US1955422A

US1955422A - Stocking

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Publication number: US1955422A
Application number: US655551A
Authority: US
Inventors: Cyrus H Hecker
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1933-02-07
Filing date: 1933-02-07
Publication date: 1934-04-17
Anticipated expiration: 1951-04-17

Description

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ORNEY Patented Apr. 17, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

My invention relates in general to hosiery for women and more' particularly to an arrangement for providing against the extra. strain incident to the use of hosiery supporting clasps and c- 5 ordinately involves an arrangement for centering the stocking about the foot of the wearer.

It is a general practice among women to employ clasps pendent from a body garment, such as a corset, to engage the stocking at the top to keep it from falling. In a stocking having a doubledover welt, where the clasp engages the stocking in such welt portion, the doubling over of the material provides amply under ordinary circumstances for the strain of the garter clasp engagement. However, due to a disproportion between the length of the stocking and the size of the wearer, it may frequently occur that the proper support for the stocking can be attained only when the clasp engages the stocking at a point below the welt, and it is therefore one of the objects of my invention to provide an arrangement whereby ample discontinuous spaced provision is made for such a contingency circumferentially about the stocking.

Clasps of the type herein referred to, are generally supported from a body supporting garment in predetermined circumferential relationship about the body and therefore the clasp itself will have a predetermined circumferential position about the leg and will correspondingly affect the position of the stocking parts circumferentially about the leg and it therefore follows that if the clasp were improperly engaged with the stocking it will tend to spiral the stocking about the leg,

and in full fashioned stockings will cause the rear seam to be unsymmetrically positioned and for this reason I have illustrated my invention as associated with a full fashioned stocking having such a rear seam.

It is a further object of my invention to so relate and space the aforementioned clasp engaging areas circumferentially about the stocking as to have them properly related positionally in reference to the normal position of the clasp and for this reason I show such an arrangement 'in the form of areas symmetrically positioned with reference to the rear seam and also properly positioned with reference to the normal position of the stocking engaging clasps.

It is a further object of my invention to so relate and space the aforementioned clasp engaging areas with reference to the doubled-over welt, where a doubled-over welt is employed, that the position of the clasp engaging areas circumferentially about the leg will serve as a guide for a clasp engagement with the welt, and this I attain in my specific embodiment by providing in the welt, indications as for example colored outlining, in vertical alignment with the clasp engaging areas whereby the areas in the welt to be engaged by the clasps are predetermined.

It is a still further object of my invention to so associate the aforementioned clasp engaging areas with a doubled-over welt that these areas will serve to minimize the visual effect of the quick transition from the doubled-over welt to the stocking leg.

It is a general object of my invention to provide a new and improved stocking and a new and improved provision for garter engagement. 7!)

For the attainment of these objects and such other objects as may hereinafter appear or be pointed out, I have illustrated several embodiments of my invention in the drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevational view of the upper portion of a stocking, parts being broken away from the front wall to disclose the rear wall of the stocking;

Figure 2 is a sectional view on line 2-2 of Figure 1 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 3 is a detailed view of the construction of the fabric of the reinforced garter attachment portions of the stocking of Figure 1;

Figures 4, 5 and 6 are views similar to Figure 1 showing various modifications; and

Figure '7 is a sectional view on the line 7-7 of Figure 6 looking in the direction of the arrows.

- On viewing Figures 1, 2 and 3 it will be observed that in Figure 1 I show the upper portion of a stocking of the full-fashioned type, having a leg portion 10 and a welt portion 12. This welt portion is shown as of the doubledover type, as customary in knee length stockings. The welt and the body portions are joined by picot loops, as indicated at 14, this being also a usual construction.

I provide in the leg of the stocking at the very top and in immediate adjacency to the welt, sections 16 discontinuous from each other and spaced circumferentially about the top of the stocking leg and formed in the manner and for the purposes now to be pointed out.

