Patent ID: 6845639
Filing Date: 2005-01-25
Classification: A44B,D04B,D10B

Abstract:
1. A warp knitted textile fabric characterized by a resiliently stretchable three-bar stitch construction having one fabric surface which presents outwardly extending knitted loops adapted for mated engagement with hooking elements of another fabric for use in a two-component fabric fastener of the hook-and-loop type, the fabric comprising a set of ground yarns, a set of elastic yarns and a set of loop-forming yarns interknitted together in respective patterns of stitches formed in longitudinally extending wales and transversely extending courses wherein the elastic yarns are knitted in a chain stitch pattern, the ground yarns provide structural integrity to the fabric while permitting the elastic yarns to stretch and contract in at least one fabric direction and the loop-forming yarns form stitches interknitted with the ground and elastic yarns in only selected spaced courses and form the outwardly extending knitted loops therebetween.