CN109778410B - Woven fabric with pocket and method for weaving woven fabric with pocket - Google Patents

Woven fabric with pocket and method for weaving woven fabric with pocket Download PDF

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CN109778410B
CN109778410B CN201811349294.3A CN201811349294A CN109778410B CN 109778410 B CN109778410 B CN 109778410B CN 201811349294 A CN201811349294 A CN 201811349294A CN 109778410 B CN109778410 B CN 109778410B
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The invention provides a woven fabric with a pocket having a better appearance than the conventional one and a weaving method thereof. A woven fabric (1) with a pocket is provided with: a base fabric portion (2); a pocket woven fabric portion (3) which has a bag-shaped one-side pocket portion (3F) and another-side pocket portion (3B) and is connected to the middle of the base woven fabric portion (2) in the course direction; and an opening edge portion (4) of the pocket knitted fabric portion (3) formed by a boundary (23) of the one-side pocket portion (3F) and the base knitted fabric portion (2). In the knitted fabric with pocket (1), at least a part of the opening edge portion (4) is located at a position shifted in both the wale direction and the course direction of the base knitted fabric portion (2) with respect to the starting end (4B) of the opening edge portion (4), and the other side pocket portion (3B) and the base knitted fabric portion (2) are continuously knitted without a seam in the course direction.

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Woven fabric with pocket and method for weaving woven fabric with pocket
Technical Field
The present invention relates to a knitted fabric with a pocket in which a pocket knitted fabric portion constituting a pocket is formed in a base knitted fabric portion, and a knitting method thereof.
Background
Knitting of a pocket knitted fabric portion formed in a bag shape on a base knitted fabric portion such as a knitted sweater, a sweater, and pants is continuously performed. For example, patent document 1 discloses the following technique: the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion are knitted independently, and the course direction end portion of the base knitted fabric portion and the course direction end portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion are joined by intarsia knitting. In patent document 1, the opening edge portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion is inclined by joining the pocket knitted fabric portion to the base knitted fabric portion while shifting the one side base portion and the other side base portion of the base knitted fabric portion in the course direction.
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Patent document 1: japanese patent No. 5959555
In the knitting method of patent document 1, since the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion are joined by the intarsia knitting, the directions of stitches of both knitted fabric portions are different, and the joining boundary of both knitted fabric portions is conspicuous. Further, the strength of the joining boundary tends to be lower than that of the other portions, and depending on the type of knitting yarn used for knitting, the knitting yarn may be easily broken at the joining boundary. Further, in patent document 1, since the pocket knitted fabric portion is joined while the one base portion and the other base portion are shifted in the course direction, there is also a problem that the pocket knitted fabric portion cannot be joined to the tubular base knitted fabric portion having no opening portion.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above circumstances, an object of the present invention is to provide a knitted fabric with a pocket having a better appearance than the conventional one and a knitting method thereof.
The woven fabric with a pocket of the present invention comprises:
a base braid portion;
a pocket knitted fabric portion having one side pocket portion and the other side pocket portion connected in a bag shape, and connected to a middle portion of the base knitted fabric portion in a course direction; and
an opening edge portion of the pocket braid portion formed by a boundary of the one-side pocket portion and the base braid portion,
at least a part of the opening edge portion is located at a position shifted in both the wale direction and the course direction of the base knitted fabric portion with respect to a start end of the opening edge portion,
the other side pocket portion and the base fabric portion are continuously knitted without a seam in the course direction.
The knitting method of the knitted fabric with the pocket of the invention is as follows: a method of knitting a knitted fabric with a pocket, the knitted fabric being knitted by using a flat knitting machine having a one-side needle bed and a other-side needle bed which face each other, the base knitted fabric portion having a one-side base portion and a other-side base portion, the pocket knitted fabric portion having a one-side pocket portion and a other-side pocket portion which are connected in a bag-like manner, the method comprising:
a step a of knitting the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion independently up to a joining position of the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion using the one needle bed and the other needle bed;
a step B of joining the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion at the joining position to form a starting end of an opening edge portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion; and
a step C of knitting the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion while joining them together,
in the above-mentioned step C, the step C,
knitting the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion while continuously knitting the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion in a course direction by repeating integral knitting,
in the middle of the repetition of the integral knitting, boundary knitting is performed as follows: moving either one of the one-side pocket portion and the one-side base portion toward the other side to join the end portion coil of the one-side pocket portion on the joining side with the end portion coil of the one-side base portion on the joining side.
