Patent ID: 7529596
Filing Date: 2009-05-05
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
1. A knitting method of knit pants knitted 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 knitting starts at a side part on either right leg side or left leg side including a side part of a vertical rise part and a side part of a leg part and ends at a side part on the other leg side including a side part of a vertical rise part and a side part of a leg part, and a front knitted fabric part and a back knitted fabric part are knitted in the following steps so that a length (a thigh width) of the front knitted fabric part from the side to the crotch is shorter than a length (a thigh width) of the back knitted fabric part from the side to the crotch, said steps comprising: the first step of doing the knitting to set up to join and knit the side parts of the front and back knitted fabric parts on the one leg side, the side parts including the side parts of the front and back knitted fabric parts of the vertical rise part and leg part, using the front and back needle beds, the second step of knitting the front and back knitted fabric parts of the one leg side, knitting the vertical rise part and leg part of the front knitted fabric part, with the vertical rise part and leg part of the back knitted fabric part held to one of the needle beds, and also knitting the vertical rise part and leg part of the back knitted fabric part, with the vertical rise part and leg part of the front knitted fabric part held to the other needle bed, the third step of joining together and binding off inside leg joining parts of the front and back knitted fabric parts of the leg parts on the one leg side, the forth step of doing the knitting to set up to join and knit the inside leg joining parts of the front and back knitted fabric parts of the leg parts on the other leg side, the fifth step of knitting the front and back knitted fabric parts on the other leg side, knitting the vertical rise part and leg part of the front knitted fabric part, with the vertical rise part and leg part of the back knitted fabric part held to one of the needle beds, and also knitting the vertical rise part and leg part of the back knitted fabric part, with the vertical rise part and leg part of the front knitted fabric part held to the other needle bed, and the sixth step of joining together and binding off the side parts of the front and back knitted fabric parts on the other leg side, the side parts including the side parts of the front and back knitted fabric parts of vertical rise part and leg part.