Method of making knitted garments

• US 3,287,937 A
• Filed: 10/21/1965
• Issued: 11/29/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James H. Landau
• Original Assignee: James H. Landau
• Inventors: Landau, James H.
• Application Number:
  US04/509,466
• Time in Patent Office: 404 Days
• US Class Current: 66/171
• CPC Class Codes: D04B 1/246 Upper torso garments, e.g. sweaters, shirts, leotards
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2403/0333 with tubular portions of variable diameter or distinct axial orientation

Claims

1. THE METHOD OF MAKING A KNITTED GARMENT TO BE WORN ON THE HUMAN TORSO WHICH COMPRISES THE STEPS OF KNITTING TWO FIRST AND SECOND TUBULAR LENGTHS OF MATERIAL HAVING COURSES OF PRODERTERMINED LENGTH TO CONFORM TO THE PERIPHERAL DIMENSIONS OF FIRST AND SECOND OPPOSITELY DISPOSED PORTIONS OF THE HUMAN TORSO, THE NUMBER OF WALES IN CERTAIN SUCCESSIVE COURSES OF EACH TUBE BEING EITHER PROGRESSIVELY INCREASED OR PROGRESSIVELY DECREASED, SAID INCREASES OF DECREASES BEING MADE ONLY BY THE ADDITION OR SUBTRACTION OF AN EQUAL NUMBER OF WALES DISPOSED ON EITHER SIDE OF TWO DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING LINES, SEVERING EACH OF SAID TUBES ALONG A LONGITUDINAL LINE DISPOSED EQUIDISTANT FROM SAID FIRST MENTIONED TWO LONGITUDINAL LINES TO PROVIDE FIRST AND SECOND HALF PANELS OF MATERIAL EACH HAVING AWO SIDE MARGINS, AND JOINING THE RESPECTIVE SIDE MARGINS OF THE FIRST HALD PANEL WITH THE RESPECTIVE SIDE MARGINS OF THE SECOND HALF PANEL.