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• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
  • D04B—KNITTING
  • D04B1/00—Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes
  • D04B1/22—Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration
  • D04B1/24—Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration wearing apparel
  • D04B1/246—Upper torso garments, e.g. sweaters, shirts, leotards
• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
  • D04B—KNITTING
  • D04B1/00—Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes
  • D04B1/10—Patterned fabrics or articles
  • D04B1/102—Patterned fabrics or articles with stitch pattern
  • D04B1/108—Gussets, e.g. pouches or heel or toe portions
• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D10—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
  • D10B—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
  • D10B2403/00—Details of fabric structure established in the fabric forming process
  • D10B2403/03—Shape features
  • D10B2403/033—Three dimensional fabric, e.g. forming or comprising cavities in or protrusions from the basic planar configuration, or deviations from the cylindrical shape as generally imposed by the fabric forming process
  • D10B2403/0331—Three dimensional fabric, e.g. forming or comprising cavities in or protrusions from the basic planar configuration, or deviations from the cylindrical shape as generally imposed by the fabric forming process with one or more convex or concave portions of limited extension, e.g. domes or pouches
• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D10—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
  • D10B—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
  • D10B2403/00—Details of fabric structure established in the fabric forming process
  • D10B2403/03—Shape features
  • D10B2403/033—Three dimensional fabric, e.g. forming or comprising cavities in or protrusions from the basic planar configuration, or deviations from the cylindrical shape as generally imposed by the fabric forming process
  • D10B2403/0333—Three dimensional fabric, e.g. forming or comprising cavities in or protrusions from the basic planar configuration, or deviations from the cylindrical shape as generally imposed by the fabric forming process with tubular portions of variable diameter or distinct axial orientation

Definitions

• Knitted article in particular bodysuit, and manufacturing method
• the present invention relates to a new knitting process.
• a knitted article such as a bodysuit, comprising a front panel and a back panel defining, in the lower part, leg passages and, in the upper part, suspenders, by means of a loom.
• knitting fabric comprising a front seam and a rear seam which can be knitted.
• Such a method has the disadvantage that the body obtained has relatively spaced meshes.
• the present invention relates to a new method of knitting an article such as a bodysuit, which is characterized by the fact that a knitting loom comprising, in a manner known per se, a carriage, a needle bed, is used to knit the article.
• the knitting loom comprising, in addition, a first auxiliary needle bed comprising platinets making it possible to cover the thread of one of the needle beds as the carriage moves, and a second auxiliary needle bed comprising jacks making it possible to receive stitches with a view to their transfer from one needle to another needle situated on the same needle bed, and also by the fact that one knitting all needles the article using such a loom, the first auxiliary needle bed being used to cover the yarn used to knit the lower part of the panel front during knitting of the lower part of the back panel, the second auxiliary needle bed being used to increase or decrease the width of the front and / or back panels during knitting.
• the invention improves the quality of the knitted article by giving it a fine and clean texture.
• needles are used which are capable of keeping two stitches on hold without assembling them and a finishing stitch is knitted at the base of the neckline of the front or the back, involving the following steps: a) on the needle bed opposite the one to knit the finishing stitch, one needle out of two is released by transferring the stitch it contains on the adjacent needle by means of the second auxiliary needle stitch, the stitches thus transferred do not not joining with those already present on the needles on which the transfer is made, b) knit, in garter stitch, a few rows of stitches in the area below the finishing stitch, and c) after knitting these a few rows, knit the finishing stitch.
• the rows knitted in garter stitch prevent the collar from rolling.
• Knitting the base of the neckline as described above provides a round neck, either on the front panel or on the back panel, depending on the style of the body, because the necklines of the panel front and back panel may have different dimensions.
• the front panel is knitted in arrow signs so as to mark the chest.
• decreases and increases are carried out by simultaneous transfer of several meshes, which makes it possible to obtain a bending effect.
• the front and back panels are assembled at the top of the straps by a chain facing inward.
• This chain is advantageously obtained by means of a process involving the transfer of a selvedge stitch from one needle bed to the opposite needle bed, after the two heads are touched.
• the front panel is vanized in the crotch region.
• the decreases are made at the armholes and the front neckline by implementing a displacement of the thread guides between the falls (displacement known as kick-back).
• the invention also relates to a body knitted by a method such as defined above.
• FIGS. 2 to 6 illustrate, very schematically, the structure of the needle beds and needles of the loom used to knit the body
• FIGS. 7 to 25 illustrate the manner in which the different parts of the body
• Figures 26 to 29 illustrate, schematically, different types of necks of the body.
• Figure 1 schematically a bodysuit with the various knitting steps performed.
• a knitting loom marketed by the company SHIMA SEIKI under the reference First 124S is used to knit the body.
• Such a knitting loom comprises a carriage, a front bed and a rectilinear rear bed, these beds comprising needles actuated by the passage of the carriage and capable of knitting, the knitting unit further comprising a first auxiliary bed comprising platinettes (called loop press) for covering the thread as the carriage moves and a second auxiliary needle bed for receiving stitches for transfer from one needle to another located on the same needle bed.
• a first auxiliary bed comprising platinettes (called loop press) for covering the thread as the carriage moves
• second auxiliary needle bed for receiving stitches for transfer from one needle to another located on the same needle bed.
• the second auxiliary needle bed comprises transfer jacks 4 making it possible to maintain a stitch M independently in order to carry it from one needle to another of the same needle bed.
• the jacks 4 are actuated by control means not shown, for the sake of clarity of the drawing.
• FIG. 4 shows a plate called loop presser 5, covering a wire F.
• the plates 5 are arranged to cover the wire F extending between the needles 3 as the carriage moves.
• the needles 3 used are so-called transfer holding needles.
• the latter comprise two parts 3a and 3b movable axially with respect to each other, the part 3 a comprising the hook 3 c of the needle 3.
• Part 3b comprises two elastically deformable blades. Part 3 a can be moved to a position in which the hook 3 c constitutes the end of the needle and a position in which the hook 3 c retracts between the two blades of part 3 b to allow the maintenance of a first Ml stitch pending.
• Part 3b has a 3d shoulder making it possible to maintain a second mesh M2 on standby as illustrated in FIG. 6, the meshes maintained respectively by parts 3a and 3b being kept without being assembled.
• the decreases are carried out in the upper part 14 of the body of the body by means of the transfer jacks 4, of a single needle or of several needles at the same time, in a manner analogous to that which is illustrated in FIGS. 9 and 10.
• the body 10 comprises a front neck 15 and a back neck 16 whose respective bases 17 and 18 are knitted horizontally, which makes it possible to obtain round necks.
• FIG. 14 illustrates the operation of transferring one stitch out of two of the front needle bed 1 and, in FIG. 15, the situation where one needle out of two of the front needle bed 1 is free, the other needles comprising two pending mesh, not assembled.
• the next step is to knit a few rows of stitches on the back panel in rough garter stitch, as shown in Figures 16 and 17.
• the increases in the neckline and the decreases in the armholes are carried out by means of the transfer jacks 4, by moving a stitch to at a time, as illustrated in FIG. 19, or several meshes, as illustrated in FIG. 20.
• the decreases in the armholes 19 are effected by means of the transfer jacks 4 of one needle at a time, as illustrated in FIG. 23, or of several needles at the same time, as illustrated in FIG. 24.
• This process involves knitting two needles and then transferring the selvedge stitch to the opposite needle bed.
• the invention is not limited to the embodiment which has just been described.

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