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(11) | EP 2 460 919 A3 |
(12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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(54) | Joining method of knitted fabric and knitted fabric |
(57) To provide a joining method of a knitted fabric in which stretchability of a joining
portion can be sufficiently ensured when joining through a bind-off process two knitted
fabrics, which are independently knitted, with ends in a wale direction of the knitted
fabrics butted against each other. When starting the joining of the knitted fabrics
(100, 200) from a boundary of the first knitted fabric (100) and the second knitted
fabric (200), formation of a bind-off stitch (P1, P2) is repeated in each of the first
knitted fabric (100) and the second knitted fabric (200). A pickup stitch (R) is formed
on an empty needle of either the front or the back needle bed and removed from the
needle bed thereafter between the formation of the bind-off stitch (P1) in the first
knitted fabric (100) and the formation of the bind-off stitch (P2) in the second knitted
fabric (200) to increase a yarn length connecting the first bind-off stitch (P1) and
the second bind-off stitch (P2).
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