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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7739886 | Knitwear having open part in body tubular part, and method of knitting the same A method of knitting a knitwear having an open part with a desired shape in which overlapping state of the open part is freely designed; the method comprising the steps of (a) to (f): a) a body is knitted by return knitting up to a... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7716954 | Method for producing tubular knitted fabric and weft-knitting machine A needle engaging with a loop at least lastly formed on a fabric formed just before inversion of a carriage is pulled by a pull-down cam formed in a composite cam system of the carriage while feeding a yarn to an opposite needle. When a feeding direction of a yarn f... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7536878 | Method for knitting double tubular fabric The present invention provides a method of knitting a double tubular knitted fabric in which an outer tubular section can be formed independent from an inner tubular section while knitting the inner and outer tubular sections simultaneously by a flat knitting machin... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7493780 | Knitting method and knitting tool The knitting method in accordance with the invention is based on simple knitting tools without means for closing a thread-receiving space that is created by a simple cutout configured as a stitch support shoulder. In the simplest case, the stitch is formed by a simp... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7430882 | Method of knitting tubular knitted fabric having stripe pattern, and tubular knitted fabric having stripe pattern In a tubular knitted fabric with a stripe pattern knitted by a flat knitting machine, to cause cross-over yarns to appear inside the tubular knitted fabric so as to eliminate cutting operation of the cross-over yarns. For each knitting of a plurality of courses, a f... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7360378 | Knitted fabric with dual layer construction and method for making A knitted dual-layer fabric is disclosed, including an outer water-absorbent layer and an inner wicking layer having permanent wicking properties. The inner layer acts to draw moisture toward the outer layer and the outer layer acts to disperse the moisture therethr... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7337036 | Three-way connector for connecting weft feeders of textile machines to a serial bus, and a control system based thereon The three-way connector comprises a first, a second and a third gates directly connected to one another. The first and second gate are pluggable onto respective spans of a bus, and the third gate is connectable to a weft feeder. The three-way connector further compr... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7316132 | Knitting method for wide rib texture by plating The present invention provides a knitting method that when a knitted fabric having a wide rib structure formed by the plating using a front knitting yarn and a back knitting yarn different in color from each other, in particular, using a flat knitting machine, can m... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310977 | Selection actuator for knitting member A plurality of control magnetic poles 33n-34n are provided in each selection unit of a selection actuator, and the upstream control magnetic poles 33n, s and downstream control magnetic poles 34n, s are control... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7289870 | Knitting method, knitting fabric, knit designing device and knitting program for intarsia pattern A yarn feeder is caused to perform a single reciprocating motion in a section in which the boundary of an intarsia pattern varies discontinuously such that a jump occurs between a yarn feeding end position of the yarn feeder and a following yarn feeding start positi... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7272957 | Pile knitting method by weft knitting machine A pile knitting method by a weft knitting machine is provided in which a compound needle can be used to form a pile stitch and simultaneously hold other stitches. After a hook of a needle body receives a fastening yarn fed thereto, a carriage brings together a yarn ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269975 | Cam apparatus for knitting fabric On each of carriages are disposed a group of transfer cams and a group of receiving cams. A leftward movement of the carriages makes it possible to transfer a knitted loop from a front needle bed provided with one carnage to a rear needle bed provided with another c... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263860 | Knitting method of tubular knitted fabric with projection, and tubular knitted fabric with projection The present invention provides a knitting method of a tubular knitted fabric with a projection part having stretch and a supporting performance and formed in an arbitrary shape and at an arbitrary location by using a flat knitting machine. The method comprises the s... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7225646 | Method of knitting knitwear with raglan sleeves and knitwear with raglan sleeves The present invention provides a knitting method for knitting knitwear having raglan sleeves and knitwear thus formed, wherein a beautiful silhouette is gained when being put on, which knitwear is knitted in a seamless manner by using a flat knitting machine. | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226404 | Cigarette filter assembly machine A cigarette filter assembly machine wherein a rolling unit is defined by a rolling drum and a guide drum coaxial with each other and connected to each other in angularly-fixed, axially-sliding manner; and wherein the rolling drum has a number of suction rollers (... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222504 | Method for joining knitted fabrics A knitted fabric joining method is provided wherein at least two tubular knitted fabrics are knitted and then those tubular knitted fabrics are overlapped with and joined to each other in such a manner that a joining region of a front knitted fabric part is differen... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212881 | Knitting method for garment with asymmetrically joined sleeves, garment with asymmetrically joined sleeves, and knit design device Both sleeves and front and back bodies are joined using gores such that the gores between the front body and both front sleeves become larger than the gores between the back body and both back sleeves. The knitted fabric is rotated such that, for example, the border... