Protective garment
AssigneeHanes Innerwear Australia Pty Ltd
InventorHeidi MELLOS
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Abstract
A protective garment, gussets for protective garments, and individual gusset layers, being a moisture wicking layer, a core moisture absorbing layer and a moisture impermeable layer, and combinations thereof. The moisture wicking layer including a double knit fabric wherein a technical face of the fabric forms an eyelet mesh utilising both hydrophilic and hydrophobic yarns and a technical back of the fabric forms an interlock utilising only hydrophilic yarns. The moisture absorbing layer including a sinker terry fabric knit comprising sinker loops with plush loops made form synthetic fibres treated with a hydrolysing enzyme that splits the fibres into fibrils. The moisture impermeable layer including a base fabric knit laminated with a polyurethane sheet.
Claims20
A moisture wicking layer for incorporation into a gusset for a protective garment, the gusset layer being a double knit fabric constructed from yarn, wherein a first portion of the yarns are hydrophilic and a second portion of the yarns are hydrophobic, whereby a technical face of the fabric forms an eyelet mesh utilising both hydrophilic and hydrophobic yarns and a technical back of the fabric forms an interlock utilising only hydrophilic yarns, and whereby the hydrophobic yarns only outwardly present to the technical face of the fabric, and the technical face forms eyelet openings formed by a tuck stitch being held in a repeated pattern to expose the underlying hydrophilic yarns of the technical back to wick moisture away from the technical face.
A moisture absorbing layer for incorporation into a gusset for a protective garment, the gusset layer having a sinker terry fabric knit comprising sinker loops with plush loops protruding from the fabric knit on at least one side, wherein the plush loops are made from synthetic fibres treated with a hydrolysing enzyme that splits the fibres into fibrils.
A moisture impermeable layer for incorporation into a gusset for a protective garment, the gusset layer including a base fabric knit laminated with a polyurethane sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.