Method of making knitted fabric with sponge effect on circular machines for knitwear and hosiery and manufactured article produced using this method

Abstract

A method for making sponge-effect knitted fabric using needles on the roll of a circular machine for hosiery or knitwear which uses a skipped needle knitted fabric making procedure to selectively work an elastic or stretch thread and a non-elastic thread together or the one separately from the other. A manufactured product is also obtained with one or more designed parts made up of sponge-effect fabric of piles or loops in relief formed by selectively working one or the other of the two starting threads.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A method for making a sponge-effect knitted fabric with needles on a feed roll of a circular machine for hosiery or knitwear, the method comprising the steps of: 
 using a knitted fabric making process with needle skip;    working selectively an elastic or stretch thread and a non-elastic thread together or working selectively the elastic or stretch thread and the non-elastic thread one separate from the other.    
     
     
         2 . A method according to  claim 1 , whereby the working needles are selected so at least one needle takes up all the fed elastic and non-elastic threads and one or more other skipped needles take up just one thread thereby forming jersey fabric parts and relief sponge-effect fabric parts with piles or loops.  
     
     
         3 . A method according to  claim 2 , whereby the skipped needles selectively take up the elastic thread or the non-elastic thread.  
     
     
         4 . A manufactured product obtained using the method comprising the steps of: 
 using a knitted fabric making process with needle skip;    working selectively an elastic or stretch thread and a non-elastic thread together or working selectively the elastic or stretch thread and the non-elastic thread one separate from the other to provide one or more designed parts made up of sponge-effect fabric consisting of piles or loops in relief formed by selectively working one or the other of the two starting threads.