US1619788A - Seamless knit, clocked stocking and method of making same - Google Patents

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March 1, 1927. 1,619,788

C. H. TAUBEL SEAMLESS KNIT, CLOCKED STOCKING AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Iw/vew//To: Ca We? 4, 0e. [l ,Tav/@Ze Z,

March 1, 1927. 1,619,788

C. H. TAUBEL SEAMLESS KNIT, CLOCKED STOCKING AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Filed July 2f.. 1926 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 mja-2- March 1 1927.

C. H. TAUBEL sEAMLEss KNITl CLocKED sTocKING AND METHOD oF MAKING SAME Filed July 29. 1926 3 Sheets-Sheet L5 Patented Mar. l, 1.92.7.

UNITED sTATEs TATNT CLARENCE H. TAUBEL, 0F RIVERSIDE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HEMPHILL COM- PANY, OF CENTRAL FALLS, RHODE ISLAND, A CORPORATION" OF MASSACHUSETTS.

SEAMIESS KNIT, CLOCKED STOCKING AND METHOD 0F MAKING SAME.

Application.v led July 29,

This invention relates to seamlessfknit, clocked stockings and to the method of making the same.

In order that the principle of the invention may be readily understood, I have in the accompanying drawings illustrated certain embodiments of my invention as characteristic of the fabric thereof, and shall herein describe sulficiently the best 'mode known to me for practising the method of my invention.

In the drawings: v

Fig. `1 is a side elevation of a seamless hose or stocking embodying or containing my invention; V

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view. in side, elevation of a portion of the fabric shown in Fig. 1, and sufliciently indicating the character of the fabric and the manner 'of producing the clocked effect;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but representing a construction which is a modilcation of that illust-rated in Fig. 1;

Fig. f1 represents a portion of the fabricx of Fig. 3, but upon an enlarged scale;

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 3 but of l another modification;

Fig. 6 is an enlargement of a portion of .the fabric shown in Fig. 5; and V Fi 7 is a diagrammatic representation constituting a horizontal 4section -taken through the hose or stocking and represent'- ing the knitting in of the clocking thread or threads and the floating thereof between the sides of the stocking.

Clocked, seamlessI knit, stockings have long been upon the market. They are usually producedby introducing vthe .clocking yarns locally as embroidery yarns, as it were.. This introduction of the clocking yarns is frequent-ly accomplished by a peculiar action ofv yarn guides which may be said to wrap the guring or embroidery yarns e about the necessary needles at opposite sides of the machine, as illustrated, for example, in the patent .to Frank W. Robinsom No. 1,077,304, November 4, i1913 and that vto Heister Seiders, No. 1,505,93, August 26, 1924. It is unnecessary to refer in detail to the means heretofore resorted to for producing a clocked eect in a seamless stocking. .It has long been known that seamless :stockings may be provided Xwith vertical stripes of another color of yarn by introducing two yarns and at the proper points 1326. serial No. 125,660.y

floating one yarn behind the other for a few` impair the lateral elasticity ofthe stocking.

A stocking so, constructed is provided with relatively short lengths of `float thread or yarn which therefore need not be cut out.

An additional yarn, usually of the same coloras the body yarn, has been knittedl into a stocking to form a' stripe of relatively narrow width extending lengthwise the stocking from the top of the high splice reinforcement to the welt. Such a stocking is disclosed, among others,` in the patent to William J. Longtin', No. 1,353,659,'

September 21, 1920. The additional yarn constitutes astripe or reinforcement which 80 simulates the selvage reinforcements for a full fashioned stocking and such additional yarn is cut away at the 'edges of such stripe or reinforcement.

Among other instances of the introduction of an' additional yarn at the back of the stocking, reference maybe made to the' patent to Robert W. Scott, No. 1,267,126, May 21, 1918, as characteristic of the manner of introducing an additional yarnfto cause the appearance of a seam, and also to the patent to Rufus W. Scott, No. 1,491,760, April 22, 1914, as characteristic of the manner ofI introducing a secondary or additional yarn along two lengthwise extending but closely spaced areas between which such secondary or additional yarn' is floated. 'f

The high splice of a circular knit .stocking has for more than fifty years been `produced by supplying a reinforcingyarn `to substantially one half the circle of needles and floating such reinforcing yarn past the other half circle of needles to be reintroduced in this manner course after course at the part of the stocking 'above the heel. -Such iioated yarns are necessarily cut out after completion of the stocking.` This same method .has also been resorted to in the forprovided in seamless stoclngsl.-

