a final course of a knitted fabric, so as to be continuous from a loop in the final course, and a newly formed loop of each row of binding-off loops is laid over a loop next to the loop in the final course, to form a double loop is repeated from one end of a binding-off region toward the other end thereof, to prevent loosening of loops in the final course, wherein n number of rows of binding-off loops (11, 12) are formed, starting from a plurality of loops (2, 5) in the final course in the binding-off region, and wherein when loops of the rows of binding-off loops are laid over loops in the final course in the process of the binding-off process, the loops (3, 6) of the rows of the binding-off loops are laid over loops (4, 7) in the final course located n-th wale forward of the loops, respectively, with respect to the binding-off proceeding direction.

Abstract: A method for knitting a cable pattern into a tubular knitted fabric with high productivity is disclosed. Two groups of knitting stitches to be crossed are arranged in alignment on one needle bed and crossed when they are transferred to another needle bed, and these crossed groups of knitting stitches are securely hooked onto front and back needle beds so as to form a cable pattern in a portion extending over both needle beds.

Abstract: Knitting for joining a body 3 including right and left body portions and a neckline 12 and a collar together. A neckline 12 comprises at least three neckline portions comprising a first neckline portion 12d formed in one body portion 13 of right and left body portions which is formed earlier than the other body portion, a second neckline portion 12b formed in the other body portion 15, and a third neckline portion 12a formed in the body 5 formed later. A knitted fabric of the collar 11 comprises three collar portions comprising a first collar portion 11d joined to the first neckline portion 12d, a second collar portion 11b joined to the second neckline portion 12b, and a third collar portion 11a located at an outside of the first and/or the second collar portions and joined to the third neckline portion 12a.

Abstract: Seamless knitwear (1) having front and back bodies (2a, 2b) joined together at both widthwise ends thereof and formed into a tubular body from its rib hem toward its shoulder by using a flat knitting machine, the front body (2a) having a right and left front bodes (5a, 15a) into which the front body (2a) is forked from a front neckline forming starting point, wherein after the front neckline (10a) is knitted in a circular-arc cut form by a flechage knitting, the front body (2a) and the back body (2b) are joined together at the shoulder and then collars (8a, 8b) are knitted in a circular form in continuity with the knitting of the front neckline (10a) formed in the front body (2a) and a back neckline (10b) formed in the back body (2b), wherein the back neckline (10b) of the back body (2b) is formed to have substantially the same number of wale as the number of wale of the confronting front neckline (10a), and wherein the number of wale of the back neckline is decreased by transferring a stitch of the back neck

Abstract: A loop of a row of binding-off loops is formed with finer yarn than yarn used in a rib knitted fabric part. Also, a binding-off loop of the row of binding-off loops formed following a final loop of an odd wale of a knitted fabric at an end thereof and the binding-off loop of the row of binding-off loops formed following a final loop of an even wale of the knitted fabric are overlapped with the adjacent final loops on the underside thereof and also the binding-off loop formed following the final loop of the odd wale and the binding-off loop formed following the final loop of the even wale are intersected with each other. This can prevent the binding-off loops different in orientation from coming out in the bound off part, thus enabling the bound off part to be formed in a similar appearance to the set-up part.

Abstract: Seamless knitwear (1) having front and back bodies (2a, 2b) joined together at both widthwise ends thereof and formed into a tubular body from its rib hem toward its shoulder by using a flat knitting machine, the front body (2a) having a right and left front bodes (5a, 15a) into which the front body (2a) is forked from a front neckline forming starting point, wherein after the front neckline (10a) is knitted in a circular-arc cut form by a flechage knitting, the front body (2a) and the back body (2b) are joined together at the shoulder and then collars (8a, 8b) are knitted in a circular form in continuity with the knitting of the front neckline (10a) formed in the front body (2a) and a back neckline (10b) formed in the back body (2b), wherein the back neckline (10b) of the back body (2b) is formed to have substantially the same number of wale as the number of wale of the confronting front neckline (10a), and wherein the number of wale of the back neckline is decreased by transferring a stitch of the back neck