As one mode of the knitting method of the knitted fabric with a pocket of the present invention, the following mode can be exemplified:
in the step A, the one side base part and the other side base part are continuously knitted on one end side and the other end side in the course direction,
in the step C, the end portion stitch on the opposite side to the joining side of the other side pocket portion is moved outward in the course direction of the one side pocket portion (japanese patent No. し Write み), or the end portion stitch on the opposite side to the joining side of the other side base portion is moved outward in the course direction of the one side base portion.
As one mode of the knitting method of the knitted fabric with a pocket of the present invention, the following mode can be exemplified:
in the step a, the pocket knitted fabric portion is knitted on each of one end side and the other end side in the course direction of the base knitted fabric portion,
in the above-mentioned step C, the step C,
the boundary knitting is performed by moving the entire one-side pocket portion in the direction of the one-side base portion to join the end portion stitch on the joining side of the one-side pocket portion and the end portion stitch on the joining side of the one-side base portion,
as the wraparound, the end portion stitch on the opposite side of the joining side of the other side pocket portion is moved outward in the course direction of the stitch in the one side pocket portion.
As one mode of the knitting method of the knitted fabric with a pocket of the present invention, the following mode can be exemplified:
at least a part of the boundary knitting is narrowing knitting (japanese patent No. らし) in which the end stitches of the one-side pocket portion and the stitches of the one-side base portion overlap each other. Narrowing knitting is a known knitting technique (e.g., japanese patent application laid-open No. 2005-113329).
As one mode of the knitting method of the knitted fabric with a pocket of the present invention, the following mode can be exemplified:
at least a part of the boundaries are woven as a bind off process (hereinafter, a volt process) for joining the one base portion and the one pocket portion. The bind-off process is a known knitting technique (e.g., japanese patent application laid-open No. 2015-10284), and here, the knitting is as follows: the stitches of the one side base portion and the stitches of the one side pocket portion are joined and closed by stitch transfer and stitch knitting without increasing the one side base portion and the one side pocket portion in the wale direction.
As one mode of the knitting method of the knitted fabric with a pocket of the present invention, the following mode can be exemplified:
the integral knitting is continuously performed in at least a part of the step C.
As one mode of the knitting method of the knitted fabric with a pocket of the present invention, the following mode can be exemplified:
in the step C, a first coil row constituting an end portion in the wale direction of the one side pocket portion and a second coil row constituting an end portion in the wale direction of the other side pocket portion are not joined to the base knitted fabric portion and are left in advance,
joining at least a portion of the first coil array with at least a portion of the second coil array by a ring pressing process.
As one mode of the knitting method of the knitted fabric with a pocket of the present invention, the following mode can be exemplified:
in the step C, a first coil row constituting an end portion in the wale direction of the one side pocket portion and a second coil row constituting an end portion in the wale direction of the other side pocket portion are not joined to the base knitted fabric portion and are left in advance,
folding the one-side pocket portion inward of the one-side base portion at a boundary between the one-side base portion and the one-side pocket portion to sequentially join the loops of the first coil row to overlap the loops of the one-side base portion,
the other side pocket portion is folded in a direction opposite to the folding direction of the one side pocket portion at a boundary between the one side pocket portion and the other side pocket portion, and the coils of the second coil row are sequentially overlapped and joined with the coils of the one side base portion.
The "joining the coil of the second coil row and the coil of the one base portion so as to overlap" includes "joining the coil of the second coil row and the coil of the first coil row and the overlapping coil of the one base portion so as to overlap".
In the knitted fabric with a pocket of the present invention, the opening edge portion of the knitted fabric with a pocket has high design properties, and can meet various demands. For example, a knitted fabric with a pocket may be mentioned, in which the opening edge of the knitted fabric portion of the pocket is inclined, L-shaped, or arc-shaped. Further, since there is no seam between the other side pocket portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion and the base knitted fabric portion, the appearance is good.
According to the knitting method of the knitted fabric with a pocket of the present invention, the pocket knitted fabric portion and the base knitted fabric portion can be integrally knitted without sewing. Further, by forming the boundary between the one-side pocket portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion and the one-side base portion of the base knitted fabric portion by boundary knitting, the shape of the opening edge portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion formed by the boundary can be freely changed. For example, the opening edge of the pocket knitted fabric portion may be inclined, L-shaped, or arc-shaped. In addition, according to the knitting method of the knitted fabric with a pocket of the present invention, since no seam is formed between the other side pocket portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion and the base knitted fabric portion, the appearance of the knitted fabric with a pocket is also made good in this point.
In the step a, if the one base portion is connected to the other base portion on the one end side and the other end side in the course direction, a difference occurs in the number of stitches in the course direction between the one needle bed and the other needle bed when boundary knitting is performed to join the one base portion and the one pocket portion in the step C. By winding the end loops of the other side pocket portion or the other side base portion, the difference in the number of loops can be eliminated, and yarn breakage can be prevented.
