Textiles: knitting – Independent-needle machines – Straight
Reexamination Certificate
2001-02-23
2001-09-11
Worrell, Danny (Department: 3765)
Textiles: knitting
Independent-needle machines
Straight
C066S176000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06286340
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a knit clothing knitting method using a flat knitting machine and, more particularly, to a knitting method in which after a front body and a back body are knitted into a tube form, sleeves knitted in the form of a tube and the both front and back bodies are joined on a flat knitting machine.
BACKGROUND ART
The applicant of this application previously proposed in Japanese laid open (unexamined) patent publication No. Hei 9-273,051 a knitting method in which front and back bodies and sleeves which are all knitted in the form of a tube are joined on the flat knitting machine so that the need for a sewing process, such as linking, can be eliminated or relieved. The publication discloses, as shown in
FIGS. 1
to
3
(
FIG. 1
is a diagram showing a knit clothing arranged on a flat knitting machine for the knitting;
FIG. 2-A
is a front view of a right half of a sweater
1
and
FIG. 2-B
is a rear view of the same; and
FIG. 3
is a diagram showing the sweater
1
of
FIG. 2
opened out along a shoulder line) the knitting method in which when the sleeves
4
,
14
knitted in the form of a tube are joined to the front body
2
a
and the back body
2
b
which are knitted on a front needle bed and a back needle bed, respectively, and then the stitches in final courses of the front and back bodies
2
a
,
2
b
are joined in the shoulder, to knit the knit clothing with the sleeves
4
,
14
and the front and back bodies
2
a
,
2
b
joined together, the front body
2
a
is knitted longer than the back body
2
b
in the shoulder and thereby the joining line
19
along which the front body
2
a
and the back body
2
b
are joined is formed at a place apart from the normal shoulder line
15
toward the back body, so as to allow knit clothing to have a variety of silhouettes without being restricted by the shoulder line
15
.
In the knitting method of Japanese laid-open (unexamined) patent publication No. Hei 9-273,051, with the start of the sleeve
4
knitted in the direction indicated by the arrow Z in
FIG. 3
being joined to the bodies
2
a
,
2
b
, the joining proceeds while the stitches of the next course are formed in each of the bodies
2
a
,
2
b
and the sleeve
4
. However, in the final region W of the sleeve
4
, the stitches of the next course are formed only in the front body
2
a
, and the sleeve
4
is joined to the front body
2
a
without any stitches being formed in the sleeve
4
. Thus, during the joining of the sleeve to the front body
2
a
, the transferring of the stitches in the region W is repeated without any new stitches being formed in that region. Because of this, there is a possible yarn breakage when a weak knitting yarn is used for the knitting or when the knitting is performed with a knitting machine having fine gauges requiring the increased number of transferring.
In view of the disadvantages above, the present invention is intended to disclose an improved knitting method for knitting a knit clothing of the silhouettes disclosed by the above-noted publication of JP Laid-open (unexamined) patent publication No. Hei 9-273,051, while avoiding a possible yarn breakage even when a weak yarn is used for the knitting or when the knitting is performed with a knitting machine having fine gauges.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
To solve the disadvantages noted above, the present invention provides a knitting method for knit clothing using a flat knitting machine having at least a pair of front and back needle beds arranged in opposition to each other, wherein after a tubular body, into which a first body and a second body are knitted in their overlapped state, and right and left tubular sleeves, each of which is knitted in the state in which both front and back sides are overlapped with each other, are knitted from hems to armpits, the sleeves and the body are joined, the knitting method comprising the steps:
1) that the first and second bodies and the right and left sleeves are knitted into one tubular body;
2) that a neckline is formed in at least one of the first and second bodies during the step 1;
3) that the sleeves are shifted toward the body so that the body and the sleeves are joined at the armhole;
4) that a course knitting for the sleeves and the first body is completed, followed by proceeding with a course knitting for the remaining second body;
5) that the second body for which the course knitting proceeds in the step 4 is knitted up to a shoulder line, during which the second body is shifted toward the sleeve and the second body and the sleeve which is formed on the same side with respect to the shoulder line are joined at their joining portion in such a manner that the stitches of the second body can appear on the front side of the stitches of the sleeve;
6) that the second body for which the course knitting proceeds is knitted beyond the shoulder line, during which the second body is shifted toward the neckline and the second body and the sleeve which is formed on the opposite side to the sleeve joined in the step
5
with respect to the shoulder line are joined; and
7) that the first body and the second body are joined at the shoulder.
According to the construction of the present invention mentioned above, in the process of the body and the right and left sleeves, which are each formed in a tubular form, being joined and knitted in the form of one large tubular body, a neckline is formed in one body, e.g. a back body, or in the other body, e.g. a front body and the sleeve is shifted toward the body to join the body and the sleeve. After completion of the course knitting for the sleeve and the back body, the course knitting for the front body proceeds. Then, the front body located between the neckline and the sleeve is shifted toward the sleeve in the process of the front body is knitted toward the shoulder line and the front sleeve portion formed on the same side as the front body with respect to the shoulder line is overlapped with the front body in such a manner that the stitches of the front body can appear on the front side of the stitches of the front sleeve portion. Sequentially, the front body is shifted toward the neckline in the process of the front body being knitted beyond the shoulder line and is joined to the back sleeve portion formed on the opposite side to the front body with respect to the shoulder line. Then, the back body and the front body as was completed in the joining to the sleeve are joined at the shoulder. With this knitting method, the front body extends into the back body beyond the shoulder line when the knit clothing is worn. As a result of this, the joining portion where one body and the other body are joined can be disposed apart from the shoulder line. This can produce an improved silhouette, preventing the design of the one body from being rendered discontinuous by the shoulder line. There is included the knitting step that when only the front body is knitted and joined to the sleeve, the front body, in which the stitches of the next course are sequentially formed, is shifted toward the sleeve to be joined to the sleeve. This can eliminate the need to transfer the stitches of the sleeve for which the stitches of the next course are not formed or can reduce the number of times of the transferring, and as such can prevent possible yarn breakage of the stitches of the sleeve. In addition, in the knitting process in which the sleeve is shifted toward the body to be joined to it, as well as in the knitting process in which the body is shifted toward the sleeve, the stitches of the body are superposed on the stitches of the sleeves in such a manner as to appear on the front side of the stitches of the sleeve and are joined thereto. This can produce an armhole line of good-appearance with the stitches of the body appearing on the front side of the stitches of the sleeves.
It is one of the characteristic features of the present invention that the step that the body is shifted toward the sleeve and the body and the sleeve are joined in such a manner that the stitches of the bod
Arent Fox Kintner & Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC
Shima Seiki Mfg. Ltd.
Worrell Danny
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