Patent ID: 11920293
Assignee: LEVI STRAUSS & CO.
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC D  A  B | IPC A  B  D

Claim 0:
1. A garment comprising:
a fabric comprising indigo ring-dyed yarn; and
a finishing pattern on the fabric, wherein the finishing pattern is formed by a laser removing selected amounts of material from the fabric,
for lighter locations of the finishing pattern, a greater depth of the indigo ring-dyed cotton warp yarn is removed, as compared to darker locations of the finishing pattern where a lesser depth of the indigo ring-dyed cotton warp yarn is removed,
the fabric comprises yarns that are ring dyed comprising an outer ring and an inner core, the outer ring is indigo colored due to being penetrated through by the indigo dye while the inner core is white or off-white colored due to not being penetrated to by the indigo dye, and
a cross section of a ring-dyed yarn comprises a total thickness of the outer ring that is at least 23 percent and less than 25 percent of a total thickness of the yarn.