In step a, one pocket knitted fabric portion is formed at each of both end portions in the course direction of the base knitted fabric portion, and in step C, the two pocket knitted fabric portions are joined to the base knitted fabric portion, whereby a knitted fabric with pockets having left and right pocket knitted fabric portions can be knitted. In addition, the boundary knitting can be performed efficiently by winding the end portion loop of the other side pocket portion.
By joining the one base portion and the one pocket portion by the narrowing knitting, an inclined portion intersecting both the course direction and the wale direction of the base knitted fabric portion can be formed at the opening edge portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion.
By joining the one base portion and the one pocket portion by the bind-off process, a horizontal portion parallel to the course direction of the base knitted fabric portion can be formed at the opening edge portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion.
In the step C, by continuously integrally knitting, a vertical portion parallel to the wale direction of the base knitted fabric portion can be formed at the opening edge portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion.
By performing the bind off treatment on at least a part of the terminal end portion in the wale direction of the pocket knitted fabric portion which remains without being joined to the base knitted fabric portion, the depth in the course direction of the pocket knitted fabric portion can be expanded at the terminal end portion of the opening edge portion. Therefore, when a hand is put in the pocket, it is possible to make it difficult for the finger to catch on the upper end portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion.
The one-side pocket portion and the other-side pocket portion are folded so that the boundary thereof is disposed inside the one-side base portion and joined to the one-side base portion, whereby the terminal end portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion is firmly fixed to the one-side base portion. Therefore, even when an article or a hand is put into the pocket, the pocket knitted fabric portion and the base knitted fabric portion are difficult to lose their shape.
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Fig. 1(a) is a schematic view of pants (knitted fabric with pocket) according to the embodiment, and fig. 1(B) is a sectional view taken along line B-B of (a).
Fig. 2 is a schematic view showing a state immediately after knitting of the knitted fabric with a pocket of fig. 1 (a).
Fig. 3 is a diagram showing a photograph of the vicinity of a pocket of a knitted fabric with a pocket.
Fig. 4(a) to (C) are schematic diagrams illustrating knitting steps of a knitting method of a knitted fabric with a pocket.
Fig. 5(a) to (C) are explanatory views explaining a processing method of the end portion in the wale direction of the pocket knitted fabric portion.
Fig. 6(a) to (D) are schematic views of knitted fabrics with pockets having openings of different shapes.
Fig. 7(a) to (C) are explanatory views explaining a processing method of the end portion in the wale direction of the pocket knitted fabric portion in embodiment 2.
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1 knitted fabric with pocket (trousers) 2 base knitted fabric part 23 boundary 2F side base part 2B and other side base part 210, 220 joining subject coil 3 pocket knitted fabric part 3F side pocket part 3B and other side pocket part 3E end part 3S start end part 31 first coil row 32 second coil row 310, 320 end part coil 4 opening end part 4B start end 4t end
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< embodiment 1>
In embodiment 1, pants 1 shown in fig. 1 and 2 will be described as an example of the knitted fabric with a pocket of the present invention. Of course, the knitted fabric with pockets of the present invention is not limited to the pants 1, and may be other knitted fabrics such as a sweater and a sweater. The knitted fabric with a pocket of the present invention may be an industrial material such as a seat cover of an automobile.
The pants 1 shown in fig. 1 include a tubular base knitted fabric portion 2 and a bag-like pocket knitted fabric portion 3 connected to the base knitted fabric portion 2 in a state of being arranged inside the base knitted fabric portion 2. The base knitted fabric portion 2 is formed by connecting a front body panel (one side base portion 2F) covering the front of the wearer and a back body panel (the other side base portion 2B) covering the back of the wearer in a tubular shape. In the base knitted fabric part 2 of this example, the open part for separating the base knitted fabric part 2 from the left and right is not formed, but the base knitted fabric part 2 may be a tubular base knitted fabric part having an open part such as a body of a woolen sweater. The left-right direction arrows in fig. 1 and 2 show the course direction of the base knitted fabric portion 2, and the upward arrows show the wale direction of the base knitted fabric portion 2.
