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US 11,877,605 B2Granted
Knit lower-body garment
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsPaul R. Montgomery, Hemantha Manjula Wijesena
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Abstract
A knit lower-body garment can be formed, using a flat knitting process and from knit blanks. In example aspects, the knit lower-body garment is formed from a one-piece knit textile blank that includes partial-length knit courses in select locations to provide three-dimensional shaping to the resulting lower-body garment.
Claims12
A lower-body garment comprising:
- a waistband;
- a first leg band around a first leg opening;
- a second leg band around a second leg opening;
- a one-piece weft knit textile comprising a front torso portion, a first back torso portion with a first back seam edge, a second back torso portion with a second back seam edge, and a crotch gusset, wherein the crotch gusset includes a first gusset back edge and a second gusset back edge;
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- a seam that affixes together:
- an upper part of the first back seam edge and an upper part of the second back seam edge, wherein a first course of knit stitches of the one-piece weft knit textile extends along the upper part of the first back seam edge;
- a lower part of the first back seam edge and the first gusset back edge, wherein the first course of knit stitches of the one-piece weft knit textile extends along the lower part of the first back seam edge;
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- a lower part of the second back seam edge and the second gusset back edge;
- wherein the one-piece weft knit textile comprises a plurality of second knit courses that extend from the waistband to the first leg band and a plurality of short rows that are interspersed among the plurality of second knit courses.
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A lower-body garment formed from a one-piece knit textile, the lower-body garment comprising:
- a front torso portion and a back torso portion that together form a continuous waist opening edge, a first leg opening edge, a second leg opening edge, and a crotch gusset;
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- a seam having a first part that extends from the waist opening edge of the back torso portion to a junction point, a second part that extends from the junction point to the first leg opening edge, and a third part that extends from the junction point to the second leg opening edge, wherein a course of knit stitches of the one-piece knit textile extends from the waist opening edge to the junction point and from the junction point to the first leg opening edge.
A lower-body garment comprising:
- a one-piece weft knit textile comprising a front torso portion, a first back torso portion with a first back seam edge, a second back torso portion with a second back seam edge, and a crotch gusset, wherein the crotch gusset includes a first gusset back edge and a second gusset back edge;
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- a seam that affixes together:
- an upper part of the first back seam edge and an upper part of the second back seam edge, wherein a course of knit stitches of the one-piece weft knit textile extends along the upper part of the first back seam edge;
- a lower part of the first back seam edge and the first gusset back edge, wherein the course of knit stitches of the one-piece weft knit textile extends along the lower part of the first back seam edge;
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- a lower part of the second back seam edge and the second gusset back edge;
- wherein the crotch gusset comprises a double jersey knit structure and the front torso portion comprises a single jersey knit structure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.