Knitted Garment and Method of Knitting

11:

• A method of knitting, on a knitting machine having two needle beds and double-ended needles transferable between the two beds, a ventilated garment panel in which a ventilation channel is formed as part of a base knitted structure, the ventilation channel comprising a wale-wise opening in the base knitted structure of the ventilated garment panel, spanned by integrally knitted side walls and a front wall which are knitted as a three-layer fabric so that the ventilation channel formed by the side walls and the front wall is open to an inside of the ventilated garment panel through the wale-wise opening and to an outside of the ventilated garment panel at opposite ends of the ventilation channel, the knitting method comprising steps of:
• knitting a base wall and the side walls on a first group of selected ones of the needles in one of the needle beds;
• knitting the front wall on a second group of selected ones of the needles in the other of the needle beds;
• and
• transfering the groups of the selected needles in a zone of the ventilation channel from the one needle bed to the other needle bed to permit the knitting of the side walls and the front wall in a knitting sequence:
• one of the side walls, the front wall, and the other of the side walls.

13:

• The method according to claim 11, wherein the knitting sequence comprises:
• with selected needles at one side of a group of the needles corresponding to the zone of the ventilation channel having been transfered from a first of the needle beds to a second of the needle beds, knitting a course of the base wall at one side of the ventilation channel on every needle of the first needle bed followed by a same course of the one side wall of the ventilation channel on the non-transfered needles of the first needle bed;
• transfering back the selected needles to the first needle bed;
• knitting a course of the one side wall of the ventilation channel on the transfered-back needles in the first needle bed;
• knitting a course of the front wall of the ventilation channel on selected needles in the second needle bed in the zone of the ventilation channel;
• knitting a course of the other side wall of the ventilation channel on selected needles at the other side of the ventilation channel;
• transfering the selected needles at the other side of the ventilation channel to the second needle bed;
• and
• knitting a course of the other side wall of the ventilation channel on the non-transfered needles in the first needle bed followed by a course of the base wall at the other side of the ventilation channel on every needle of the first needle bed.