Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A41—WEARING APPAREL
  • A41H—APPLIANCES OR METHODS FOR MAKING CLOTHES, e.g. FOR DRESS-MAKING OR FOR TAILORING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A41H43/00—Other methods, machines or appliances
• • 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
  • D04B1/243—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 upper parts of panties; pants
• • 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
  • D10B2501/00—Wearing apparel
  • D10B2501/02—Underwear
  • D10B2501/021—Hosiery; Panti-hose

Definitions

• "seamless” technology includes knitting a cylindrical tube using circular knitting machines. This cylindrical tube is then used as a base for making various textile articles, such as skirts, trousers, jerseys, sleeves, muffs, legs and others.
• two cylindrical tubes are used in order to make a jersey (with sleeves), one of which, after appropriate cuts and seams in the upper portion, will constitute the trunk of the jersey, and the other one, appropriately cut and stitched again, will define the sleeves which will then be joined to the trunk.
• trousers long, short or half-leg
• a single cylindrical tube which is suitably cut in its lower part and then stitched together so as to have an upper bodice from which two lower legs are derived.
• One object of the present invention is to meet these needs of the prior art and other needs which will become apparent in the following, within the framework of a simple, rational and low-cost solution.
• the invention particularly makes available a method for making at least one textile article which comprises:
• the generatrices can be diametrically opposed.
• the step of forming the fabric tube can comprise:
• the step of knitting the conical section can begin by knitting the courses having the minimum number of stitches.
• a number of needles equal to half of the total number of needles of the circular machine may be used, wherein the used needles are interspersed with the unused needles, and when knitting the courses having the maximum number of stitches a number of needles equal to the total number of needles of the circular machine may be used.
• the textile article may be a pair of trousers and comprise a bodice formed by the cylindrical section of the fabric tube and a pair of legs, wherein each leg is formed by a respective conical fabric tube formed/obtained from the conical section of the fabric tube.
• the (finished) textile article is globally indicated by the reference number 10 and is illustrated in Figures 4A and 4B .
• the manufacturing method is based on the use of a circular knitting textile machine with "seamless" technology.
• the textile machine comprises at least one supporting structure, a cylinder rotatably mounted in the supporting structure, and a plurality of needles supported by the cylinder and movable parallel to an axis of rotation of the cylinder to produce a knitted fabric in the form of a "seamless" fabric tube 5, better described below.
• the term "circular knitting textile machine” means a circular textile machine suitable for the production of seamless knitted textile articles having at least one drop.
• the circular textile machine also comprises one or more devices for feeding a yarn, for example an elastic or stretch yarn (e.g. Lycra).
• a yarn for example an elastic or stretch yarn (e.g. Lycra).
• the circular textile machine further comprises an electronic control unit operatively connected to the needles (i.e. the needle operating mechanisms) to control the operation of the textile machine.
• the free end of the conical section 51 defines a tapered free end of the fabric tube 5.
• the knitting of the free end of the conical section 51 includes making a closing flap (anti-unravelling).
• the textile machine in order to knit the courses having the minimum number of stitches, is programmed to work with only the odd numbered needles or only with the even numbered needles of the plurality of needles.
• the method further includes increasing the number of stitches (and hence of needles used) as the knitting of the conical section 51 of the fabric tube 5 progresses from the free end (having one or more courses with minimum stitch number) towards the opposed end (having one or more courses with maximum stitch number).
• the increase of the stitches is programmed according to a predefined growth trend depending on the conical shape to be assumed by the conical section 51.
• the conical section 51 may be formed by a plurality of concentric and consecutive (cylindrical) course bands (from the free end to the opposed end of the conical section 51), wherein between two consecutive course bands the one closest to the free end of the conical section 51 has a smaller number of stitches than the one closest to the opposed end of the conical section 51.
• the method includes (programming the circular textile machine so as to) use a number of needles equal to the total number of needles of the circular textile machine.
• the textile machine in order to knit the courses having the maximum number of stitches, is programmed to work with all odd numbered needles and with all the even numbered needles of the plurality of needles.
• the step of forming the fabric tube 5 comprises knitting (block S1.2), for example subsequently and consecutively to knitting the conical section 51, a cylindrical section 52 knitted around the longitudinal axis A, wherein the longitudinal axis is the central axis of the cylindrical section 52 and is coaxial to the central axis of the conical section 51 of the fabric tube 5.
