Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.

Shima Seiki Manufacturing Limited

Masao Okuno

Shigenobu Mitsumoto

Michael Caird

Toshinori Nakamori

Reiji Arikita

Nobuyasu Takahashi

Takashi Ikegami

Masahiro Dohtsu

Haruo Kosugi

Hirotoshi Yamano

Daniele Codato

The present invention aims to provide a seamless glove of high support performance knitted by flat knitting. The seamless glove has a base knitted fabric set up knitting from a tip of finger toward a mouth or from the mouth toward the tip of finger and knitted in such a manner that respective fingers, a four-finger body, a five-finger body are knitted on a rib knit structure basis using a stretch elastic yarn, and an elastic yarn in a tensed state is inlaid in the base knitted fabric. The base knitted fabric is knitted on a rib jacquard structure basis, and the inlay yarn is knotted at a location at which the knitting of the finger starts and at a finger crotch part, to prevent cast-off of the inlay yarn.

Seamless glove of high support performance

The present invention provides a knitting method of a tubular knitted fabric with a projection part having stretch and a supporting performance and formed in an arbitrary shape and at an arbitrary location by using a flat knitting machine. The method comprises the step 1 of knitting a knitted fabric in a tubular form joined at both ends of a knitting width by a rib knitting, while inserting an elastic yarn in the tubular body by an inlay, and the step 2 of knitting only a part for the projection part to be formed on at least either of a front side of the tubular knitted fabric and a back side of the same by a flechage knitting, the step 1 and the step 2 being repeatedly carried out.

Knitting method of tubular knitted fabric with projection, and tubular knitted fabric with projection

When bringing pins () are engaged with the yarn carrier at the engagement portions () near the center of the yarn carrier, the yarn carrier, as a normal carrier, feeds the yarn so that the yarn is applied to a knitting needle performing knitting operation by a carriage. When the bringing pins () are engaged with the yarn carrier at the engagement points () near the rear side thereof in the travel direction, the yarn carrier, as an inlay carrier, feeds the yarn in preference to the knitting operation so that the yarn is not applied to the knitting needle performing the knitting operation by the carriage. When the projection portions () of engagement releasing members () are pressed by the contact thereof with the stopper, the engagement releasing members () are moved backward, and slope portions () push up the bringing pins () engaged with the yarn carrier at the engagement points () so as to release the engagement.

Yarn carrier of weft knitting machine

A method of knitting an intarsia pattern fabric that can prevent occurrence of a yarn catching even when a tubular knitted fabric with an intarsia pattern and the like is knitted by using a four-bed flat knitting machine and also can eliminate the need of a split knitting to provide improved productivity. The flat knitting machine has intarsia-pattern knitting function of allowing change of position of the knitting yarn fed from the yarn feeding member to a needle before or after the knitting of the intarsia pattern, and the knitted fabric opposite to the knitted fabric to be knitted to insert the intarsia pattern () therein is knitted in such a condition that the knitting yarn () extending from a needle (K) holding a final loop of the intarsia pattern () to the yarn feeder () of the yarn feeding member is hooked with an empty needle of the needle bed on the upper side of the needle bed to which the needle (K) belongs.

Method of knitting intersia pattern knitted fabric

The present invention aims to provide improved texture of right and left marginal parts formed to extend along an open part of knitwear knitted in a tubular form, such as a cardigan and a vest with open part. The invention provide a method for producing a tubular fabric wherein a vertically extending open part ( ) is formed and right and left marginal parts ( ) extending along the open part ( ) are arranged in two layers to overlap each other when wearing by using a flat knitting machine. The method of the invention includes the step of performing a course knitting repeatedly in the state in which an adequate number of wales of at least one of the right and left parts of one fabric part having the open part ( ), positioned at a lateral end thereof with respect to knitting width, are sent round to the other fabric part retained and knitted on an opposite needle bed, in order that the one fabric part is retained on one needle bed and knitted in the state in which the right and left marginal parts ( ) are arranged in line with each other; the step of widening the open part by providing a narrowing knitting to the one fabric part having the open part ( ) formed therein; and the step of moving the wales as were sent round to the opposite nnedle bed to an outside of the one fabric part having the open part ( ) formed therein.

Knitted fabric having open part and knitting method therefor

A plating method for knitting a tubular fabric by using a four-bed type flat knitting machine comprising a first lower needle bed and a second lower needle bed which are arranged in pair in front and back and a first upper needle bed and a second upper needle bed which are arranged over the respective lower needle beds, wherein a first knitting fabric including a rib knitting knitted with needles on the first lower needle bed and the second upper needle bed and a second knitting fabric including a rib knitting knitted with needles on the first upper needle bed and the second lower needle bed are joined together at each widthwise side end thereof, so as to be knitted into a tubular form and the knitting fabrics are each knitted to have a plated structure by using a front yarn and a back yarn, and wherein a yarn feeder for the front yarn is displaced in each knitting in such a manner that when the first knitting fabric is knitted, the front yarn can be made closer to the second upper needle bed than the back yarn and when the second knitting fabric is knitted, the front yarn can be made closer to the first upper needle bed than the back yarn, whereby the condition for the front yarn and the back yarn to be fed is steadied to produce a neat plating fabric without mottles.

