Device and method for repairing a knitted article
OwnerBonnie Lee Kellogginventor
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Abstract
The present application describes a device and method for repairing dropped stitches and for correcting errors in previously knitted rows in a knitted article. The knitting repair tool of the present invention comprises a first hook and a second hook at opposite ends of a relatively short elongated shaft for recovering a first stitch and for recovering a second stitch in a knitted article, wherein the second stitch is recovered after the first stitch has been recovered, without releasing the recovered first stitch from the knitting repair tool. The present invention describes various methods for repairing dropped stitches in a knitted article wherein a first dropped stitch that is recovered is not released prior to recovering a second dropped stitch.
Claims20
A knitting repair tool comprising a substantially rigid elongated shaft of relatively short length having a substantially circular cross-section, the elongated shaft having a first end and a second end, the first end having a first throat tapering to a first hook at the first end of the shaft and the second end having a second throat tapering to a second hook at the second end of the shaft, the first hook and the second hook being of substantially the same dimension as the circular cross-section of the elongated shaft and the first hook substantially aligned with the second hook facing inwardly toward the shaft.
A method for repairing dropped stitches in a knitted article, the method comprising:
- recovering a first dropped stitch by hooking a bottommost horizontal bar of a first dropped stitch and pulling the bottommost horizontal bar through an intact loop of the knitted article;
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- recovering a second dropped stitch by hooking a next bottommost horizontal bar of the second dropped stitch and pulling the next bottommost horizontal bar through the first recovered stitch, wherein recovering the second dropped stitch is performed without releasing the first recovered stitch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.