Device for designing tubular knot fabric and method of designing
AssigneeShima Seiki Manufacturing, Ltd.
InventorsNishida Kenji, Terai Koichi
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Abstract
Shapes of a front and a rear part of a tubular knit fabric are displayed on a monitor, and the input of a pattern across the front and rear knit fabrics is received. When a user appoint on the monitor a start point of the pattern on the knit fabric, the pattern is extended in the direction going around the front and rear knit fabrics such that the pattern is substantially continued from the start point of the pattern across both front and rear knit fabrics and on edges between the front and rear knit fabrics. The pattern extended is displayed on the monitor, laid over the shapes of the front and rear knit fabrics.
Claims6
A design apparatus for a tubular fabric, the apparatus designing the tubular fabric composed of front and rear fabrics and producing knitting data allowing a flat knitting machine having at least a pair of front and rear needle beds to knit the tubular fabric, being characterized by:
- a monitor to display an external shape of the front and rear fabrics and a pattern on the fabrics;
- pattern input means for receiving input of a pattern extending to both the front and rear fabrics and for receiving input of a start point in the fabrics according to the designation of the point on the monitor by a user;
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- pattern development means for developing the pattern along with a direction around the front and rear fabrics from the start point in such a way that the developed pattern extends to both the front and rear fabrics and is substantially continuous at an edge between the front and rear fabrics,
- wherein species of stitches in the fabrics are designated so as to express the pattern in front and rear fabrics by the pattern development, and
- wherein species of face and rear stitches and racking direction along a left and right direction are inverted when the pattern crosses said edge.
A design method for a tubular fabric having front and rear fabrics, the method producing knitting data allowing a flat knitting machine having at least a pair of front and rear needle beds to knit the tubular fabric, being characterized by:
- displaying an external shape of the front and rear fabrics on a monitor;
- receiving input of a pattern extending to both the front and rear fabrics and for receiving input of a start point of the pattern by user's designation of the point in the fabrics on the monitor;
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- developing the pattern along with a direction around the front and rear fabrics from the start point in such a way that the developed pattern extends to both the front and rear fabrics and is substantially continuous at an edge between the front and rear fabrics,
- wherein species of stitches in the fabrics are designated so as to express the pattern in front and rear fabrics by said development,
- wherein species of face and rear stitches and racking direction along a left and right direction are inverted when the pattern crosses said edge, and
- wherein the developed pattern is displayed on the monitor in composition with the external shape of the front and rear fabrics.
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