US1985210A - Ornamented knitted fabric and method of making the same - Google Patents

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Dec. 18, 1934. M KR|5$|EP 1,985,210

ORNAMENTED KNITTED FABRIC AND METHOD F MAKING THE SAME Filed Dec. 19, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet l TlE l 57 t! Illllll INVENToR. .Max Irssgp,

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Patented Dec. 18, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENTOF OBNAMENTED KNIT'I'ED FABRIC 'AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Max Krissiep, Wyomissing, Pa., assignor, by

mesne assignments,

to Berkshire Knitting \Mills, West Reading, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application December 19, 1931, Serial No. 582,078

18 Claims.`

My invention relates to a new and improved article combining a knitted fabric and a separatelyformed selvage-edged fabric strip, and to the method of uniting them during the knitting material with the knitted'fabric by an interknit` ting of lines of loops of both fabrics.

Preferably such separately formed fabric strip l5` is rendered elastic by the introduction of elastic strands, or by its formation of an elastic thread or threads, such strip elasticity preferably being greater than the natural elasticity of the knitted fabric, so that when combined lwith the latter it will not bind the knitted loops.

In order that the separately formed strips may be integrally combined by interknitting with the loops of the knitted fabric, said strips are preferably formed with a selvage edge, or edges, and with aline, or lines.' of loops at said selvage edge or adjacent to` the latter adaptedto engage the needles of the knitting machine.

This new combination of knitted and separately differently formed fabrics, the manner of its use for ornamental and useful purposes, and the method of its satisfactory and economical production will be fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the novel features thereof specifically set forth inl the appended claims. v

Figure 1` indicates a knitted stocking embodyingA the present improvements, showing braid employed as a top' edging, as an intermediate depending circular band, 'and asa sectional insert.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary View, more -clearly disclosing the braid employed as a top edging for a stocking.

-Fig. 3 is a similar enlarged view, more clearly showing the braid employed as a circular band at the turned welt junction with the leg portion of a stocking. ,l

Fig. 4 is a similar enlarged view, showing the braid employed as a sectional insert in the stocking. l y,

Fig. 5 indicates the method of introducing the braid to the knitting needles for its integral interengagement with the knitting loops'formed by the needles. f

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig, 5, but showing the braid loops transferred to the needles and lowered In .the embodiment of the drawings showing a 'full-fashioned stocking having separately formed (Ol. 66-1'12) l braid added thereto, the speciiic showings of such application are to be understood as merely i1lus' trative of several different suggestive ways in which the braid may be introduced and integrally combined.

The braid employed may be f any usual structure and thread, and for purposes of greater elas tic expansion than ordinary braid, may be formed partly or entirely of elastic strands or threads so as not to limit or bind the usual elasticity of the knitted fabric, and serve when desired as a garter support or the like; the braid employed being preferably so formed as to have one or more lines of loops readily engageable on the needles of a.

knitting machine.

In Figs. 1 and 2, the braid 5 is indicated as having a lace pattern, andthe line of loops 6, engageable with the knitting loops, yas extending along one edge of the braid and formed by fseparated return bends of the braid threads. These 1,985,210 Flor-1* braid loops are engaged by the first course of loops 'I of the knitting to integrally unite them to, the stocking top 8, the braid' extending above I' said course to form an ornamental braided lace top or edging. This braid 5 may form an edging at the folded end of a usual welt top of a stockl ing; or it may be topped on the needles to engage the first knitted course and thus not onlyy form a top edging, but permit the production of a 'stocking having a singlen` thickness of knitted fabric, without the usual turned welt. Fig. 3 shows a plain braid 10,01 any pattern design and united along one edge below the top of the stocking, being shownnas engaging the course correspondingly spaced stocking coursesla and 19; the side edges 20, '2,1 of the stocldng on either side of the braid A15 being preferably selvage edges united to the side edges of the braid by a seam or other securing means, and the knitting being omitted between the top and bottom edges of the insert. l

In Figs. 5 and 6, a means is shown for uniting the braid loops to the knit loops, by transferring the braid loops to the knitting needles to be interknit into the desired course of loops formed on said knitting needles. Such means comprises a usual transfer bar or ring employed as heretofore, the braid loops being placed on the points of the transfer bar or ring which is t/hen superimposed with said point 26 to engagement instead withy the shank of needle 25. Thread now fed to said needles 25 by thread guide 28 will beengaged by the hooked end of needles 25 and drawn through the loop 27 prior to the loop being cast of! the needle in usual knitting movement of the latter. It will vbe readily seen that, by this means, the braid loops may be transferred to the knitting needlesand such braid loops engaged by the next course of knitted loops to integrally unite the braid to the knitted product.

