US2304053A - Stocking and method of knitting - Google Patents

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US2304053A
US2304053A US431513A US43151342A US2304053A US 2304053 A US2304053 A US 2304053A US 431513 A US431513 A US 431513A US 43151342 A US43151342 A US 43151342A US 2304053 A US2304053 A US 2304053A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41B—SHIRTS; UNDERWEAR; BABY LINEN; HANDKERCHIEFS
    • A41B11/00—Hosiery; Panti-hose
    • 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
    • D04B1/22—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 specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration
    • D04B1/24—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 specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration wearing apparel
    • D04B1/26—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 specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration wearing apparel stockings
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04B—KNITTING
    • D04B11/00—Straight-bar knitting machines with fixed needles
    • D04B11/26—Straight-bar knitting machines with fixed needles specially adapted for producing goods of particular configuration
    • D04B11/28—Straight-bar knitting machines with fixed needles specially adapted for producing goods of particular configuration stockings, or portions thereof
    • D04B11/34—Straight-bar knitting machines with fixed needles specially adapted for producing goods of particular configuration stockings, or portions thereof heel or toe portions
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D10—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
    • D10B—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
    • D10B2403/00—Details of fabric structure established in the fabric forming process
    • D10B2403/03—Shape features
    • D10B2403/032—Flat fabric of variable width, e.g. including one or more fashioned panels

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  • My present invention relates generally to a stocking toe and more particularly to the tip end .thereof and the manner of its formation.
  • the toe of a French foot as now generally made is characterized in that the fiat knitted full fashioned fabric of which it is formed, ends in a relatively wide straight front edge; this front edge is closed widthwise by looping, which is in addition to the bottom seam which joins the side edges (selvedges) of the fabric; the finished toe has a straight front end of substantial width; the looping presents a widthwise seam in front of and at a level approximately mid-way of the thickness ,(vertical) of the large toe and dog ears at its ends; and the toe tip is formed by bringing down the front ends of the top and bottom of the toe to the line of this widthwise seam.
  • My invention contemplates that the toe fabric portion to form the toe tip be 'knit and then closed so as to reflect the following observations I have made of the human toes: the tip of the large toe is located close to the longitudinal central vertical plane through the ankle; since the large toe protrudes substantially forwardly beyond the other toes, its front tip can be said to be the front of the toe assembly; and this tip of the large toe tapers forwardly to a blunted rounded end which can be aptly termed, a flat dome.
  • the full fashioned knitted toe fabric is a limp, flexible, distortable, web-like structure and the stocking toe formed therefrom will take any collapsed condition into which it may fall or into relatively wide front end of the finished stocking which it is put. It is only when expanded on the foot of a wearer that it can be said to take a predetermined definite shape generally referred to as fit.
  • the fabric from which the tip 'of the toe is to be formed in accordance with my invention is so knitted as to its conformation and area that the toe tip when finished, shapes itself to the tip of the large toe because the fit is inherent therein and requires essentially only draping about the three dimensional object as contradis-, tinguished from.
  • the aforementioned known practice where the 'fit is effected by and as a result of the fabric stretching, which in the known practice is a calculated element when the toe tip is formed.
  • the tip of the finished stocking toe the provision that it have a blunted conoidal configuration and when shaped on the large toe that its apex be rounded off, and more particularly, that this rounding 01f be efiected by a draping as contradistinguished from a stretching; the provision of a closed toe tip having a blunted conoidal or dome-like configuration with the seam at the bottom of the foot ending at the apex thereof; the provision in the toe of a French foot, of a predetermined length added to the toe tip end as hitherto made, knitted and closed to a dome shape to permit this added portion to drape itself about the tip of the human toe; the provision that the toe tip forming fabric comprise a central area and selvedge areas along the opposed edges of said fabric portion; the provision of a central portion and selvedge portions, all tapering to a common point; the provision of a toe tip forming fabric portion comprised of two selvedge areas and a central
  • Figure 1 is a fragmentary view of the toe portion of a full fashioned stocking blank illustrating an application of my invention
  • Figure 2 is a view on an enlarged scale of the extreme end of the toe portion of the blank of Figure 1;
  • Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 of a modified construction
  • Figure 4 is a view, more orless in perspective, of the blank of Figure 1, folded, preparatory to seaming;
  • Figure 5 is a bottom plan view of the toe portion of a finished stocking made from the blank of Figure l;
  • Figure 6 is a perspective view of the toe portion of a stockingmade from the blank of Figure l as it would appear when viewed from the bottom;
  • Figure 7 is a diagrammatic view, illustrative of the form-fitting characteristics of my stocking. 7
  • a full fashioned stocking fabric and the stocking toe formed therefrom is a web-like structure which is stretchable, distortable, limp and not form sustaining.
