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<SDOBI lang="en"><B000><eptags><B001EP>ATBECHDEDKESFRGBGRITLILUNLSEMCPTIESILTLVFIROMKCYALTRBGCZEEHUPLSKBAHRIS..MTNORSMESM..................</B001EP><B005EP>J</B005EP><B007EP>DIM360 Ver 2.40 (30 Jan 2013) -  1620000/0</B007EP></eptags></B000><B100><B110>2530197</B110><B120><B121>EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION</B121></B120><B130>A3</B130><B140><date>20140326</date></B140><B190>EP</B190></B100><B200><B210>12004256.9</B210><B220><date>20120604</date></B220><B250>en</B250><B251EP>en</B251EP><B260>en</B260></B200><B300><B310>2011124921</B310><B320><date>20110603</date></B320><B330><ctry>JP</ctry></B330></B300><B400><B405><date>20140326</date><bnum>201413</bnum></B405><B430><date>20121205</date><bnum>201249</bnum></B430></B400><B500><B510EP><classification-ipcr sequence="1"><text>D04B   1/22        20060101AFI20140218BHEP        </text></classification-ipcr></B510EP><B540><B541>de</B541><B542>Strickverfahren für Maschenware und Maschenware</B542><B541>en</B541><B542>Knitting method of knitted fabric, and knitted fabric</B542><B541>fr</B541><B542>Procédé pour tricoter une étoffe et étoffe tricotée</B542></B540><B590><B598>2</B598></B590></B500><B700><B710><B711><snm>Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd</snm><iid>100219844</iid><irf>SM-E-31351/010</irf><adr><str>85 Sakata</str><city>Wakayama-shi,
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<p id="pa01" num="0001">To provide a knitting method of a knitted fabric capable of making a stretchability of a bind-off processed portion greater than in the prior art when connecting stitches at an end in a wale direction of front and back knitted fabric portions through a bind-off process. The following steps A to F are repeated. Step A of forming a new stitch α following an end stitch θ in a starting end direction LS of one side knitted fabric portion 20B. Step B of forming a new stitch P following an end stitch λ in the starting end direction LS of the other side knitted fabric portion 20F. Step C of forming a new stitch γ following the stitch β. Step D of forming a new stitch δ following the stitch α. Step E of forming a double stitch s in which the stitch δ and a stitch next to the stitch δ in a bind-off direction RS are overlapped. Step F of forming a double stitch ζ in which the stitch γ and a stitch next to the stitch γ in the bind-off direction RS are overlapped.</p>
<p id="pa02" num="0002">Here, one of the stitch α and the stitch δ is a front stitch and the other is a back stitch, and one of the stitch β and the stitch γ is a front stitch and the other is a back stitch.
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