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US3696444A
US3696444A US626289A US3696444DA US3696444A US 3696444 A US3696444 A US 3696444A US 626289 A US626289 A US 626289A US 3696444D A US3696444D A US 3696444DA US 3696444 A US3696444 A US 3696444A
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  • ABSTRACT A combination two-legged garment of the type commonly known as panty hose including a pair of seamless, sheer, heeless stocking portions knit integrally with and depending from the panty portion.
  • the stocking portions are boarded without the usual heel pocket and are knit of stretchable thermoplastic yarn not in excess of about 30 denier to provide sheerness and sufficient stretchability that the garment can be manufactured and sold in two or three sizes which will fit the full size range.
  • the present invention relates generally to ladies panty hose of the type which includes a pair of sheer stocking portions adapted to cover the feet and legs, and an upper reinforced portion adapted to cover the lower trunk portion of the wearer, up to the waist.
  • Panty hose type garments have become quite popular in the last few years for several reasons.
  • panty hose eliminate the need for stocking supporters, such as garter belts, garter fasteners, girdles and the like. Therefore, panty hose are very popular for wear with tight-fitting clothing, such as slacks, since there are no garter fasteners to form objectionable bulges in the clothing.
  • Panty hose are also very popular at present because of the current fashion trend toward short skirts and dresses.
  • the stocking portions of the panty hose can be extended all the way up the leg to the panty portion. Since the stocking portions completely cover the legs, the tops of the stockings are not visible, even when worn with very short skirts and dresses.
  • panty hose are becoming increasingly popular with the consumers, known types of panty hose have a distinct disadvantage, from a manufacturing and merchandising standpoint.
  • Conventional types of panty hose must be manufactured in a large range of different foot sizes, as well as a range of different lengths for each foot size. In order to be able to properly fit all sizes, the merchant must maintain all the different sizes in inventory.
  • panty hose be knit of a stretchable type yarn.
  • stretchable type yarns has been effective to the degree that the panty hose can be made in a lesser number of sizes.
  • tube type stockings be utilized in the manufacture of panty hose. This eliminates the knitting of different foot sizes on the knitting machine, since a formed heel pocket is not knit into the stocking.
  • these tube stocking blanks have a heel pouch formed during the boarding operation and the panty hose are still manufactured and sold in different foot sizes.
  • the consumer when buying conventional types of panty hose, the consumer must consider both the foot size and leg length in order to obtain the proper fit.
  • panty hose wherein the stocking portions are knit of a fine gauge thermoplastic stretchable yarn and are boarded without the usual heel pouch or pocket so that the panty hose may be manufactured and sold in not over two or three sizes which will fit the normal size range.
  • the panty hose of this invention maybe manufactured and sold in a very few sizes, since it is not necessary to provide various foot sizes. Since the stretchable stocking portions of the panty hose of the present inthe fabric in the lower portion of each stocking into a conforming foot and heel configuration when the garment is worn.
  • the present panty hose is manufactured and sold with only one variable, as far as size is concerned, and that is the overall length of the panty hose.
  • this panty hose can be made in two, or not more than three lengths, which correspond with the height of the wearer.
  • FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a pair of seamless stocking blanks of the type utilized in forming the present panty hose;
  • FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the unfinished panty hose, showing the lower toe portions being closed and illustrating the manner in which the upper portions form the panty portion when sewn together;
  • FIG. 3 is a front view of the panty hose, illustrating the manner in which the upper portions of each stocking blank are connected together with a crotch patch therebetween;
  • FIG. 4 is an enlarged vertical sectional view through the upper waist band portion, illustrating the manner in which an elastic band may be connected to the upper edge of the turned welt portion;
  • FIG. 5 is an isometric view of the completed panty hose, after boarding and finishing, and in flattened condition with the front and rear of the upper panty portion being folded inwardly, and illustrating the heeless nature of that lower portion of each stocking portion which is adapted to fit the foot and ankle;
  • FIG. 6 is a front perspective view of the panty hose, illustrating the manner in which the lower portions of the stockings conform to the foot, heel and ankle of the wearer;
  • FIG. 7 is a view similar to FIG. 6 but showing a rear perspective view.
  • the panty hose of the present invention includes an upper panty portion, broadly indicated at P (FIGS. 5-7) and a pair of seamless tube type sheer stretch stockings, broadly indicated at L and L.
