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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2005
Kazuyoshi Okamoto, Wakayama, JP;
Kazuyoshi Okamoto, Wakayama, JP;
Shima Seiki Manufacturing, Ltd., Wakayama, JP;
Abstract
An improved knitting method for joining together a front body part and a back body part of knitwear at the shoulder parts. In the knitting method in which groups of stitches comprising a plurality of wales of the body located at a widthwise lateral end portion thereof on the side on which a course is formed are moved toward a center of the body by loop transfer and by racking, to form double stitches, the groups of stitches at the lateral end portion comprise at least four wales, the at least four wales being separated into three or more inside wales and at least one outside wale, and the narrowing process is performed by moving the inside wales one stitch and moving the outside wale two stitches.