These areas 16 are formed by throwing in a reenforcing yarn preferably of a greater number of ends than that of which the stocking leg is formed so as to provide in such areas for the increased strain incident to clasp engagement, by a reenforcement thereof. I have found that if these reenforced sections 16 are made so as to taper in one direction that the functions thereof, as above pointed out, are more efliciently eiiected and for purposes of narrowing down the reenforced yarn, I may employ an attachment known generally in the industry as a pointex" attachment. In this manner and by this arrangement I attain not only a reeniorcement which will minimize the occurrence of runs, but also an arrangement which will tend to limit the extent of the runs, whenever they start within the sections 16.

It will be observed upon viewing Figure 2 that the sections 16 are shown as three in number and arranged one centrally of the stocking front and in opposition to the rear seam 22 and the other two positioned symmetrically with reference to the rear seam. This positioning of the sections 16 is preferably made to cause them to register with the normal position of the clasps as generally fixed by the body encircling garments from which they depend.

It will therefore be understood that regardless of which position the stocking assumes on the foot of the wearer, the engagement of the supporting clasps with the sections 16 will result in the stocking being held in its proper position and unspiralled and the rear seam being symmetrically positioned at the rear of the leg. This arrangement will give the additional result in that where the supporting clasps are to be engaged with the welt, the sections 16 will serve to mark the line of clasp engagement in the welt which naturally will be in vertical alignment with and above the various sections 16, and to still further assist in the proper engagement of the clasp with the welt, I may employ the arrangement of Figure 4 in which there are associated with the stocking sections 36 which correspond to the sections 16 of Figure l, and an outline marking 44 in the welt, this outline marking serving to guide the wearer as to the area of clasp engagement. This outline marking 44 can be attained in any preferred or desired manner as for example by introducing a color resist thread into the knitting operation.

In this Figure 4 it will be understood that the doubled-over welt is shown at 32, the rear seam at 38, the stocking leg at 30 and the picot loops at 34.

In the arrangements of the embodiments of Figures 1 and 4, the provision of the

sections

16 and 36 respectively gives the additional result of minimizing visually the abrupt break in the fabric structure betweenthe doubled over welt and the adjacent leg portion of the stocking, and in this connection the tapering oi the sections 16 is of particular utility.

In the embodiment of Figure 5 I show my invention applied to what has been referred to as a weltless stocking, that is, a stocking in which the top part 62 is not finished of! with a doubled over section, and while my invention can serve its purpose by sections 66 in the leg, located with reference to the picot 64 and the rear seam '72 as in the previous embodiments, added advantages are attainable by duplicating these sections in the single welt section 62 above the picot 64, as shown at 68.

In Figure 6 I show a further variation of my invention in which in a stocking having for example a doubled welt 32', the rear seam 38, the fabric structure 40', the leg section 30, and the picot row 34', the sections 48 below the welt correspond to the sections 16 in Figure l in all respects, except that the tapering section is inverted and arranged apex up, and for purposes of showing further applications of my invention; I have associated with the sections 48' below the welt, correspondingly shaped sections 50 above the welt, except that the two groups of sections are arranged with the apices in contacting relation.

In all of the above embodiments it will be observed that the sections 16 of Figure 1 and the corresponding sections of the other embodiments are all disconnected circumterentially about the stocking leg running into the picot row which separates the stocking leg from the fabric above it and are predeterminedly positioned circumferentially about the leg.

Having thus described my invention and illustrated its use, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a stocking having a leg portion and a denbled-over welt portion adapted for the attachment of garter clasps thereto at any point thereof, three tapered reinforced sections below said welt, but immediately adjacent thereto, said sections being spaced circumferentially from each other, and being adapted to receive garter clasps, and to indicate the preferred points of attachment of the garters, both within the welt and below the welt, one of said sections being located centrally at the front of the stocking and two of said sections being located at the rear of the stocking and spaced laterally and symmetrically in relation to the rear seam.

CYRUS H. HECKER.