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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6766667 | Knitted fabric having open part and knitting method therefor The present invention aims to provide improved texture of right and left marginal parts formed to extend along an open part of knitwear knitted in a tubular form, such as a cardigan and a vest with open part. The invention provide a method for producing a tubular fa... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6655175 | Method for joining knitted fabrics and joined knitted fabrics When a first knitted fabric, a second knitted fabric and a third knitted fabric are knitted, with the first knitted fabric sandwiched between the second and third knitted fabrics, and the first knitted fabric is joined to the second and third knitted fabr... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6564588 | Method for producing tubular knitted articles on a flat knitting machine Disclosed is a method of producing tubular knitted articles for ready-to-wear clothes pieces, on a flat knitting machine with at least two oppositely located needle beds and a carriage with at least three knitting systems. In a first carriage passage narr... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6550284 | Knitted fabric having forked portion and knitting method thereof Knitting of a knitted fabric having a forked portion which is forked into a first knitting region and a second knitting region at a certain point of its knitting width by using a flat knitting machine including at least two yarn feeders arranged over need... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6147517 | Voltage comparator circuit Control circuit for providing the greater of a supply voltage VCC and a battery voltage VBATT. A comparator compares VCC and VBATT, and provides output signals to an inverting gain stage. A switch receives outpu... | 11/14/2000 |
| 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 |
| 6085553 | Method for producing a knitted article on a flat knitting machine A method for producing a knitted article on a flat knitting machine with two opposite needle beds and a stitch hanging over device has the steps of providing a knitted article with a base knitted structure and at least one parallel partial knitted texture... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5987930 | Method of joining fabrics on a flat knitting machine In joining fabrics on a flat knitting machine, more specifically joining sleeves to a body, stitch courses are formed on both of the body and the sleeves. A stitch of the edge portion of a sleeve is overlapped with a stitch of the edge portion of the body... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5943884 | Knitted suit having a double layer structure and knitting method therefor On needle beds, an outer fabric and an inner fabric are arranged to oppose each other. Each of the outer fabric and the inner fabric comprises a back body and a left half and a right half of the front body that are arranged on both sides of the back body.... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5916272 | Process for producing sleeved clothing articles on a two bed flat knitting machine Three variations of a process for interconnecting the sleeves and the torso portion of a sleeved clothing article during production of the sleeved clothing article on a two bed flat bed knitting machine include one variation of the process which provides ... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5487282 | Process for knitting tubular fabric on a flat bed knitting machine A process for knitting tubular fabric on a straight knitting machine having two main needle beds, two auxiliary needle beds and a racking device. An edge stitch is transferred from each main needle bed to respective auxiliary needles beds, the needle beds... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5469717 | Method for knitting a crossing pattern and an apparatus for knitting a crossing pattern in flat knitting machine A method and apparatus for knitting a cross pattern texture on a flat knitting machine comprising front and rear needle beds, each needle bed having a plurality of needle grooves parallel and equally spaced along a length of the needle beds and each of su... | 11/28/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5379615 | Tubular knit fabric having vent portion 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. A knitting yarn is turned back at an intermediate portion of each course after a predetermi... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5379613 | Method of finishing edges of knitted fabric A method of finishing the edges of a knitted fabric which makes use of a flat knitting machine which has at least a pair of front and rear needle beds, one bed or both being arranged for lengthwise movement, transferring edge loops of the knitted fabric h... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5377507 | Method for making joined fabric A method for producing a flat knitted fabric, which may include first and second fabrics joined together with their respective wale directions perpendicular to one another, using a flat knitting machine. In accordance with one embodiment of the method, en... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5365756 | Flat knitting machine having separately movable upper and lower beds A flat bed knitting machine has two beds supported on either side of a central knitting region. The upper bed is supported on the lower bed by a series of specifically shaped needle plates which extend upward from the a grooved plate bed. The shape of the... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5361607 | Knitted fabric integrally knitted with an additional pocket and the method of integrally knitting them A method of forming a knitted body part of a knitted wear which includes knitting an integral pocket while knitting the body portion. A flat knitting machine with two pair of needle beds in a vertical direction is used. As soon as the body portion is knit... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5253492 | Method of knitting in pleats and knitted texture having knitted pleats A method of knitting in pleats according to the present invention comprises the steps of: knitting a succession of surf ace knitted sections, fold-back knitted sections, and overlap knitted sections with the use of arrays of knitting needles mounted on at... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5203185 | Fabric connecting method and fabric having connections A beautiful finished fabric of high quality wherein stitch loops of a connection are not bent opposedly to each other, and a method for producing such fabric. By using a flat knitting machine having needle beds arranged in a pair in front and in the rear,... | 04/20/1993 |
| 4909048 | Method for producing intarsia knitted goods and flat-bed knitting machine for implementing the method In a method for the production of intarsia knitted pieces on a flat-bed knitting machine, at least some of the yarn guides associated with each one of the intarsia areas and the respective needle bed are moved in a direction relative to each other when on... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4905483 | Flat knitting machine A flat knitting machine comprises four needle beds in the form of flat plates wherein a pair of front side and back side lower needle beds thereof are disposed in an inverted V-shape in side elevation with head portions thereof opposed to each other, and ... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4791793 | Device for the offset control of the needle beds of a flat-bed knitting machine A device for the offset control of the needle beds of a flat-bed knitting machine has a servomotor for the adjustment of one of the needle beds in relation to the other and has a position control circuit controlling the servomotor. So that it is possible ... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4548057 | Knitted fabric and method of producing the same This invention relates to a single- or double-Jersey knitted fabric which not only has a closed starting seam, but also a closed terminal seam (24, 24', 24") which can follow a line of any shape, and a method of making the same on a machine having stitch-... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4339933 | Racking device for flat knitting machine A racking device for an automatic flat knitting machine in which a data of the knit structure and other data are stored in memory members in respect to each course and the knitting operation is carried out based on outputs of said stored data. The racking... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4022033 | Shift device for the needle bed of a straight knitting machine A shift device for the needle bed of a straight knitting machine comprises an indexing disc having a periphery movable substantially at right angles to the intended direction of shift of the needle bed and stoppable in selected positions. A plurality of e... | 05/10/1977 |
