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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7178323 | Multi-component yarn, method of making and method of using the same A combined yarn is provided containing a metallic strand and a non-metallic strand, wherein the metallic and non-metallic strands are combined by air interlacing the filaments or fibers of the non-metallic strand at intermittent points along their length, so that th... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7107626 | Yoga socks The sock is particularly adapted for use in Yoga exercises, Pilate exercises, stretching and other mat-based exercises, and comprises a sock made of a natural, plastic or synthetic fiber. The sock has five toe holes in the front end with webbing extending between th... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7076973 | Method and apparatus for making a sock having a looped tab There is provided a sock formed on a circular knitting machine. The sock has a tubular body including a cuff defining an opening to receive the foot of the wearer and includes a toe portion, a foot portion, a heel and a relatively narrow looped tab loop comprising a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7013680 | Method to prevent deknitting There is provided a method for preventing deknitting of knitted tubular articles or garments such as gloves, socks, and the like. Accordingly, the edge of the tubular article or garment is provided with a plurality of horizontally knit rows of thread or yarn which a... | 03/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6912876 | Shaped blank A shaped blank has a body with a knitted section yarns disposed in a knitted direction. The body has an opening in the knitted section. The shaped blank has a fringe between the knitted section and the opening with the fringe being defined by each yarn of the yarns ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6910288 | Footwear incorporating a textile with fusible filaments and fibers The invention is an upper for an article of footwear that includes a textile having fusible filaments or fibers. The textile is incorporated into the upper and specific areas of the upper are heated such that the fusible filaments or fibers fuse with other filaments... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6907759 | Method for producing tubular knitwear items and products obtained thereby The invention relates to tubular knitwear item provided with suitable openings (H) or holes automatically obtained for shoulder straps, neck portions, belts, strings, stripes, knots, loops and the like, i.e. for various applications and purposes, such as anatomic su... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6786066 | Knit wear with collar knit by flat knitting machine and method of knitting it Knitting for joining a body 3 including right and left body portions and a neckline 12 and a collar together. A neckline 12 comprises at least three neckline portions comprising a first neckline portion 12d formed in one body porti... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6761048 | Welt-processed knitted fabric and welt processing method A loop of a row of binding-off loops is formed with finer yarn than yarn used in a rib knitted fabric part. Also, a binding-off loop of the row of binding-off loops formed following a final loop of an odd wale of a knitted fabric at an end thereof and the binding-of... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6672113 | Method of knitting neck of knit wear by weft knitting machine and knit designing device for producing the method of knitting the neck In order to seamlessly knit knitwear, such as a sweater, having a widened neckline 10a of a front body 2a and a front drop formed in the neckline 10a in a relatively simple method, stitches at a right side of the front neckline 10a and stitches at a left ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6658898 | Binding-off process, bound off fabric, and CAD system for binding-off process At least three bind-off courses are formed starting at not less than three loops, i.e., loops of the first and second knitted fabrics at side ends thereof on the side on which the knitting of a tubular fabric is finished in the region of the binding-off p... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6367290 | Knit article having ravel-resistant edge portion and composite yarn for making ravel-resistant knit article A knit article having an edge portion subject to raveling including a plurality of knitting courses in said edge portion. Each of the edge portion knitting courses is knitted with at least one strand of a heat fusible yarn, the heat fusible yarn including... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6230524 | Composite yarn having fusible constituent for making ravel-resistant knit article and knit article having ravel-resistant edge portion A knit article having an edge portion subject to raveling with the article including plurality of knitting courses in said edge portion. Each of the edge portion knitting courses is knitted with a composite heat fusible yarn comprising a core including at... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6223565 | Knitted arm warmer An arm warmer is formed from a circularly knitted tubular fabric member made up of a wrist cuff, a tapered arm portion, and a binder portion. The fabric member is knitted with nylon, nylon covered spandex, and wicking yarns of various configurations for t... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6212913 | Manufacture of roller-blinds A process for producing roller blinds includes defining a plurality of shapes for the completed roller blind in a continuous material band. The band has a uniform width and edges of the roller blind are defined between the longitudinal edges of the materi... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6212914 | Knit article having ravel-resistant edge portion and composite yarn for making ravel-resistant knit article A knit article having an edge portion subject to raveling including a plurality of knitting courses in said edge portion. Each of the edge portion knitting courses is knitted with at least one strand of a heat fusible yarn, the heat fusible yarn including... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6167731 | Disposable surgical gown with single-ply knitted wrist cuffs and method of producing same A novel method of fabricating surgical gowns basically comprises the steps of fabricating main body robe portions for the gowns, each having a pair of arm sleeves terminating at respective wrist openings, knitting on a circular knitting machine a pluralit... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6164094 | Method for manufacturing a dressing item with a circular knitting machine, and item obtained with the method A method for manufacturing a dressing item such as an undershirt, body suit or the like with a circular knitting machine, and an item obtained thereby, the method comprising: at least one first step, during which an annular border is formed which constitu... