Padded knit fabric, particularly for lingerie, and method of its manufacture

Claim 2

Warp, or tricot, or Raschel knitting machine knit padded supple textile fabric, particularly for lingerie, having a knit tricot outer fabric layer (58) of warp, or tricot, or Raschel machine knit yarn material; a knit tricot inner fabric layer (59) spaced from the outer fabric layer and essentially parallel thereto, of warp, or tricot, or Raschel machine knit yarn material; and a textile yarn filler material (61) located in the space between said outer and inner fabric layers, wherein, in accordance with the invention, the textile yarn filler material comprises filler yarn (61) warp, or tricot, or Raschel machine knit together with the inner and the outer fabric layers, extending in the space between the fabric layers and formed of elongated sinker loops which are interknit with and bound into the inner and outer knit layers, respectively, and connecting said inner and outer layers together.

Claim 3

Fabric according to claim 1, wherein (FIG. 8) at least one (58) of the knit tricot fabric layers (58,59) is patterned.

Claim 4

Fabric according to claim 1, wherein the two inner and outer knit tricot fabric layers (58,59) are knit with different stitch formations.

Claim 5

Fabric according to claim 3, wherein one of the knit tricot fabric layers is knit with more yarn material in the stitches than the other, to have lesser transparency than the other fabric layer.

Claim 6

Fabric according to claim 1, wherein one of the knit tricot fabric layers is knit with cotton yarn.

Claim 7

Fabric according to claim 1, wherein the filler yarn comprises monofilamentary synthetic material of high bend resistance.

Claim 8

Fabric according to claim 1, wherein the fabric comprises at least about half--by weight--thermoplastic yarn, and the fabric is molded to profiled shape.

Claim 9

Warp, or tricot, or Raschel knitting machine knit padded supple textile fabric, particularly for lingerie, having a knit tricot outer fabric layer (58) of warp, or tricot, or Raschel machine knit yarn material; a knit tricot inner fabric layer (59) spaced from the outer fabric layer and essentially parallel thereof, of warp, or tricot, or Raschel machine knit yarn material; and a textile yarn filler material (61) located in the space between said outer and inner fabric layers, wherein, in accordance with the invention, the fabric is made on a warp, or tricot, or Raschel knitting machine having at least three guide bars (53, 54, 55) and two spaced needle rows or needle lines (51, 51') of knitting needles to form inner and outer fabric layers knitted on the needles of the needle rows or lines to knit inner and outer base fabrics (58, 59), and a filler comprising elongated textile filler yarns (61) knitted in form of sinker loops extending between the spaced base fabrics of the inner and outer fabric layers knitted by said spaced needle rows, said sinker loops being bound into, interknitted with, and connecting the base fabrics of the inner and outer layers.

Claim 10

Warp, or tricot, or Raschel knitting machine knit padded supple textile fabric, particularly for lingerie, having a knit tricot outer fabric layer (58) of warp, or tricot, or Raschel machine knit yarn material; a knit tricot inner fabric layer (59) spaced from the outer fabric layer and essentially parallel thereof, of warp, or tricot, or Raschel machine knit yarn material; and a textile yarn filler material (61) located in the space between said outer and inner fabric layers, wherein, in accordance with the invention, the fabric is made on a warp, or tricot, or Raschel knitting machine having at least three guide bars (53, 54, 55) and two spaced needle rows or needle lines (51, 51') of knitting needles to form inner and outer fabric layers knitted on the needles of the needle rows or lines to knit inner and outer base fabrics (58, 59), and a filler comprising elongated textile filler yarns (61) knitted in form of sinker loops extending between the spaced base fabrics of the inner and outer fabric layers knitted by said spaced needle rows, said sinker loops being bound into, interknitted with, and connecting the base fabrics of the inner and outer layers.

Claim 11

Fabric according to claim 8, wherein (FIG. 8) at least one (58) of the base fabrics is patterned.

Claim 12

Fabric according to claim 8, wherein the base fabrics (58,59) are knitted with different stitch formations.

Claim 13

Fabric according to claim 10, wherein one of the base fabrics is knitted with more yarn material than the other to have, in the knitted base fabric, lesser transparency than the other.

