Abstract: A method for continuously knitting a footwear element (101), in particular a shoe element (100), including a knitted upper (110), a knitted tongue (111), and a knitted sole (112).

Abstract: A method for continuously knitting a footwear element (101), in particular a shoe element (100), including a knitted upper (110), a knitted tongue (111), and a knitted sole (112).

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: The invention concerns a knitting machine comprising two needle beds (1, 2, 43, 44) for guiding knitting needles (3), means for selecting said knitting needles (3), carriages (4, 40) for moving the selected knitting needles and members guiding (10) the knitting thread (52). The method consists in arranging the needle beds (1, 2, 43, 44) so that the needles (3) of a needle bed (1; 43) in their normal knitting travel do not cross the needles of the other needle bed (2; 44), in moving the carriages in one direction along each needle bed (1, 2, 43, 44), the displacement directions of said carriages (4, 40) along their respective needle beds being opposite relative to each other and in transferring the thread (52) from the needles (3) of one needle bed (1, 43) to those of the other needle beds (2, 44), each time said thread (52) reaches the end of the selected needles (3).