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6138482 | Method of knitting a knitwear forming therein a connecting part A knitting method that can permit the forming of a connecting part of the knitting fabric overlapped in front and back, such as a pleat or fly, even when the knitting fabric is knitted in a double jersey stitch structure. The method comprises the steps th... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6119487 | Method for knitting double jersey fabric including rib knitting and fabric knitted by the method To provide improved beauty of an double jersey fabric at its side edge portion and improved productivity, the present invention provides a method for knitting the double jersey fabric including rib knitting such as Milano rib by a knitting equivalent to o... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6070438 | Bound knitted fabric Each stitch of the last course of a front knitted fabric of a tubular knitted fabric is overlapped with a stitch, one stitch interior, of an immediately preceding course of the front knitted fabric. Each stitch of the last course of a back knitted fabric ... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6053014 | Knitted arm warmer An arm warmer is formed from a circularly knitted tubular fabric member made up of a wrist cuff, a tapered arm portion, and a binder portion. The fabric member is knitted with nylon, nylon covered spandex, and wicking yarns of various configurations for t... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5992182 | Method for ladderproofing the last row of a knitted item A method for ladderproofing the last row of a knitted item consisting in that, upon execution of the last row of the item, the interstitch portions, i.e., the portions of the thread or threads that join two contiguous loops of knitting, are produced with ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5956975 | Method of knitting a collar The wale of a collar closest to the body side is transferred from a front body to a back body, then the wale is moved towards the neck hole side. Next, said wale is moved further towards the neck hole side, and a new wale of the collar is transferred onto... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5890381 | Knitted upholstery fabric with tubular fastening portions A three-dimensional continuously knitted fabric cover knitted from yarn in a generally double jersey construction for covering a three-dimensional core, the fabric cover having an exposed front layer with a rear layer adjacent the core, the cover having a... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5873266 | Method of knitting tubular fabric having 2×1 rib stitch A method and apparatus for knitting a seamless tubular fabric of 2×1 rib stitch uses a flat knitting machine having at least one front needle bed and at least one back needle bed. The beds extend sideways and abut against each other in a front-back relat... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5720188 | Knitted cover having course-wise slit A double jersey weft knitted fabric cover having a course-wise slit formed therein and at least one edge of the slit extending into an overlapping portion, preferably of single jersey fabric, which overlaps the other edge, and a method of knitting the sam... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5669244 | Binding off method with use of a flat knitting machine and a knit fabric thus bound off A binding off method for binding off stitches of at least two fabrics which form a tube requires a plurality of steps. A first step is providing a flat knitting machine with a first needle bed and a second needle bed, with each needle bed having a plurali... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5605060 | Circularly knit bodysuit and a blank and method for making same This invention discloses a shirt, bodysuit and teddy having built-in breast cups and/or selected areas of varying cross-stretch in order to provide compressive support for a wearer's body, and methods and blanks for manufacturing such shirts, bodysuits an... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5584197 | Knitting method A front fabric 20 is transferred to the opposing needle bed to reverse the order of stitches sidewise. Next, the back fabric 21 is transferred to the opposing needle bed without altering the order of stitches. Then the front fabric 20 is transferred with ... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5553468 | Brassiere and method of making same This invention discloses methods of manufacturing brassiere blanks and brassieres, and the brassieres made therefrom. In particular, the methods and brassieres involve circular knitting operations in which a brassiere blank is produced on a circular knitt... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5517832 | Panty brief with wide leg openings A panty brief is made by flat knitting a front piece (1) and a back piece (1'), leg openings (8,9) being formed at a marginal edge zone (6) at the bottom of the panty brief. The marginal bottom edge zones (6) are partially made of soluble yarn (8) for for... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5509282 | Double cuffed hosiery A hosiery article having a tubular upper leg portion, a lower foot portion, and a lower band interposed between the upper and lower portions. The lower band is operative to maintain the position of the upper portion relative to the mouth of a shoe. In thi... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5479791 | Brassiere blank, brassiere and methods of making same This invention discloses methods of manufacturing brassiere blanks and brassieres, and the brassieres made therefrom. In particular, the methods and brassieres involve circular knitting operations in which a brassiere blank is produced on a circular knitt... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5467616 | Process for forming a yarn securing knot in a flat knitting machine The method according to the invention permits the tying off of the free yarn ends, for example in Intarsia knit regions, with a straight knitting machine forming the knit goods without additional auxiliary devices which can negatively influence the struct... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5456096 | Method for processing end portion of fabric A method for processing end portion of fabric knitted by a flat knitting machine wherein integration of fabrics and the anti-raveling of end portion at the completion of knitting are carried out and the joined portion is not projected out of the surface o... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5447589 | Method for cutting fabrics, especially composite fabrics A method of precision cutting fabric material while obtaining cleanly cut edges involves placing the material on a flat support surface, identifying one or more regions of material to be cut, placing adhesive tape on both sides of the material, and then u... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5428975 | Double roll footee sock A knit footee having a body portion and a top portion connected to the body is disclosed. The top portion includes a first top increment comprising a plurality of completed courses and having a tendency to roll outwardly upon itself and a second top incre... | 07/04/1995 |
