US2022444A - Hosiery - Google Patents

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Nov. 26, 1935. e. s. VAN VOQRHIS HOSIERY Filed March 5, 1935 Fig.1

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Patented Nov. 26, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HOSIERY George S. Van Voorhis, Northampton, Mass, as- I signor to United Elastic Corporation, Easthampton, Mass a corporation of Massachusetts Application March 5, 1935, Serial No. 9,438 2 Claims. (01. 2-240) This invention relates to hosiery. It aims to improve hosiery'of the very inexpensive types a with a view to producing a better article without substantially increasing the cost of production. While the invention is primarily concerned with the very cheap grades of hosiery, ,it is contemplated that it may also be, used to advantage in certain of the better grades, especially some types of sport hosiery.

The nature of the invention will be readily understood from the following description when read in connection with the accompanying drawing, and the novel features will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims. 1

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a side view of a stocking embodying features of this invention, the extreme top of the stocking being cut off and part of the structure Fig. 2 is an enlarged 'view of the seam which joins the cufi to the leg of the stocking shown in Fig. 1; and

- Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a slightly diiferentv embodiment of the invention.

In making very cheap stockings, especially those designed for children's wear, it is a common practice to knit a foot and leg on a circular knitting machine, and then to stitch a cufl to the top of the leg. The cufi usually is ribbed so as to have considerable circumferential elasticity-- or stretch. Sometimes, however, the cult or top section of the stocking is of an entirely difierent nature. In making stockings. of this type according to the present invention, the top section or 'cuif 2 and the foot and'leg section 3 of the stocking may be assembled in the usual way, the cuff being turned inside out and telescoped'over the .leg, and the two edges being brought together in registering relationship. These sections are then sewed together, and in connection with the sewing operation, a strip of rubber 4 is secured to the stocking, this strip extending along the seam and around the stocking so that it will give to this part of the stocking a-considerably greater cir cumferential elasticity than it otherwise would have. Preferably the stocking is stretched circumferentially during this operation, and the rubber, or other elastic strip included in the seam, is held under tension so that the degree of elasticity thus imparted to this portion of the stocking can be made greater or less, as desired' The anchoring of the rubber strip 4 in position, and

the binding '0: the'adjoining edges of the sections 2 and a is facilitated by performing this stitching operation on a Merrow binder, or some other sewing machine of the type which will overseam an edge. As shown in Fig. 2,'t he zig-zag threads of the seam pass through the rubbenstrip;

5 leaving one margin projecting. beyond the threads of the seamwhile'the other margin is confined by the zig-zag threads, as inthe arrangement illustrated in Fig. 2.

An important objection to cheap stockings made by the methods above referred to is that thetop sections do not have suflicient elasticity to hold them in place. This-objection can be effectually overcome in the manner just de-v scribed. The invention, therefore, produces a m considerably better stocking at only a trifling increase in expense of manufacture, the only added cost being that of the rubber strand. The same problem arises in cheap work gloves in which the wrist portion or cuff made of a ribbed or other stretchable material is secured to the hand section of the glove, and the present invention is equally as useful in the manufactureof articles T of this character. It gives additional elasticity to the wrist section, particularly, at its junction with the hand portion of the glove, exactly as it does in the case of hosiery. Consequently, in the claims, the terms hosiery and stockings will be used in a generic sense to include gloves, the

leg and foot section of a stocking corresponding 85 to the hand andflnger section of a glove.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to claimas new is:

1. That improvement in methods of making hosiery, which consists in producing the foot and 40 leg section of a stocking and a-ribbed cuiI in independent operations, telescoping one of said sections within the other with the edges of the two sections substantially registered throughout, overseaming said edges to secure the two sections together, and running an elastic strip into the seam so made simultaneously with theseaming operation and securing it to the stocking by the stitches of said seam,

2. In a stocking, the combination of a top section, a foot and leg section, a seam uniting said sections edge to edge throughout the circumference of the stocking, the stitches of said seam extending over and binding the adjoining edges of'both sections, and a rubber strip. secured to the stocking by said seam.

GEORGE si VAN vooams.

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