Body bulge receiving cup and method of making same

• US 3,103,111 A
• Filed: 06/07/1962
• Issued: 09/10/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Arthur H. Rinehart
• Original Assignee: Arthur H. Rinehart
• Inventors: Rinehart, Arthur H.
• Application Number:
  US04/200,730
• Time in Patent Office: 460 Days
• US Class Current: 66/176
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 7/00 Bathing gowns; Swim-suits, drawers, or trunks; Beach suits
• CPC Class Codes: D04B 1/243 upper parts of panties; pants
• CPC Class Codes: D04B 1/246 Upper torso garments, e.g. sweaters, shirts, leotards
• CPC Class Codes: D04B 11/06 with provision for narrowing or widening to produce fully-fashioned goods
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2403/033 Three dimensional fabric, e.g. forming or comprising cavities in or protrusions from the basic planar configuration, or deviations from the cylindrical shape as generally imposed by the fabric forming process

Claims

4. THE METHOD OF KNITTING A GARMENT WHICH INCLUDES A BODY BULGE RECEIVING CUP WHICH IS SYMMETRICAL WITH REFERENCE TO ITS VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL AXES, SAID METHOD INCLUDING KNITTING THE GARMENT FABRIC UNTIL THE LOWER BORDER OF SAID CUP IS REACHED, CONTINUING THE KNITTING AND WHILE SO KNITTING, OUTWARDLY TRANSFERRING A RELATIVELY LARGE NUMBER OF STITCHES IN EACH OF A FIRST, RELATIVELY LARGE NUMBER OF COURSES ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID VERTICAL AXIS, BEGINNING THE TRANSFERS IN ALL COURSES ON ONE SIDE OF SAID VERTICAL AXIS IN ONE WALE WHICH IS PARALLEL TO SAID VERTICAL AXIS AND WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY SPACED THEREFROM, BEGINNING THE TRANSFERS ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF SAID VERTICAL AXIS IN ONE WALE WHICH IS PARALLEL TO SAID VERTICAL AXIS AND SUBSTANTIALLY EQUALLY SPACED THEREFROM, CONTINUING THE KNITTING AND , WHILE SO KNITTING, OUTWARDLY TRANSFERRING A SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL NUMBER OF STITCHES IN A SECOND, RELATIVELY LARGE NUMBER OF COURSES ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID VERTICAL AXIS, BEGINNING SUCCESSIVE TRANSFERS IN SAID SECOND NUMBER OF COURSES IN WALES WHICH ARE PROGRESSIVELY FURTHER AWAY FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID VERTICAL AXES TO PRODUCE AN INNER V-SHAPED FASHIONING MARK FORMATION AND AN OUTER V-SHAPED FORMATION OF FASHIONING POINTS, THE LIMBS OF WHICH ARE SPACED FROM, AND PARALLEL TO, THE LIMBS OF SAID INNER V-SHAPED FORMATION, KNITTING A HORIZONTAL AREA WHICH IS OF SUBSTANTIAL WIDTH, VERTICALLY CONSIDERED, AND WHICH IS DISPOSED ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID HORIZONTAL AXIS AND WHICH EXTENDS ACROSS THE ADJACENT EDGES OF THE AREAS ENCLOSED BY THE LIMBS OF SAID INNER AND OUTER V-SHAPED FORMATIONS, THE WALES IN SAID HORIZONTAL AREA AND IN THE AREA ENCLOSED BY SAID INNER V-SHAPED FORMATION BEING FREE OF TRANSFERS AND PARALLEL TO SAID VERTICAL AXIS, CONTINUING THE KNITTING, AND, WHILE SO KNITTING, TRANSFERRING STITCHES IN THE REVERSE ORDER UNTIL THE UPPER BORDER OF SAID CUP IS REACHED.