Patent ID: 7577488
Filing Date: 2009-08-18
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
1. A knitting method for knitting a knitted fabric 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, wherein the knitted fabric has at least two tubular knitted fabrics, each comprising a front knitted fabric part and a back knitted fabric part which are continuously formed in a tubular form, the front knitted fabric parts and the back knitted fabric parts are respectively joined with each other from their lateral ends to form a gore therebetween in the manner that the gore of the front knitted fabric part and the gore of the back knitted fabric part can be made different in length, the method comprising the steps of: presetting a position of a reference boundary at a stage of the start of the knitting of the tubular knitted fabric based on a difference in size of the gore knitted between the front knitted fabric part and the back knitted fabric part and on rotation of the loops determined by the difference in size of the gore therebetween so that even when a boundary of the front knitted fabric part and the back knitted fabric part on the joining side is located between the front needle bed and the back needle bed via rotation operation at the stage of the start of the joining of a plurality of tubular knitted fabrics to form the gore therebetween, the reference boundary of the front knitted fabric part and the back knitted fabric part on the side opposite to the joining side located at the stage of the completion of the formation of the gore can be located at the same position with respect to the loops on the needle bed located at the end of the knitting width on the non-joining side as it is located at the stage of the start of the knitting of the tubular knitted fabric, knitting the front knitted fabric part and the back knitted fabric part in a tubular form from the start of the knitting to a gore forming location with reference to this preset position of the reference boundary, rotating the front knitted fabric part and the back knitted fabric part to locate the boundary thereof on the joining side between the frond needle bed and the back needle bed; and forming the gore while the loops on the non-joining side located at the end of the knitting width and held on one needle bed on which the knitted fabric part of the small gore is knitted are transferred to the other needle bed via the rotation operation.