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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Harold G Osborne, Boomer, NC (US);
Assignee:
Alba-Waldensian, Inc., Valdese, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D04B / ; A41C / ; A41D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
66171 ; 6617 / ; 6616 / ; 6617 / ; 2 73 ; 450 70 ; 450 92 ;
Abstract
This invention discloses methods of manufacturing brassiere blanks and brassieres, and the brassieres made therefrom. In particular, the methods and brassieres involve circular knitting operations in which a brassiere blank is produced on a circular knitting machine as a cylindrical tube, and thereafter cut and sewn only at the shoulders to produce a brassiere having shoulder straps knit integrally with a front torso portion having a pair of breast cups and a rear torso portion cooperating with the front torso portion in forming a torso encircling portion.