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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2003
Geoffrey Bingham, Sibso, GB;
David Bruner, Cary, NC (US);
Jeffery Hurley, Cary, NC (US);
Sara Lee Corporation, Winstom-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A method and system for designing circularly knitted garments are provided. The method includes designing a model of the circularly knitted garment, stretching the model from a first size to a second size, and governing the stretching with one or more user definable rules. The system includes a circular knitting machine, a controller for controlling the circular knitting machine with a machine code, a tool for saving a model of the circularly knitted garment as a first output, and a conversion program for converting the first output into the machine code. The tool has a stretching function for changing a size of the first output using one or more user selected rules.