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US 7,024,891 B2Granted
Life vest
AssigneeTrueway Corporation
InventorsYung-Mao Huang, Ming-Lung Wu
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Abstract
A method for making a life vest includes knitting or weaving, wherein a material including synthetic filament, synthetic monofilament and elastic yarn is combined by a double weft knitting machine to make a textile for the life vest, and dyeing and sewing. Appropriate cutting and sewing processes are employed to finish the formation of the life vest.
Claims6
A method for making a life vest comprising the steps of:
- establishing a synthetic polyamide monofilament layer sandwiched between a pair of layers of combined synthetic polyamide filament and elastic yarn;
- knitting or weaving, said synthetic polyamide monofilament layer to said layer of synthetic polyamide filament and elastic yarn by a double weft knitting machine to make a textile for the life vest;
- dyeing;
- and
- sewing, wherein appropriate cutting and sewing processes are employed to finish the formation of the life vest having voids in the synthetic monofilament.
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A method for making a life vest comprising the steps of:
- knitting or weaving, wherein a material including synthetic filament, synthetic monofilament and elastic yam is combined by a double weft knitting machine to make a textile for the life vest;
- dyeing;
- and
- sewing, wherein appropriate cutting and sewing processes are employed to finish the formation of the life vest having voids in the synthetic monofilament;
- wherein the textile is composed of a top layer, a bottom layer and a middle layer sandwiched between the top layer and the bottom layer, the top layer and the bottom layer are combination of synthetic filament and elastic yarn and the middle layer is synthetic monofilament, a thickness of the textile is 1.5 to 5.0 mm, ball burst strength of the textile is larger than 14 kgf/am2 and the weight thereof is around 300 to 700 g/m2;
- said synthetic filament is selected from a group consisting of polyester filament, polyamide filament or polypropylene filament and said synthetic monofilament is selected from a group consisting of polyester monofilament or polyamide;
- and the elastic yarn is yarn of at least 20 denier.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.