Abstract: A knitting method of joining together adjacent fabrics (3, 5), which are arranged side by side and knitted in a tubular form, at ends thereof on the sides adjacent to each other by using a flat knitting machine so that the joining portion of knitwear, such as a side part of sweater or at a crotch of pants, is prevented from being holed and is also increased in pull strength. The knitting progresses from one of the tubular knitted fabrics (3) to the other tubular knitted fabric (5) to join together the tubular fabrics, during which a yarn is fed to needles holding loops formed one stitch backward with respect to a join processing direction to provide a tubular knitting for the needles, followed by shifting the yarn to needles holding loops formed two stitches forward with respect to the join processing direction, to provide the same tubular knitting as above for the needles, the knitting steps being repeatedly performed.

Abstract: A loop of a row of binding-off loops is formed with finer yarn than yarn used in a rib knitted fabric part. Also, a binding-off loop of the row of binding-off loops formed following a final loop of an odd wale of a knitted fabric at an end thereof and the binding-off loop of the row of binding-off loops formed following a final loop of an even wale of the knitted fabric are overlapped with the adjacent final loops on the underside thereof and also the binding-off loop formed following the final loop of the odd wale and the binding-off loop formed following the final loop of the even wale are intersected with each other. This can prevent the binding-off loops different in orientation from coming out in the bound off part, thus enabling the bound off part to be formed in a similar appearance to the set-up part.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide improved texture of right and left marginal parts formed to extend along an open part of knitwear knitted in a tubular form, such as a cardigan and a vest with open part. The invention provide a method for producing a tubular fabric wherein a vertically extending open part (2) is formed and right and left marginal parts (21, 22) extending along the open part (2) are arranged in two layers to overlap each other when wearing by using a flat knitting machine.

Abstract: In a process of knitting a fabric during which at least a part of loops in the flechage knitting region are transferred between the front and back needle beds to move the loops laterally, loops in a stitch move region which are moved laterally whenever an adequate number of courses of the flechage knitting region are knitted are transferred to an opposite needle bed and then the front and back needle beds are moved relative to each other. Then, loops of wale which are put in the rest state in a process of the flechage knitting are held on the needle bed opposite to the needle bed on which loops of a next course are formed in a sequent flechage knitting until the stitch move is completed. Only the loops of the wale in which the loops of the next course are formed in the sequent knitting are transferred back to their originally retained needle bed prior to the forming of the loops of the next course. This knitting is repeatedly performed.

Abstract: A method of knitting a stripe pattern in a tubular fabric by using a flat knitting machine comprising at least a pair of front and back needle beds, wherein a front fabric 3 and a back fabric 5 are suspended in layers from the needle beds and their loop courses are cyclically knitted in an alternate order so as to be joined together at each widthwise end thereof to form the tubular fabric 1; wherein whenever a predetermined courses are knitted, two different yarns of a first yarn and a second yarn are switched to each other alternately to form the stripe pattern comprising a first knitted fabric part 7 and a second knitted fabric part 9; and wherein a loop of at least either of the first knitted fabric part and the second knitted fabric part is missed at a yarn switching point in the boundary between the first knitted fabric part 7 and the second knitted fabric part 9, to minimize a stitch level difference produced at that point.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine (1) comprising a number of needles (15) arranged in needle grooves (13) formed on needle beds (5, 6) in such a manner as to be freely advanced or retracted; sinkers (41, 123), arranged between the needles (15, 15), to work to form loops; and at least a pair of front and back needle beds having a front edge portion (53, 121) and arranged to confront each other across a needle bed gap, wherein the sinker (41, 123) and the front edge portion (53, 121) of the needle bed are both supported on the needle bed in such a manner as to be movable in an advancing and retracting direction of the needle and also control means (60, 151) is provided for controlling an advanced or retracted motion of both of the sinker (41, 123) and the front edge portion (53, 121) of the needle bed, to adjust a dimension of the needle bed gap between the front and back needle beds (5, 6).

