Robert Bruce Matthews

US Patent:

40578801, Nov 15, 1977

Filed:

Sep 23, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/725998

Inventors:

Robert M. Matthews - Pittsboro NC
William J. Lawson - Siler City NC

Assignee:

Kellwood Company - St. Louis MO

International Classification:

D04B 126
D02G 100

US Classification:

28154

Abstract:

The snag resistant leg portion of this hosiery article is knit of a composite self-crimping yarn including a series of mechanical crimps imparted thereto prior to knitting, and a series of crimps imparted to the composite yarn by development of the latent crimp in the composite yarn after knitting. The hosiery article knit of the composite self-comprising yarn having both types of crimp therein has much greater snag or pick resistance than either a hosiery article knit of the same type of composite yarn but including only the crimps imparted by development of the latent crimp in the yarn, or a hosiery article knit of yarn having mechanical crimp only. The knitting of a mechanically crimped composite yarn also produces a normal size greige hosiery article blank which may be processed in the usual manner to produce the finished hosiery article.