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Knitted support garment and method for making

US5787732A · kind A · utility

41Cited by
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5Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJan 10, 1997
Grant dateAug 4, 1998
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 10, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD04B1/243
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A hosiery item such as tights formed from a pair of joined circularly by knitted tubes. In some areas such as the brief it has knitted regions having courses with curved angular ranges having stich heights. The front of the brief is characterized by high and medium compression stripes at least one of which cross over at its ends to form a ventral panel. same course outside these parts. See, for example, the area forming the briefs of the tights having at least one high compression strip, the ends of which cross over at the front and form a ventral panel.

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