	US 12,104,296 B2
	Knitted fabric with flaps, and fiber product
Nobuaki Ogata, Osaka (JP); Takanori Harage, Osaka (JP); and Sonomi Shibata, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to TEIJIN FRONTIER CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/045,556
Filed by TEIJIN FRONTIER CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 3, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/014818 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 6, 2020, PCT Pub. No. WO2019/202993, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 24, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-078317 (JP), filed on Apr. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0156057 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. D04B 1/22 (2006.01); A41D 31/02 (2019.01); A41D 31/14 (2019.01); D01F 8/12 (2006.01); D01F 8/14 (2006.01); D04B 1/16 (2006.01)

CPC D04B 1/22 (2013.01) [A41D 31/02 (2013.01); A41D 31/145 (2019.02); D01F 8/12 (2013.01); D01F 8/14 (2013.01); D04B 1/16 (2013.01); A41D 2500/10 (2013.01)]

11 Claims

1. A flap-equipped knitted fabric comprising a ground structure part and a flap part,

wherein the flap part is movable upon wetting,

and the flap part is pouch-shaped,

and the flap part comprises an atmospheric side and a ground structure part side,

and a conjugate fiber obtained by joining a polyester component and a polyamide component in a side-by-side manner or an eccentric sheath core manner is disposed on the ground structure part side of the flap part,

and the atmospheric side of the flap part has a yarn configuration that is different from the ground structure part side of the flap part,

and upon wetting, an end portion of the flap part moves away from the ground structure part.