As shown in fig. 1(B), the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is formed by connecting one side pocket portion 3F and the other side pocket portion 3B in a bag shape, and is opened at the one side base portion 2F. The edge portion other than the opening of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is entirely closed, specifically, the portion indicated by the broken line in fig. 1(a) is entirely closed. As shown in fig. 2, the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is knitted with a portion that becomes a bottom portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 as a leading end portion 3S, and is closed at an upper terminal end portion 3E. As shown in fig. 2, a boundary 23 formed by a narrowing stitch or the like is formed between the one-side pocket portion 3F of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 and the one-side base portion 2F of the base knitted fabric portion 2. As shown in fig. 1, the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is folded into the base knitted fabric portion 2 with the boundary 23 as a fold, and the boundary 23 forms the opening edge portion 4 of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3. On the other hand, the other side pocket portion 3B of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 and the base knitted fabric portion 2 are continuously knitted without a seam in the course direction. Therefore, as shown in the photograph of fig. 3, the appearance of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 in the vicinity of the opening is very excellent.
The opening edge portion 4 of this example has an inclined shape (a shape formed only by an inclined portion) that is inclined toward the center side of the base knitted fabric portion 2 from the start end 4b toward the end 4t thereof. That is, at least the portion other than the starting end 4b is located at a position shifted from the starting end 4b in both the wale direction and the course direction of the base knitted fabric portion 2. Here, the opening edge portion 4 may be made conspicuous by forming a different texture pattern in a portion of the one-side base portion 2F close to the opening edge portion 4 (an elongated mesa region along the opening edge portion 4) from that in other portions.
In the pants 1 of this example, the direction of the stitches of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is the same as the direction of the wale direction shown by the arrow in fig. 1. That is, the orientation of the stitches of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 coincides with the orientation of the stitches of the base knitted fabric portion 2. Therefore, as shown in the photograph of fig. 3, the appearance of the pants 1 is very excellent. The reason why the directions of stitches of both knitted fabric portions 2 and 3 are made to coincide is to knit the pants 1 of this example by a knitting method of a knitted fabric with a pocket to be described later.
A specific knitting method of the pants 1 described above will be described with reference to fig. 4 and 5. The flat knitting machine used for knitting the pants 1 can be a two-bed flat knitting machine or a four-bed flat knitting machine having one needle bed and the other needle bed extending in the left-right direction and facing each other in the front-rear direction. In these flat knitting machines, one needle bed and the other needle bed can be relatively moved laterally, and stitches can be transferred between the one needle bed and the other needle bed.
As shown in fig. 4(a), the base knitted fabric portion 2 and the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 are independently knitted up to the joining position of the base knitted fabric portion 2 and the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 (step a). In this example, the one base portion 2F of the base knitted fabric portion 2 is knitted with one needle bed (hereinafter referred to as FB), and the other base portion 2B is knitted with the other needle bed (hereinafter referred to as BB). One side pocket portion 3F of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is knitted by FB, and the other side pocket portion 3B is knitted by BB. Since the knitted fabric portions 2 and 3 are independent, the order of knitting can be changed.
Next, as shown by the arrow in fig. 4 a, the base knitted fabric portion 2 and the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 are joined at the joining position, and the start end 4B of the opening edge portion 4 of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is formed (fig. 1 a) (step B). The method of joining the knitted fabric portions 2 and 3 is not particularly limited.
After joining the knitted fabric portions 2 and 3, the knitted fabric portions 2 and 3 are connected while knitting the knitted fabric portions 2 and 3 as shown in fig. 4(B) and (C) (step C). Specifically, as shown in fig. 4(B), boundary knitting is performed as follows: the entire one pocket portion 3F is moved in the direction of the one base portion 2F, and the end stitches on the joining side (close to the base knitted fabric portion 2) of the one pocket portion 3F are joined to the stitches of the one base portion 2F. In this example, as the boundary knitting, the following narrowing knitting is performed: the stitches in the course direction of the one side pocket portion 3F are reduced by overlapping the end stitch on the joining side of the one side pocket portion 3F with the end stitch on the joining side of the one side base portion 2F.
In fig. 4(B), the end portion loop of the other side pocket portion 3B opposite to the joining side is moved outward in the loop row direction of the one side pocket portion 3F. The winding is performed to substantially match the number of coils held in the coil row direction of the FB and the BB. Examples thereof include: the number of the coils of the one side pocket portion 3F is reduced by two, and the number of the coils of the other side pocket portion 3B is one.
Preferably, the coil wound around the other pocket portion 3B of the one pocket portion 3F is a twisted coil. When the twisted coil, which is a previously twisted coil, is transferred to the opposing needle bed, the twisted coil is released, and therefore the appearance of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is improved. Braiding of a twisted coil is a known braiding technique (see, for example, japanese patent laid-open No. 5-9851).
In fig. 4(C), the base knitted fabric portion 2 and the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 are knitted integrally continuously in the course direction. When the boundary knitting is performed during the integral knitting, both the knitted fabric portions 2 and 3 are molded in a state where the boundary 23 is formed between the one base portion 2F and the one pocket portion 3F. At this time, the other side pocket portion 3B of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 and the base knitted fabric portion 2 are continuous without a seam in the course direction.
