Patent ID: 6668594
Filing Date: 2003-12-30
Classification: D04B,D10B

Abstract:
A plating method for knitting a tubular fabric by using a four-bed type flat knitting machine comprising a first lower needle bed and a second lower needle bed which are arranged in a front to back relationship, and a first upper needle bed and a second upper needle bed which are arranged over the respective lower needle beds, wherein a first knitting fabric including a rib knitting knitted with needles on the first lower needle bed and the second upper needle bed and a second knitting fabric including a rib knitting knitted with needles on the first upper needle bed and the second lower needle bed are joined together at each widthwise side end thereof, into a tubular form and the first and second knitting fabrics are each knitted to have a plated structure by using a front yarn and a back yarn, said method the comprising steps of: displacing a yarn feeder for the front yarn when the first knitting is knitted to make the front yarn closer to the second upper needle bed than the back yarn, and displacing the yarn feeder when the second upper needle bed is knit to make the front yarn closer to the first upper needle bed than the back yarn.