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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2000
Jean-Pierre Ducauchuis, Nantes, FR;
Aplix, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A knitted loop fabric comprising: a ground of warp yarns or wales (,) of stitches forming a network of wales parallel to one another and of weft connecting yarns or weft yarns (,), the latter being connected to the warp yarns to form the ground, and loops (,) knitted into the ground and each consisting of two legs (,)) knitted into the ground and of two strands starting from the legs and of an apex connecting the two strands, the connection between the weft yarns (,) and the wales (,) being such that each weft yarn (,) is first knitted into a first stitch of a first wale (,) in a weft connection, then into a second stitch (,) of a second wale (,) in a stitch connection, then into a third stitch (,) of a third wale in a second weft connection, then into a fourth stitch (,) of a fourth wale (,) in a stitch connection and then into a fifth stitch (,), which corresponds to the first stitch of a subsequent cycle, in a further weft connection, the second wale and fourth wale being disposed in the wale network between the first wale and the third wale and the two legs of a loop being knitted into the second and fourth stitches respectively.