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METHOD OF MAKING STOCKINGS April 9, 1929 H. VQGT Filed June 5, 1926 A TTORNEYSL Patented 4 Apr. 9, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN IE. 'VOG'.E, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNR TO THE NOLDE AND HORST COMPANY, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF MAKING STOCKINGS.

Applicationled I une 5,

The main object of my invention is to produce an improved stocking satisfactorily combining the economic and other advantages of circular knitting, with the better 5 forming of the foot inherent in the slower fashioning method of straight or flat knitting. To this end I provide for utilizing the cheaper and quicker circular-knitting machine and method in the production of the 1o leg and of separated front and rear eXten-` sions thereof adapted to form respectively foot-top and heel portions of a completed stocking or sock; aiidfor employing the fashioning flat-knitting .machine and method in knitting onto such circular machine product a U-sliaped foot-bottom-and-toe portion the parallel foot-bottom parts of which are subsequently seamed together and to the foottop leg extension; thereby providing a satisfactorily fashioned tubular foot, the top of which has been produced on the circular machine and may readily embody such ornamental iguring or striping as is employed upon the leg.

Fig. 1 shows the circularly knitted product lwith the extensions parted as required for effecting the knitting thereonto of the flatknitted foot portion.

Fig, 2 shows' the circularly-knitted leg with foot-top and heel-tab extensions, as preferably formed. -Y

Fig. 3 shows the leg product illustrated in Fig. 2 with tlie halves of the parted heel pocket spread as required for the knitting thereonto of the flat-knitted foot-bottomand-toel; the latten being also shown with its separated footbottom halves knitted onto the respective selvaged inner edges of the heel-tab parts, and its connecting toe ortion knitted onto the end of the foot-top leg extension.

Fig. 4t shows my completed stocking,the required longitudinal seaming on the foot bottom and sides and on the rear of the leg being indicated. v

It Ahas been heretofore proposed that the different processes of circular and flat knitting be both employed in the production of stockings, so as to get the recognized economic benefit of circular knitting where the requirements of satisfactory formation and construction permit, while securing the recognized advantagesofjiat knitting where most called for; and' my present invention consists in the improved method of combin- 1926. Serial No. 113,864.

ing the circular and fiat knitting processes, and the improved product, hereinafter fully set forth; the main characteristic features of the invention being,-irst that the top portion of the foot is produced by circular knitting in contlnuation of and carrying any ornamentation or peculiarities of, the tubularly knitted leg;` and second that only the remainder of the tubular foot is flat-knitted, with separated halves of the foot-bottom eX- tending forward from the longitudinal edges of the heel-tab leg extension and seemed to complete the tubularA foot.

. Fig. 1 indicates a circularly knitted stocking leg 10, having a semi-c-ircular continuation ofthe front portion thereof to form a duced as indicated in Fig. 2; the semi-cir cular heel-tab 12 being shown as reciprocatively knitted upon the reali needles only, and knitting of the tubular foot upon all the needles being thereafter resumed as is commonly done after formation of the usual heel pocket. As the lower portion 11:l of the tubular foot shown in Fig. 2 is intended to be cut away on the line a' a so as to re.- sult in the circular knit product shown in Fig. 1, such lower portion may be made so as to involve as little wastage as is found to be practicable; or reciprocative knitting may be resorted to for producing the essential foot-top extension 11.

yFig. 3 shows the flat-knitted foot-bottomand-toe portion of the foot, as knitted onto the flattened-out lower portion of the cir cularly knitted leg; this flat-knit portion being U-shaped, and comprising the spacedapartl foot- bottom parts 15, 15 and the connecting toe portion 15".

As clearly illustrated, eachof the footbottom parts `is knitted onto the selvaged longitudinal edgeof an outwardly turned hee -tab part 12b, and continued as a for- Wardly extending strlp to the length of the free foot-top lleg extension 11, when the connecting toe portion continuation 15a is knitted onto the end of said foot-top extension. The forming of the toe and fashioning of the foot-bottom parts y15, l5, are of course effected as is usual in flat knitting, but With separate carriers serving the needles for the two parts and a single carrier serving for the toe. Completion of the fashioned tubular foot with its circularly knitted top, requires only the seaming together of the outer edges of the foot- bottom parts 15, 15 along the bottom of the foot as indicated at 20, and the seaming of `their respective inner edges to the side edges of the foot top extension 1l. 'along the sides of the foot as indicated at uniformly continuing in the top of the foot absolutely the same texture as in the leg,

with identical ornamentation often practicable only in circula; knit-ting, and Without danger of the objectionable transfer line which almost invariably and inevitably shows in the more expensive products.

What I claim is:

The improved method of manufacturing knitted stockings Which comprises: knitting av tubular leg-portion; suspending circular knitting and forming on the rear of said leg-portion by reciprocative knitting a selvaged-edge heel-tab portion; resuming circular knitting to form a tubular foot portion extension of said leg and heel-tab portions; cutting awaythe rear half of said tubular foot portion and longitudinally dividing said heel tab portion to form an integral instep and separate heel-tab extensions of said tubular leg portion, each heel-tab portion having a selvage edge; laterally spreading said heel-tab extensions and flat-knitting to their selvaged edges separate foot-bottom halves; flat-knitting a toe-pocket portion to the ends of said foot-bottom halves and the end of said instep extension; seaining the inner edges of said foot-bottom halves to the side edgesof said instep extension; and uniting the outer edges of said toe-pocket, footf bottom halves, and divided heel-tabs by a rear seam to complete a tubular foot extension for said tubular leg portion.-

In testimony whereof l affix my signature.

JOHN lli. VOGT.

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