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US 10,179,960 B2Granted
Upper-torso garment with tubular-jacquard knit structure
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsJosue Diaz, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Andrea J. Staub
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Abstract
An upper-torso garment includes a chest-covering portion. The chest-covering portion includes a knit textile region having a tubular-jacquard knit structure. The tubular-jacquard knit structure includes a number of interlocking cross overs in which a first yarn strand transfers from the front bed to the back bed and a second yarn strand transfers from the back bed to the front bed, and in which the yarn strands transfer back over.
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An upper-torso garment having a chest-contacting portion, the upper-torso garment comprising:
- a knit textile panel positioned in the chest-contacting portion;
- the knit textile panel comprising a tubular-jacquard knit structure having a plurality of front-stitch courses and a plurality of back-stitch courses,
- wherein each front-stitch course included in the plurality of front-stitch courses intermittently interlocks with a back-stitch course included in the plurality of back-stitch courses, such that the plurality of front-stitch courses and the plurality of back-stitch courses form a plurality of interlocked courses, and
- wherein each interlocked course of the plurality of interlocked courses is constructed of a first yarn strand and a second yarn strand and each interlocked course includes a respective intra-course knit sequence that repeats along a respective interlocked course, such that the plurality of interlocked courses comprise a plurality of respective intra-course knit sequences;
- each respective intra-course knit sequence of the plurality of respective intra-course knit sequences comprising:
- a respective first quantity of front stitches formed by the first yarn strand and a respective first quantity of back stitches formed by the second yarn strand,
- the first yarn strand and the second yarn strand crossing over after the respective first quantity of front stitches and the respective first quantity of back stitches, such that the first yarn strand forms a respective second quantity of back stitches and the second yarn strand forms a respective second quantity of front stitches,
- the first yarn strand and the second yarn strand crossing back over after the respective second quantity of front stitches and the respective second quantity of back stitches,
- wherein each respective intra-course knit sequence includes a quantity of front stitches equal to or greater than 4 and less than or equal to 12 and a quantity of back stitches equal to or greater than 4 and less than or equal to 12, the quantity of front stitches and the quantity of back stitches being consistent among the plurality of respective intra-course knit sequences;
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- wherein each respective intra-course knit sequence repeats at least once in the respective interlocked course after the crossing back over.
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An upper-torso garment having a chest-contacting portion, the upper-torso garment comprising:
- a knit textile panel positioned in the chest-contacting portion;
- the knit textile panel comprising a tubular-jacquard knit structure having at least forty front-stitch courses including a quantity of front stitches and at least forty back-stitch courses including a quantity of back stitches, wherein the quantity of front stitches and the quantity of back stitches yields a quantity of stitches;
- the at least forty front-stitch courses being consecutively interlooped with one another, wherein each front-stitch course included in the at least forty front-stitch courses includes a respective set of thirteen front stitches, each front stitch being constructed of a first yarn strand or a second yarn strand and being positioned at a respective one of thirteen front stitch locations, which are consistent among the at least forty front-stitch courses;
- the at least forty back-stitch courses being consecutively interlooped with one another, each back stitch of the at least forty back-stitch courses being constructed of the first yarn strand or the second yarn strand;
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- the at least forty front-stitch courses being intermittently interlocked with the at least forty back-stitch courses by a quantity of interlocking cross overs of the first yarn strand and the second yarn strand, the quantity of interlocking cross overs being dispersed intermittently among the at least forty front-stitch courses and the at least forty back-stitch courses and being positioned between the thirteen front stitch locations, wherein a ratio of the quantity of interlocking cross overs to the quantity of stitches is in a range of about 1:4 to about 1:13.
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An upper-torso garment having a chest-contacting portion, the upper-torso garment comprising:
- a knit textile panel positioned in the chest-contacting portion;
- the knit textile panel comprising a tubular-jacquard knit structure having at least forty front-stitch courses including a quantity of front stitches and at least forty back-stitch courses including a quantity of back stitches, wherein the quantity of front stitches and the quantity of back stitches yields a quantity of stitches;
- the at least forty front-stitch courses being consecutively interlooped with one another, wherein each front-stitch course included in the at least forty front-stitch courses includes a respective set of thirteen front stitches, each front stitch being constructed of a first yarn strand or a second yarn strand and being positioned at a respective one of thirteen front stitch locations, which are consistent among the at least forty front-stitch courses;
- the at least forty back-stitch courses being consecutively interlooped with one another, each back stitch of the at least forty back-stitch courses being constructed of the first yarn strand or the second yarn strand;
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- the at least forty front-stitch courses being intermittently interlocked with the at least forty back-stitch courses by a quantity of interlocking cross overs of the first yarn strand and the second yarn strand, the quantity of interlocking cross overs being dispersed intermittently among the at least forty front-stitch courses and the at least forty back-stitch courses and being positioned between the thirteen front stitch locations, wherein a ratio of the quantity of interlocking cross overs to the quantity of stitches is in a range of about 1:4 to about 1:13,
- wherein each front-stitch course of the at least forty front-stitch courses is intermittently interlocked with a back-stitch course of the at least forty back-stitch courses to form at least forty interlocked courses,
- wherein each interlocked course of the at least forty interlocked courses further comprises a course of interlock tuck stitches that binds a respective front-stitch course to a respective back-stitch course by interlooping with every other front stitch and every other back stitch, and
- wherein the at least forty interlocked courses includes a first interlocked course interloopedly coupled to a second interlocked course, and
- wherein a course of interlock tuck stitches in the first interlocked course is offset from a course of interlock tuck stitches in the second interlocked course.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.