Notwithstanding the fact that it has long been known that a reinforcing yarn may be introduced to a portion of the circle of needlesv of a circular knitting'machine and floated where not so introduced, no one, so far as I am aware, has heretofore produced a seamless knit hose or stocking having a Y clock effect at opposite sides of the bootf por- In a hose or stocking produced in accord-- ance with my invention, the yarn or yarns which contrast as desired in color or character with the body yarn, are introduced at each side to but a relatively few wales, course after course, and are then consistently floated substantially half way around the hose or stocking to be similarly introduced leo' at the opposite side and" then after a corresponding number ofl few wales are again floated substantially half way around the hose or stocking to be again introducedI at the side first referred to, this operation being repeated throughout the extent ofthe clock. v v

It is desirable andl of great importance to introduce the clocking yarn or yarns in such manner that it or they shall appear wholly at the outer or right face of the hose or stocking wherever such yarn or yarns is vor are supplied. This I preferably accomplish b such control of the main or body yarn an the clock yarn or yarns either through a dierence in tension upon the main yarn and the clocking yarn or yarns, or otherwise, as to insure the throwmg of the clocking yarn or yarns to the outer face of the fabric. e

In the simplest embodiment of my invention I provide but a single clocking yarn and this is introduced consistently 'course after course for a comparatively few'wales, as, for example about three or four, from the upper end of the clockwise stripe down, if desired, .to the commencement of the heel, where the introduction ofthe clocking yarn is suspended by propermanipulation of its yarnguide, until the heel is completed, after which such clocking yarn is reintroduced and is or may be continued in operation downmto the commencement of the toe. In certain variations er 'modications of my invention the said clocking yarn may be temporarily thrown out of operation at times so as to produce a break or breaks in the continuity of the clocking stripe, and if desired one or more additional clocking Vyarns may be thrown in to produce short vertical stripes or a dotted eiect adjacent to the main clocking yarn or in substitution therefor. Other variations or modiications of my invention it is unnecessary to describe or disclose in detail, since with the explanation of the principle of my invention before him a skilled knitter may make the same.

I will noW briefiy refer to those embodiments of my invention which I have selected for illustration andwill describe them with reference to the drawings.

In Fig. l Iphave represented at'l a circular or seamless knit hose or stocking"which obviously may be made of any desired length either as a lwomans stocking, or as here shown it may be provided with a ribbed top 2 in a manner generally hharacteristic of a mans hose. a heel 3 and a toe 4 made by a narrowing and yvidening operation and with the introductlon of an additional yarn or the substitution of another yarn in the making of sch heel or toe in a manner not necessary more fully to describe.

The hose or stocking may be knit upon any suitable circular knitting machine as for example a Banner machine of the general type disclosed in the patent to Joshua D.' Hemphill, No. 933,443. While obviously the hose or stocking and the clocking yarn or yarns may be of any desired colors, I will for convenience of description only, refer to the body yarn of the hose or stocking. as white in color. Such yarn is introduced as the main orbody yarn in usual manner, not necessary to describe, and at a desired point, as, for example, a slight distance below the rib top (if the latter be provided) or at the boot or ankle portion of a womans stocking, I introduce the clocking yarn or it may be the main clocking yarn which I have repre- I sented at 5 and which, for convenience of description, I will refer to as brown in color. This yarn is desirably introduced through a yarn finger positioned side by side with the main yarn finger and movable into and out of action independently thereof, so that when it is desired that the yarn 5 shall not appear in the fabric, the sameLis floated as indicated at 6, 7 in Fig. 7 Such clocking yarn is so controlled, as by being supplied at a different tensionfrom the main or body yarn of the fabric, or otherwise, that said clocking yarn consistently appears upon the outer face of the stocking in what may be termed a plating effect. Desirably, following the completion of the stocking, the floated yarns Such hosiery is provided with 6, 7 are severed in any suitable manner close; v

Lerares sumed at each side of the :foot as indicatedat the said brown clocking yarn 5 to an additionalnumber-of need s at each side in a number of courses sufficient to constitute such an enlargement, introduce one or more additional clocking yarns to the extent .desired. As a convenient form thereof l have in -Fig. l and in Fig. 2 represented the introduc'tion of a second clocking yarn as at 9 and for convenience of description will refer to this as a black supplemental clocking yarn. Desirably such a yarn is introduced as shown at each side of t-he brown clocking yarn 5 and may be introduced so as to produce a solid eii'ect or as here shown to provide a'spctted or short line or other eect. ln said F ig. l, said black yarn is represented as introduced at each ofi-our wales or groups-of wales, and between said wales or groups of wales the said black clocking yarn is desirably Heated for the short distance rerpiired. When the said black yarn arrives at t e vicinity ci the brown stripe 5 l may, for simplicity of operation, continue the said black yarn in operation as the characteristic effect of the yarn 5 is not thereby lost, it appearing at the outer surface. li may, if preferred, however, float the said black yarn ast the brown yarn if the said brown yarn e itself continued in action when the supplemental or second clocking yarn is emplayed. rli`he said second clocking yarn 9 is oated from side to 4side of the stocking, as shown at 9', 9 in Fig. l0 in the same manner as described-with respect to the clocking yarnatd.,l

