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US2054217A
US2054217A US59125A US5912536A US2054217A US 2054217 A US2054217 A US 2054217A US 59125 A US59125 A US 59125A US 5912536 A US5912536 A US 5912536A US 2054217 A US2054217 A US 2054217A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04B—KNITTING
    • D04B9/00—Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles
    • D04B9/42—Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles specially adapted for producing goods of particular configuration
    • D04B9/46—Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles specially adapted for producing goods of particular configuration stockings, or portions thereof
    • D04B9/54—Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles specially adapted for producing goods of particular configuration stockings, or portions thereof welts, e.g. double or turned welts
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04B—KNITTING
    • D04B1/00—Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes
    • D04B1/14—Other fabrics or articles characterised primarily by the use of particular thread materials
    • D04B1/18—Other fabrics or articles characterised primarily by the use of particular thread materials elastic threads

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  • This invention relates to a method of knitting seamless hosiery made of plain fabric, and more particularly to a method of producing a weltless, seamless stocking.
  • One object of the 5 invention is to knit such a weltless stocking from top to toe in an economical manner, starting up from the bare needles.
  • Fig. 1 is a development of part of the knitting wave and knitting cams of a Scott & Williams revolving needle cylinder machine practising my invention, showing how the two yarns are fed to the needles in carrying out the preferred form of my invention; while Fig. 2 is a plan view corresponding to Fig. 1, showing the needle circle and the manner in which the first or interlaced yarn is fed to the needles and then taken out of action, the small arrow in the upper left corner of the figure indicating the knocking-over point, and the curved arrow the direction of rotation of the needles.
  • the stocking will be shown and described as a mans half nose, but it should be understood that it is equally applicable to any other kind of hoisery.
  • the stocking resulting from my method of knitting is a weltless one, that is to say, the top of the stocking or sock is of a single thickness. It is knit from top to toe and can be begun on the bare needles.
  • the actual interloopings of the yarns at the selvage are somewhat similar to those in the Robert W. Scott Patent No. 1,148,056, dated July 27, 1915, but the method of its manufacture is much simpler and is more satisfactory as far as concerns tensions of the yarns. It will be obvious that either or both of the yarns involved in making the selvage can be elastic yarns, but the invention is equally applicable if neither yarn is elastic.
  • the antiravel yarn 20 that is to say, the yarn which is to be threaded through all the first row of loops in the finished fabric, is introduced into the machine at a point sufliciently in advance of the knitting wave, in the preferred form of my process, to permit the yarn to be interlaced in front and in back of alternate needles and below the latches of those needles where it lies on the front side of the shank.
  • I also introduce the yarn I3 which is to make the first row of loops. This yarn is preferably introduced into the hooks of all the needles after the anti-ravel yarn 20 has been interlaced.
  • the two yarns therefore come to the knocking-over point with the antiravel yarn 20 behind one needle and below the latch of the next, while the second or looping yarn 53 lies in the hooks of all the needles.
  • the successive loops of the second yarn B3 are drawn on opposite sides of the anti-ravel yarn, thus enclosing the latter.
  • the machine already has a complete setup with the anti-ravel yarn free of all the needles.
  • the preferred method of feeding the anti-ravel yarn is by means of a finger 30 pivoted on a post v29 on the bedplate B to move in' a horizontal plane just above the sinker cap into and out of operative relation with the cylinder needles 2 I, 22.
  • the delivery end of the anti-ravel yarn finger 30 applies the anti-rave] yarn 20 at a point on the needle circle which is just after the crest of the cam 366 raising the jacks 38! which lie under alternate needles. It will be the needles 2
  • the elevation of the antiravel yarn feeding finger is such that the needles 2
  • the jackless needles 22 rise" on the camming edge of the leadingstitch cam is used in the sense of a single passage of all of a single series of needles with respect to the knitting cams, or vice versa, as distinguished from a course of knitted stitches of the fabric.
  • the feeding of the anti-ravel yarn commences slightly before the feeding of the body yarn in the throat plate in order that the first needle to which the antiravel yarn is fed may reach the throat plate before the body yarn begins to feed.
  • special movements can be obtained from either the main pattern drum or an auxiliary drum.
  • the anti-ravel yarn 20 can be stopped by swinging the yarn finger 30 into its inoperative position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, thus leading the yarn into the cutter and clamp 35 where it remains until the next stocking is ready to be begun. It will be observed that in this way a simple, undistorted selvage is produced in one revolution of the machine by the mere addition of one yarn finger and the described manipulation of the needles.
  • Another manner of carrying out the invention is to feed the anti-ravel yarn 20 from a finger in the throat plate separated from the finger feeding the regular looping yarn I3.
  • the finger F at the right side of the throat can be used for I the anti-rave] yarn 20
  • the finger F at the left side of the throat can be used for the body yarn, instead of the middle finger F
  • the needles behind which the anti-ravel yarn is to lie are drawn down early so that they miss yarn 20 but take yarn l3.
  • the anti-revel yarn is laid in the hook of every other needle instead of being below the latches, and the anti-ravel yarn 20 will not be thrown clear of those needles until the second revolution.
  • the yarn will lie on the shank of said needle, as was the case on the first revolution in the preferred embodiment.
  • the yarn finger F can be thrown out of action at the end of the first revolution, as in the preferred embodiment.
  • a method of knitting a seamless plain knit fabric the steps of knitting a selvage by feeding an elastic anti-rave yarn from a point in advance of the normal feeding point by interlacing it in front and in back of alternate needles of a series, subsequently feeding another yarn from the normal feeding point to the hooks of all the needles of the series, then drawing loops of the second yarn and throwing the elastic yarn clear of the needles to make an anti-ravel, and knitting subsequent courses in direct succession.
  • a method of knitting a seamless plain knit stocking the steps of starting up on the bare needles by moving alternate needles from a common position and feeding an elastic anti-ravel yarn from a point in advance of the normal feeding point so as to interlace the yarn in front and in back of alternate needles, subsequently destroying the needle alternation, then feeding a second yarn from the normal feeding point and drawing loops of the second yarn and throwing the elastic yarn clear of the needles to make the selvage.

