US1424708A - Refooting stockings - Google Patents

Description

H. A. BERENDSEN.

RfFOOTING STOCKINGS.

nwucnnon FILED own, 1920.

1,424,708. Patented Aug. 1, 1922.

1W VEN TOR HENF/A HPavassw ATTORNEYS of, Range HENRY A. BEBENDSEN. OH BANGOR; PENNSYLVANIA...

BEFO OTIIIG- STOCKINGS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 23, 1920. Serial Ito. 452,734.

Toall whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. Bnnenosns, a. citizen of the United States, and a resident r, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, :ave invented new and useful Improvements in Refootin Stockings, of which the following is'a ful clear, and exact description.

The'invention relates to hosiery of the more expensive typeand made of woven silk cloth (tricot or Milanese) or embroidery materiel.

' The object of the invention is to provide certain new and useful improvements in refooting stockings having torn soles, toes or heels, to render the stocking practically as good as new.

lugs-forming :1 uri: of this specification, in

which similar c cracters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure Lis a side elevation of a torn stock in%to be refooted;

igure 2 is a similar view of the some after being refooted;

Figure 3 is a. perspective view of the leg and mte 'al foot top as it appears after clitting e damaged heel, sole and toes 'of the stocking shown in Figure 1;

ure 4 is a perspective view of the new rein rced upper toe portion;

Figure 5 IS a similar view of the new reinforced heel; and

F re 6 is a similar view of the sole with the teg'ral reinforced bottom toe portion.

Stoclnn of woven silk or silk embroidery material are liable to tear mainly at the heels, toes and sole, andverysmall holes can be temporarily closed by chiming. A

air of stockings eventually becomes unfit gor wear and has to be discarded and replaced by a. new pair at a considerable ex- 'pense to the wearer.

In order to reduce this expense to a minimum and to render the stocking of a pair as good as new thestpokings are refooted with the same materinl at approximately one-quarter of the cost of a new pair, and this refooting can-be repeated, at'lenst, four or five times before the leg and top of the foot of a stocking is completely worn out. On the resumption that a pair of woven silk stoclri s at an original wholesale cost of say $4.00 as been refooted five times at an ex nse $1.00 each time, the total cost is only 9.00 against six new pairs at a cost of $24.00.

.In order to produce the desired result, the following arrangement is made: The stocking shown in Figure 1 is made of woven silk (tricot or Milanese) and comprises a. single ply leg 10, a. sin is ply foot top 11, a reinforced or doubled eel 12, ,a single ply sole 13 and a toe made of top and ottom reinforced or doubled , portions 14 and 15. The heel l2 andthc toe portions 14 and 15 are reinforced in the usual manner, that is,

are made of double or two ply material. Originally in making this stocking the leg 10, the foot top 11., the upper toe ortion 15 and the heel 12 are made of a sing a lens of woven material, and the heel 12 an the upper too portion 15 are reinforced at the inside by corresponding pieces thus making the some double. The sole 13 including the lower toe portion 14 is made of a single piece of material, and the said lower toe portion is reinforced at the inside by a. corresponding piece. The two members are seamed to ether, that is, the side edges of the sole 1 are seemed to the side edges of the foot top 11, the rear edge of the sole 13' is seemed to the from edge of the heel l2,

and the top ed e of the lower the portion 14 is seemed to tie bottom edge of the up or too ortinn 15, as will be readil on orstoo by reference to Figure 1. he heel 12, the sole l3 and the 'too portions 14, 15

sponding new pieces of similar size, shape and material are provided, namely, a reinforced heel 12*,4 sin le ply sole 13 telminating in an-integrul bottom toe portion 14' reinforced at the inside, and a reinforced or double top toe portion 15. The original leg 10 and the foot top 11 are turned inside out, and then the several new nieces are joined to the original leg 10 on foot top 11 while likewise in turned inside out ositiou and in the following sequence: The

eel 12 is seamed with its upperedge onto -Patentd Aug. 1 1922.

heel

, in each pair of Btockin s is tion .15 is seamed onto the front end of the foot to 11, the sole 135 with the bottomtoe p0 ion -14 is next seamed to the several parts, that is. its side edges are seamed to the side edges of the-foot'top 11, .the rear edge of the sole 13' is seemed to the front edge of the heel 12' and the bottom toe portion 14f is seamed to the top toe portion 15. \Vhen,this'has been done the stocking is reversed and is then ready to be returned to the owner. I It will be noticed that the lower edge of of the ginthe leg 10 and the .to ed e forced heel 12' are inc ined upwardly and rearward terminatin in a point at the back of the stocking, t on givin a graceful appearance to the stocking. 0 upper point is located hi her or lower on the back of the stocking see dotted-lines in Figure 2) according to the teersor tears in theiheel or in the lower ortionof the leg of the stockin noted, that is,

highest of the original 1e 10.

tis understoox that in returne to the menu fuctiirer for re acting and then the refooted' pair of stoekin s is returned to the owner on payment of the cost, as above stated.

t -is also understood that the. refooting of stockings as described greet-ice a torn is inure especially designed for stockings made of woven fabrics such as silk tricot or Milanese woven silk goods in contradistinction to knit stockin s to allow of readily cuttingout the de ective parts without dan i for refooting curely sewed unraveling. not contemplate the refooting ings it includes refooting of stocking made of embroidery material which similar tothe woven material permits cutting without danger of unraveling and which nllows of securely sewing the parts together.

described my invention, 1 cleun as new and desire to secure by Letters atent:

As an article of manufacture, stockin comprising a woiren sin le ly fabl'lC leg mergm into a single p y oot top section, a re-in orced woven fabric toe top section seamed to e front end of said foot :1 refooted heel section seamed to the edges of said leg, and a single pl) woven sole formed with a the edges of said too top section and to the er of unravel-'

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