US1072856A - Process of knitting neckties and scarfs. - Google Patents

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J. KBLLNER 8; S. WORMS.

PROCESS OF KNITTING NEOKTIES AND somrs.

I APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21, 1912' .1 Q72 856 Patented Sept 9, 1913.

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JOSEF KELLNER, 0F BROOKLYN, AND SIDNEY RVORM$, OF NEVJ ASSIGNOZRS TO FRANKLIN 0F NEW 303K.

ROCHELLE, NEW YQR-K.

KNITTING MlLLS, OF NEW YORK, N. 36., A COBPOIEATIQN Process or KNITTING NECKTIES Ann scalars.

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Be it known that we, Llo'str lifiennnhn, a subject of the Einp ror of Germany, and SIDNEY oans, a citizen of the United Qtates, residing, respectively, at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, and New Rochelle, in the county of est Chester and State of New York, have in vented certain iiew and useful Improvements in Processes of Knittin Neckties and Scarifs. oi" which the following is a specification. p v

This invention relates to a process of knitting and more particularly to the knitting of neckties and scarls, the object of the invention being to provide an iniproved proc or method of ltnitti'ng iiccklies whereby the tie may have a stripe'or stripes therein 4 located on a true or substantially true bias,

and which stripes may he of one or more colors and may be fed or shot thereiuto at intervals, and which necktie inay have a narrow neck portion merging into a gradually widened or l'lari'hg end'or ends and the of one or In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure Lisa cross-sectional viewcf a part of one form of flat knitting machine which may be provided for carrying out this iniprovedprocess; Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate a portion of the needle beds, one of which is shown, in different positions, Fig. etapair of needles and Fig. 5 one of the cam-locks for shifting the ne dles; Fig. 6 is a sect-ional view of a form of tensioning rneans; and Fig. 7 is a-view of a necktie illustrating a part thereof having the diagonal stripes therein. I

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the difierent figures of the drawings. I 7 p i or carrying out this process. we provide a flat knittin machine comprising a pair of inclined needle beds 2 and 3 suitably supported by standards i, one eril of which is shown, and which needle be v sets of needles 5 and Gshiftable in the usual way by a shiftable carriage 7 having cambeat the, iscl aateas is a Saaalole diiierential tension or take u device for Lamas Specification of Letters Patent s carry two llatented Sept. 9. 1913.

Application ina September 21. 1912. Serial no. 721,650.

giving proper tension to the work as it is knitted. This tension means in the present instance comprises a roll 9 suitabl mounted upon a shaft, 10 and a series of rolls mounted upona shaft 12. iii the present instance four of theserolls are shown, one of which. as 13. is located directly upon the shaft while the other three, vide d with a tubular shaft, as 17, or 18 or 19, one located within the other, anrl on the ends of these tubular shafts 1T, 18 and it! are located gears 20, 21 and 22, and'on the end of the shaft 12 is also fixed a gear 93. these gears being so proportioned that the roll 16 will have the smallest gear while the roll 15 will have the next lar est, and so on, so that the greatest speed wi l be given to the roll 16. For operating these spur. gears a stub shaft2 l is provided, which may be driven from any suitable source of power and car riesin' the presentiiistance a series of four gears 25, 26, 27 and 28 of gradually increasing diameter and tnesliing with the gears 23, 22, 2 and 20 respectively. Thus it will he observed that the greatest tension will be placed upon that side of the fahric engaged by the roll 16 by reason of its greater speed. U1. course it will be understood that the position of the gears could he changed so that the greatest tension could be placed upon the opposite side for the purpose here inafter described.

In carrying out this process the knitting is started with a certain width in the machine, and by gradually throwing out of operation certain needles on one side the tie will he tapered on one side, while it is relativelistraight on the other side until the neckband is reached, which is knitted straight, after which, by eration certain needles on one side, the oppw gradually throwing into opsite end of the tie will he gradually flared on one side and knitted straight on the other, thus to provide a tie hai'ing'a pair of wide fiowingflaring ends. By using threads of different colors an iridescent ctiect niav he given to the tie by reason oi the fact that the tie will have longitudinally thereof al ternate colors or rows of stitches.