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NL47919D NL47919C (fr) 1935-12-10
NL61589D NL61589C (fr) 1935-12-10
US59125A US2054217A (en) 1935-12-10 1936-01-14 Method of knitting
FR810428D FR810428A (fr) 1935-12-10 1936-08-25 Procédé et appareil pour la fabrication d'articles perfectionnés de bonneterie et analogues sans couture et articles en résultant
DE1936G0093719 DE692041C (de) 1935-12-10 1936-09-13 Verfahren und Maschine zum Stricken von Struempfen mit einem elastischen Faden sowie nach dem Verfahren hergestellter Strumpf
US140587A US2161250A (en) 1935-12-10 1937-05-04 Knitting machine
US153329A US2230403A (en) 1935-12-10 1937-07-13 Process of knitting

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US53824A US2230402A (en) 1935-12-10 1935-12-10 Knitted stocking
US59125A US2054217A (en) 1935-12-10 1936-01-14 Method of knitting
US140587A US2161250A (en) 1935-12-10 1937-05-04 Knitting machine
US153329A US2230403A (en) 1935-12-10 1937-07-13 Process of knitting

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Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2765643A (en) * 1955-08-16 1956-10-09 Cormier Hosiery Mills Inc Elastic top stocking
US2976707A (en) * 1958-04-04 1961-03-28 Levin Nathan Hosiery
US3058324A (en) * 1958-04-04 1962-10-16 Levin Nathan Method of forming a selvage for hosiery
US3078697A (en) * 1960-08-26 1963-02-26 H E Crawford Company Inc Selvage for hosiery and method of making same

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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US2247343A (en) * 1940-04-29 1941-06-24 Hemphill Co Knitted fabric and method
US3107508A (en) * 1958-10-24 1963-10-22 Browns Hosiery Mills Inc Method of forming a knit article
US2962885A (en) * 1959-06-03 1960-12-06 Kendall & Co Elastic garment
JP5952693B2 (ja) * 2012-09-19 2016-07-13 ショーワグローブ株式会社 編機及び手袋の製造方法

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2765643A (en) * 1955-08-16 1956-10-09 Cormier Hosiery Mills Inc Elastic top stocking
US2976707A (en) * 1958-04-04 1961-03-28 Levin Nathan Hosiery
US3058324A (en) * 1958-04-04 1962-10-16 Levin Nathan Method of forming a selvage for hosiery
US3078697A (en) * 1960-08-26 1963-02-26 H E Crawford Company Inc Selvage for hosiery and method of making same

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