Patent ID: 7328595
Filing Date: 2008-02-12
Classification: D04B,D10B

Abstract:
1. A method for manufacturing knitted articles for forming items of clothing without lateral seams, with a circular knitting machine, comprising at least one step for forming tabs, in which all or part of the needles of the machine are arranged in sectors of the needle cylinder that are angularly spaced from each other around the axis of the needle cylinder, each of said sectors being correlated to a respective feed of the machine, at which at least some of the needles of that given sector are moved to knit, and the needle cylinder of the machine is actuated with an alternating rotary motion about its own axis, with an extent of oscillation that is sufficient to make all the needles of each sector pass at the respective feed, in order to make the needles of said sector that are moved to knit at said feed form a preset number of rows of knitting, wherein the number of needles of said sector that are moved to knit at said feed is change according to a preset program.