Textiles: manufacturing – Textile product fabrication or treatment – Of thread interlaced article or fabric
Patent
1975-05-07
1977-11-22
Mackey, Robert R.
Textiles: manufacturing
Textile product fabrication or treatment
Of thread interlaced article or fabric
26 186, 73159, D04B 124, D06C 2100, G01L 506
Patent
active
040588742
ABSTRACT:
Various greige fabrics are tubular knit with various knit parameters, including stitch length and stitch density, pre-treated and converted into test garments using the tubular knit fabric as the major portion of the garment, such as a man's undershirt. Selected lengths of tubular knit portions of test garments are tested by radially outwardly stretching them beyond their relaxed state a predetermined amount corresponding to the extent and manner of stretch such a garment would actually be subjected to in actual use by a wearer, and the force per lineal dimension required to so extend the garments is observed and recorded. Test garments made from different fabrics all knit with the same knit design parameters and pre-treated in the identical manner but having different stitch lengths and densities are tested to obtain a correlation between stitch length, stitch density and the force per lineal dimension of tubular garment required to stretch the garment to its wear condition. Selection is then made of a final desired stitch length and/or density that will produce a tubular garment having a comfort fit of between eight and forty grams per inch, the comfort fit being that force required to radially distend the tubular garment to its condition as worn, expressed in terms of force per lineal dimension required to distend a length of garment to its wear condition. A final greige fabric is then knit having the new selected stitch density and/or stitch length (other knit parameters and pre-treating variables being held constant) and final tubular knit garment products are made from the final knit fabric, the products having desired comfort fit of between eight and forty grams per inch.
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Cluett Peabody & Co., Inc.
Mackey Robert R.
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