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Apparel fabric manufacturing process, system and product thereof

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The present invention cures the Barre effect found in fabric fabricated by Typical Dope Dyed Process and improve fabric appearance through a knitting technique.

What is Barre?

A barre is an unintentional, repetitive visual pattern of continuous bars and stripes.
Barre will typically appear as a horizontal streak of light or dark bars running the width of the fabric.
The bars must appear in a repetitive pattern to be considered barre.
Barre is typically found parallel to the filling of woven fabric or to the courses of circular knit fabric.
Barre is usually not detected until after the processing of fabric at the end of production.

Invention

In our present invention (in contrast with existing knitting machine), a plurality of guides or eyelets is provided after the tensioners and as such, multi-ply dope dyed yarn is fed to the knitting assembly such that the knitted fabric is a multi-ply dope dyed fabric.

Thus, the core invention of this patent portfolio is a process of forming an apparel fabric from the formation of two-ply or multi-ply yarn formed by a first plurality of yarns and another plurality of yarns.

A few key details:

- 1 patent family with an earliest priority date of 14 Nov 2016
- 5 granted patents, including granted Chinese Invention Patent CN108070951B, granted Chinese Utility Model CN208884091U, granted German Utility Model DE202017106911U1, granted Hong Kong Standard Patent HK1255038, and granted Hong Kong Short Term Patent HK1238482
- 2 pending patent applications, including pending US patent application US16/349,971 and pending EP patent application 16921142.2