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US 11,060,212 B2Granted
Textiles and garments formed using yarns space-treated with functional finishes
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsDavid Turner, Carmen L. Zolman
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Abstract
Aspects herein are directed to using a space-treating process to apply functional finishes to a yarn and incorporating the treated yarn into a textile and/or a garment to impart engineered functional properties to the textile and/or garment.
Claims15
A textile comprising:
- a knit construction formed using at least one yarn, wherein after forming the at least one yarn but prior to forming the knit construction, the at least one yarn undergoes a space-treating process such that the at least one yarn includes at least a first yarn segment having a durable water-repellant (DWR) finish applied thereto and a second yarn segment having a hydrophilic finish applied thereto, wherein the first yarn segment and the second yarn segment share a common border along a widthwise direction of the at least one yarn.
A garment comprising:
- a knit construction formed using at least one yarn, wherein after forming the at least one yarn but prior to forming the knit construction, the at least one yarn undergoes a space-treating process such that the at least one yarn comprises at least a first yarn segment having a durable water-repellant (DWR) finish applied thereto and a second yarn segment having a hydrophilic finish applied thereto, wherein the first yarn segment and the second yarn segment share a common border along a widthwise direction of the at least one yarn, and wherein a location of the first yarn segment and the second yarn segment is staggered across a length and a width of the garment.
A method of forming a textile, the method comprising:
- providing a yarn having a length;
- applying a durable water-repellant finish to a first set of knit segments of the yarn along the length of the yarn using a space-treating process;
- applying a hydrophilic finish to a second set of knit segments of the yarn along the length of the yarn using the space-treating process, wherein a first knit segment of the first set of knit segments shares a common border with a first knit segment of the second set of knit segments along a widthwise direction of the yarn;
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- forming the textile using the treated yarn.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.