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US 12,553,160 B2Granted
Upper torso garment with varied tuck binder knit structure
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorPaul R. Montgomery
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Abstract
An upper-torso garment includes a first knit zone and a second knit zone. The first knit zone includes a knit structure with a single course of tuck binder stitches and having a first amount of flexural rigidity, and the second knit zone includes a knit structure with a plurality of tuck binder courses and having a second amount of flexural rigidity, which is different than the first amount of flexural rigidity.
Claims18
A method of knitting an upper-torso garment comprising:
- forming a first set of front-side stitches organized into a first set of front-side courses;
- forming a first set of back-side stitches organized into a first set of back-side courses;
- forming a first knit zone comprising a single tuck binder course of tuck binder stitches connecting the first set of front-side courses to the first set of back-side courses, the first knit zone forming a first breast-covering portion and a second breast-covering portion of the upper-torso garment having a first modulus of elasticity;
- forming a second set of front-side stitches organized into a second set of front-side courses;
- forming a second set of back-side stitches organized into a second set of back-side courses;
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- forming a second knit zone by knitting a plurality of tuck binder courses of tuck binder stitches connecting the second set of front-side courses to the second set of back-side courses, the second knit zone forming an underarm portion of the upper-torso garment having a second modulus of elasticity greater than the first modulus of elasticity.
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A method comprising:
- knitting a breast-covering portion of an upper-torso garment, the breast-covering portion comprising a first modulus of elasticity based on a first stitch density associated with a first tuck binder wherein the first stitch density associated with the first tuck binder is one tuck binder stitch at every third stitch position;
- knitting a second portion of the upper-torso garment;
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- increasing, by increasing a second stitch density associated with a second tuck binder, a second modulus of elasticity associated with the second portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.