Patent ID: 6935140
Filing Date: 2005-08-30
Classification: D04B,D10B

Abstract:
1. A method of knitting a tubular knitted fabric, whose first knitted fabric and second knitted fabric are continuously connected with each other at both ends thereof, using a flat knitting machine comprising at least a pair of first and second needle beds arranged in front and back, either of or both of which are slidably moved in a transverse direction, wherein three sectioned portions of a front-layer knitted fabric portion ( 3 a , 12 a ), a middle-layer knitted fabric portion ( 5 b , 12 b ) and a back-layer knitted fabric portion ( 5 a , 12 c ), into which a part of the first knitted fabric is sectioned in a widthwise direction of the knitted fabric, are folded back in three layers at their respective boundaries so that the front-layer knitted fabric portion ( 3 a , 12 a ), the middle-layer knitted fabric portion ( 5 b , 12 b ) and the back-layer knitted fabric portion ( 5 a , 12 c ) can be formed sequentially from a front side of the knitted fabric, whereby after completion of the knitting of the knitted fabric, the back-layer knitted fabric portion ( 5 a , 12 c ) in that folded region or both of the back-layer knitted fabric portion ( 5 a , 12 c ) and the middle-layer knitted fabric portion ( 5 b , 12 b ) can be developed in a widthwise direction of the knitted fabric, the method comprising: (a) the step of forming the front-layer knitted fabric portion ( (b) the step of forming the middle-layer knitted fabric portion ( (c) the step of forming the back-layer knitted fabric portion ( (d) the step of forming the second knitted fabric in the state in which the front-layer knitted fabric portion (