Arrangement for indicating an intended end of the period of use of a textile product
OwnerJohannes Englinventor
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Abstract
In an arrangement for indicating an intended end of a period of use of a textile product (1), the textile product (1) or a label (2) of the textile product (1) has an indicator field (3) which, in a first area (3a), has a first color that changes during the period of use of the textile product (1) and in the course of the associated washes. The indicator field (3) additionally has a second color in a second area (3b), wherein the wash-fastness of the first color is less than the wash-fastness of the second color, and the first color differs, in the delivery state, from the second color and, over a number of washes of the textile product (1), increasingly approximates to the second color.
Claims10
An arrangement for indicating an intended end of a period of use of a textile product, comprising an indicator field which in a first region has a color that changes in the course of a period of use of the textile product and of washing procedures associated therewith, the indicator field in addition to the first region in which said indicator field has the first color that changes in the course of the period of use of the textile product and of the washing procedures associated therewith, includes a second region, separate from the first region, that has a second color, and a wash-fastness of the first color is lower than a wash-fastness of the second color, and the first color in a shipped state differs from the second color, and over a number of washing procedures of the textile product is adapted to increasingly approximate the second color;
- and wherein the first region of the indicator field comprises a first textile material including a first yarn having the first color, and the second region of the indicator field comprises a second textile material including a second yarn having the second color.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.