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.
Claims13
A knitted component, comprising:
- a first portion and a second portion, wherein at least one of the first portion and the second portion
- includes a double-jersey knit structure;
- and
- at least one connection course securing the first portion to the second portion, wherein the at least one connection course extends longitudinally in a first direction,
- wherein in a flat orientation, the first portion overlaps the second portion at a location immediately adjacent to the connection course in a second direction,
- wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.
An upper for an article of footwear, comprising:
- a knitted component comprising a first portion and a tongue secured with a connection course of the knitted component,
- wherein a forward terminus of the tongue is coextensive with the first portion and overlaps the first portion such that it is covered by the first portion from an external perspective.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.