Here, the integrated knitting in fig. 4(C) may be a circular knitting in which the yarn is circularly wound in one direction, or may be a C-shaped knitting having a folded end. If the coil of the left and right pocket portions 3B wound in fig. 4(B) is a twisted coil, it is necessary to integrally knit the trousers in a C-shape in order to improve the finish of the trousers 1. In this example, a C-shaped integrated knitting is performed with the center (see the alternate long and short dash line) of the one base portion 2F as a folded end.
The number of times of performing the boundary knitting of fig. 4(B) and the integrated knitting of fig. 4(C) can be changed as needed. The knitting performed immediately after the end of fig. 4(a) may be the integral knitting of fig. 4 (C). In addition, after the narrowing knitting of fig. 4(B) is performed only, the integrated knitting of fig. 4(C) may be performed, and then the narrowing knitting and the wraparound of fig. 4(B) may be performed.
By alternately repeating the knitting of fig. 4(B) and the knitting of fig. 4(C), the boundary 23 between the one base portion 2F and the one pocket portion 3F is formed obliquely on the one base portion 2F. The narrowing stitch in which the end stitch on the joining side of the one pocket portion 3F and the stitch on the one base portion 2F are overlapped is arranged at the boundary 23.
Next, the processing of the end portion in the wale direction of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 will be described with reference to a pattern in which the respective portions of the pants 1 are spread out in a planar manner as shown in fig. 5. In fig. 5, only a part of the left side (right side in the paper) of the pants 1 is illustrated.
Fig. 5(a) shows a state after the knitting of the boundary 23 between the one base portion 2F and the one pocket portion 3F is completed. In the pattern, the one-side base portion 2F of the boundary 23 is separated from the one-side pocket portion 3F, and is actually continuous. In fig. 5(a), the end portion 3E in the wale direction of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is in a state of being unconnected anywhere. The terminal portion 3E is divided into a first coil array 31 and a second coil array 32, the first coil array 31 constituting a terminal portion in the wale direction of the one side pocket portion 3F, and the second coil array 32 constituting a terminal portion in the wale direction of the other side pocket portion 3B.
In fig. 5B, a part of the first coil row 31 and a part of the second coil row 32 are joined by a caulking process at the boundary side of the first coil row 31 of the one pocket portion 3F and the second coil row 32 of the other pocket portion 3B (see a hatched portion). By joining the first coil row 31 and the second coil row 32, which are the terminal end portions of the pocket portions 3F and 3B, by the bind-off process, as shown in fig. 1, the space of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is formed in parallel from the terminal end 4t of the opening edge portion 4 toward the center of the pants 1, and when a hand is put into the pocket knitted fabric portion 3, it is difficult for fingers to catch on the pocket knitted fabric portion 3.
In fig. 5(C), the portion of the terminal end portion 3E which is not subjected to the crimping process in fig. 5(B) is folded, and the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is joined to the one base portion 2F. The black portion in fig. 5(C) shows a portion subjected to the ring pressing process in fig. 5 (B). The circled portion on the right side of fig. 5(C) shows the state of each portion of the triple portion. As indicated by the circles, the one-side pocket portion 3F is superimposed on the back surface side of the one-side base portion 2F, and the other-side pocket portion 3B is superimposed on the back surface side of the one-side pocket portion 3F. That is, the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is folded inside the one base bottom portion 2F and joined to the one base bottom portion 2F together with the folded portion. Thus, at the terminal end 4t (fig. 1) of the opening edge portion 4, a fold having an S-shaped cross section is formed by the one-side base portion 2F and the folded pocket knitted fabric portion 3. By forming the pleats in the terminal 4t, the strength of the terminal 4t can be increased. The terminal end 4t of the opening edge portion 4 is a portion to which a large load is applied when a hand or an article is inserted into the pocket knitted fabric portion 3. By increasing the strength of the terminal 4t by the pleats, the breakage of the terminal 4t can be suppressed, and the deformation of the base knitted fabric portion 2 when a hand or an article is put into the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 can be suppressed.
After the joining of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 to the base knitted fabric portion 2 is completed, the remaining portion of the base knitted fabric portion 2 is knitted, and the pants 1 are completed. As shown in fig. 2, since the pants 1 just after knitting by the flat knitting machine are in a state in which the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is exposed to the outside of the base knitted fabric portion 2, the pants 1 of fig. 1 can be completed by folding the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 into the base knitted fabric portion 2.
