Conventionally, in a flatbed knitting machine, provided with at least a pair of needle beds opposed to each other interposing a needle bed gap, it is known that fabrics knitted with each needle bed are connected at both sides of knitting width and become a tubular shape as a whole if making a knitting yarn to be fed so as to round over both needle beds. Hereafter such tubular knitted fabric is to be named as a round knitted tubular fabric. By applying the round knitted tubular fabric, it becomes possible to knit firstly a glove or a sock, apparel like a sweater and so on, integrally without sewing.
An art for knitting a glove so called a mitten integrally with a flatbed knitting machine, in a state where a thumb pouch, for accommodating a thumb to be knitted as a round knitted tubular fabric, is connected within the knitting width of the mitten (for example, see Patent Literature 1). According to this art, a round knitted tubular fabric for a thumb pouch is knitted in parallel to a round knitted tubular fabric for a four finger body at separated positions to each other. Both needle beds are needed to knit a round knitted tubular fabric, so that save of stitches is difficult if overlapping of knitting needle occurs. Therefore, two round knitted tubular fabrics need to be knitted at separated positions and, after shifting the two fabrics so as to overlap each other, to be joined insides of each overlapped fabric with bind offs.
A tubular knitted fabric without sewing is able to be formed not only by rounding a knitting yarn but also by repeating flechage knits. In an outward side from a base portion to an edge portion, narrowing knitting width in series so as to remain stitches for connecting on both end sides of the knitting width, and in a homeward side from the edge portion to the base portion, widening knitting width in series so as to form stitches between the stitches for connecting remained after knitting in the outward side, a tubular knitted fabric like a finger pouch might be knitted (for example, see Patent Literature 2). Hereafter such knitted fabric is to be named as a flechage knitted tubular fabric. As for the conventional flechage knitted tubular fabric, however, its tubular width needs to be widened in order to increase its tubular height, so that it can be applicable to a finger pouch or a heel and so on of a sock but it may be difficult to apply to a finger pouch of a glove.