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US 10,757,951 B2Granted
Openwork fabric
AssigneeMerctech Pty Ltd
InventorEnnio Mercuri
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Abstract
An improved tubular openwork fabric or net for food products, the openwork fabric including a plurality of filament assemblies. Each filament assembly is formed from one or more filaments and the filament assemblies are knitted as alternating conjoined and intermediate members. Each intermediate member includes a single filament assembly and each conjoined member includes a pair of filament assemblies that are worked together. The openwork fabric further includes an extension limiting member to limit a longitudinal extension of the openwork fabric.
Claims19
An openwork fabric comprising;
- a plurality of filament assemblies wherein each filament assembly is formed from one or more filaments and the plurality of filament assemblies are knitted as alternating conjoined and intermediate members, wherein each intermediate member has a single filament assembly and each conjoined member has a pair of filament assemblies that are worked together, and each filament assembly transitions from an intermediate member in a first direction into a conjoined member and then transitions into a subsequent intermediate member in a second direction, such that each filament assembly extends longitudinally as the filament assembly transitions through successive intermediate members and conjoined members;
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- an extension limiting means to limit a longitudinal extension of the openwork fabric, wherein the extension limiting means comprises a first set of filament assemblies having a first extensibility, and a second set of filament assemblies having a second extensibility less than the first extensibility.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.