US1787365A - Striped stocking - Google Patents

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Dec. 30,v 1930. E. T. FLOYD STRIPED sTocKING Filed June 19, 1928 wmp intil y! ill-l.: ill-vigili Earl Tamas Playa gnam/toc @www Patented Dec. 30, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EARL THOMAS FLOYD, OF NEAR TEMPLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE NOLDE AND HORST COMPANY, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENN-l SYLVAN IA STRIPD sTocxING Application filed June 19,

This invention relates to knitted stockings having longitudinal striping; and it provides for producing improved ornamental eEects by employing in connection with contrasting body yarns knitted in alternating courses, separate striping yarn interknitted Withl one or other-*of said body yarns in determined walesl only, with unknitted portions thereof at the rear floated vdiagonally across intervening courses ofthe other vbody yarn, as fully set forth in connection with -the accompanying-drawing and clearly defined in the subjoined claim.v

Fig. l is an outline View of a stocking with a fragmentary diagrammatic showing thereon to indicate the improved ornamentation which my invention provides for; the novel construction thereof being clearly revealed by the enlarged showing thereof in Fig. 2. Fig. 3 diagrammatically indicates a two-feed cam arrangement for yproducing the alternating courses of different yarns in the knitting of the stocking body. v v

The stocking'body indicated is knitted of two different yarns b and c, shown in enlargedFig. 2 as ofdifferent coloring; these being knitted simultaneously inalternating courses, by the action of two sets of knitting Acams as indicated in Fig. 3, so the Whole body is made up of. closely parallel `contrasting courses.

In the diagrammatic double-feed knittingcam showing of Fig. 3, arrows b and o indicate the'respective body yarn feeds to corresponding needles wliich are not shown. The stripe effects such as indicated in Fig'. l, are produced `by simultaneously feeding a lating yarn d to certain of the needles, as

etermi-ned bythe width ofl the stripe to be produced and the desired color effect, arrow d indicati-ng the feed -of said plating yarn.

This additionalyarn is fed for instance, as indicated in the drawings, to needles which are knitting the lighter body yarn, so as to be formed into loops with the latter indetermined wales of the course and produce a different color effect in said wales from that produced by said lighter colored body yarn in the main portion of the course; the portions of this additional plating yarn which 1928. Serial No. 286,679.

are not so interknitted being floated at the rear of the fabric, in diagonal lines crossing the intervening course of different body yarn as shown in Fig. 2.

If the additional yarn thus platingly interknitted with this body yarn is made to correspond with the other body yarn ofthe adjacent courses, a solid stripe effect is produced Without showing of the lighter colored body yarn therein; if this additional yarn differs in coloring from both of the body yarns a. radically dierent stripe effect is produced; and if the additional yarn is fed with and interknitted with the other body yarn instead, a still different effect is produced; so that a great variety of designs may be readily produced by required variations in the relative character of the additional plating yarn employed, by its interknitting with one or other of the different body yarns employed in the alternate courses, and by. variation in the number of wales in which the plating thread is made to appear; the hidden floating p0rtions of the latter in all cases diagonally crossing an intervening course.

What I claim is A stocking knit with two different body yarns simultaneously fed in alternating courses, and having separate striping yarn plaitedly interknitted in each Wale with one of said body yarns to appear on the surface in the alternate courses of determined Wales and with each rear portion of said striping yarn floated diagonally across an intervening course of the other body yarn to appear only on the reverse side of the stocking.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature,

EARL T. FLOYD.

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