Abstract: When a loop is transferred from a transfer jack to a knitting needle of a lower needle bed, a needle hook (21a, 21b) of the knitting needle (13a, 13b) is inserted into the loop (88) retained on the transfer jack (57); then the transfer jack is moved forward so that the loop can be pushed to be placed in an advancing and retracting track of the needle hook of the knitting needle; and the slider (19a, 19b) is moved forward so that the needle hook can be closed by the slider to capture and keep the loop in the needle hook, whereby possible occurrence of drop stitch is prevented to ensure that the loop is transferred from the transfer jack to the knitting needle.

Abstract: There are provided a transfer jack (6, 102) which is structured so that when a loop retaining portion (48, 122) is advanced to an advanced position over a needle bed gap (42) between front and back needle beds (2a, 2b), the loop retaining portion can be held in such a manner as to swing between its raised position and its lowered position; transfer jack holding means (64, 110) for holding the loop retaining portion in its raised position at least as high as a level to avoid interference with knitting members arranged on the needle beds (2a, 2b) while the needle bed is racked, when the loop retaining portion (48, 122) of the transfer jack (6, 102) retaining a loop (36) thereon is in the advanced position; and transfer jack controlling means (82) for controlling the transfer jack holding means to selectively hold the loop retaining portion (48, 122) of the transfer jack (6, 102) in its raised position and release it from its held state.

Abstract: A knitwear (1) is knitted from its bottom hem to its shoulder, during which a flechage knitting that a body (2) is knitted so as to be forked into a right side and a left side of a neckline (10) and also the stitches around the neckline are sequentially removed from the knitting to be put into inoperative states is repeated a predetermined number of times, so as to form the neckline (10). Then, the knitting that stitches of the neckline (10) at right and left sides thereof including its oblique portions and its flat portions adjacent to the oblique portions are moved toward a center of the neckline, so that empty needles are provided in the oblique portions and also double stitches are formed in the flat portions.

Abstract: A plating method for knitting a tubular fabric by using a four-bed type flat knitting machine comprising a first lower needle bed and a second lower needle bed which are arranged in pair in front and back and a first upper needle bed and a second upper needle bed which are arranged over the respective lower needle beds, wherein a first knitting fabric including a rib knitting knitted with needles on the first lower needle bed and the second upper needle bed and a second knitting fabric including a rib knitting knitted with needles on the first upper needle bed and the second lower needle bed are joined together at each widthwise side end thereof, so as to be knitted into a tubular form and the knitting fabrics are each knitted to have a plated structure by using a front yarn and a back yarn, and wherein a yarn feeder for the front yarn is displaced in each knitting in such a manner that when the first knitting fabric is knitted, the front yarn can be made closer to the second upper needle bed than the back ya

Abstract: Portions of front sleeves 4a, 14a extending from underarms to tops of sleeve caps are joined to first portions of the front body 2a extending partway of their lengths extending from the underarms to the shoulders along armholes 22; wherein tops of the sleeve caps of the front sleeves 4a, 14a and a part of tops of the sleeve caps of the back sleeves 4b, 14b on the side continuous to the tops of the sleeve caps of the front sleeves 4a, 14a are joined to part of the front body extending from the first portions to the shoulders, and widening stitches are formed around the neckline 10a at the part of the front body extending therefrom to the shoulders; portions of the back sleeves 4b, 14b extending from the underarms to the tops of the sleeve caps are joined to portions of the back body extending from the underarms to the shoulders along armholes 22; and wherein extended portions 9b, 19b are formed in the remaining portions of the tops of the sleeve caps of the back sleeves 4b, 14b and are knitted to be continuous

