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Process for producing a knitted fabric

US7272462B2 · kind B2 · utility

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13Claims
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Filing dateMar 3, 2004
Grant dateSep 18, 2007
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Expiry dateMar 3, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD04B7/26
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for creating pattern instructions for an electronic patterning control of a knitting machine to enable the knitting machine to knit fabric having a desired pictorial image as part of the knitted structure, the pictorial image being created by a series of consecutive courses each having knitted stitches formed of a first yarn having a first visual characteristic interspersed with knitted stitches formed of a second yarn having a second visual characteristic, adjacent knitted stitches of the second yarn that are separated by one or more knitted stitches of the first yarn being connected by a float loop spanning said one or more knitted stitches of the first yarn.

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