Claim 14

Fabric according to claim 8, wherein (FIG. 7) the sinker loops are placed by two separate guide bars (54,54a).

Claim 15

Fabric according to claim 12, wherein the guide bars form thread feeds, and supply threads for stitch formation laid in opposite direction.

Claim 16

Fabric according to claim 8, wherein one of the base fabrics comprises cotton thread; the other of the base fabrics, and the filler thread comprises thermoplastic monofilamentary synthetic thread, and at least the filler thread has high bend reistance.

Claim 17

Fabric according to claim 8, wherein at least one of the base fabrics is knitted with elastic thread of a first type and an elastic thread of another type.

Claim 18

Fabric according to claim 8, wherein the machine has four guide bars, and two (53, 53a) of the guide bars supply yarn to one of the one needle rows or lines, so that one of the fabric layers will be knitted with yarn from two guide bars (53, 53a).

Claim 19

Method of making a supple textile padded fabric, particularly for lingerie, having: a knit tricot outer fabric layer (58) of knit yarn material; a knit tricot inner fabric layer (59) spaced from the outer fabric layer and essentially parallel thereto, of knit yarn material; and a textile yarn filler material (61) located in the space between said outer and inner fabric layers, comprising the steps of: knitting, on a tricot or Raschel knitting machine, having two spaced needle rows or lines (51, 51') and at least three guide bars (53, 54, 55): (a) an outer base tricot fabric layer (58) on the needles of the first row (51); (b) an inner base tricot fabric layer (59) on the needles of a second row (51'); (c) elongated sinker loops, with connecting or filler yarn (61), the yarn (61) of said sinker loops extending between the knit base fabric layers, knitted by the spaced needle rows (51, 51'), connecting said base fabric layers, and being bound thereinto, and interknit therewith.

Claim 20

Method of making a supple textile padded fabric, particularly for lingerie, having: a knit tricot outer fabric layer (58) of knit yarn material; a knit tricot inner fabric layer (59) spaced from the outer fabric layer and essentially parallel thereto, of knit yarn material; and a textile yarn filler material (61) located in the space between said outer and inner fabric layers, comprising the steps of: knitting, on a tricot or Raschel knitting machine, having two spaced needle rows or lines (51, 51') and at least three guide bars (53, 54, 55): (a) an outer base tricot fabric layer (58) on the needles of the first row (51); (b) an inner base tricot fabric layer (59) on the needles of a second row (51'); (c) elongated sinker loops, with connecting or filler yarn (61), the yarn (61) of said sinker loops extending between the knit base fabric layers, knitted by the spaced needle rows (51, 51'), connecting said base fabric layers, and being bound thereinto, and interknit therewith.

Claim 21

Method according to claim 17, wherein the step (c) comprises forming said sinker loops to position the filler yarn (61) in a direction which extends in the space between the base fabric layers (58, 59) and in which the yarn forms predetermined angles with respect to the major planes of said base fabric layers.

Claim 22

Method according to claim 17, wherein the knitting stitches during knitting of the respective base fabric layers, as set forth in steps (a) and (b) are different.

Claim 23

Method according to claim 19, wherein the knitting stitches of steps (a) and (b) form one of the base fabric layers with more yarn and hence lesser transparency that the stitches forming the other one of the base fabrics.

Claim 24

Method according to claim 17, wherein the step (c) of forming elongated sinker loops comprises knitting the filler yarn (61) by separate warp systems or yarn feeds supplied by separate guide bars (54,54a).

Claim 25

Method according to claim 21, wherein the knitting step comprises forming stitches with composite yarn laid in opposite direction.

Claim 26

Method according to claim 17, wherein the yarn forming the fabric--by weight--is constituted primarily by thermoplastic material; and including the further step of heat-treating the fabric to provide a profiled shape thereto.

Claim 27

Method according to claim 23, to make brassiere cups, comprising the step of deforming the fabric into cup-shape under influence of heat.

Claim 28

Method according to claim 17, wherein at least one of the steps (a) and (b) of knitting at least one of the base fabric layers comprises knitting said at least one base tricot fabric layer with yarn supplied from two guide bars (53, 53a) to form said at least one base fabric layer in patterned configuration.