Tubular fabric plating method using four-bed flat knitting machine

To provide improved beauty of an double jersey fabric at its side edge portion and improved productivity, the present invention provides a method for knitting the double jersey fabric including rib knitting such as Milano rib by a knitting equivalent to or higher than a double knitting by use of a flat knitting machine, wherein a piping is provided for at least one of a side edge portion of the fabric by the step that one or more needles of the front and back needle beds are introduced so that knitting of the side edge portion of the fabric on an ending side of a course knitting can be ended with the needle(s) of one of the needle beds and knitting of the side edge portion of the fabric on a beginning side of the subsequent course knitting can be started with the needle(s) of the other of the needle beds; and the step that the course knitting are performed orderly from the yarn feeder disposed on a frontwardly positioned track, when the knitting of the side edge portion is ended with the needle(s) of the back needle bed, while on the other hand, the course knitting are performed orderly from the yarn feeder disposed on a rearwardly positioned track, when the knitting of the side edge portion is ended with the needle(s) of the front needle bed.

Method for knitting double jersey fabric including rib knitting and

A computer aided designing (CAD) apparatus for generating knitting commands accessible by knitting machines having built-in computers. The knitting commands include forming, transferring and overlapping stitches. The commands are stored on a computer retrievable memory such as a computer disk.

Binding-off method, bound knitted fabric, and cad apparatus therefor

Each stitch of the last course of a front knitted fabric of a tubular knitted fabric is overlapped with a stitch, one stitch interior, of an immediately preceding course of the front knitted fabric. Each stitch of the last course of a back knitted fabric is overlapped with a stitch, one stitch interior, of an immediately preceding course of the back knitted fabric. Prolongations of each stitch of the last course of the front knitted fabric crosses with prolongations of a stitch of the last course of the back knitted fabric.

Bound knitted fabric

In a broadening course, a yarn feeder of which front and back agree with the front and back of a fabric is used as a preceding yarn feeder, and a yarn feeder of which front and back are reverse is used as the succeeding yarn feeder,

Method of knitting tubular fabrics

A method and apparatus for knitting a seamless tubular fabric of 2.times.1 rib stitch uses a flat knitting machine having at least one front needle bed and at least one back needle bed. The beds extend sideways and abut against each other in a front-back relationship with a trick gap between them. The needles are preferably arranged in units consisting of six needles on the front needle bed and six needles on the back needle bed. The first and sixth needle on both the front and back beds are used to form face stitches. The second and forth needles of one needle bed and the third and fifth needles of the other bed are used to form back stitches. The remaining needles are used to align the stitches. At least one of the needle beds is preferably capable of racking sideways and transferring stitches between the needle beds. The resulting tubular fabric is especially suited for rib hem parts and similar fabric components.

Method of knitting tubular fabric having 2.times.1 rib stitch

Binding-off method, bound knitted fabric, and CAD apparatus therefor

The present invention provides a knitted fabric of three-dimensional silhouette shape which comprises a front half and a back half coupled at side edges to each other forming a tubular shape and in which the circumferential length of the tubular shape is varied by increasing and/or decreasing the number of wales of one of the two, front and back, halves and also, a method of knitting the same.

Method of knitting fabric having three-dimensional silhouette shape

A binding off method for binding off stitches of at least two fabrics which form a tube requires a plurality of steps. A first step is providing a flat knitting machine with a first needle bed and a second needle bed, with each needle bed having a plurality of needles, and being slidable relative to each other. The needle beds are configured to hold stitches, with the stitches being transferable between the first and second needle bed. A second step is knitting a first knit fabric and a second knit fabric, with the first knit fabric corresponding to the first needle bed and the second knit fabric corresponding to the second needle bed. The first and second knit fabrics are configured to face each other on the first and second needle beds. A third step is overlapping a stitch of the first fabric and a stitch of the second fabric by holding a first stitch of the first fabric on a needle of the second needle bed, holding a second stitch of the second knit fabric on a needle of the first needle bed, and holding a third stitch as a binding off stitch on a needle of one of the first and second needle beds. At least one of the above three stitches is transferred between the first needle bed and the second needle bed. The first, second, and third stitches are alternately overlapped with each other to form a triple stitch. A fourth stitch is formed on the needle of the one of the first and second needle beds upon which the triple stitch is held. A triple stitch is then removed from the needle bed upon which it is held, and the first, second, and third stitches of the triple stitch are rotated to suppress a protrusion formed by the binding off of the triple stitch. The overlapping step, the step of forming the fourth stitch, and the removal and rotation steps are repeated.

Binding off method with use of a flat knitting machine and a knit fabric

A front fabric 20 is transferred to the opposing needle bed to reverse the order of stitches sidewise. Next, the back fabric 21 is transferred to the opposing needle bed without altering the order of stitches. Then the front fabric 20 is transferred with the order of stitches reversed again. As a result, the curls of the front fabric 20 and the back fabric 21 appear on the outer side, and the binding-off is made under this condition. A first collar and a second collar are formed on the circumference of a neck hole of the front body, and then a back collar of which wale directions are continuous to those of the collars is formed on the back body.

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Masao Okuno