FR2806102A1 - Knitting a one-piece body stocking uses a flatbed knitter with two needle beds and two auxiliary needle beds with knocking-over sinkers at one auxiliary bed to knit the body stocking dimensions without modification - Google Patents

Abstract

To knit e.g. a one-piece body stocking, a flatbed knitter is used with two straight needle beds (1,2) and two auxiliary needle beds, with needles (3) which are operated by a slide. The second auxiliary needle bed has knocking-over sinkers (4) to hold and transfer the stitch loops between the needles of the same needle beds. To knit e.g. a one-piece body stocking, a flatbed knitter is used with two straight needle beds (1,2) and two auxiliary needle beds, with needles (3) which are operated by a slide. Needles are used which can hold two loose stitches while knitting to a point at the base of the neck/rear opening, alternate needles are released at the opposite needle bed and stitches are held at the other alternate needles with the second auxiliary needle bed to be held with the other stitches. The knitting continues with several rows in a honeycomb stitch at the zone under the neck openings, followed by the final row. The front panel is knitted with arrows to mark the bust. The casting on and casting off is by a simultaneous transfer of a number of stitches. The front and rear panels are joined together at the sides by a pillar stitch, turned inwards, where a selvage loop at one needle bed is transferred to the opposing needle bed after racking the two needles. The front panel is plated at the crotch. The casting off at the armholes and neckline is through shifting of the yarn guide between the fabric press-offs. The second auxiliary needle bed has knocking-over sinkers (4) to hold and transfer the stitch loops between the needles of the same needle beds. The first auxiliary needle bed covers the yarn used to knit the lower section of the front panel while the lower section of the rear panel is being knitted. The second auxiliary needle bed increases/decreases the width of the front and/or rear panels during knitting.

Description

The present invention relates to a new knitting process.

It is known to produce a knitted article such as a bodysuit, comprising a front panel and a back panel defining, in the lower part of the leg passages and, in the upper part, the shoulder straps, by means of a loom. knit with a front needle and a back needle that can knit.

In a known process, we work in planing, that is to say that at least one needle bed has needles without stitches, in order to have free needles to perform certain operations, including transfers.

Such a method has the disadvantage that the body obtained relatively spaced meshes.

However, there is a need to reduce the spacing of the meshes and work with a lower gauge.

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. front and a rectilinear rear needle bed, these needle beds comprising needles actuated by the passage of the carriage and capable of knitting, the knitting loom comprising, in addition, a first auxiliary needle bed comprising platelets allowing the thread to be covered with one of the needle beds and 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 we knit all needles the article by means of such a loom, the first auxiliary needle bed being used to cover the thread used for knitting the lower 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.

Thanks to the invention, it is no longer necessary to knit planed and one can make a body whose meshes are relatively tight and of dimensions depending only on the gauge of the loom used.

Thus, the invention improves the quality of the knitted article by giving a fine and clean texture.

In a preferred implementation of the method according to the invention, needles are used capable of keeping two stitches on hold without assembling them and knitting a finishing stitch at the base of the neckline of the front or the back by involving the steps following a) on the needle bed opposite to that 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 a second auxiliary needle stitch, the stitches thus transferred do not assemble not with those already present on the needles on which the transfer is made, we knit, in garter stitch, a few rows of stitches in the area below the finishing stitch, and c) after knitting these few rows, we knit the finishing point. The rows knitted in garter stitch prevent the collar from rolling.

Knitting the base of the neck 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 necks of the front panel and the back panel may have different dimensions.

Advantageously, the front panel is knitted in arrow signs so as to mark the chest.

Preferably, decreases and increases are carried out by simultaneous transfer of several meshes, which makes it possible to obtain a bending effect. Advantageously, the front and top panels of the straps are assembled with a chain facing inward.

This chain is advantageously obtained by means of a proce involving the transfer of a selvedge stitch from a needle bed to the opposite needle bed, after the two needles are mounted on each other.

preferably, the front panel is vanized in the crotch region.

Preferably also, the armholes and the front neckline are reduced by implementing a displacement of the thread guides between the falls (so-called kick-back displacement).

The invention also relates to a body knitted by a method as defined above.

The invention will be better understood on reading the detailed description which follows, of a nonlimiting example of implementation, and the examination of the accompanying drawing in which - Figure 1 illustrates, schematically, the different stages knitting of the body, - Figures 2 to 6 illustrate, very schematically, the structure of the needle beds and needles of the loom used to knit the body, - Figures 7 to 25 illustrate the manner in which the knitting of the different parts is carried out of the body, and Figures 26 to 29 illustrate, schematically, different types of necks of the body.

There is shown in Figure 1 schematically a bodysuit with the various knitting steps performed. In the embodiment described, a knitting loom marketed by the company SHIMA SEIKI under the reference First 124S is used to knit the body.

Such a knitting machine includes a carriage, a front bed and a rectilinear rear bed, beds comprising needles actuated by the passage of the carriage and capable of knitting, the knitting machine further comprising a first auxiliary bed comprising platinettes (called loop pressers ) allowing the thread to be covered as the carriage moves and a second auxiliary needle bed making it possible to receive stitches for transfer from one needle to another located on the same needle bed.

There is shown schematically in Figure 2 the front needle bed 1 and the rear needle bed 2 and a needle 3 of each of these needle beds.

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.

There is shown in Figure 3, in top view, the transfer jack 4, which has a central recess 6 in which can be engaged a needle 3 to come and drop or resume a mesh pending on this jack. has shown in Figure 4 a so-called loop presser plate 5, covering a wire F.

