Patent ID: 7185481

Claim:
A cut resistant, stretchable yarn suitable for knitting gloves and sleeves, said yarn having a longitudinal axis and comprising a stretchable yarn and a bundle of continuous filaments formed of a synthetic material, said stretchable yarn being of substantially smaller denier than the bundle of filaments and being initially under tension to cause it to stretch, each of said continuous filaments of the bundle of continuous filaments having a longitudinal axis and being twisted with respect to one another whereby the filaments have a torque in a first rotational direction applied to them, said bundle of continuous filaments being helically wound about the stretched stretchable yarn to apply a torque in a second rotational direction to said filaments to cause them to untwist with respect to one another in said second rotational direction, said torque in said second direction substantially cancelling said torque in said first direction, whereupon said bundle of filaments again assumes the condition wherein all of said filaments of said bundle are parallel to one another and to the longitudinal axis of the yam and the stretchable yam twists about its longitudinal axis and moves to a position wherein it is helically disposed around the parallel filaments of said bundle.