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US 2018/0094365 A1Published application
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.
Claims20
A textile comprising:
- a knit or woven construction formed using at least one space-treated yarn having at least a first yarn segment having a first functional finish applied thereto and a second yarn segment contiguous with the first yarn segment, wherein the second yarn segment does not have the first functional finish applied thereto.
A garment comprising:
- a knit or woven construction formed using at least one yarn that has been space-treated such that the yarn comprises at least a first yarn segment having a first functional finish applied thereto and a second yarn segment contiguous with the first yarn segment, wherein a location of the first yarn segment having the first functional finish applied thereto is staggered across the length and the width of the garment.
A method of forming a textile, the method comprising:
- providing a yarn having a length;
- applying at least a first functional finish to a first set of non-contiguous segments of the yarn along the length of the yarn using a space-treating process;
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- forming the textile using the treated yarn.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.