GB460614A - Improvements in or relating to the knitting of hose - Google Patents

Abstract

460,614. Knitting. PERFECTA SOC. ANON. POUR LA FABRICATION DE LA BONNETERIE. Feb. 24, 1936, Nos. 5460 and 5461. Convention dates, March 29, 1935 and Dec. 6, 1935. [Class 74 (ii)] In knitting the leg and foot of hose in a single operation on a full fashioned machine, the heel being subsequently joined thereto, thinner courses 7, knitted with the splicing thread alone, are located between two slack courses 6, 8 in both reinforced side portions 3 of the hose in order to facilitate the running of the hose on the heel knitting machine and the running of the side portions of the foot on the linking machine. These thinner courses are slightly narrower than the heel and are located between the leg 1 and foot 2. To avoid damage by the needles of the heeling machine or the points of a transfer comb, the slack course 6 may be knitted of a stronger thread similar to the cotton thread used for the heel, and may be preceded by a tight course of the same thread. According to one method, the slack courses 8 and the inner edges of the heel portions are linked before the courses 7 are cut through. In a modified method, which avoids turning over the foot portion before knitting the heel portions, a ribbon, plait, elastic, or like strip 11 is sewn along the middle of each thin area 7 and after running the blank on to the points of a comb or on to the needles of a heeling machine the courses 7 are cut between the ribbon and the courses 6, this ribbon enabling the foot to be easily run on to the linking machine. The heeling machine may be a sole knitting machine with the needles of the middle portion of the needle bar, and the sinkers, removed.