• the cylindrical section 52 is formed by one or more courses having an axially constant number of stitches, for example equal to the maximum number of stitches.
• the cylindrical section 52 has a free end (opposed to the free end of the conical section 51), which defines an enlarged free end of the fabric tube 5, and an opposed end, which is connected (or interconnected) to the opposed end of the conical section 51.
• the fabric tube 5 may have (at one between the conical section 51 and the cylindrical section 52) structured areas (not illustrated) with particular compression and/or elasticity characteristics such as to give the fabric tube a particular anatomical shape depending on the area of the body it is intended to cover.
• the method includes manufacturing (block S2) a textile article 10, for example as described below.
• the pair of trousers will have a (upper) bodice and two (lower) legs joined at the top of the bodice.
• the axial length of the conical section 51 defines the length of the legs.
• the manufacturing step comprises cutting (block S2.1) axially at least a portion of the (only) conical section 51 along a pair of generatrices C1 and C2.
• the step of cutting along each of the generatrices C1 and C2 produces a (straight) cut involving all (and only) of the conical section 51 (from the free end to the opposed end thereof).
• the cut along each generatrix C1 and C2 defines/generates a first cut edge C1.1 and C2.1 (straight) and a second cut edge C1.2 and C2.2 (straight).
• the conical section 51 by means of the two cuts along the generatrices C1 and C2 is subdivided into two half-cones, each of which is delimited in the circumferential direction by a first cut edge C1.1 or C2.1 and by a second cut edge C2.2 and C1.1 (wherein the opposed end of each half-cone is joined to the opposed end of the cylindrical section 52).
• the manufacturing step includes joining (block S.2.3) together, preferably by sewing, the first cut edge C1.1 and C2.1 of each generatrix C1 and C2 respectively with the second cut edge C2.2 and C1.2 of the other generatrix C2 and C1, so as to form two respective (identical) conical tube 15.
• each seam develops longitudinally along a generatrix of the respective conical tube 15.
• the upper end of the seams joins together to define a crotch area of the trousers.
• a part of a garment such as a pair of sleeves (to be joined to a bodice (not illustrated), e.g. made starting from a further fabric tube, for example, according to a traditional method) from a (single) fabric tube 5 (as described above).
• Each sleeve of the pair of sleeves includes a muff (tube) associated with a joining brim (delimiting the shoulder), for joining the sleeve with the bodice.
• each sleeve is defined (exclusively) by (a portion of) the cylindrical section 52 of the fabric tube 5 and the muff of each sleeve is defined (exclusively) by (a portion, i.e. half, of) the conical section 51 of the same fabric tube 5, as further described below.
• the cut along each generatrix C1 and C2 defines/generates a first cut edge C1.1 and C2.1 (straight) and a second cut edge C1.2 and C2.2 (straight).
• the conical section 51 by means of the two cuts along the generatrices C1 and C2 is subdivided into two half-cones, each of which is delimited in the circumferential direction by a first cut edge C1.1 or C2.1 and by a second cut edge C2.2 and C1.2 (wherein the opposed end of each half-cone is joined to the opposed end of the cylindrical section 52).
• the manufacturing step comprises cutting (block S2.2) the cylindrical section 51 along two (distinct) cutting lines C3, wherein each cutting line C3 has a cusp-like or variously conformed shape (defined by a conformed broken line) and has a first end (at the opposed end of the cylindrical section 52) joining the upper end of the first cut edge C1.1 or C2.1 of one of the generatrices C1 or C2, and a second end (also at the opposed end of the cylindrical section 52) joining the second cut edge C2.2 and C1.2 of the other of the generatrices C2 or C1.
• each cutting line C3 has a cusp-like or variously conformed shape (defined by a conformed broken line) and has a first end (at the opposed end of the cylindrical section 52) joining the upper end of the first cut edge C1.1 or C2.1 of one of the generatrices C1 or C2, and a second end (also at the opposed end of the cylindrical section 52) joining the second cut edge C2.2 and C1.2 of the other of the generatrices C2
• the cut along the cutting line C3 separates the fabric tube 5 into two separate portions, each of which consisting of the aforesaid half-cone and a joining brim circumscribed perimetrically between (the cut edge along) the cutting line C3 and the (half of) the end course defining the opposed end of the cylindrical section 52 and/or the conical section 51.
• the manufacturing step includes joining (block S.2.3) together, preferably by sewing, the first cut edge C1.1 and C2.1 of each generatrix C1 and C2 respectively with the second cut edge C2.2 and C1.2 of the other generatrix C2 and C1, so as to form two respective (identical) conical tube 15 defining the aforesaid muff of each sleeve.
• each seam develops longitudinally along a generatrix of the respective conical tube 15.
• the aforesaid method in a simplified form, can lead to the formation of a garment such as a pair of muffs or a pair of legs.

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