  • the upper ends of the stocking portions L, L are integrally knit with and connected to the panty portion P by a run-stop band 11 of special stitches.
  • the lower ends of the stocking portions L, L are provided with respective closed toe ends 12, 12'.
  • the flattened and finished panty hose shown in FIG. 5 is divided into three sections A, B and C.
  • the section A indicates the length of the panty portion P and the sections B and C divide the stocking portion L into an upper portion B and a lower portion C.
  • the length of the lower portion C is slightly less than half the overall length of the stocking portion L and encompasses that lower portion of the stocking which is adapted to fit the foot, heel and ankle of the wearer.
  • This lower portion C is heeless, of substantially the same width throughout, and the rear edge is substantially straight and parallel with the front edge.
  • the rear edge of the upper portion B gradually curves outwardly, inwardly and then outwardly to provide a suitable shape to aid in adapting this portion of the stocking to fit the calf, knee and thigh of the wearer.
  • the upper portion B progressively increases in width as it extends upwardly from the lower portion C. 1
  • long tubular stocking blanks are individually knit on a fine gauge circular seamless hosiery knitting machine, having on the order of about 400 needles.
  • the stocking blank is knit from top to bottom and the upper edge portion is preferably provided with a small turned welt portion 13 which is knit of a heavy denier nylon stretch yarn from about 60 to 70 denier.
  • the turned welt portion 13 is formed in the usual manner except that it is shorter than the normal turned welt of a ladies stocking, preferably about 1% inches. Knitting of the heavy denier stretchable yarn continues to form the reinforced tubular panty portion P, down to the run-stop band 11. Any suitable type of special stitch may be utilized to form the run-stop band, and in the present instance, the band 11 is formed by knitting a few courses of a fine denier nylon yarn alternating with courses of the heavy denier stretchable yarn.
  • the heavy denier courses are formed of a repeated pattern of three plain stitches and a held or elongated stitch.
  • the fine denier nylon courses are formed of a repeated pattern of three plain stitches and a tuck.
  • the tucks of the fine denier courses are formed in the same wales as the elongated or held stitches of the heavy denier courses.
  • the wales in which the elongated or held stitches and the tucks occur are stopped in a walewise direction with the knitting of successive pairs of courses.
  • the run-stop band 11 is preferably knit about 40 courses wide.
  • the sheer stocking portion L is preferably knit in a two-feed manner and of a fine denier nylon stretch yarn, not in excess of about 30 denier. While other types of stretchable yarn may be utilized, it is preferred that the stocking portion be knit of denier lively or torque nylon yarns. The yarns in successive courses have torque in opposite directions and have sufficient torque to cause the stitch loops to distort or incline in directions corresponding to the torque direction. Generally, the knitting of sheer stretch stockings by the 7 use of torque yarn is disclosed in US. Pat. No.
  • the stocking portion L may be knit of any type of plain or patterned stitch, and it is preferred that the size of the stitch loops be gradually reduced as the stocking blank is knit to produce a slight taper and reduce the width of the fabric at the lower portion of the tube, as illustrated in FIG. 1. After the required number of courses have been knit to produce the desired length in the stocking portion L, a band of reinforced fabric 14 is knit at the bottom.
  • the lower end of the tubular blank may beclosed in any suitable manner to form the toe end portion 12.
  • An arcuate line of stitching may be formed by a conventional overedge seaming machine having a cutting device for removing the surplus fabric as the seam is formed, as illustrated by the dotted lines in FIG. 2. It is preferred that the stocking blanks be wrong side out as the lower toe end is closed and then turned right side out so that the seam is located on the inside of the blank.
  • the stocking blanks may be boarded and heat-set at this stage; i.e., after closing the toe end 12 and before joining them together, or they may be joined together before they are boarded, in a manner to be presently described.
  • novel boarding forms must be used having a heeless configuration of substantially the same shape as the flattened panty hose shown in FIG. 5.
  • each stocking blank is cut or slit in a walewise direction from the upper edge downwardly to a point adjacent the run-stop band 11, along the line indicated at 15 in FIG. 1.
  • the front edge 15a and rear edge 15b, formed by the cut 15, may be directly joined to corresponding edges of another stocking blank by a U-shaped seam line to connect the upper portions of the stocking blanks together and form the upper panty portion P.
  • a diamond-shaped crotch patch 17 (FIG. 2) be connected between the stocking blanks and ad jacent the juncture of the edges 15a, 15b.
