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US 11,441,249 B2Granted
Knitting machine with extreme racking and related knitted component
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorAdrian Meir
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Abstract
A method may include knitting a first portion of a knitted component on a first region of a knitting machine, knitting a second portion of the knitted component on a second region of the knitting machine, moving the first portion of the knitted component towards the second portion of the knitted component by moving a first needle bed of the knitting machine relative to a second needle bed of the knitting machine, and knitting at least one course with the knitting machine that connects the first portion of the knitted component to the second portion of the knitted component.
Claims12
A method, comprising:
- knitting, with a first feeder, a first portion of a knitted component on a first region of a knitting machine, wherein the first portion of the knitted component is one of a medial side or a lateral side of the knitted component;
- knitting, with a second feeder, a second portion of the knitted component on a second region of the knitting machine, wherein the second portion of the knitted component is a tongue portion of the knitted component;
- moving the first portion of the knitted component towards the second portion of the knitted component by moving a first needle bed of the knitting machine relative to a second needle bed of the knitting machine;
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- knitting at least one course with the knitting machine that connects the first portion of the knitted component to the second portion of the knitted component.
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