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US 2021/0292937 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.
Claims19
A knit garment formed from a yarn that has been treated with a functional finish prior to the yarn being formed into the knit garment, the knit garment comprising:
- a first zone formed from the yarn, wherein yarn segments of the yarn in the first zone have a high level of penetration of the functional finish;
- a second zone integrally extending from the first zone, wherein yarn segments of the yarn in the second zone have a medium level of penetration of the functional finish;
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- a third zone integrally extending from the second zone, wherein yarn segments of the yarn in the third zone have a low level of penetration of the functional finish.
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A knit textile formed from a yarn that has been treated with a functional finish prior to the yarn being formed into the knit textile, the knit textile comprising:
- a first zone formed from the yarn, wherein yarn segments of the yarn in the first zone have a high level of penetration of the functional finish;
- a second zone integrally extending from the first zone, wherein yarn segments of the yarn in the second zone have a medium level of penetration of the functional finish;
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- a third zone integrally extending from the second zone, wherein yarn segments of the yarn in the third zone have a low level of penetration of the functional finish.
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A method of forming a knit textile, the method comprising:
- applying a functional finish to a yarn that is wound around a bobbin, wherein parameters associated with the application of the functional finish are adjusted to achieve a differential level of penetration of the functional finish to different yarn segments of the yarn;
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- forming the knit textile using the yarn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.