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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 1978
Filed:
Apr. 13, 1977
Frank Robinson, Breaston, GB;
Nigel Stephen Whatmough, Breaston, GB;
Courtaulds Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
A method of knitting a blank for a sleeved garment includes the steps of commencing knitting from an end of one sleeve and knitting in succession a single piece of fabric constituting this sleeve, a shoulder region of the garment and the second sleeve thereof with the wales of the knitting extending continuously through the sleeves and the shoulder region. Contemporaneously with the knitting of the first piece of fabric there is knitted a piece of fabric constituting the body of the garment which is started at an edge of the body part of the blank and has its wales extending across the body part. During the knitting of these pieces of fabric, at least a portion of the body part of the blank and the shoulder region are knitted so that courses are continuous between this body portion and the shoulder region, so that the blank comprises, in one piece of knitting, body, sleeve and shoulder parts of the garment. Various methods of knitting the blank are described which result in the sleeves, in the finished garment, either being disposed at right angles to the body or being downwardly inclined from the shoulder region.