Sheathing knitted elastic lower body garment

• US 9,468,235 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2013
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DBI Operations Europe SAS
• Original Assignee: Hanes Operations Europe S.A.S. (Hanesbrands Incorporated)
• Inventors: Houillon, Sylvain, Turlan-Van Der Hoeven, Manon
• Primary Examiner(s): HALE, GLORIA M
• Application Number:
  US14/383,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20150296894A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,322 Days
• Field of Search: 450/94, 450/109, 450/114, 450/116, 450/117, 450122-126, 450/151, 450/153, 450/156
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A41B 2500/10 Knitted
• CPC Class Codes: A41B 9/04 Knickers for ladies, with or without inserted crotch or seat parts
• CPC Class Codes: A41C 1/003 Panty-girdles
• CPC Class Codes: D04B 1/243 upper parts of panties; pants

Abstract

The invention relates to a lower body garment comprising pants (1) with a knitted elastic base engaging with a network of rows of resin (7) applied to one surface of the elastic knit which forms the base of the pants, on the front and/or rear of the pants, characterized in that a knitted elastic lining (20) which is lighter than the base knit (5, 6) is provided in order to be applied freely to said surface of the base knit (5, 6) at least on said network of rows of resin (7).

Claims

1. A lower body garment comprising panties with an elastic base knit engaging with a network of elastic resin applied on one surface of the elastic base knit of the panties on at least one of the front or back of the panties, the network of elastic resin forming curved resin lines on the surface of the elastic base knit of the panties, wherein a knitted elastic lining lighter in weight than the base knit is provided to be attached to said surface of the base knit, wherein the knitted elastic lining covers at least a location of said resin network.

2. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the surface of the base knit on which the resin network is applied is the inner surface.

3. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the knitted elastic lining attached to the surface of the base knit on which the network of elastic resin is deposited is applied over an entirety of the surface of the base knit.

4. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the lining is attached to the surface of the base knit at least at a portion of a periphery of the lining.

5. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the lining is made of a lightweight mesh of 60 to 100 g/m².

6. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the elastic resin is a silicone rubber.

7. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the network of elastic resin comprising the curved lines is provided on one side of the panties, and is completed on the other side by a compression band extending across the other side of the panties, which forms around the panties a continuous ring of tension lines.

8. The garment according to claim 7, wherein the compression band is a heat-sealed textile band.

9. The garment according claim 7, wherein curved resin lines disposed on the side of the panties extend between two lateral edges of the side of the panties, the two lateral edges being at intersections of the side of the panties with the other side of the panties at lateral sides of the panties, wherein at least in one area of the two edges where ends of the compression band join at the two edges on the opposite surface of the panties connect with an ending area of the curved resin lines disposed on the surface of the base knit on the side of the panties.

10. The garment according to 1, wherein on the front surface of the panties, the network of elastic resin comprising curved lines comprises two symmetrical sets of lines going from the front of a thigh of a wearer of the garment to an opposite hip of the wearer, on an edge of the front surface, the two sets intersecting on a stomach of the wearer.

11. The garment according to claim 1, wherein on a back surface of the panties, the network of elastic resin comprising the curved lines surrounds and encloses two internal zones of a gluteus maximus of a wearer of the garment in order to join one lateral edge with another lateral edge of the back surface.

12. The garment of claim 5, wherein the mesh comprises 10% elastane and an elongation of 145% in the direction corresponding to a width of the panties.

13. The garment of claim 6, wherein the silicon rubber penetrates slightly into the base knit and does not pass through the base knit so that the silicon rubber is not directly visible from the other side of the base knit.

14. The garment of claim 10, wherein the resin lines deposited on the base knit are more concentrated on the stomach than a remainder of the resin lines.

15. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the base knit comprises a jersey knit mesh comprising rows of polyamide thread wrapped with elastane alternating with rows of non-wrapped polyamide, where an elongation of the base knit is 130% in the direction corresponding to a width of the panties.

16. A lower body garment comprising:

an elastic base knit forming panties;

a network of elastic resin applied on a surface of the elastic base knit on at least one of the front or back of the elastic base knit forming the panties, the network of elastic resin comprising curved lines of the elastic resin on the surface of the elastic base knit; and

a lining attached to the elastic base knit and covering at least a portion of the network of elastic resin.

17. The garment of to claim 16, wherein the network of elastic resin is applied on an inner surface of the base knit.

18. The garment of to claim 16, wherein the lining is a knitted elastic lining that is lighter in weight than the elastic base knit.

19. The garment of claim 16, wherein the lining covers an entirety of the network of elastic resin, and is attached to the surface of the base knit at least at a portion of a periphery of the lining.

20. The garment of to claim 16, wherein the network of elastic resin comprises silicone rubber.

21. The garment of claim 20, wherein the silicon rubber penetrates slightly into the base knit and does not pass through the base knit so that the silicon rubber is not directly visible from the other side of the base knit.

22. The garment of claim 16, wherein the network of elastic resin forms lines of the elastic resin on a first side of the panties and a compression band extending across a second, opposite side of the panties, the lines of elastic resin and the compression band forming a continuous ring of tension lines around the panties.