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US 4,527,403 AGranted
Circular knit panty and method
AssigneeHosiery Maufacturing Corp. of Morganton
InventorsOlen E. Fullbright, Truette H. Baird, Jack H. Wade
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AssigneeHosiery Maufacturing Corp. of Morganton
InventorsOlen E. Fullbright, Truette H. Baird, Jack H. Wade
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The present panty is formed of first and second seamless tubular knit blanks each of which includes an inwardly turned welt on one end, a predetermined length of body yarn and inwardly contracted mock rib areas formed by incorporating elastic yarn therein. The inwardly contracted mock rib area of one seamless blank is much longer than the other and is adapted to form the crotch area of the panty. Cotton yarn is incorporated on the inwardly contracted mock rib areas and forms inwardly extending terry loops. The seamless blanks are longitudinally slit and then joined together by a transverse seam extending across and connecting the inwardly contracted mock rib areas and opposite side seams are formed along opposite sides of the body portions of each blank and the inwardly turned welts to complete the panty and join the waistband and form a waist opening.
A knit panty comprising a front panel including opposite side edges with successive courses extending between said opposite side edges and including adjacent wales of stitch loops, a rear panel including opposite side edges with successive courses extending between said side edges and including adjacent wales of stitch loops, identical inwardly turned welts on one end of each of said front and rear panels, side seams connecting corresponding portions of said opposite sides of said front and rear panels adjacent said inwardly turned welts and forming a body portion with an upper waist opening defined by said identical inwardly turned welts on the corresponding ends of said front and rear panels, a crotch area extending between and interconnecting said front and rear panels, said crotch area including mock ribs having elastic yarn incorporated in spaced-apart wales and floating inside of the wales between said spaced-apart wales to provide greater coursewise stretchability and greater fabric density in said crotch area than the coursewise stretchability and fabric density of said front and rear panels.
A knit panty comprising a front panel including opposite side edges with successive courses of stretchable body yarn extending between said opposite side edges and including adjacent wales of stitch loops, a rear panel including opposite side edges with successive courses of stretchable body yarn extending between said side edges and including adjacent wales of stitch loops, identical inwardly turned welts on one end of each of said front and rear panels, side seams connecting corresponding portions of said opposite sides of said front and rear panels adjacent said inwardly turned welts and forming a body portion with an upper waist opening defined by said identical inwardly turned welts on the corresponding ends of said front and rear panels, a crotch area with successive courses of stretchable body yarn extending between and integrally knit at one end to said rear panel, and a transverse seam extending across said crotch area and connecting said front and rear panels adjacent the other end of said crotch area, said crotch area including mock ribs having elastic yarn knit with said body yarn in spaced-apart wales of spaced-apart courses and floating inside of the wales between said spaced-apart wales to provide greater coursewise stretchability and greater fabric density in said crotch area than the coursewise stretchability and fabric density of said front and rear panels, and a cotton yarn knit with said body yarn in spaced-apart wales of spaced-apart courses and forming inwardly extending terry loops in said crotch area.
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