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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2004
John Smedley, Nottinghamshire, GB;
Andrew Ratcliffe, Nottinghamshire, GB;
John Smedley, Nottinghamshire, GB;
Andrew Ratcliffe, Nottinghamshire, GB;
HBI Branded Apparel Enterprises, LLC, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A method for creating pattern instructions for an electronic patterning control of a knitting machine to enable the knitting machine to knit fabric having a desired pictorial image as part of the knitted structure, the pictorial image being created by a series of consecutive courses each having knitted stitches formed of a first yarn having a first visual characteristic interspersed with knitted stitches formed of a second yarn having a second visual characteristic, adjacent knitted stitches of the second yarn that are separated by one or more knitted stitches of the first yarn being connected by a float loop spanning said one or more knitted stitches of the first yarn.