Welf knitted fabric simulating woven cloth
AssigneeGoscote Engineering Limited
InventorKeble Philip Fane
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Abstract
A knitted rib or purl stitch fabric the ground structure of which has two faces of knitted loops drawn in respectively opposite directions. Courses of the loops of one face have inserted into them unknitted weft yarn contrasting with the ground structure. The inserted yarn is, without itself being knitted, knocked-over with knitted loops in spaced wales of said one face so as to be locked into the ground structure by virtue of being trapped between needle loops and adjacent sinker loops of both faces. Elsewhere the inserted yarn is floated across the fronts of knitted loops in intervening wales of said face and across the backs of oppositely drawn knitted loops of the other face.
Claims5
A weft knitted fabric simulating a woven cloth and in which the looped ground structure thereof comprises concatenations of knitted loops some of which are drawn in one direction to form one face and others in the opposite direction to form another face, characterised in that desired courses of the loops drawn in one direction to form said one face have inserted and locked into them coursewise extending unknitted weft yarn separate from and contrasting with knitted yarn composing said ground structure, said inserted yarn introduced in each of such desired courses, without itself being knitted, being knocked-over together with knitted loops in spaced wales of a subsequent course of said face suchwise as to be locked into the needle loops of one face only of the fabric and selected needle loops being omitted from the face of said fabric opposite to that in which the weft yarns are inserted so as to expose portions of one side of the first mentioned face.
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