  • the manner in which the wales have been shown in the various figures is an example.
  • the wales of the fabric area within which the inventive features have been incorporated are shown by relatively heavy lines for the double purpose of defining the inventive area and also for more clearly showing the character and relation of the wales within this area. These heavier lines are not intended to indicate the use of a thicker yarn and in this respect the drawing should be read as if the wales were shown by a line of the same thickness throughout; their length.
  • the disclosure of my invention assumes that the knitted fabric of the embodiment of Figure 1 looks about as shown therein when the fabric has been removed from the machine and before closing, and that the finished toe forming portion is such that when it is expanded on the foot of a wearer, the conformation to which it is expanded will be normal for the manner in which the toe structure is constituted, in that any temporary stretching that may occur is merely an incidental'rather than a causative factor in that expanded conformation.
  • Figure 1 I have attempted to show the structural relationship of the fabric portion of which this tip of my toe is formed by reference to a substantial portion of the fabric to the rear thereof.
  • Figure 2 is intended to show this fabric toe forming portion on an enlarged scale and only sufiicient of the fabric to the rear thereof is shown as will be helpful to an understanding of the manner in which my toe tip forming fabric portion is knitted and closed.
  • F1111 fashioned hosiery employs a blank knitted full fashioned on a flat machine of the Cotton type, such as the Reading machine, to a width at its front edge so designed and calculated that when the selvedge portions are folded lengthwise down upon the central part to meet centrally along the length of the stocking foot, an equal number of needle wales are provided to permit the looping or joining of the central part.
  • the line XAOA'X' represents the front end width of the toe forming fabric portion of the conventional practice. Its central point 0 is in the central line of the fabric and the lengths X to A, X to A, A to O and O to A are the same and present the same number of needle wales,
  • the looping operation is customarily performed by putting the needle wales between A and A on the looper points and folding the length XA inwardly about point A, placing the needle wales in that length on the same looper points as A to O. The same is done with respect to the needle wales in the section A to X, which are placed over those on the looper points sustaining the wales in section 0 to A, the length A to X being folded down at A. When this has been accomplished the machine may then loop the toe closed at its front end. This line of looping will extend transversely of the toe front and will be of the width from A to A.
  • This method of forming the toe gives a straight front edge to the toe, flexible in its web-like construction and capable of extended stretching along the line of looping to thereby enable the 'tip end of the stocking toe to be stretched into shape by and about the tip of the large toe of the wearer.
  • The-stocking toe tip so constructed does not innately possess thesame shape as the tip end of the human toes but must be stretched to conform therewith which it can do readily because of the looping. It will be noted that in this construction the fabric between X and A and that between A and X when joined by the bottom seam underlies the lower part thereof.
  • my method of knitting and closing the toe tip can be tersely stated as differing from this conventional practice in that I do not cease knitting when the line XAAX is reached. I continue the knitting throughout additional fabric inwardly so that the extension of the selvedges S and S converge to what may be described ideally as a point, although in actual practice such amount of untransferred fabricma remain that in joining the toe selvedges, said untransferred fabric will be gathered into the seam and the toe extension may therefore be correctly described as converging to a point. It will therefore be understood that the word point as herein used is not to be construed literally or in a mathematical sense, but rather in the practical sense of accomplishing the general purposes of my invention.
  • the toe forming fabric portion is bounded at the tip by selvedge sections KY and X'Y and to the rear thereof by the selvedgesections S, S and that the selvedge sect-ion XY is continuous with the selvedge section S to bound the fabric on one-side, and that the selvedge section X'Y is continuous with the selvedge section S to complete the other side edge of the fabric, that the selvedge sections KY and X'Y meet at the point Y in Figure2 to form a continuous uninterrupted selvedge about the toe tip fabric portion comprising all of the selvedge sections, and that this continuous selvedge comprises the outermost wales which meet at the point Y.
