Textiles: knitting – Fabrics or articles – Articles
Patent
1993-06-11
1995-01-10
Crowder, Clifford D.
Textiles: knitting
Fabrics or articles
Articles
66189, 66 69, D04B 124
Patent
active
053796152
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to a tubular knit fabric characterized in a knitting structure with a processed end portion of a vent portion provided at a knit fabric which is knit in a tubular configuration using a flat knitting machine, such as, for example, a neck line portion or an armhole portion of a vest.
BACKGROUND ART
When a garment such as a vest or a sweater is to be manufactured using a knit fabric, a fabric knit on a circular knitting machine or a flat knitting machine is cut into a suitable shape, and then, a pair of sleeves, a collar, a pair of bottoms and so forth are attached to the thus cut fabric by sewing, linking or the like. Meanwhile, even in the case of a vest or the like wherein a sleeve, a collar or the like is not attached, a knit fabric in the form of a tape separately knit is attached to an end edge of a vent portion such as an armhole or a neck line of such vest or the like to provide a selvage to the vest or the like. However, since those processing operations must be performed after knitting separately from such knitting operation, such a circumstance takes place that the cost is increased.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to obtain a tubular knit fabric wherein, in view of such regards as described above, processing of an end edge of a vent portion of an armhole, a neck line or the like of a tubular knit fabric for use for a vest, a sweeter or the like is completed in a process of knitting while reinforcement of the portion is performed simultaneously and as result, neither sewing operation nor reinforcing operation is required after knitting.
A tubular knit fabric of the present invention is constituted such that a knitting yarn is turned back at an intermediate portion of each course after a predetermined course among knitting courses of a knit fabric which is knit in a forwardly and rearwardly overlapping condition and a vent portion is provided at the position at which the knitting yarn is turned back such that it extends across the direction of a course. At the vent portion, loops constituted from the turned back knitting yarns which form the vent portion are racked by a suitable pitch in a next course so that the magnitude of the opening of the vent is gradually increased.
And, at suitable wales of an end edge portion of the knit fabric along the vent portion, a pattern is presented by suitably selecting a structure, or a plating yarn is supplied together with a ground yarn with which the portion is knit in order to reinforce the portion.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a vest according to a knit fabric of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a structural view of a first embodiment of a tubular knit fabric of the present invention in a condition wherein both front and back side knit fabrics are overlapped with each other;
FIGS. 3A to 3O are knitting diagrams showing conditions of a supply yarn and loops of a knit fabric suspended on needles of front and back needle beds in the order of steps when the knit fabric described above is to be knit;
FIGS. 4 and 5A to 5O show a second embodiment wherein plating is performed only for an end portion, and FIG. 4 is a structural view of the second embodiment of a tubular knit fabric of the present invention in a condition wherein both front and back side knit fabrics are overlapped with each other; FIGS. 5A to 5O are knitting diagrams showing conditions of supply yarns and loops of a knit fabric suspended on needles of front and back needle beds in the order of steps when the knit fabric described above is to be knit;
FIGS. 6A to 6O are knitting diagrams showing supply yarns and loops of a knit fabric suspended on needles of front and back needle beds in the order of steps when a knit fabric wherein plating is performed only for an end portion is to be knit on a knitting machine of the four bed type;
FIG. 7 is a structural view in a condition wherein both front and back side knit fabrics of a tubular knit fabric of an intersia stitch of the present
REFERENCES:
Patent for Tubular Knit on V-Bed, Knitting International, Jun. 1992 p. 66.
Calvert John J.
Crowder Clifford D.
Shima Seiki Mfg. Ltd.
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