US 12,004,580 B2
Flat-knitted outdoor clothing and method for manufacturing same
Kenneth Kurtzweg, Oberägeri (CH); Nico Serena, Risch (CH); Isabel Rosa Müggler Zumstein, Zürich (CH); and Françoise Adler, Bern (CH)
Assigned to KJUS North America, Inc., Boulder, CO (US)
Appl. No. 16/093,547
Filed by KJUS North America, Inc., Boulder, CO (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 12, 2017, PCT No. PCT/EP2017/058816
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 12, 2018,
PCT Pub. No. WO2017/178542, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 19, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 484/16 (CH), filed on Apr. 13, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2019/0125018 A1, May 2, 2019
Int. Cl. A41D 31/102 (2019.01); A41D 3/00 (2006.01); A41D 31/06 (2019.01); A41D 31/18 (2019.01); B32B 5/02 (2006.01); B32B 7/12 (2006.01); B32B 27/12 (2006.01); B32B 27/40 (2006.01); D04B 21/20 (2006.01); A41D 31/12 (2019.01); A41D 31/14 (2019.01)
CPC A41D 31/102 (2019.02) [A41D 3/00 (2013.01); A41D 31/065 (2019.02); A41D 31/185 (2019.02); B32B 5/026 (2013.01); B32B 7/12 (2013.01); B32B 27/12 (2013.01); B32B 27/40 (2013.01); D04B 21/207 (2013.01); A41D 31/125 (2019.02); A41D 31/14 (2019.02); A41D 2400/10 (2013.01); A41D 2500/10 (2013.01); B32B 2262/0261 (2013.01); B32B 2262/0276 (2013.01); B32B 2307/304 (2013.01); B32B 2307/712 (2013.01); B32B 2437/00 (2013.01); D10B 2331/04 (2013.01); D10B 2401/02 (2013.01); D10B 2403/0112 (2013.01); D10B 2501/04 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A garment for wearing outdoors, the garment comprising:
a single part or multiple parts sewn together, the single part or each of the multiple parts being made of a warp-knitted fabric laminate comprising:
a) a warp-knitted fabric, wherein the warp-knitted fabric forms an outer shell of the garment,
b) a waterproof and vapor-permeable, adhesively bonded film which is stretchable in all directions that adjoins the warp-knitted fabric on its inner side, the adhesively bonded film having a greater stretchability than the outer shell,
c) a thermal insulation layer optionally provided under the adhesively bonded film, and
d) a warp-knitted inner lining coupled directly to the adhesively bonded film or the optionally provided thermal insulation layer, either detachably, or fixedly by seams or stitches, the warp-knitted inner lining having a greater stretchability than the adhesively bonded film and the outer shell.