US139810A

US139810A - Improvement in knit fringes or borders

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Publication number: US139810A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1873-06-10
Anticipated expiration: 1890-06-10

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE I TIN LANDENBERGER AND COMPANY, OF SAMEPLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN KNIT FRINGES OR BRDIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,810, dated June 10, 1873; application filed April 4, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES PHI1 Ps,ot' Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Knitted Fringe or Border, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to produce I upon a knitting-machine borders or fringes of tudinal threads a and b which form the body and surface of the fringe, by chains of needlethread d, extending longitudinally` over the back ofthe fabric.

Heretofore borders or fringes of this character have been produced by hand, as follows: The longitudinal threads b b are secured at their opposite ends to pegs, which retain them in their proper relative positions, and the thread a is then passed around a double row of pegs, first to one side and then to the other, so as to give it a zigzag course across the threads a, as shown, after which the two series of threads are tied together by hand at the points where they cross each other.

Borders or fringes produced by this tedious process are necessarily expensive and more or less imperfect, obj ections which I have overcome by producing the same upon a knittingmachine in a manner which will be readily understood from the following detailed description, reference being had to the rear view Fig. 3, ofthe accompanying drawing.

A series-of borders or fringes A A1 A2, &c., are knitted simultaneously, and side by side, the bunches of threads a and b being fed by ordinary guides, so operated as to lay the threads b in straight lines, and in the direction of the length of the fringe, while the threads a are laid across the threads bin a zigzag courseas shown, and simultaneously with this laying of the body or surface threads, two liner threads d d, also fed by guides, are

interlocked, each bya single needle, with the said body-threads at the points were they cross each other, these needle-threads forming a simple chain at the back of the fabricwhere they are entirely concealed by the longitudinal body-threads b. Other needle-threads e,

are also, as the knitting progresses, interthe threads a and b separately to the needlethreads, instead of at the points, where they cross each other;` and in Figs. 5 and l, which 4represent front and rear views of the same fringe, the threads a are laid transversely and closely together, while the threads b are zigzagged, the whole being bound together by longitudinal chains of needle-threads d, at the back of the fabric, as before described. A peculiar edging may be produced upon this latter fringe by cutting the body-threads a in the manner shown at w.

I claim as my invention- I A knitted fringe or border consisting of body or surface threads a and b, crossing each other, one or both in zigzag lines, and bound together by chains of needle-thread d, extending longitudinally over the back of the fabric,

substantially as herein described.

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

JAMES PHIPPS.

Witnesses: y

ROBERT MeGoNNELL, H. DORNEMANN.