< modification example >
By applying the knitting method of the knitted fabric with a pocket shown in embodiment 1, the knitted fabric with a pocket 1 having the opening edge portion 4 of various shapes can be knitted. For example, the shape of the opening edge portion 4 may be an L-shape in which the horizontal portion and the vertical portion shown in fig. 6(a) are connected in an L-shape, or may be a shape in which the horizontal portion and the vertical portion shown in fig. 6(B) are connected by an inclined portion. Alternatively, the opening edge portion 4 may have an arc shape as shown in fig. 6 (C).
In order to knit the horizontal portion of fig. 6(a) and (B), the integral knitting is stopped, and the bind-off process of joining the one base portion 2F and the one pocket portion 3F is continuously performed. In this case, the coil wound around the other side pocket portion 3B is required. In order to knit the vertical portion in fig. 6(a) and (B), the integral knitting shown in fig. 4(C) may be continuously performed without increasing or decreasing the course direction of the base knitted fabric portion 2. Further, by increasing the knitting width of the one side base portion 2F of the base knitted fabric portion 2 in the middle of the integral knitting of the base knitted fabric portion 2 and the pocket knitted fabric portion 3, as shown in fig. 6(C), the open edge portion 4 can be formed which is curved outward in the course direction of the base knitted fabric portion 2 toward the terminal end portion 3E side.
The shape of the opening edge 4 of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is not limited to the examples of fig. 6(a) to (C). The shape of the opening edge portion 4 can be infinitely changed by, for example, combining the inclined portion, the horizontal portion, and the vertical portion, or forming a gentle inclination at the edge portion on the joining side of the one base portion 2F by stitch back knitting (japanese patent: see き back し).
The shape of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is not particularly limited. As shown in fig. 6(D), the side end of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 on the inner side may be formed in a shape inclined inwardly toward the bottom of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3. When a hand or an article is inserted into the pocket knitted fabric portion 3, the hand or the article is not easily caught by the pocket knitted fabric portion 3, and the hand or the article is easily inserted into the pocket knitted fabric portion 3. Such a pocket knitted fabric portion 3 can be formed by reducing the knitting width of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 in the vicinity of the end portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 on the opposite side of the joining side to the base knitted fabric portion 2.
< embodiment 2>
In embodiment 2, an example in which all of the end portions 3E in the wale direction of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 are joined to the base knitted fabric portion 2 will be described with reference to fig. 7. The observation mode of fig. 7 is substantially the same as that of fig. 5. In fig. 7, the positions of FB and BB are indicated by two-dot chain lines to clarify the needle beds of the respective parts of the locking pants 1. In addition, the black circles of fig. 7 represent coils.
The knitting shown in fig. 7 is started from a state where the knitting of the boundary 23 between the one base portion 2F and the one pocket portion 3F is completed (the state of fig. 5 a). In fig. 7(a), the one side pocket portion 3F is locked to FB and the other side pocket portion 3B is locked to BB. As already described with reference to fig. 4, when the one base portion 2F is joined to the one pocket portion 3F, a part of the other pocket portion 3B is wound around to the side of the one pocket portion 3F (FB side) (see fig. 4C). Therefore, in fig. 7(a) of embodiment 2, the portion of the other side pocket portion 3B locked to the FB side is turned around to the BB side as indicated by the circular arrow, and returns to a state where the entire other side pocket portion 3B faces the one side pocket portion 3F.
In fig. 7 a, the one-side pocket portion 3F and the other-side pocket portion 3B are set in a needle-drawing state in which empty needles are provided between adjacent stitches (see the positions indicated by the blank arrows). The number of empty needles between adjacent stitches may be one, or two or more. In order to set the one side pocket portion 3F (the other side pocket portion 3B) in the empty state, for example, adjacent stitches of the one side pocket portion 3F (the other side pocket portion 3B) may be overlapped with each other.
In fig. 7(B), the one-side pocket portion 3F is folded inside the one-side base portion 2F at the boundary 23 between the one-side base portion 2F and the one-side pocket portion 3F, and the coils of the first coil array 31 are sequentially overlapped with the coils of the one-side base portion 2F. Specifically, the operation of overlapping the end portion coil 310 of the first coil row 31 close to the one base portion 2F with the joining target coil 210 of the one base portion 2F positioned in the vicinity of the end portion coil 310 is repeated. When this repetition is performed, the position of the overlapped stitch is gradually shifted inward in the knitting width direction of the one base portion 2F. In this example, first, the first stitch row 31 is moved to the empty needle located within the knitting width of the second stitch row 32. Then, BB is moved laterally in the left direction, and the end portion coil 310 is transferred to the joining target coil 210 positioned at the end portion of the one side base portion 2F close to the one side pocket portion 3F. As a result, a superimposed coil is formed in which the end coil 310 and the joining target coil 210 are superimposed. Next, the right-side adjacent coil of the end coil 310 in the drawing is set as a new end coil 310, and the two left-side adjacent coils of the joining-object coils 210 are set as new joining-object coils 210, and overlapped coils are formed by traversing and transferring the end coils 310. The redefinition of these end coils 310 and the joining target coil 210 and the formation of the overlapping coils are performed until the coils of the first coil array 31 disappear.