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7191620 | Latch needle The starting point of a new concept in a latch needle (1) is an attachment of the latch spring (22) in the sawslot (9) of the latch needle from the side of the needle back (7). For this purpose the latch needle (1) has spring-suppo... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7181932 | Knitting method of forming drape around collar and knitwear having drape around collar The invention aims to knit knitwear in a substantially seamless manner, with the number of courses around the neck increased, so that when the knitwear is worn, a drape can be formed around the neck. In knitting zones extending from underarms to before should... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181309 | Method of knitting garments having line difference, garment having line difference, and knit design device A body and both sleeves are knitted into cylindrical shapes, respectively, up to the underarm positions. Then, sleeve caps for both sleeves are knitted by flechage knitting such that the front sleeve caps become narrower than the back sleeve caps. Both sleeves are c... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7168271 | Method of knitting knit-wear having front neck and knit-wear having front neck Knitted loops of a neckline of a right breast portion or a left breast portion knitted by dividing a breast are transferred to a needle bed where a back is retained, and a front collar knitting portion is knitted on a neckline of the other breast portion. The front ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7152435 | Weft knitting machine having movable sinker A weft knitting machine having a movable sinker capable of securing a large space at a needle bed near a knitting fabric knitting area and making a pause in the state of stopping action on the knitting fabric knitting area. A sinker operating cam mechanism (10 | 12/26/2006 |
| 7143613 | Knitwear garment and method of knitting knitwear Seamless knitwear of mixed set-in and raglan sleeves, and a method of knitting the same seamless knitwear. The knitwear of the present invention comprises a body and sleeves. A front body of the body has armhole parts and shoulder-line parts extending along o... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7096693 | Knitting method for knitting fabric A knitting method for knitting a knitted fabric having a half cardigan knitting structure of well-balanced loops without getting out of loop shape. The half cardigan knitting structure comprises first wale in which knitted loops and tuck loops are formed and second ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7059157 | Stitch presser in a weft knitting machine 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 mou... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7051555 | Method of knitting knit-wear 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 ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047768 | Tubular knit fabric and method of knitting the same 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 si... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7036341 | Transfer jack and weft knitting machine having the same, and stitch transfer method using transfer jack 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 knitt... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6993940 | Tennis vest having knit-in ball pockets A tennis vest is formed from a circularly knit fabric tube having an extended turned welt at a bottom region of the vest to form outer and inner plies. The plies are sewn together along longitudinal lines to form two pockets. A pair of openings are knitted into the ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6988384 | Knitting method using flat knitting machine and knitting program In knitting a neck hole, a left front body is knitted on a front needle bed while making widening stitches, and stitches of the neck hole and a right front body both being in halt are transferred onto a back needle bed, and with widening stitch, the back needle bed ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6983626 | Method of knitting tubular knitted fabric 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 tw... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6966202 | Method of knitting intersia pattern knitted fabric 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 kn... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6945080 | Knitted glove 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. With at least one empty needle (J, j) arranged between the knitting needles for use in knitting one of two adjacent... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6935140 | Method of knitting tubular knitted fabric 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 corres... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6918270 | Neck forming method 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... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6892555 | Knitting fabric having novel set up structure and method of knitting it 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 th... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6889530 | Method of forming gusset and knitwear comprising gusset formed A method of forming gussets in armpits of knitwear in the process of joining together sleeves and a body of the knitwear to form a tubular body, while reducing the tubular body in diameter from the underarms toward the shoulders to form armholes. The method comprise... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6883352 | Loop presser, flatbed knitting machine having loop presser, and fabric knitting method using loop presser An object of the invention is to improve yarn feeding conditions to a knitting needle and improve a loop pressing function and a yarn holding function for end stitches in a flat knitting machine provided with a compound needle. In a top portion 12 of a loop p... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6857294 | Method for knitting intarsia pattern knitting fabric and knitting program producing device therefor An object of the invention is to obtain an intarsia pattern fabric which is not likely to cause yarn entanglement, eliminates the need for divided knitting, and provides good productivity even when a cylindrical knitting fabric is to be knitted. in a double bed flat... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6829912 | Method for making a textile web with a tubular knitting region A method for making a textile web with a base web and at least one tubular knitting region (21, 21′, 23, 23′) extending transversely to a knitting direction on a straight and circular knitter with at least two opposite needle beds includes making the tubu... | 12/14/2004 |