  • the crotch patch 17 is preferably offset rearwardly so that it extends up the rear portion of the garment to a slightly greater extent, as illustrated in FIGS. 6 and 7. If a greater width is desirable across the rear and around the upper edge of the panty portion of the garment, the crotch patch 17 may be continued up between the rear edges 15b, 15b of the stocking blanks. It is preferred that an elastic band 20 be suitably connected, such as by sewing,'to the upper edge of the turned welt portion 13, in the manner indicated in FIG. 4.
  • Groups of the panty hose are folded and placed in dye bags and dyed to the desired shade.
  • the dyed panty hose are then finished by heat-setting on a special boarding device which includes a pair of closely spaced side-by-side boarding forms, shaped to correspond to the configuration shown in FIG. 5.
  • the forms extend below the upper waist opening of the panty hose and are connected together by a suitable spacer block. Curved rods extend upwardly from the spacer block and between the boarding forms to hold the front and rear portions of the panty portion in an inwardly folded condition, as shown in FIG. 5, during the boarding operation.
  • the panty hose is boarded at about 245 F. to shrink the yarn and draw the stocking portions inwardly so that they are heat-set and conform to the heeless shape of the boarding form.
  • the panty hose may be dyed and heat-set while on the special boarding forms in a single continuous process, in what is known as the dye-boarding process.
  • the garments are placed on forms and successively subjected to the dyeing, heat-setting and shrinking, and drying steps before they are removed.
  • panty hose of the present invention are manufactured in only two sizes which will fit the normal size range; i.e., ladies from 5 feet 1 inch to 5 feet 8 inches in height. In the event it is desirable to fit sizes outside of this normal range, the stocking blanks could be knit in three different lengths.
  • panty hose may be referred to as long and short.
  • the long panty hose is substantially identical to the short panty hose except that the stocking blanks are knit about 2 inches longer.
  • the short panty hose will fit ladies from about 5 feet 1 inch to about 5 feet 5 inches in height, and the long garment will fit ladies from 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 8 inches in height.
  • the run-stop band 1 l is provided to prevent running of the fabric below the slit 15, before and during the sewing operation.
  • the run-stop band 11 also permits the removal of the stocking leg portions L and L' from the panty portion P when runs occur in the stocking portions and the panty portion P may be worn without the stocking portions.
  • the heeless stocking portions of the present panty hose have sufficient stretch characteristics to permit the fabric to cling and uniformly conform to the feet of the wearer, without wrinkles, bulges or uncomfortable tightness, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7.
  • the length and shape of the feet of the wearer shapes the fabric of the lower stocking portions into a conforming foot and heel configuration when the panty hose is worn, resulting in surprisingly good and comfortable fit, even though the stocking portions have no permanently shaped heel.
  • the heeless panty hose of the present invention eliminates manufacturing and merchandising panty hose of different foot sizes and thereby reduces the manufacturing cost. Since only two or three sizes of panty hose are maintained in inventory by the retail merchant, the purchaser need not know the exact size required, but will need to know only the approximate height of the wearer.
  • a knitted panty hose including an upper panty portion and a pair of seamless tube type sheer stockings portions knit integrally with and depending from the panty portion, said stocking portions each being knit of a thermoplastic stretch yarn not in excess of about 30 denier, said panty portion being knit of a stretchable yarn of heavier denier than the yarn in the stocking portions, the stocking portions each including a closed lower toe end, and a seamless tubular portion extending upwardly from said toe end, at least that lower portion of said tubular portion adapted to fit the foot, heel and ankle being heeless and of substantially the same width throughout, said lower portion being boarded and heat-set on a heeless boarding form, and having a sufficient degree of stretchability to permit the stocking portion to be drawn over the heels of the wearer and to readily conform thereto.
  • thermoplastic stretch yarn has sufficient torque to incline the stitch loops in a direction corresponding to the direction of the torque in the yarn, and successive courses of said stocking portions being knit of yarns having opposite torque.
  • panty hose according to claim 1 wherein said panty portion includes a double thickness turned welt portion at the upper end thereof, and an elastic waist band connected to the upper edge of said turned welt.
  • a panty hose according to claim 1 including a runstop band positioned between the panty portion and the stocking leg portions, said run-stop band comprising a plurality of courses of special stitches including a stepped regularly recurring pattern of tuck stitches.

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