Abstract: A needle for transferring stitches therefrom to adjacent needles for hosiery knitting machines comprises a shank, a head, arranged at a longitudinal end, or upper end, of the shank, and a latch which is pivoted to the shank proximate to the head, about a pivoting axis which is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the shank and can rotate about the pivoting axis in order to open or close the head. The needle comprises at least one elastically flexible lamina, which is associated with the shank and forms, on the two opposite sides of the shank, below the latch, two receptacles, one for each side of the shank. The head of an adjacent needle can be inserted in each of the receptacles, in order to transfer the loop of knitting, from the needle being considered to the adjacent needle.

Abstract: A knitting method of knit pants knitted using a flat knitting machine, wherein the knitting starts at a side part on either right side or left side including a side part of a vertical rise part and a side part of a leg part and ends at a side part on the other leg side including a side part of a vertical rise part and a side part of a leg part. A front knitted fabric part and a back knitted fabric part are knitted in the following steps so that a length of the front knitted fabric part from the side to the crotch can be made shorter than a length of the back knitted fabric part from the side to the crotch.

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: To improve the handling of a needle (1) having a selector element (16) that is seated to pivot on the needle body (2), a fastening element (32) is additionally provided. This element secures the selector element (16) to the needle body (2) in a form fit. One or more individual securing elements (34, 35, 36) acting in the transverse direction (33) serves or serve as the fastening element (32). The individual securing elements (34, 35, 36) can act in one direction or in both transverse directions. They are embodied to prevent the selector element (16) from falling out of the needle body (2) in both lateral directions. For this purpose, at least one individual securing element 34, 35, 36 that acts in the transverse directions 33a, 33b is provided. It is possible to combine all of the individual securing elements 34, 35, 36.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape fabric is knitted by the method in which after a setup portion of the three-dimensional shape fabric is formed by use of needles of the both front and back needle beds, a non-rectangular front fabric and a non-rectangular back fabric are knitted by performing a flechage knitting in which a first part of the front fabric and a first part of the back fabric are varied in number of courses from one wale to another so as to put a part of loops into a rested state in the process in which the front fabric knitted in association with the front needle bed and the back fabric knitted in association with the back needle bed are knitted in parallel to each other by use of different cam systems and then loops of the next parts following the forming of loops of final courses of the previously formed parts including the part of the loops as were put in the rested state are formed to join the parts to each other, the knitting process of which is repeated performed, and the loops of the final course