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Class 28/154 - Hosiery


Subclass of Class 28 - Textiles: manufacturing
Definition: Method or apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of
No. of patents: 9
Last issue date: 09/19/2006


NumberTitleIssue Date
7107621Optical illusion wear
The present invention is a variety of wearing apparel which employs two-dimensional patterns of optical illusions in three-dimensional applications in or upon the material of said wearing apparel. The applications of said patterns in the design of the apparel are fo...
09/19/2006
5964000Method for manufacturing pantyhose
A method for manufacturing pantyhose efficiently year round. The method includes dyeing and post-boarding the pantyhose during one portion of the year in the normal manner. During slack order times, the pantyhose are pre-boarded, folded and bagged for sub...
10/12/1999
5727294Apparatus and method for continuoulsy knitting, shrinking and transferring the blanks to a remote location
A continuous and uninterrupted process for knitting a plurality of cylindrical blanks, automatically transferring the knit blanks sequentially to a shrink apparatus, continuously shrinking the blanks for a predetermined period of time, and automatically t...
03/17/1998
4186471Method of making hosiery
A sheer hosiery construction and method is useful with sheer knee-high hosiery, panty hose, and other types of sheer, circular knit hosiery in which an appearance of substantial uniform color and sheerness, as worn, together with a reinforced toe are desi...
02/05/1980
4137615Process for texturing bicomponent yarn
A method for producing conventionally usable, stable, preshrunk and crimped yarn from greige self-crimping bicomponent or biconstituent yarn. The method employs a knit-de-knit procedure to impart a so-called mechanical crimp in the self-crimping yarn as t...
02/06/1979
4100769Circular knitting machine method for manufacturing one piece panty hose or the like
A method for manufacturing panty hose or like fabrics including two leg portions and a panty portion integral therewith, the leg portions being knitted as tubular portions by continuous rotary motion of a needle cylinder or needle cylinders of a circular ...
07/18/1978
4057880Method of producing snag resistant hosiery article
The snag resistant leg portion of this hosiery article is knit of a composite self-crimping yarn including a series of mechanical crimps imparted thereto prior to knitting, and a series of crimps imparted to the composite yarn by development of the latent...
11/15/1977
4045981Process for bulking knitted fabric articles
Method for developing potential yarn bulk in knitted fabric by introducing the fabric into a turbulent flow of heated air....
09/06/1977
3974525Method of knitting socks having a closed toe
In knitting socks in a string of such socks on a circular knitting machine, a double fabric is knitted in order to close the toe, further courses then being knitted with a heat-shrinking yarn, followed by knitting courses with a washable yarn, after which...
08/17/1976
 
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