US1276294A - Knitted fabric. - Google Patents

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1. WATERFIELD.

Patented Aug. 20, 1918.

Inventor. .Uohn' WQIerF IQM,

Witnesses.

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l I Specification of Letters Patent. I I Patented Aug. 20, 1918.

Original application filed February 7, 1913, semi no. mecca. Divided and this application filed January I 20, 1915, Serial No. 8,194. Renewed May 22, 1918. Serial No. 236,049. 7 i

To all whom it may concern;

; Be it known that I, JOHN WA'mRrmw, a citizen of the United States, residin at the city. of Providence, in the county Provi- 5 dence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knitted Fabrics, of which the fol lowing is a specification. My invention relates to flat knitted fabwhich, rojects to the left and the other to the rig t of a line between the loops. y

In the drawings I have given two adjacent transverse series of these body loops the distlnguishing numerals of 5,- 6, 5?,6, 5", 6", 5 and 6 and 7, 8, 7, 8 7?, 8", 7, and 8. It w1ll be seen that loop 5 of the second thread passes through loop 6 of the first thread from the rear to the front, that loop .5 of the third thread passes through loop 6 of the 10. rics, the object of the inventionbeing to provide an improved knitted fabric for various uses but particularly ada ted for use in the iiiifinufacture of tapes, s oe laces and the Another object is to rovide an improved fabric composed of a p urality of independent lengthwise extending threads so interlockedduring the knitting operation as to form a solid continuous fabric of the desired width and having the outer row of loops at second thread from the front to the rear and a that loop 5 of the fourth thread passes through oofp 6 of the third thread from the rear to the ront.

It will also beobserved that loop 6 passes down and through loop 7 a of the next lower' transverse row rom the rear to the front, that loop 6 passes down and through loop 7 b of the next lower transverse row from the front to the rear, that loop 6 passes down each side interlocked to ether by lengthwise extending selvage threa s.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this applicatlon the figure illusand through 1001) 7 of the next lower transverse row from the rear to the front. It will be seen from the drawing that each thread is formed into loops that extend alternately in trates on a very much enlarged scale a poropposite directions and that the loops which extend to the left pass through the loops of x the adjacent threads from the front to the rear, while those which extend to the right80 tion of the knitted fabric comprising my This fabric is knitted in the manner runnin shown and described in my copending ap- 80 plication Serial No. 746,828, filed February 1913, of which application this is a division, from which it will appear that the fabric is knitted fiat on what may be termed a flat knitting machine composedof two par- 85f allel rows of needles and complemental knitting mechanism, the needles being alternately vibrated laterally and vertically, the yarrfsbeing fed diagonally first to one row e ,and then to the other row of needles by os- 0".cillating yarn guides, mechanism for forming selvages in each edge of the fabric, and mechanism for drawing tight the loops or 'stitches formed by the needles after the loops have been disohar ed from the needles thus forming a solid,

other threads are body threads. Each of the body threads is formed into pairs of loops running transvers of the fabric one of the pass through the loops of adjacent threads from the rear to the front. 7 At the edges these loops 'are' secured from unraveling by the selvage threads which are formed into loops. As will be seen loop 5 of the left hand body thread passes through loop 9. of the left hand selvage thread and that this loop 9 of the selvage thread passes-- through loop 7 of the body thread loops of the transverse row next below loop 5. On the other" side of the fabric loop 10 of the right hand selvage thread passes through loop 8 nd loop 6 passesthrough loop 10. The san e"'construct1on pertains to all the fabric Fro n which it will be seen that no matter where the fabric is punctured by cutting a stitch the fabric will not unravel as will other. nitted fabrics.

n will be further observed that the threads run longitudinally o f the fabric and that each body thread is formed ,inliopairs of loops, one loop of each pair projecting to the right and the other loop' pro ecting-to the left of a line extending between the loops and that the right hand loop of one transverse row (if loops passes through the left hand loop of the next lower adjacent transverse row.

Having claim is: a

1. As an artio e of manufacture, a'knit fabric composed of a plurality of independent body threadsfettch extending lengthwise of the fabric, each body thread being formed into loops which extend alternately in opdescribed my invention what I .posite directions, the loops of each thread which extend in one direction passing through loop of the adjacent thread from the rear to the front and around another loop of said adjacent thread, and the loops which extend .in the other direction extendmg through loops of adjacent thread from the front to the rear and around other loops of said adjacent thread.

2. As an article of manufacture, a knit raaaaea fabric composed of a plurality of independ-' loop of said adjacent thread, and the loops 4 which extend in the other direction extending through loops of an adjacent thread from the front to the rear and around other loops of said adjacent thread, and selvage interlooped with the body threads.

35- threads at each edge of the fabric which are In witness that I claim the foregoing I i have hereunto subscribed my name this 11th day of December, 1914. V

' JOHN WATERFIELD.

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J. ALBERT Bmomrrr, FRANK S. TALBOT.

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