Abstract: At least three bind-off courses are formed starting at not less than three loops, i.e., loops of the first and second knitted fabrics at side ends thereof on the side on which the knitting of a tubular fabric is finished in the region of the binding-off process, and a loop adjoining to the loop of at least either of the first and second knitted fabrics at the side end. The loop of the bind-off course formed is laid over the loop of the last course of the opposite knitted fabric in such a manner that while being formed, the respective bind-off courses can be allowed to extend in zigzag from the first knitted fabric to the second knitted fabric and vice versa, ranging over the region of the binding-off process, to be crossed with each other. As a result of this knitting, no undesirable gap is produced between the joined knitted fabrics and also an undesirable stretch of the fabric at the joints is suppressed.

Abstract: A method for knitting and joining together at least two tubular fabrics by using a flat knitting machine. The method includes a step of laying loops of a final course in a joining region of a first tubular fabric, which comprise a number of wale and are located at a side end portion thereof, and loops of a final course in a joining region of a second tubular fabric are laid over each other such that the loops located at a near side from a boundary between a front knitted fabric part and a back knitted fabric part are combined with each other and the loops located at a far side are combined with each other, thereby a machi is formed at a joining point of the tubular fabrics. The method also includes a step of knitting an integrated tubular fabric continuously from the joined tubular fabric.

Abstract: Knitting of a neckline 10 formed in a front body 2a of seamlessly knitted, sleeved knitwear, such as a sweater.

Abstract: The invention concerns a knitting machine comprising two needle beds for guiding knitting needles, means for selecting said knitting needles, carriages for moving the selected knitting needles and members guiding the knitting thread. The method consists in arranging the needle beds so that the needles of a needle bed in their normal knitting travel do not cross the needles of the other needle bed, in moving the carriage in one direction along each needle bed, the displacement directions of said carriages along their respective needle beds being opposite relative to each other and in transferring the thread from the needles of one needle bed to those of the other needle beds, each time said thread reaches the end of the selected needles.

Abstract: A flat bed knitting machine having an oil feeding device is disclosed. Lubricant oil is fed, just when needed, to knitting members, such as needles, jacks and sinkers. The numbers of operations of knitting members are counted, and when a counted number exceeds a predetermined value, lubricant oil will be sprayed from a jet-type nozzle to the relevant knitting member.

Abstract: When a loop is transferred from a transfer jack to a knitting needle of a lower needle bed, a needle hook (21a, 21b) of the knitting needle (13a, 13b) is inserted into the loop (88) retained on the transfer jack (57); then the transfer jack is moved forward so that the loop can be pushed to be placed in an advancing and retracting track of the needle hook of the knitting needle; and the slider (19a, 19b) is moved forward so that the needle hook can be closed by the slider to capture and keep the loop in the needle hook, whereby possible occurrence of drop stitch is prevented to ensure that the loop is transferred from the transfer jack to the knitting needle.

Abstract: New stitches on knitting machines are formed by producing two stitches from one stitch suspended on a knitting needle, in that the stitch suspended on the knitting needle is transferred by a transfer element associated with the knitting needle and subsequently a new stitch loop is pulled from the knitting needle through the stitch suspended on the transfer element.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine comprising a transfer jack bed (9) holding transfer jacks (7) in such a manner as to freely advance and retract, wherein when a loop is transferred from the transfer jack (7) to the needle (19), the loop retaining portion (53) of the transfer jack (7) put in its advanced position is moved down to its lowered position, first; then, a back side (39b) of a needle hook of the needle (19) is made to go into the loop (111) retained on the loop retaining portion (53) of the transfer jack (7); then the loop retaining portion (53) is raised up to its raised position; and thereafter, a front side (39a) of the needle hook of the needle is made to go into the loop, whereby the transfer of loop can be ensured with a reduced burden on the loop in the transfer of loop through the use of a common track for the needles of the front bed (13a) and for the needles of the back bed (13b).