The topping method above described is satisfactory and effective for engaging the braid loops with the first formed course of knitted loops, but to introduce such braid loops to the needles for engagement with a subsequently formed knitted course so as to appear on the outside of the fabric, the braid loops must be on the shanks of the needles before the knitting is started. In Fig. 8, the braid loops 27 are shown engaged on the shanks of needles 25, but have been pressed downward on said shanks until they lieI below the usual knock-over bits 29 of thev knitting machine, where they may remain idly supported while fabric is knitted above them' on the needles 25. When it is desired to add the braid to a determined needle course, the loops 27 are lifted above the knockover bits 29 which then support them to be interengagediwith the next course of knitted loops formed. A plurality of braids may be added to the knittedfabrlc by successively transferring the line of loops of each braid to the needles 25 and pressing them all below the knock-over bits i9,V each braid being singly above the latter at the selected knittingcourse with which it is to be interengage'd; or twoor morebraid loops may be'jiointly raised for interengagement in the same'knitting course.` v

In the arrangement shown `iny Fig. 2, the braid A loops are transferred to empty needles as a first step before knitting thefirst course of the stocking, 'the braid then being Joined to said first course to form the ornamental edging described, and the 'formation of a stocking without the l usual turned welt heretofore found Inecessary to lsecure the first formed .course of loops.

edging lmay be added aty the 'fold of the usual This welt by pressing the transferred braid loops on the needles below'the knock-overl bits before starting-knitting, and raising them above the knock-over bits when forming the knitted course that will lie at such fold of the welt.

In the arrangement shown in Fig. 3, a turned weltis vformed as usual by reengaging the first loops on needles having loops thereon of a subsequently formed course; and it will be understood that the braid loops previously transferred to the needles and pressed thereon below the knock-over bits, are now raised above the latter so that the next formed course of knitted loops will interengage with the previously formed course, the reengaged first formed course and the braid loops to integrally unite them.

In the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, at the point of raising above the knock over bits 29 they previously transferred braid loops 16 on the needles.. additional thread guides are employed to produce sectional fabric in well known man' ner, the carrier feeding thread to the needles on which the braid loops 16 have been transferred, making a few courses sucient only to interknit with said braid loops to secure the latter to the fabric, and then ceasing to feed for a time. Thespends to the length of the space between braid loops 16 and 17, the loops 17are then raised on the needles, above the knock over bits, and a single thread guide resumes its thread feed to all the needles producing a full width course 19 to interknit with and unite the loops 17 at the lower edge of braid to the knitted fabric and also to interknit with the last formed part courses on each side of said braid insert. The selvage edges 20 may be subsequently secured or looped to the side edges of the braid 15 to unite them, and the few courses of knitting beyond the part course interknitting with braid loops 1'6 may be secured in any convenient manner, as bya tying thread to prevent disengagement of the braid loops 16; or such braid course may not have been interknit and subsequently united by seaming similar to the side seaming.

From the foregoing description of various methods of adding the braid to the knitted fabric, it will be readily seen that a great variety of novel combinations may be produced, providing varied ornamental edgingsfbands and inserts. It will also be readily understood that the-braid loops interknit with the knitted loops need Inot necfabric along a line or lines intermediate its width. l And when the braid is formed of elastic strands or thread, such braid mayy beadded-to serve a functional use of a stocking supporting. garter located at the top ^or i anywherev below the `latter thereto aswell.v

From the foregoing descriptionxit is believed that the nature of' my improved combined fabric, and its method` of production ymay be'readily uns Vderstood; It will be further understood this (novel combination is not limited to stockingsbut is applicable 'to other knitted articles, produced on straight bar or circular machines, and the braid with suitable loops, notnecessarily of equal num- 'as'desired, said garteriformin'g an integral partof the stocking and x an ornamental addition ber with the-knitting needles, ybeing readily probraided fabric having a line of integrally braided loops which are directly interknitted with the loops of a determined course of the knitted fabric.

