Textiles: knitting – Fabrics or articles – Articles
Utility Patent
2000-01-03
2001-01-02
Worrell, Danny (Department: 3741)
Textiles: knitting
Fabrics or articles
Articles
C066S170000, C002S132000, C223S084000
Utility Patent
active
06167732
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates generally to improvements for collar-attached shirts made of machine knitted fabric, the improvements, more particularly, enhancing the appearance of stays and their ability to function in providing a neat and tidy shirt collar.
EXAMPLE OF THE PRIOR ART
It is known by common experience that while it is desired to wear an open collar shirt of knitted fabric construction material at different times because it is particularly comfortable to wear, the somewhat casual appearance afforded by it inhibits its use on occasions when a somewhat tidier appearance is desired. One reason for this is the collar which by virtue of being made of knitted fabric tends to lay irregularly and does not look neat and tidy.
Prior U.S. Pat. No. 3,286,278 for “Knitwear Articles Having Collars” issued to R. R. O'Connor on Nov. 22, 1996 directly addresses this problem and proposes as a solution inserting plastic stays in cooperating pockets strategically located at the edges of the collar which bound the front neck opening of the shirt. Using stay-embodying techniques, as disclosed in numerous prior patents, as exemplified by U.S. Pat. No. 4,286,337 for “Shape Retaining Collar Devices and Articles Of Wearing Apparel Using Same” issued to Malouf, Jr. on Sept. 1, 1981, O'Connor's knitted collar has pockets with a widthwise dimension that is oversized with respect to the width of the plastic stay so that, following prior art practice of the noted '337 and other such patents, O'Connor can instruct a user that the stay is easily inserted into the pocket due to the sliding clearance resulting from the width oversizes of the pocket relative to the stay.
Unavoidably however, the sliding clearance permits shifting movement of the stay within the pocket, which detracts from the appearance of the knitted collar, and is vulnerable to the stay being projected through the interstices of the wales and courses of the knitted construction, as well as resulting in other undesirable consequences.
Broadly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a knitted collar with embodied plastic stays overcoming the foregoing and other shortcomings of the prior art.
More particularly, it is an object to use to advantage the operating mode of the knitting apparatus to match the width of the pocket stay to the width of the stay so that there is an optimum minimal size difference therebetween, all as will be better understood as the description proceeds.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1105407 (1914-07-01), Curtis
patent: 2769979 (1956-11-01), Driesbach
patent: 3286278 (1966-11-01), O'Connor
patent: 4038840 (1977-08-01), Castello
patent: 4286337 (1981-09-01), Malouf, Jr.
Myron Amer P.C.
Worrell Danny
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