US1119930A - Stocking. - Google Patents

Description

E. W. DECKER,

STOCKING.

APPLwATIori FILED )QAR. 11. 1913.

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ELLEN w. DECKER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STOCKING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1914.

Application filed March 11, 1913. Serial No. 753,494.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLEN W. DECKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, borough and county of Richmond, city and State of New York, have made a new and useful Improvement in Stockings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the same general character of improvement in stockings as that set forth in United States Letters Patent granted to me August 20, 1912, Number 1,036,196. In the practical use of that inventi on it has been found that the stockings which are subjected to rough usage, particularly if made of light, sheer material, are apt to tear out somewhat about the button hole because of the fabric constituting the body of the stocking itself. Also some persons are of opinion that it is harmful to have any of the metal parts of the hose supporters come in direct contact with the skin of the wearer. In order, therefore, to strengthen the construction and avoid cutting of the stocking fabric and also to prevent direct contact between any of the metal parts of the hose supporter and the skin of the wearer, I have invented the construction described and claimed below, the essential features of which are that certain flap-like parts containing an opening through which the button of the hose supporter may be passed, are attached at one end to the outside of the top of-the stocking, preferably, but not necessarily within the hem thereof, so that the hose supporting device being connected with these loose flaps, the top of the stocking will lie between the metal parts of the hose supporter and the skin of the wearer, and thus no direct contact between them will be possible and the material of which the flaps are formed, if properly arranged, will act as a reinforce and strengthening device for the top of the stocking rather than a weakening feature thereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the top of a stocking embodying the invention, showing double open loops; Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing single open loops; Fig. 3 is a view showing the details of the construction shown in Fig. 1 Fig. 4 is a view showing the details of the construction shown in Fig. 2.

In the drawings 1 represents the upper part of the stocking, 2 the usual seam in the loops 5, double loops being shown in Fig. 1

and single loops in Fig. 2. These loops are preferably formed and attached to the stocking, partly at least within the hem, as follows: Starting at the bottom, the lower end of the braid is first bent backwardly to form a hem as shown at 6. It is then carried upwardly a distance and formed into the loop 5 and then, if double loops are used as illustrated in Fig. 1, it is carried still farther upwardly and formed into another loop 5. Where the tape is brought to ether and overlapped as at the bottom 0 each loop, strong stitching 7 is employed, whereby the loops are firmly held and the tape securely fastened to the stocking, the stitches passing not only through the tape but through both thicknesses of the hem of the stocking. \Vhere single loops only are employed, as in Fig. 2, I prefer to extend the lower end of the-tape somewhat as compared with the construction illustrated in Fig. 1, so that the loop may have a more secure hold upon the stocking to withstand the strains to which they are subjected.

As above intimated, I prefer that the folded loop strips shall be stitched or otherwise fastened to the stocking wholly within the hem at the top of the leg and particularly if the single loop construction is employed because then the attaching stitches pass not only through the overlapped parts of the tape but also through both thicknesses of the stocking, resulting in a very. secure and reliable construction. This is not essential, however, for a part of the stitching at least may be below the hem. I illustrate this latter construction because it will be entirely permissible in stockings made of strong material and a considerable saving may be effected in the reduced width of the hem.

The operation is obvious. The loops proper are what may be called loose, that is to say, they are attached to the stocking at their bottom only, so that their upper part may be bent outwardly for convenient engagement with the button or other element of the hose supporter, which is passed through the loop, and the head of the button, or its equivalent, then properly engaged with the co-acting member of the supporter in the usual manner, and when the strain of the supporter comes upon the loops they will be pulled upwardly and consequently inwardly toward the top of the stocking, which will intervene between the supporter and loops and the leg of the wearer, thus avoiding any abrasion of the skin of the wearer, with a most comfortable and satisfactory result.

It will be obvious to those who are familiar with such matters that the loopstrips instead of being tape or braid, may be of any other suitable material; also that modifications in details may be made without departing from the essentials of the invention.

I do not herein claim a stocking having attached thereto by sewing a tape arranged longitudinally of the stocking and formed intermediate its ends into a number of folds each constituting a tab attached to the tape at its lower end only, each of said tabs being provided with a button-hole, said tape being of different material than said stocking, because although I believe myself to be the first inventor of the subject matter of the above vdisclaimer, yet I was not the first to reduce the same to practice nor to file an application for Letters Patent therefor.

I claim:

1. A stocking having stitched on the outside of the leg a vertically arranged continuous piece of fabric material folded upon itself into a projecting open loop which is 5 adapted to receive within it the button of a separate hose supporter depending from above, the stitching occurring transversely of the said'fabric material at the base of the loop and also vertically lengthwise of that part of the fabric material which is in contact with the stocking, so that many of the threads of the latter are engaged by the stitlching and supported by the fabric materia ""ZrA stocking having a hem at the top, a vertically arranged continuous piece of fabric material folded upon itself into a plurality of projecting open loops, each of which is adapted to receive within it the button of a 50 separate hose supporter suspended fromf) above, stitching at the base of each loop extending transversely of the fabric material and other stitching extending vertically lengthwise of that part of the fabric material which is in contact with the stocking, the stitching passing through the fabric material and through both thicknesses of the hem, whereby many of the threads of the stocking are engaged by the stitching and supported by the fabric material.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELLEN IV. DECKER.

Witnesses:

PHILLIP ABBOTT, WALTER H. CRITTENDEN.

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