Patent ID: 7181932
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
1. A knitting method for knitting knitwear in tubular form whose front body part and back body part are joined together at both ends of knitting widths thereof, with the front body part and the back body part assigned to a first needle bed and a second needle bed, respectively and which has a drape around a neck, by using a flat knitting machine having at least a pair of front and back needle beds extending in a transverse direction and disposed opposite to each other in a cross direction, at least either of which is capable of being racked in the transverse direction so that loops can be transferred between the front and back needle beds, the method comprising: a) the step of knitting the front and back bodies in tubular form in knitting zones extending from hems to underarms, with front and back bodies joined at both ends thereof (Knitting zone b) the step of increasing knitting widths of the front and back bodies, while widening stitches in knitting zones extending from underarms to before shoulder parts, so that the front body can be made larger in knitting width than the back body, with the front and back bodies split from each other at both ends thereof (Knitting zone c) the step of knitting the front and back bodies to necklines by a flechage knitting, while forming shoulder drops in knitting zones of the shoulder parts (Knitting zone d) the step of binding off the necklines of the front and back bodies respectively (Knitting zone e) the step of shifting the front and back bodies by loop transference so that their shoulder parts extending rightward and leftward across the necklines can confront each other, and joining together the shifted shoulder parts of the front and back bodies and binding them off (Knitting zone