Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.

Hiroshi Minamide

Hirokazu Nishitani

Masaki Minami

To provide an apparatus and a method for knitting fabric using elastic yarns, in which the elastic yarns are able to be used while correcting the difference between the set tension and the actual tension without being subject to a lowered knitting efficiency or restrictions to knitting patterns. In a knitting machine, a tension meterdetects the actual tension Tof a rubber yarnwhen a carriagereverses the running direction outside the knitting width of a fabric. The yarn sending length F at which the rubber yarnis sent out from a yarn sending device 8 to a yarn route pathway for each knitting course is able to be obtained in advance as the length of the rubber yarnconsumed under the designated tension Tfor each knitting course. The yarn sending length F is corrected in such a manner that the difference between natural lengths L, Lof the rubber yarn, existing in the yarn route pathway under the set tension Tand the actual tension T, decreases.

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Wakayama, Japan

Hiroshi Minamide