ln Figs. 3 and d, .l have represented a modification or variation of my invention. Therein the Vbrown yarn l0 is introduced periodically only instead of continuously throughout the length of the stripe, and where said brown yarn is not 'introduced l substitute one or it may be more than one other clocking yarn. For example, as shown in Fig. 3, l may at desired points introduce 'a blue clocking yarn l1 and at other points introduce a black clocking yarn l2. -Said other clocking yarns may be so introduced as to provide a solid eiect or short line eEect or a dotted eii'ect, this being done in the manner describedwithv reference to'Fig. l.

lin Figs. 5 and 6, l have represented an- .other modification or `variation of my invention. lin this instance, l introducer the brown yarn i3 at ,intervals only, such manner as to produce a somewhat w1der effeet in the nature of short lines lslightly spaced apart, and at other points I introduce the blue yarn 14 in a similar manner. The examples referred to are disclosed as .a few forms only of effects that may besecured in the practice of my invention. All

said forms are characteristic of-my invention inA that whether a single clocking yarn is introduced or a plurality of clocking yarns are introduced, it is or they are introduced only to provide aclocking effect, and are introduced for a relatively few wales only, at

' opposite sides of the stocking', such clocking yarn or yarns being oated from one side of the stocking to the ot er, and from said other side back again to he first mentioned side throughout the formation of the clocks. Moreover, as hereinbefore stated, such clocking ,yarn or yarns must be of a character or color, or both,vthat contrasts with the main or body yarn and must beso controlled, where introduced, as to lie upon the outer face of the stocking, or otherwise be so introduced as a clocking yarn or yarns as to give a solid or characteristic color or effect Aat the points where such clocking yarn is introduced.

The clocking yarn or yarns is or are not introduced as a reinforcement, but to pro` duce a clocking effect and in obtaining the same, l may rely for contrast upon a difference in color, or in material, or in some distinguishing characteracteristic depending upon 'the particulared'ect to be produced. @bviously within the scope and `pu ose ot my invention a great number of different effects may be produced- Having thus described certain embodiments of the fabric of my invention and the best mode known to me for practising the method'of my invention, l desire it to be understood that although specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense and not forv purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being set forth in the following claims:

l. A circular knit or seamless' stocking composed of a main yarn or yarns and having a contrasting clocking yarn introduced at the opposite sides of the stocking for a few wales only at each of said sides, and therebetween Heated from side to side of the stocking throughout the longitudinal extent of the clocks.

'2. A circular knit or'seamless-` stocking composed of a main or body yarn .and a contrasting clocking yarn or yarns appearf llO trasting clockin yarn or yarns appearing upon the outer ace only of the stocking at the clocking areas thereof and uninterruptedly oated at the inner face of the stocking from clocking area to clocking area for su sequent removal.

4. -That method of knitting a circular knit or seamless stocking which includes supplying the main or body yarn, and at one'of the clocking areas introducing a contrasting, clocking yarn in such manner as to cause it to appear at the outer'face of the stocking for the comparatively few Wales embraced within the width of the clocking area at the point of introduction, then' continuing thev knitting with the main `or body yarn but floating the said clocking yarn to the opposite clocking area and there causing the said yarn to appear upon the outer face of the stocking to substantially the same Aextent as at the clocking area Where first introduced,-

then iioating said clocking yarn back to the iirst mentioned clocking area, and similarly there reintroducing the same, and continuing this operation 'through the formation of the clocking areas.

point of introduction, then continuing the knitting with the main or body yarn but floating the said clocking yarn to the opposite clockingr area and there causing said yarn to appear upon the outer face of the stocking to substantlally the same extent as atl'the clocking area Whererst introduced,"

then floating said clocking yarn back to' the first'mentioned clocking area, and similarly there reintroducing the same, continuing this operation throughout the formation of the clocking areas, and removing the floating yarn or yarns from between the clocking areas.

In testimony whereof, have signed my name to this specification.

CLARENCE H. TAEL.

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