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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1994
Walter H Imboden, Burlington, NC (US);
Jonathan M Myers, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Donald M Caudle, Lewisville, NC (US);
Sara Lee Corporation, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A panty garment, panty hose or the like where the garment is formed from first and second adjacent, circularly knit and identically configured tubes each having a first panty section and a second panty section each of which are slit along part of their length at different locations so that when joined at edges thus formed provide a front panty portion made up of substantially all of the first panty sections and a rear panty portion made up of substantially all of the second panty sections, the yarns being knit in each of the sections to permit more vertical stretch in the rear panty section than in the front panty section when the garment is worn.