2. 'A new article of manufacture comprising a knitted fabric and a transverse band of separately formed braided elastic fabric integrally combined therewith, said band' being formed with a longitudinal line of integrally braided loops 'Various' other modifications and 60 which are directly interknitted with the loops of a determined course of the knitted fabric.

3. A new article of manufacture comprising a knitted stocking and a lace band of braided elastic thread integrally combined therewith, said band having free integrally braided selvage edge loops directly interknitted with a determined course of the knitted fabric. Y

4. The method of integrally combining an' insert strip of separately formed fabric with a knitted main' fabric during the knitting of determined courses of the latter, which comprises, topping longitudinal lines of loops at or adjacent opposite edges of the separately formed insert fabric onto the needles of a knitting machine preliminary to the knitting of the main fabric, maintaining said linesvvof loops in idle position during knitting of the main fabric to the first determined course, shifting-the line of loops at one edge of said insert fabric to active position on said needles, interknitting said line of loops with said ilrst'determined course, knitting the main fabric to a second determined course, shifting the line of longitudinal loops at the other edge of the insert fabric to active position on said needles, and interknitting said line of loops of the insert fabric with the second determined course of the knitted fabric.

5. The method of integrally combining an insert strip of separately formed fabric with a knitted main fabric during the knitting of determined courses of the latter, which comprises, topping longitudinal lines of loops at or adjacent opposite edges of the separately formed insert fabricv onto the needles of a knitting machine preliminary to the knitting of the main fabric, maintaining said lines of loops in idle position during knitting ofthe main fabric to the first determined course, shifting the line of loops at one edge of said insert fabric to active position on said needles while maintaining the line of loops at the opposite edge thereof in inactive position on the needles, interknitting said shifted line of loops at one edge of the insert fabric with said first determined course of the main fabric, discontinuing the knitting of the main fabric'in a number of wales corresponding to the width of said separately formed insert fabric and knitting partial courses of the main fabric at each side of said insert fabric to asecond determined course of the main fabric, shifting the line of loops at said other edge of said insert fabric to active position on said needles, and resuming knitting of full courses of the main fabric to interknit said insert fabric at its other edge with thesecond determined course of the main fabric.

6. As a new article of manufacture, a composite fabric having a knitted portion and a braided portion integrally combined with each other, said braided portion having a line of integrally braided selvage loops adjoining a determined course of the knitted portion and directly interknit with the loops of said course. l

7. As a new article of manufacture, a composite fabric having a knitted portion and a braided portion integrally combined with each other, said braided portion having a line of integrally braided selvage loops adjoining a deter mined course of the knitted portion, the number of selvage loops corresponding to the'number of loops of said .determined course in the length thereof adjacent said braided portion, and each ing a` course of plain loops and a braided portion integrally combined therewith, said braided portionk having a line of integrally'braided selvage loops each of which is directly interknit with an associated plain loop of said knitted portion.

10. As a new article of manufacture, a composite fabric having a knitted portion comprisling a plain course of alternate sinker and needle wale loops and a braided portion integrally combined therewith, said braided portion having a line of integrally braided selvage loops directly interknit with the sinker Wale loops of said plain knit course.

11. As a new article of manufacture, 'a composite fabric having a knitted portion comprising a plain course of alternate sinker and needle waleloops and a braided portion integrally combined therewith, said braided portion having a line of integrally braided selvage loops directly interknit with the needle wale loops of said plain knit course.

12. As a new article of manufacture, a composite fabric having knitted portions comprising with the sinker and needle Wale loops respectively of said vplain lcourses of the knitted portions.

13..A stocking having an area of plain knit fabric and an area of braided fabric integrally combined with the plain knit fabric, said braided fabric having a line of integrally braided loops which are directly interknit with the loops of a determined course of said plain knit fabric.

14. A stocking having a knitted upper portion and a top portion comprising a braided fabric integrally combined with said knitted portion, said braided fabric having -a line of integrally braided selvage loops directly interknit with the loops of a determined course of said knitted portion of the stocking.

15. A stocking having a knitted upper portion, and a top. portion comprising a braided lace band incorporating a plurality of elastic threads integraliy united with said knitted portion, said lace band having a line of integrally braided selvage loops directly interknit with the loops of a determined course of said knitted portion of the stocking.

16. A stocking having knitted portions and a braided portion integrally united with each other, said braided portion having integrally braided loops at the opposite selvage edges thereof adjacent determined courses of said .knitted portions and directly interknit with the loops of said courses.

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