As can be seen in Figure 5, the plates are arranged to cover the wire F extending between the needles 3 as the carriage moves. 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 3a comprising the hook 3c of the needle 3.

Part 3b comprises two elastically deformable blades.

Part 3a can be moved into a position in which the hook 3c constitutes the end of the needle and a position in which the hook 3c retracts between the two blades of part 3b to allow the maintenance of a first stitch Missing waiting.

part 3b has a 3d shoulder making it possible to maintain a second mesh M2 on standby as illustrated in FIG. 6, meshes maintained respectively by parts 3a and 3b being kept without being assembled.

To knit the body, we start by knitting the lower parts 11 of the front panel and the back panel.

As illustrated very schematically in Figure 7, we use loop press pads to drown the yarn of the front panel when knitting the front panel. Kneading the yarn of the front panel avoids when knitting the panel. back, wider, than the thread of the front panel hinders the knitting of the back panel.

To increase the width of the front panel and the back panel, use the transfer jacks 4, in a manner known per se, as shown diagrammatically in FIG. 8. This knits the entire lower part 11 body 10 shown in FIG. 1.

Then, to knit the lower part 12 of the body body, knit in a tubular as illustrated in FIG. 9 by decreasing the average width of the transfer jacks 4.

decrease is carried out with a needle or alternatively with several needles at the same time as illustrated in FIG. 10. Then, to knit the intermediate part 13 of the body of the body, one knits in tubular with increase in the width of the panels, the increase can be carried out by means of one needle at a time using the transfer jacks 4, as illustrated in FIG. 11, or alternatively by means of several needles at the same time as illustrated in FIG. 12.

The decreases are carried out in the upper part 14 body of the body by means of 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.

In the upper part 14 of the body, knit in arrows so as to mark the chest, as illustrated in FIG. 13.

In the example of embodiment described, the body 10 has 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.

to make the finishing point of the base 18 of the back neck 16, we start by releasing one needle out of two from the front needle bed 1 by means of the transfer jacks 4, by transferring each stitch to the adjacent needle. The mesh which is transferred is not assembled with the mesh already waiting on the needle thanks to the holding transfer device described above.

Illustrated in FIG. 14 is the operation for transferring one stitch two from the front needle bed 1 and, in FIG. 15, the situation where one needle out of two from the front needle bed 1 is free, the other needles comprising two meshes. pending, 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.

These few rows of knits thus knitted prevent the collar from rolling.

We then knit the finishing point using a chain as illustrated in Figure 18.

The increases in the neckline and the decreases in the armholes are carried out by means of the transfer jacks 4, by moving one stitch at a time, as illustrated in FIG. 19, or several stitches, as illustrated in FIG. 20 To make the base 17 of the front neck 15, knit a few rows of garter sts under this stitch, as shown in Figure 21.

We then knit the finishing stitch using a classic chain stitch as illustrated in Figure 22.

The armhole 19 decreases 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.

To assemble front and back panels at the top of the straps, knit on each strap, chain stitch 20 facing the inside of the body, using a knitting process illustrated schematically in Figure 25.

This process involves knitting two needles and then transferring the selvedge stitch to the opposite needle bed.

Of course, the invention is not limited to the embodiment which has just been described.

It is possible in particular to knit by means of the process which has just been described a bodysuit comprising all types of neck shapes, in particular a bodysuit comprising a front neck deeper than the back neck, or even V necks on the front or the back, such as those illustrated in Figures 26 to 29.

Claims (9)

1. A method of knitting an article such as a bodysuit, of the type in which a knitting loom comprising a carriage, a front needle bed (1) a straight rear needle bed (2) is used to knit the article, these needle beds comprising needles (3) actuated by the passage of the carriage and capable of riding, the knitting loom comprising, in addition, a first auxiliary needle bed comprising plates (5) making it possible to cover the thread of one of the needle beds (1 ; 2) as the carriage moves, and second auxiliary needle bed comprising jacks (4) making it possible to receive stitches for transfer from one needle to another needle located on the same needle bed, method characterized by the fact that you knit all needles the article by means of such loom, the first auxiliary needle bed being used to cover the yarn used to knit the lower part of the front panel during knitting of the part lower back panel, the second auxiliary needle bed being used to increase or decrease the width of the front and / or back panels during knitting. 2. Method according to the preceding claim, characterized in that one uses needles (3) capable of keeping two stitches pending without assembling them and that one knits a finishing point at the base (17; 18) of the neckline of the front (15) of the back (16) by involving the following steps a) on the needle bed opposite to that to knit the finishing stitch, we release one needle out of two by transferring the stitch it contains on the adjacent needle by means of the second auxiliary needle bed, the stitches thus transferred being kept on hold without being assembled with the stitches already present on the needles on which the transfer is made, b) a few rows are knitted in garter st of stitches in the area below the finishing stitch, and c) after knitting these few rows, knit the finishing stitch. 3. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that one knits the front panel in arrows so as to mark the chest. 4. Method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that one makes decreases and increases by simultaneous transfer of several meshes. 5. Method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the front and back panels are assembled at the top of each strap by a chain (20) facing inwards. 6. Method according to the preceding claim, characterized in that one knits the chain by transferring a selvedge stitch from one needle bed to the opposite needle bed after two head needles. 7. Method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the front panel is vanized in the crotch region. 8. Method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the reductions are made at the armholes and the neckline of the front by implementing a displacement of the thread guides between the falls. 9. Body characterized in that it is knitted according to a process as defined in any one of the preceding claims.