Here, when the limit of the lateral shift amount of the BB is exceeded, all the coils engaged with the BB are temporarily placed in the FB, and the BB shifted to the left side of the plane of the drawing with respect to the FB is moved to the right side, so that the shift amount of the FB and BB can be reduced. This allows the formation of the overlapped stitch by the lateral movement of BB and the transfer of the end stitch 310 to be continued.
In fig. 7(C), the other side pocket portion 3B is folded in a direction opposite to the folding direction of the one side pocket portion 3F at the boundary between the one side pocket portion 3F and the other side pocket portion 3B, and the loops of the second loop array 32 are sequentially overlapped with the loops of the one side base portion 2F. Specifically, the operation of overlapping the end coil 320 of the second coil array 32 close to the first coil array 31 with the joining target coil 220 of the one base portion 2F positioned in the vicinity of the end coil 320 is repeated. When this repetition is performed, the position of the overlapped stitch is gradually shifted outward in the knitting width direction of the one base portion 2F. When the end coil 320 is overlapped with the coil of the one-side base portion 2F, the coil adjacent to the left side of the end coil 320 in the drawing becomes a new end coil 320. Here, the joining target coil 220 of the one base portion 2F of the overlapping end coil 320 may be the overlapping coil (the overlapping coil includes the coil of the one base portion 2F) formed in fig. 7B, or may be a coil adjacent to the overlapping coil. In this example, a coil adjacent to the overlapping coil is set as the joining target coil 220. In contrast to this example, when the superposed coil is a joining target coil, a triple superposed coil is formed. The operation of overlapping the end coil 320 and the joining target coil 220 is repeated until the coils of the second coil row 32 disappear. As a result, as shown by the circled portion in fig. 7(C), the one-side pocket portion 3F is superimposed on the back surface side of the one-side base portion 2F, and the other-side pocket portion 3B is superimposed on the back surface side of the one-side pocket portion 3F, whereby the one-side base portion 2F and the folded pocket knitted fabric portion 3 form pleats having an S-shaped cross section.
After the process of fig. 7(C) is completed, all the stitches including the overlapped stitches and locked to FB and BB are knitted in a tubular shape, and the remaining part of the base knitted fabric portion 2 is knitted, thereby completing the pants 1. As a result, the terminal end portion 3E of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 is joined to the one base portion 2F in a state where the one side pocket portion 3F and the other side pocket portion 3B are folded such that the boundary between the one side pocket portion 3F and the other side pocket portion 3B is disposed inside the one base portion 2F. By joining the entire terminal end portion 3E of the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 to the one side base portion 2F, a load when a hand or an article is put into the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 can be dispersed to the entire terminal end portion 3E. Therefore, the pocket knitted fabric portion 3 can be suppressed from being out of shape.
In the case of the four-bed flat knitting machine in the knitting of embodiment 2, the base knitted fabric portion 2 can be knitted in the full needle state (the state where no empty needle exists between adjacent stitches). In the case of the double needle bed flat knitting machine, the base knitted fabric portion 2 can be knitted in a 1 × 1 pull-out state (a state in which one empty needle is arranged between adjacent stitches).
< embodiment 3>
In the case where the pocket knitted fabric portion is connected to the base knitted fabric portion which is not connected to one side in the course direction of the one side base portion and the other side base portion, the wraparound can be omitted. For example, when the pocket knitted fabric portion is joined to the one end side with respect to the base knitted fabric portion in which the one end side in the course direction of the one side base portion and the other end side are continuous and the other end side is not continuous, the one side base portion is moved toward the one side pocket portion to join the one side base portion and the one side pocket portion. Even if the one base portion is moved toward the one pocket portion at the one end side by the transfer and the traverse, the one base portion and the other base portion are not connected to each other at the other end side, and therefore, the problem of yarn breakage does not occur at the other end side, and the yarn winding is not necessary.

