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AssigneeMilliken & Company
InventorsJohn D. Strength, Robert G. Champion, James Robert Reynolds, Raymond H. Pettit, Jr., William L. McLeod, Jr.
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An improved camouflaged product and method of making such a product is disclosed. A multi-layered camouflage construction may comprise a first textile substrate and a second textile substrate secured to each other along parallel lines of stitching. The second textile substrate may be cut to form lobes oriented transversely to the lines of stitching to simulate the appearance of natural objects in the terrain, such as leaves or foliage. Thread which is capable of shrinking is used to attach textile substrates to each other, and then the thread is heated to shrink the thread into the stitch, forming a hardened seam with gathering and bunching of one or more substrates along the seam. Gathering of substrate along a seam contributes to the three-dimensional visual effect of the camouflage construction.
A multi-layered camouflage construction comprising:
In an article of manufacture, a camouflage construction having first textile substrate connected to a second textile substrate along multiple stitched lines of attachment, said multiple stitched lines of attachment comprising shrink hardened seams, said shrink hardened seams comprising gathered portions of said second textile substrate along the length of said second textile substrate, said gathered portions forming a three-dimensional appearance in said second textile substrate, said shrink hardened seams further comprising a first thread, said first thread comprising a polymeric material, said second textile substrate further comprising a plurality of lobes extending in a transverse direction to said multiple lines of attachment, at least one of said lobes having a base portion attached to said first textile substrate along one of said multiple lines of attachment and an outer wrinkled end portion free from said first textile substrate, said lobes being adapted to simulate the appearance of natural objects of a terrain.
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