At intervals along the tie-stripes are formed by feeding into the tie threads or another color or colors, and in the prcsrsit instance, by means of the present process, these stripes are located on a true bias, and so far as we are aware ithas never been heretofore possible to knit such a necktie with stripes located on a true bias. To accomplish this the rear needle bed 2 is l,)ro-

'vided with means, which may be automatically operative or operated by hand, for racking it during the knitting of the tie whereby the stripes will be located on a true bias when the tie is completed. In the present instance the rear needle bed 2-is shown racked by hand, and for this purpose itis provided with a projection having a stud 31 movable in a cam groove 32 of a cam 33 mounted on a short shaft 34 carrying a handle 35, on the shifting of which the rear needle bed 2 will be racked to the left as shown in Fig. 2 or to the right as shown in Fig. 3, and by racking the needle bed in the manner shown the positions of the rear needles are changed with relation to the front needles; that is to say, when the rear needle bed is'racked to the left as shown in Fig. 2 each rear needle ltl will work opposite its companion front needle but on the left side thereof, while when the needle bed is racked to the right as shown in Fig. 3 each rear needle 40 will work opposite its companion needle but on the right side thereof when the shiftable carriage carrying the cam-locks is shifted across the needle bedto project and return the needles in a manner which 15 well understood. This racking of the rear-needle bed is to the light, or in the direction shown iii-Fig. 3

prior to the carriage moving to the right, or as the carriage is moved to the right but prior to its engagement \vlth the needles to be operated, and the bed is racked to the left prior to the movement of the carriage to the left, or during such movement but prior to its engagement with the needles to be opera-tedf By starting the racking movement for instance to the right, the stripes will be located on one bias or in one direction, but by reversing this and starting the racking movement to the left when the knitting operation is started the position of the stripes will-be reversed; that is to' say, in Fig. 7 the stripes are shown with the left hand ends thereof higher than the right hand ends,-'but, as hereinbefore stated, when the. racking movement is reversed on the starting of the knitting"- operation the right hand ends of the stripes will be located higher than the left hand ends thereof, so that the direction in. which the stripes may run is determined by the direction of racking movenu'nt which is first given to the bed, either to the rigzht or to the left. as the first course of knitting isstarted. if the racking movement is first given in one direction then the tension upon the work will be upon one side, but if the racking morcwith the highest ends at the left and therefore the tension is so arranged that the greatest tension will be given'upon the left side of the work. If the position of the stripes, however, were reversed in the man ner hereinbefore' stated, then the tension would likewise have to be reversed so that the greatest tension would be given the work upon the right sine.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings shown projected to that position which they assume when the carriage is moved in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 2, while in Fig. 4: the needles are shown projected to the position they assume when the carriage is moved in the direction of the arrowin Fig. 3, and when the needles are in the position shown in Figs. l and 2, when the carriage is moving; to the left or in thedireclion of the arrow shown in said Fig. 0 the front bank of needles 41 cast oli' and complete stitches while the rear bank to only make loops. While, however, the needles are out of engagement with the carriage cam-locks the rear needlel'ied is racked front and rear needles cast oil, con'ipleting twice, we apprehend, the number of stitches in this stroke as in the previous one, and when the carriage cam-locks are out of engagement with the needle butts the 'rear needle bed 2 is racked to the right asin Fig. 3. In other words, during the process of knitting, but while the carriage camlocks are out of engagement with the needle butts the rear needle bed is first racked in one direction, as to the left, and then racked in the opposite direction, as to the right.

In knitting" the tie, it is started with a certain width in the machine, as hereinbefore stated, as for instance it is started with the greatest .Width, as at 50, the triangular portion thereof being subsequently formed by cutting and over-edging the tie, and by constantly racking or shifting the rear bed first one way and then the other, that is alternately, and by placing the left side of the tie undertension by reason of thetake up mechanism shown the result is the lo,- cation of true bias stripes of different color or colors in the manner shown in Fig. 7, and by gradually throwing out of operation certain needles on one side the tie will be tapered along one edge while remaining straightcllont its opposite edge until the narrow neck portion is reached. the edges of which will he knitted in parallelism, after the knitting of which ,neck portion,

the needles are i oreeee ln' gradual throwing: into opention eertinn needles one edge of the tie will he tapered while the other remains straight until ihe opposite end of the tie is provided 5 with. :1 flaring portion.

ilie take up or tensien lllfitlllrj is necessary to gi'ii'e tension to the tie nlong one side thereo'lf'. or otherwise the stitches 0r loops at that 55: of the nniohine would interfere with one another b reason of their loose l therefore the greatest tension on that side where the l0 ps would othe r loose, for these loose loops would Hi to hook up on the needle and prevent the properoperation of the marhine. so that gli-fltkfl tension is planed upon one siile'of the tie than on the other.

During the knitting of the tie the stripes apperen is are located nn'nllel' with the top L shown in Fig. (3.

