Patent ID: 7536879

Claim:
Method for knitting a double jersey knit fabric ( 11 ) on a double jacquard, double jersey circular knitting machine, the double jersey knit fabric ( 11 ) having a design consisting of more than 12 needles, wherein the knitting comprises knitting with a machine comprising a cylinder (C) and a dial (D) provided with a plurality of needles, driving each of the needles separately by an electronic pattern controlling mechanism, knitting a front (F) of the fabric ( 11 ) with the needles of the cylinder (C), and knitting a back (B) of the fabric ( 11 ) with the needles of the dial (D), and forming with one or more yarns at least one area of a blister fabric ( 6 ) in the design of the front (F) of the fabric ( 11 ), knitting a non-reversible single-sided designed knit fabric ( 11 ) having a desired design at the front of the fabric ( 11 ) and a technical design at the back of the fabric ( 11 ), and creating the technical design by knitting or tucking the one or more yarns ( 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ) forming the blister fabric ( 6 ) with at least one stitch ( 3 ) or tuck solely on the needles of the dial (D), missing at least one needle on the dial (D) in areas ( 16 ) where the one or more yarns ( 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ) are not knitting or tucking the design in the front (F) of the fabric ( 11 ) on the needles of the cylinder (C).