Abstract: When a target area 4 is designated at an end of a knitted fabric or the like, by sliding the target area 4, the target area 4 is deformed into a target area 5. The design of the knitted fabric is inputted to the target area 5. After the design, the target area 5 is returned to the original position to create a target area 6.

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: Two blades (14, 14) of a slider of a compound needle move back into blade grooves (8, 8) of a needle body (4) on the left and right side of a partition wall (9). An opening (18) is provided at the front ends of the blades (14, 14), and curved portions (19, 19) are provided on the backside of the front ends of the blades. Further, a thick section is provided at the front end of the partition wall (9), and a thin section is provided on the backside of the thick section. When the blades move forward from the blade grooves, the blades are centered at the thick section so that even if a lateral force is applied from a knitted loop to the blades, deformation of the blades is prevented by the contact of the two blades at the curved portions. In the blade grooves, the curved portions contact the thin section of the partition wall such that the force applied between the blades and the blade grooves does not increase.

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: Shapes of a front and a rear part of a tubular knit fabric are displayed on a monitor, and the input of a pattern across the front and rear knit fabrics is received. When a user appoint on the monitor a start point of the pattern on the knit fabric, the pattern is extended in the direction going around the front and rear knit fabrics such that the pattern is substantially continued from the start point of the pattern across both front and rear knit fabrics and on edges between the front and rear knit fabrics. The pattern extended is displayed on the monitor, laid over the shapes of the front and rear knit fabrics.

Abstract: When a target area 4 is designated at an end of a knitted fabric or the like, by sliding the target area 4, the target area 4 is deformed into a target area 5. The design of the knitted fabric is inputted to the target area 5. After the design, the target area 5 is returned to the original position to create a target area 6.

Abstract: A printing system and a printing method, the printing method including the steps of horizontally placing cloth on a table, moving a nozzle head for ink jet printing in main and auxiliary scanning directions by a carriage for printing, extracting the presence area of printed data from print data, disassembling the presence area into a plurality of blocks, and controlling the carriage so that the nozzle head moves in the blocks for printing.

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: Two blades (14, 14) of a slider of a compound needle move back into blade grooves (8, 8) of a needle body (4) on the left and right side of a partition wall (9). An opening (18) is provided at the front ends of the blades (14, 14), and curved portions (19, 19) are provided on the backside of the front ends of the blades. Further, a thick section is provided at the front end of the partition wall (9), and a thin section is provided on the backside of the thick section. When the blades move forward from the blade grooves, the blades are centered at the thick section so that even if a lateral force is applied from a knitted loop to the blades, deformation of the blades is prevented by the contact of the two blades at the curved portions. In the blade grooves, the curved portions contact the thin section of the partition wall such that the force applied between the blades and the blade grooves does not increase.

Abstract: At the time of cutting stacked sheet members, a knife or a punch pierces the sheet members at positions such as along a cutting line, in a region outside the cutting line, or in a seam allowance inside the cutting line. By moving the knife or the punch vertically, heat is applied to the sheet members such that the seam members are welded together vertically. Even if at the time of cutting stacked sheet members having low air permeability, it is possible to prevent warpage or slippage of the sheet members, and cutting is performed accurately.

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 selector actuator is provided with two controlled attraction parts (5, 6) and three non-controlled attraction parts (7, 8, 9). In the controlled attraction part (5), two magnetic coil poles having attraction sites (16a, 16b) at their top ends are arranged with a magnet in between them. In the non-controlled attraction part (7), three yokes (32a, 32b, 32c) having attraction sites (33a, 33b, 33c) at their top ends are arranged with two permanent magnets (31a, 31b) sandwiched in between them. The controlled attraction part (6) and the non-controlled attraction parts (8, 9) are similarly arranged, respectively. Each magnetic coil pole is arranged to oppose to the ends of two yokes of the same non-controlled attraction part.

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: Two-dimensional pen tables with texture for a low pressure, a medium pressure and a high pressure are provided for each pen. According to the pen pressure, pen tables are interpolated to generate drawing data for one patch. The image data in the stroke and the drawing data of an unprocessed patch are mixed together to generate new image data. This processing is repeated till the completion of the processing of the stroke. Next, the data of the image memory and the data of the stroke are made to modify the data in the image memory.

Abstract: A compound needle comprises a closing element with two closing element springs. These are designed to be asymmetrical relative to each other or at least provided with clearances or openings which, during the operation of the compound needle, are made to overlap with a corresponding cutout or other openings in the basic compound needle member, so that deposits can be removed to the needle channel. An asymmetric design of the closing element springs prevents the closing element from being wedged into the closing element channel, even if the deposit removal is incomplete. As a result, the compound needle wear is reduced considerably and the operational safety is increased.

Abstract: A bump image for a three-dimensional model of an object is stored and modified as well as a texture image in a rendering stage. A reverse mapping address to the texture image and the bump image is stored in a rendering memory to obtain a drawing object address for the texture image according to the address in the rendering memory.

Abstract: To accelerate drawing input processing, a plurality of drawing pipelines 20 are provided and each drawing pipeline comprises a queue 21, a density data generator 23, a multiplier 24, an accumulator 25, and a cache 26. A stroke is divided, for example, into four, and allocated to each drawing pipeline 20. By each drawing pipeline 20, a next pixel is processed after a former pixel is processed for a plurality of patches according to the scan order.

Abstract: For preventing holes from occurrence at an internally widened area of a rib knitted fabric, at the area, two needles, one on the front needle bed, the other on the back needle bed, are made empty. Then, a stitch held by an adjacent needle to one of the two empty needles is transferred to the other of the two empty needles so that two continuous needles on one needle bed are made empty and that the former empty needle on the other needle bed is provided with the transferred stitch. A yarn feeder is made to move over the area while feeding yarn till one needle before the two empty needles, then back above the area while feeding the two empty needles and an intermediate opposing bed needle, and move over the area while feeding yarn from the subsequent needles after the two former empty needles.

Abstract: A computer aided designing (CAD) apparatus for generating knitting commands accessible by knitting machines having built-in computers. The knitting commands include forming, transferring and overlapping stitches. The commands are stored on a computer retrievable memory such as a computer disk.

Abstract: When a stitch loop is transferred from a transfer jack of an upper needle bed to a needle of a lower needle bed, strains on the stitch loop are reduced and stitch drop is prevented.When transfer is made from the transfer jack to the needle, first a hook rear of the needle is advanced into the stitch loop. At this time, the transfer jack is retracted in relation to the hook. Next a hook face of the needle is advanced into the stitch loop, and at this time, the stitch loop is advanced towards the hook.