Patent ID: 6581417
Filing Date: 2003-06-24
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
A method of knitting knitwear, comprising a body knitted into a tubular fabric whose front body and back body are overlapped with each other in front and back; and right and left sleeves situated at each side of the body and each formed into a tubular fabric whose front sleeve and back sleeve are overlapped with each other in front and back, by using a flat knitting machine comprising at least a pair of first and second needle beds each having a number of needles, which are placed opposite in front and back and at least either of which can be racked laterally; yarn feeders for feeding yarn to the needles of the first needle bed and second needle bed; and a cam unit, the method comprising the joining knit step that whenever a predetermined number of courses of the body is knitted in a joining region extending from an underarm to a shoulder, the sleeves are shifted to the body to allow the stitches of the last course of the sleeves to be laid over the stitches of the body, so as to join together the sleeves and the body,the joining knit step comprising: a) the step that whenever an adequate number of courses of the front body and the back body are knitted by using different yarn feeders, the right and left sleeves are shifted to the body side and joined together; and b) the step that when the front body and the back body are knitted by the different feed yarns, respectively, and the yarn is fed to either of the right and left sleeves to form stitches in the next course, split knit is provided for stitches of the front sleeves and back sleeves at side ends thereof on the body side and then each of the split stitches are laid over the stitches of the different courses in the bodies to join together the sleeves and the body.