Patent ID: 7168271
Filing Date: 2007-01-30
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
1. A method for knitting knitwear by using a flat knitting frame having at least a front needle bed and a back needle bed, with the front and back needle beds extending in a left to right direction and facing each other in a front to back direction, and with at least one of the front and back needle beds being capable of sideways racking and capable of transfer of knitted loops between the front and back needle beds, wherein the knitwear has a breast and a collar including a left front collar portion on a neckline of the breast and a right front collar portion on the neckline of the breast, with the right and left front collar portions passing a center of the breast and overlapping one another when turned away from the breast, said method comprising, after starting formation of the neckline: (i) forming a front neckline portion of a right breast portion and a front neckline portion of a left breast portion by knitting courses, with each of said courses being knit in a direction opposite to a direction in which a previous one of said courses was knit; (ii) transferring knitted loops, of one of the front neckline portion of the right breast portion and the front neckline portion of the left breast portion, from needles to empty needles which do not obstruct knitting of one of the right front collar portion and the left front collar portion, thereafter, at the other one of the front neckline portion of the right breast portion and the front neckline portion of said left breast portion, knitting predetermined courses such that the one of the right front collar portion and the left front collar portion is formed so as to pass the center of the breast, and then, casting off knitted loops positioned at a region of knitting needles used for knitting the one of the right front collar portion and the left front collar portion; and then (iii) after returning to said needles said knitted loops that have been transferred therefrom to said empty needles, at the one of the front neckline portion of the right breast portion and the front neckline portion of the left breast portion, knitting predetermined courses such that the other one of the right front collar portion and the left front collar portion is formed so as to pass the center of the breast and overlap the one of the right front collar portion and the left front collar portion.