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1. A woven fabric with a pocket, wherein the woven fabric with a pocket comprises:
a tubular base knitted fabric portion having one base portion as a front side and the other base portion as a rear side;
a pocket knitted fabric portion having one side pocket portion as a front side and the other side pocket portion as a rear side connected in a bag shape, and connected to a midway in a course direction of the base knitted fabric portion; and
an opening edge portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion formed by a boundary between the one-side pocket portion as the front side and the one-side base portion as the rear side,
the direction of the stitches of the base knitted fabric portion and the direction of the stitches of the pocket knitted fabric portion are aligned, and at least a part of the opening edge portion is located at a position shifted from the start end of the opening edge portion in both the wale direction and the course direction of the base portion,
the other side pocket portion as the rear side and the other side base portion as the rear side are continuously knitted without a seam in the course direction,
the pocket braid portion is formed to be foldable into the inside of the base braid.
2. A knitting method of a knitted fabric with a pocket, in which a knitting method of the knitted fabric with a pocket connects a pocket knitted fabric portion with a tubular base knitted fabric portion using a flat knitting machine having one needle bed and the other needle bed facing each other, the tubular base knitted fabric portion having one base portion as a front side and the other base portion as a rear side, the pocket knitted fabric portion having one pocket portion as a front side and the other pocket portion as a rear side connected in a bag-like manner, the knitting method comprising:
a step a of knitting the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion independently up to a joining position of the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion using the one needle bed and the other needle bed;
a step B of joining the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion at the joining position to form a starting end of an opening edge portion of the pocket knitted fabric portion; and
a step C of knitting the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion while joining them together,
in the above-mentioned step C, the step C,
knitting the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion while continuously knitting the base knitted fabric portion and the pocket knitted fabric portion in a course direction by repeating integral knitting,
in the middle of the repetition of the integral knitting, boundary knitting is performed as follows: moving either one of the front side pocket portion and the front side base portion toward the other side, joining a joining side end stitch of the front side pocket portion and a joining side end stitch of the front side base portion, and continuously knitting the rear side pocket portion and the rear side base knitted fabric portion in a course direction without a seam,
the pocket braid portion is formed to be foldable into the inside of the base braid.
3. The knitting method of a knitted fabric with a pocket according to claim 2, wherein,
in the step A, the one side base part and the other side base part are continuously knitted on one end side and the other end side in the course direction,
in the step C, the end portion stitch on the opposite side to the joining side of the other side pocket portion is moved outward in the course direction of the one side pocket portion, or the end portion stitch on the opposite side to the joining side of the other side base portion is moved outward in the course direction of the one side base portion.
4. The knitting method of a knitted fabric with a pocket according to claim 3, wherein,
in the step a, the pocket knitted fabric portion is knitted on each of one end side and the other end side in the course direction of the base knitted fabric portion,
in the above-mentioned step C, the step C,
the boundary knitting is performed by moving the entire one-side pocket portion in the direction of the one-side base portion to join the end portion stitch on the joining side of the one-side pocket portion and the end portion stitch on the joining side of the one-side base portion,
as the wraparound, the end portion stitch on the opposite side of the joining side of the other side pocket portion is moved outward in the course direction of the stitch in the one side pocket portion.
5. The knitting method of a knitted fabric with a pocket according to any one of claims 2 to 4,
at least a part of the boundary is knitted by a narrowing knitting in which the end portion stitch of the one-side pocket portion and the stitch of the one-side base portion are overlapped.
6. The knitting method of a knitted fabric with a pocket according to any one of claims 2 to 4,
at least a portion of the border is woven as a tuck treatment joining the one-side base portion to the one-side pocket portion.
7. The knitting method of a knitted fabric with a pocket according to claim 5, wherein the integral knitting is continuously performed in at least a part of the step C.
8. The knitting method of a knitted fabric with a pocket according to claim 2 or 7, wherein,
in the step C, a first coil row constituting an end portion in the wale direction of the one side pocket portion and a second coil row constituting an end portion in the wale direction of the other side pocket portion are not joined to the base knitted fabric portion and are left in advance,
joining at least a portion of the first coil array with at least a portion of the second coil array by a ring pressing process.
9. The knitting method of a knitted fabric with a pocket according to claim 2 or 7, wherein,
in the step C, a first coil row constituting an end portion in the wale direction of the one side pocket portion and a second coil row constituting an end portion in the wale direction of the other side pocket portion are not joined to the base knitted fabric portion and are left in advance,
folding the one-side pocket portion inward of the one-side base portion at a boundary between the one-side base portion and the one-side pocket portion to sequentially join the loops of the first coil row to overlap the loops of the one-side base portion,
the other side pocket portion is folded in a direction opposite to the folding direction of the one side pocket portion at a boundary between the one side pocket portion and the other side pocket portion, and the coils of the second coil row are sequentially overlapped and joined with the coils of the one side base portion.
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