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 method for seamlessly knitting knitwear having a broad neckline with a flat knitting machine includes forming a neckline by a first step in which a breast is knitted by branching off into right and left breasts from its front neckline forming portion. All knitted loops, excluding those of either the right or left breast to be knitted and including those of a front neckline, are transferred to the other empty needles, and knitting for forming increases of the front neckline at the other empty needles is performed while racking the needle bed. In a second step, one of the ends of a back and the end (close to an armhole) of either the right or left breast knitted by the first step are facing each other, and these ends are joined together by shoulder casting off.

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: A position to form a stitch loop hooking portion is biased toward a base portion of a transfer jack from a center of a gap between needle beds. Therefore, the effective width of a tip portion of the transfer jack with respect to a height of a hook portion of a knitting needle is increased when the knitting needle enters into the stitch loop from a direction of the base portion of the transfer jack.

Abstract: The invention provides a brush mounting structure of an automatic cutting machine that can allow dismount of any desired brush from a brush mount, can allow sequential rotation of the movable brushes so that the brushes on the brush mounts can be rearranged in parallel, and can allow a clamping force for clamping engagement between the brush and the brush mount to be held against a load applied from a particular direction.

Abstract: A switching mechanism is provided for switching the position of a yarn feeding mouth to another and swinging a yarn feeder. The switching mechanism includes a push operating portion for changing a swing direction of the yarn feeding mouth and a height position thereof in cooperation with a leading means until a yarn feeder selected by the leading means feeds a yarn and is led from a stopped state. The push operating portion forms a lowering surface in a surface of the push operating portion. The lowering surface is used to further lower the yarn feeding mouth from a yarn feeding position so as to allow the yarn to pass under a backface side of the needle.

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 for knitting a glove is provided in which the glove is knitted by using a flat-knitting device including at least a pair of front and back needle beds which extend in a horizontal direction while facing each other from front and back directions, at least one of the front and back needle beds being movable horizontally in a racking motion, the flat-knitting device capable of transferring stitches between the front and back needle beds.

Abstract: Yarn feeders are arranged such that feeder case portions are slidably engaged with a knitting yarn guide rail disposed on an upper portion of needle beds, and can be selectively brought by a bringing device. Each of the feeder cases is provided with a switching mechanism for switching a yarn feeding port to a feeding position and a waiting position by swinging the port. The switching mechanism is operated at a time during which a yarn feeder selected by the bringing device is brought from a stop state in order to feed yarn. The yarn feeding port is switched from the waiting position to the feeding position, a swinging direction of the yarn feeding port to the waiting position, after it feeds yarn, is set, and the yarn feeding port can be switched from the feeding position to the waiting position in association with a selection cancel operation of the bringing device after the yarn is fed.

Abstract: In a magnetic-type needle selection device of a flat knitting machine, a power supply control device controls a current-application interval, during which an electric current is applied to a selector actuator, in accordance with the moving speed of a carriage. The power supply control device is structured so that, when the moving speed of the carriage is high, the current-application interval is lengthened by moving further forward a power-supply starting position than when the moving speed of the carriage is medium. When the moving speed of the carriage is low, the current-application interval is shortened by moving further backward the power-supply starting position and moving further forward a power-supply stopping position than when the moving speed of the carriage is medium.

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 position to form a stitch loop hooking portion is biased toward a base portion of a transfer jack from a center of a gap between needle beds, so as to increase an effective width of a tip portion of the transfer jack with respect to a height of a hook portion of a knitting needle when the knitting needle enters into the stitch loop from a direction of the base portion of the transfer jack.

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 knitted glove (1) having at least one finger crotch (A, B, C, D) and knitted from a fingertip toward a palm by using a flat knitting machine.

Abstract: In a method of knitting a tubular knitted fabric comprising a first knitted fabric and a second knitted fabric, regions A, B, C in the first knitted fabric of the tubular knitted fabric are folded back at their respective boundaries and then overlapped with a corresponding part of the second knitted fabric and held in that overlapped state.

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 composite needle of a knitting machine, comprises: a needle body having at a tip end a hook; a slider formed by superposing two blades, wherein the composite needle of the knitting machine is formed such that a blade groove provided in the needle body supports the blades of the slider when the needle body and the slider can separately slide in forward and backward directions; and a dust-collecting plate that is seperately formed from the needle body and that extends, when viewed from a side, from the blade groove of the needle body in an upward direction and to a hook side of the needle such that the dust-collecting plate is provided at a tip end of the slider proximate to the hook.

Abstract: A tongue (67) is provided, at a front end thereof, with a drop-loop preventing step (79), and the hook (11) is provided, on an outer edge portion thereof extending from a sharp-pointed tip (27) of the hook to a top (29) of the hook, with a loop escape surface (31) to hide the drop-loop preventing step (79) when the hook (11) is closed by the tongue (67). In addition, the front end of the tongue is lowered so that a height between a bottom of the needle body and a top of the drop-loop preventing step (79) is lowered more when the slider is in a knock-over position than before the slider arrives at the knock-over position and also the top of the drop-loop preventing step (79) positioned at the knocked-over position can be positioned at a lower level than the top (29) of the hook. This can allow can allow a further smooth knock-over of the loop without negative effects on the yarn feed requirements for the capture of the yarn by the needle hook.

Abstract: An automatic printer 1 prints a portion of a pattern onto an allocated region of a print medium 3, picks up the image of this printed pattern using an image pickup device 6, and after the image pickup, forwards the printed region portion to position a next allocated region in an effective printing region 16. Then, the automatic printer 1 again picks up the image of the above-described printed pattern using the image pickup device 6, and compares these two images. When these images deviate from each other, the automatic printer 1 makes a correction, and performs printing in a state where the joint position of the pattern precedently printed and that of a pattern to be next printed conformed to each other.

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.