Seamless bra

Abstract

A knitted blank in the form of a tubular body for forming a brassiere, the tubular body being formed of a body fabric comprising a plurality of courses of ground yarn extending circumferentially about the tubular body and having a pair of circumferentially spaced regions for defining breast accommodating pockets, the tubular body including discrete band-like regions of reinforcement defined by reinforcement yarns which are incorporated into the body fabric, each band-like region following the lower contour of an associated breast accommodating pocket to define an elongate breast pocket support.

1 . A knitted blank in the form of a tubular body for forming a brassiere, the tubular body being formed of a body fabric comprising a plurality of courses of ground yarn extending circumferentially about the tubular body and having a pair of circumferentially spaced regions for defining breast accommodating pockets, the tubular body including discrete band-like regions of reinforcement defined by reinforcement yarns which are incorporated into the body fabric, each band-like region following the lower contour of an associated breast accommodating pocket to define an elongate breast pocket support.  
   
   
       2 . The knitted blank according to  claim 1 , wherein each discrete band-like region defining an elongate breast pocket support is formed by a miss-knit knitted structure.  
   
   
       3 . The knitted blank according to  claim 1  wherein the miss-knitted structure includes the ground yarn being of a miss-knit stitch structure with the same needles on immediately adjacent courses knitting, the reinforcement yarn being knit on the same courses as the ground yarn, the reinforcement yarn being of a miss-knit stitch structure with different needles, on immediately adjacent needles knitting.  
   
   
       4 . The knitted blank according to  claim 1 , wherein said ground yarn is a plated yarn comprising a non-elastomeric ground yarn and an elastomeric yarn.  
   
   
       5 . The knitted blank according to  claim 4 , wherein said non-elastomeric ground yarn is a thermosetting ground yarn such as a polyamide.  
   
   
       6 . The knitted blank according to  claim 1 , wherein said reinforcement yarn is a thermosetting reinforcement yarn having different thermosetting properties to the thermosetting ground yarn.  
   
   
       7 . The knitted blank according to  claim 6 , wherein the said thermosetting reinforcement yarn is formed from a polyvinylchoride plastics.  
   
   
       8 . The knitted blank according to  claim 7 , wherein said thermosetting reinforcement yarn is a multifilament yarn.  
   
   
       9 . The knitted blank according to  claim 8 , wherein the number of filaments of the multifilament yarn is in the range of 10 to 30 filaments.  
   
   
       10 . The knitted blank according to  claim 8 , wherein the weight of the reinforcement yarn is in the range of 120 to 140 dtex.  
   
   
       11 . The knitted blank according to claims  1 , wherein the reinforcement yarn is a grillon covered mono filament polyamide yarn.  
   
   
       12 . The knitted blank according to  claim 11 , wherein the combined weight of said grillon covered monofilament polyamide yarn is in the range of 65 to 115 dtex.  
   
   
       13 . A brassiere produced from a blank according to  claim 1.