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,1 pod the ornamental bars are 1n position, and this Wi hout the necessity of stretching the tie out of shape,

it finished to curl or assume any other position turn that shown in I.

By this improved process we are able to provid, a tie of either one or more colors, that either llplain or iridescent eli'eet,

hzwino stripes shot thereinto of a different color or colors and which stripes are intree nine obtained during the r linititngi the {he three-d or he nnnle, and

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of one so that there is no tendency of the tie after 'e' ti 'ms to the sides of al n'notl'ie et thereof thnn along the other ZLCli-illTlliiQ to the direvtion in \VliKll the said nns stripes run.

The process of knitting neekties and scarfs of one or more colors having" siili- M J l l l 4 r stanually true inns stripes therein m. n (Illll erent color or rolorsfwlneh consists in first knittin a Wide )Ol'l'lOIl of the tie and gradually Wltlldl'HVlllg certain-i needles thereby to taper the tie to the neck portion thereef, then knitting the some with its edges in substantial parallelism, then (1111" ing the knitting of the tie musing the thread loops or stitches of one set of needles to be rneli'ed or shifted alternately in oppo site directions to the sides of the tin-end loops or stitches of another set of needles then during such knitting; feeding into the work the thread or threads oi tlierlili'erent colored stripes to he made, Elllll during the knitting of the tie placing the same under cliflerential tension. 7

4-. The process of knitting neclqties and 5 arts of one or more rolors having enlisted tlfllljf true bins stripes therein ot a (lillerent color or colors, whi h consists in final l nitting :1 wide portion of the lie and gradually Withdrawing certain needles therehy tolnper the tie to the neck poi-lion ll'iereo'l, then liniiting the some with its edges in substantial parallelism and H11 grznhmll y' throwing into opmntiiiin certain needles to grsulnnlly widen the tie lli' its (lilljz'mil) end l ing the knitting of the lie ion sing the ihr loops or stitches of one sill oi needles to-l u racked or shifted alternately in o niosite di reetions to the sides of the thread loops or stitches of another set of needles then during; sueo. knitting" feeding into the wr'irlz: the thread or threads of the dil'lerent colored stripes to he made and during llie landing of the tie pinning the same under :1 lensinn greater along one lhnn along); the other,

o. The process of knitlii which. con in musing the thr nd loo one setof needles to he first to one side and then to the thread loops or stitches needles, then (luring sneh i to the Work at a predete amend or threzuls to T lie then to r1 1 reg intervals (lniing n, into 1e differen eel. 1 i

n o bins stripe,

first to one side and then to the other side higher than the opposite end thereof, and

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in causing the thread loops or stitches of one set of needles to be racked or shifted of the thread loops or stitches of another set of needles, then during such knitting and at regular intervals along the Work feeding into the same a diflerent colored thread or threads to form a substantially true bias stripe, and during the knitting placing the Work under a. tension greater along that side where the ends of the stripes are located the highest.

8. The process of knitting which consists in commencing the knitting at a Wide portion of the article and gradually Withdrawing certain needles thereby to taper the article to the neck portion thereof, then during sneh knitting causing the thread loops or stitches of one set of needles to be racked or shifted alternately in opposite directions to the sides of the thread loops or stitches oi. another set of needles, then at regular intervals during such knitting feeding into the work a thread or threads of ditt'erent color or colors to form stripes with one end during the knitting placing the article under tension greater along that side thereof where the ends of the stripes are located the highest.

9. The process 01 knitting which consists in commencing the knitting at a Wide portion of the article and gradually Withdrawing certain needles thereby to taper the article to the neck portion thereof, then knitting the same with its edges in substantial parallelism and then gradually throwing into operation certain needles to gradually Widen the opposite end of the article, then during such knitting causing the thread of one set of needles to be racked or shifted alternately in oppositedirections to the sides of the thread loops or stitches of another set of needles, then at regular intervals during such knitting feeding into the Work a thread or threads of a different color or colors to form stripes With one end thereof higher than the opposite end, and during the knitting placing the article under tension greater along that side thereof where the ends of the stripes are located the highest.

10. he process of knitting which consists in causing the thread loops or stitches of one set 01 needles to be racked or shifted relatively to the thread loops or stitches of another set of needles and during the knitting feeding into the Work at a predeterniincd time a colored thread or threads'to torin knitted colored bias Work, and during the knitting placing the Work under a differential tension.

Signed at New York, N. Y., this 20th of September, 1912.

J OSEF KELLNER. SIDNEY WORMS. Witnesses:

HENRY SCHWARTZ, S. G. SCHWABAoI-I.

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