US1141777A - Process of removing stocking from stocking-boards. - Google Patents

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H. COULSTON. PROCESS OF REMOVING STOCKINGS FROM STOCKING BOARDS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26, I913. 1 141377. PatentedJune 1, 1915.

3 SHEETSSHEET I.

H. COULSTON.

PROCESS OF mzmovme STOCKINGS rnom STOCKING BOARDS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26, 1913. 1,141,777. Patented June 1, 1915.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 2- H. COULSTUN' PROCESS OF REMOVING STOCKINGS FROM STOCKING BOARDS.

APPLICATION FILED FE8.26.1913. 1,11 7? Patented June 1, 1915.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3- ED A E A NT HARRY COULSTON, 0E PHILADELPHIA, P NNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PHILA- DELPHIA TEXTILE MACHINERY ooMraNY, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A

CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

g PROCESS 0E REMOVING s'rooKINes FROM STOGKING-BOARD S.

Specification of Letters .P'atent.

rammed June 1, 1915.

Application filed February 26, ans. Serial No.- 750,873.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in the Process of Re-v moving Stockings from Stocking-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates tocertain improvements in the process of removing. stockings from stocking boards, particularly during the manufacture of the stockings. j

The object of the invention is to remove the stocking from the board in such a manner that'it \vill'not be torn or unduly stretched and will be properly pressed, so that one stocking after another can be laid on a pile with the foot in proper relation to the leg.

In carrying out this'idea the board can either be removed from'the stocking while the stocking is being held, or the stocking can be removed from the board while it is being held, or both can be moved in unison in opposite directions if desired.

The accompanying drawings illustrate in diagram the different steps of the process.

Figure 1-, is a plan view showing a stocking mounted on the board in such position that it can begrasped at the toe and at the heel; Fig. 2, is a view showing mechanism grasping a stocking at the toe and heel, with the board in place prior to being removed; Fig. 3, illustrates the first step of the process of removing a stocking from a stocking board; Fig. 4-, illustrates the step where the board has been removed from the foot portion and is passing'through the angle portion; F ig- 5, is a view illustrating the stock ing board emerging from the leg portion of the stocking; and Fig. 6, is a side view of a stocking mounted on a stocking board and in the position illustrated in Fig. 2.

Prior to this invention no special process was used in the removal of a stocking from a stocking board. No mechanism was employed and the removal was accomplished by an operator merely grasping the heel of a stocking and jerking the board out of the Applicant has found that better results are obtained than heretofore by a careful removal of a stocking from the stocking board.

7 .The mechanism shown for carrying out this process will be fully set forth and CouLs'roN, a"

claimed in an, application for patent which will be filed at a later date.

Stockings are dampened and then dried by heat and" the usual practiceis to mount these stocking boards in a drying chamber through which hot air circulates, although recent developments have produced continuous machines for feeding stocking boards with stockings thereon through dry- 1ng chambers, and 'asa stocking emerges from the drying chamber it is removed from the board. Stockings may also be dried by being placed onhollow forms in which air or steam is allowed to circulate, or they may be dried by means of an electric current from a heater surrounding the stocking, or from the coils in the board or} form.

In the present instance, I have illustrated simply the ordinary stocking board, which is of thin metal or wood, and over which a stocking is placed prior to the drying operation. a;

' Referring to the drawings, 1 is the stocking.

2 is the board or form over which the stocking is placed.

3 and 4 are gripping jaws, in the present instance forming part of a mechanism illustrated in Figs. 2 and (3. Each jaw has a bottom plate 5 and a cla'mp 6. The jaws are mounted on the arms 7, and the jaw 3 is located on a carrier 8 to which a counterbalance 10 is attached by a cord 9.

In Fig. 1, the clamps 6 are moved out of the path so as to allow a stocking board, with the stocking thereon, to positionitself directly over the bottom plates 5 of the gripping jaws 3 and 4. After a stocking "board is in position the clamps are moved over the top'of the stocking, clamping it to the bottom plates 5. The gripping jaw 4 grasps the heel of the stocking and the gripping jaw 3 grips the toe of the stocking, as illustrated in Fig. 2. Longitudinal move ment in the line of the arrow a, Fig. 2, is imparted to the board 2 and the removal of the board from the foot of the stocking causes the gripping jaw 3 to move toward the gripping jaw at, overcoming the counterweight 10, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. This brings the toe and heel portions nearer to gether than in Fig. 3, and allows the heel portion of the stocking to be withdrawn from the board to a greater extent than the I the portion, releases the heel of the board so that, as the movement of the board is continued, the foot 11 of the board will pass through the angle portion 12 of the stocking at such an angle as to. give the ankle the least amount of stretch possible.

The direction of movement of the board is at an angle to the longitudinal line through the leg and as the foot of a stocking board leaves the ankle portion of the stocking, as illustrated in Fig. 4, it presses out the leg portion as it movescto the position illustrated in Fig. 5, the toe and heel acting as spreaders for the leg portionfjso that one stocking after another is placed in a pile until the number desired is reached.

,As the board is being removed from the stocking the toe gripping jaw 3 is moved from the heel jaw 4, due to the counterweight in the present instance, and it. is turned in the direction of the arrow 6, Fig.

., 3, until it assumes the position illustrated in Fig. 4, the jaw 4 turning with it, as the leg has assumed a position with its longitu-' dinal line parallel with the arrow (1, indicat ing the movement of the board, Figs. 4 and 5, so that when the stocking is released from the jaws 3 and 4 the foot portion is in the same relation to the leg as it was when on the board and all creasing or unevenness is avoided.

While I have shown mechanism for carrying out this process, it will readily be understood that the operation can be done by 'hand, as wellas by the mechanism shown.

I claim 1. The process herein described of removing stockings from flat'boards or forms in a flat'unru inpled :condition, said process consisting in grasping the heel and toe ofthe stocking and engagingthe board or form,

moving one part with respect to the other and withdrawing the heel portion of the stocking in advance of the toeso as to allow the heel of the boardtopass the portion back of the heel of the stocking without undue stretching and then continuing the movement so that the foot portion of the board will act as a spreader for the leg of the.

stocking. V 2. The process herein described of removmg stockings from fiat boards or forms in afiat unrumpled condition, said process con-- sisting in grasping the stocking at the heel and at the toe,1novingthe heel toward the toe so that it will be removed in advance of. the toeto allow the heel of the board to pass the portion'back of the heelof the stocking .without undue stretching and continuing the movement on a line which will cause the foot portion of the board to act as a spreader for the leg portion of the stocking, then turning the foot of the stocking so that when the board is removed from the stocking the foot thereof will have the same. relation to the leg as it had prior to the :Witness es i j.

' WM. E. SE"- a,

A. BARR.

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