Knitting method for forming integrally formed joins for three dimension fabric

In a method of knitting, on a knitting machine having independently operable needles disposed in at least two needle beds an article having a mainly double jersey construction comprising two areas having respective edges joined together on the machine, during the knitting of the article, so that wales on opposite sides of a join between said edges are inclined to one another, the features of knitting said edges so that, if the edges were left unjoined, said edges, or tangents to said edges in the case of convexly-opposed curved edges, would meet at an angle of greater than 90 degrees, and knitting a single jersey edging along at least part of a length of, and integrally with, each of said edges, each of said edges being knitted on from one to six needles in each course of knitting which forms said st least part of the length of each of said edges and joining adjacent edges of said edgings during the knitting of the article to form the join between said areas of the article.

In a method of knitting, on a knitting machine having independently operable needles disposed in at least two needle beds, an article having a mainly double jersey structure comprising two areas having respective edges joined together on the machine, during the knitting of the article, so that wales on opposite sides of a join between said edges are inclined to one another, the improvement of knitting a single jersey edging along at least part of a length of, and integrally with, each of said edges, each of said edgings being knitted on from one to six needles in each course of knitting which forms said at least part of the length of each of said edges, and in addition knitting from one to four courses of single jersey knitting on each of two of said needle beds to from two superimposed strips of single jersey knitting between said single jersey edgings along at least part of the length of said edgings so that in a finished article the single jersey edgings are joined one to anther, along at least part of their lengths, via one of said two superimposed strips of single jersey knitting to form the join between said areas of the article.

In a method of knitting, on a knitting machine having independently operable needles disposed in at least two needle beds, an article having a mainly double jersey structure comprising two areas having respective edges joined together on the machine, during the knitting of the article, so that wales on opposite sides of a join between said edges are inclined to one another, the improvement of knitting a single jersey edging along at least part of a length of, and integrally with, each of said edges, each of said edgings being knitted on from one to six needles in each course of knitting which forms said at least part of the length of each of said edges, and joining adjacent edges of said edgings, during the knitting of the article, to form the join between said areas of the article.

In a method of knitting, on a knitting machine having independently operable needles disposed in at least two needle beds, an article having a mainly double jersey structure comprising two areas having respective edges joined together on the machine, during the knitting of the article, so that wales on opposite sides of a join between said edges are inclined to one another, the improvement of knitting a single jersey edging along at least part of a length of, and integrally with, each of said edges, each of said edgings being knitted on from one to two needles in each course of knitting which forms said at least part of the length of each of said edges, and joining adjacent edges of said edgings, during the knitting of the article, to form the join between said areas of the article.

In a method of knitting, on a knitting machine having independently operable needles disposed in at least two needle beds, an article having a mainly double jersey structure comprising two areas having respective edges joined together on the machine, during the knitting of the article, so that wales on opposite sides of a join between said edges are inclined to one another, the improvement of knitting a single jersey edging along at least part of a length of, and integrally with, each of said edges, each of said edgings being knitted on from three to six needles in each course of knitting which forms said at least part of the length of each of said edges, and joining adjacent edges of said edgings, during the knitting of the article, to form the join between said areas of the article.

An upholstery cover comprising knitted fabric of mainly double jersey construction shaped to fit a three-dimensional support and having joins formed between two areas of fabric having respective edges joined to form the join so that wales on opposite sides of the join between said edges are inclined to one another, the cover being knitted by a method of knitting on a knitting machine having independently operable needles disposed in at least two needle beds;

• and wherein a single jersey edging is knitted along at least part of a length of, and integrally with, each of said edges, each of said edgings being knitted on from one to six needles in each course of knitting which forms said at least part of the length of each of said edges, and adjacent edges of said edgings are joined, during the knitting of the cover, to form the join between said areas of the cover.