Patent ID: 7716954

Claim:
A method for producing a tubular knitted fabric with a weft-knitting machine: the weft-knitting machine comprising at least one pair of front and rear needle beds disposed both upper end portions thereof confronting each other at a distance; at least one pair of carriages each one of which is arranged to slide and reciprocate laterally on the respective needle beds; and a composite cam system installed in each carriage, in which the needle being selected from a plural needles mounted in the respective needle beds, is raised and lowered through a composite cam system mounted in the respective carriages for producing a tubular knitted fabric while each carriage being moved reciprocally along the respective needle beds, wherein when a knitting course of the knitted fabric being progressed after inversion of the carriage on one of the needle beds, the needle engaging with at least a lastly formed loop in the knitted fabric just before the inversion of the carriage, is kept from advancing towards the upper portion of the needle bed by means of a stitch cams of the composite cam system installed into the carriage, while on the other needle bed, a knit yarn is fed to a needle opposing to the needle engaged with the last formed loop for forming a continuous loop with the last formed loop.