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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1976
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1976
Keith Jeffcoat, Nuneaton, EN;
Courtaulds Limited, London, EN;
Abstract
A method of knitting a blank for a sleeved garment on a knitting machine having two opposed needle beds containing independently operable needles, comprises, in either order, the steps of forming two sleeve portions of the blank, each extending between a cuff and an underarm level of a sleeve of the garment, by knitting in reciprocatory manner on needles of the two opposed needle beds at two locations to form U-shaped courses, the joined ends of the two arms of each U-shaped course of a sleeve portion lying on the needle beds adjacent the joined ends of a corresponding U-shaped course of the other sleeve portion, and forming two body portions of the blank by knitting separately two pieces of fabric one on each of the two needle beds. The method also comprises forming a shoulder region of the blank to constitute a connection between the sleeve portions and the body portions. This shoulder region comprises two sleeve shoulder portions formed by knitting U-shaped courses to constitute an extension of each sleeve portion and two body shoulder portions formed by knitting two pieces of fabric to constitute extensions of the two body portions. In the course of knitting one pair of the pairs of sleeve and body shoulder portions, needles are made progressively inactive in an inwards direction from the outermost edges of the pair of portions, without casting off loops from those needles, and in the course of knitting the other of the pairs of sleeve and body shoulder portions inactive needles holding knitted loops are brought progressively back into action in the opposite direction, whereby the sleeve and body shoulder portions are shaped and joined to one another and a one-piece blank is formed having sleeve portions each open down one edge and body portions separated at the sides.