Patent ID: 6945080

Claim:
A knitted glove having at least one finger crotch and knitted from a fingertip toward a palm by using a flat knitting machine having front and back needle beds mounting a number of knitting needles thereon and arranged to be opposite to each other, wherein with at least one empty needle arranged between the knitting needles for use in knitting one of two adjacent fingers confronting each other across the finger crotch therebetween into a tubular form and the knitting needles for use in knitting the other of the two adjacent fingers confronting each other across the finger crotch therebetween, into a tubular form, at least one for each needle bed, a knitting yarn is fed to the knitting needles for use in knitting the one finger, to knit the one finger into a tubular form and then is fed to the knitting needles for use in knitting the other finger, to knit the other finger into a tubular form and, thereafter, the knitting yarn is fed to the knitting needles adjacent to the finger crotch and to the empty needles arranged between the two adjacent fingers, out of the knitting needles on the front and back needle beds for knitting the respective fingers, to form stitches at those needles in the following steps, whereby the two adjacent fingers at the at least one finger crotch are closed at ends thereof on the side on which they confront each other and also are gored, a. the step of shifting a yarn feeder toward the finger crotch to feed the knitting yarn to the knitting needles for use in knitting the one finger mounted on one of the front and back needle beds, to form knitted loops of the one finger; b. the step of reversing a traveling direction of the yarn feeder at the finger crotch; c. the step of shifting the yarn feeder toward the finger crotch again, to feed the yarn to the empty needles arranged between the knitting needles on the front and back needle beds holding loops of the one finger at a side end thereof and the other finger and to the knitting needles on the front and back needle beds holding loons of the other finger at a side end thereof, so as to out the knitting needles holding the loops of the fingers at the side ends thereof into a state in which the knitting yarn is drawn in to a reduced extent to prevent an old loop held on the needle from being knocked over, and put the empty needles into a yarn hooking state; and d. the step of reversing the traveling direction of the yarn feeder to feed the yarn to the knitting needles of the other needle bed for knitting the one finger, so as to form the knitted loops of the one finger.