  • selvedge length XY is at a more obtuse angle to the lengthwiseline through the fabric than is the selvedge length S, and that the same is true as to the selvedge lengths on the other side.
  • the toe tip forming fabric portion be caused to fashion as rapidly as possible, the idea being tomake the length OY as short as possible.
  • the narrowing AY and AY as described above can be accomplished with the usual narrowing fingers.
  • the shortening of OY can be satisfactorily accomplished in any preferred ordesired manner.
  • My invention contemplates that the fabric of Figure 1 be closed without looping as shown in .
  • Figure 4 wherein the stocking fabric is shown folded midwaylengthwise thereof along a line extending beyond YO in Figure 2 preparatory to the seaming together of the selvedges SS, the seaming starting at Y if the operator wishes, and running along the selvedges SYX and S'YX to close the foot at the bottom and front all by a single seaming operation.
  • the seaming operation may start at some other point along the selvedges terminating at one end at Y.
  • Figure 5 is intended to picture the toe portion of the stocking on the foot of a wearer as seen looking directly down upon the bottom of the foot to show the bottom seam C. It will be observed that the seam C and the two suture rows AY and AY meet at the point Y.
  • Figure 7 attempts to show the stocking expanded on the foot of the wearer but cut away longitudinally centrally of the large toe to show the conformation of my toe tip to the shape of the tip of the large toe and also that one end of the bottom seam C terminates or begins as the case maybe at point Y.
  • my invention directs itself specifically to the production of a toe forming fabric portion of a stocking foot wherein special provision is made to provide toe tip coverage in the form of added fabric and that the attainment of my invention is not necessarily limited or eflected by the manner in which the fabric has been knitted in advance of and up to where this added fabric portion begins to be formed.
  • Figure 3 is a variation which attempts to illustrate this very thing because the fabric knitted beyond the lines ZBCB'-Z' and defined between thisline and the point Y is knitted exactly as has been the corresponding area of Figure 2, whereas the fabric to the rear thereof has been knitted with diamond points, which are defined by the suture rows MN on one side converging to point B at one end of suture row BY and suture rows MN' on the other side, converging to meet at point B at the other end of suture row BY'.
  • the aforementioned added toe tip forming fabric section and whose area is outlined in Figure 2 by wales in heavier lines, comprises three triangular sections with their apices meeting at Y.
  • One of these sections i. e. the section along the selvedge on one side has its base from X to A; a second section, i. e. the selvedge section on the other side, has its base from X to A; and the intermediate section has its base from A to A.
  • a full fashioned flat knitted toe forming section of a stocking blank having its entire edge which defines it comprised of selvedges on each side at an angle to each other, the selvedges of the front of the tip portion meeting at a point and being at a sharper angle to each other than the selvedges of the toe portions to the rear thereof.
  • a full fashioned flat knitted stocking blank having a toe tip which comprises a central section and two selvedge sectionseach of substanportions along the selvedges and a tapering portion therebetween with the three portions tapering to a common point.
  • a full fashioned flat knitted toe forming tially triangular conformation and defined by separating rows of sutures, all three sections and the suture rows converging to a common point.
  • a full fashioned flat knitted stocking blank having a toe tip which comprises a central section and two selvedge sections each of substantially triangular conformation, all three sections converging to a common point.
  • a full fashioned flat knitted stocking blank having a toe tip which comprises a central section and two selvedge sections each of substantially triangular conformation and defined by separating rows ofsutures, all three sections and the suture rows converging substantially to a common point, the wales of each selvedge section progressively decreasing in number and running parallel to its selvedge and the wales of the central section running longitudinally of the stocking blank.
  • a full fashioned flat knitted stocking blank having a toe tip which comprises a central section and two selvedge sections each of substantially triangular conformation and defined by separating rows of sutures, all three sections and the sutures rows converging to a common point, the wales of each selvedge section running parallel to its selvedge and the wales of the central section running longitudinally 'of the stocking blank, and the base of each selvedge section being substantially one-half that of the central section.
  • a toe tip portion having a conical conformation, the toe tip being closed entirely by a seam along the median line of the sole from the apex of the cone and extending rearwardly along the foot bottom and sutures also from said apex and extending rearwardly on opposite sides of said seam.
  • a toe tip portion having a cone like conformation, the toe tip being closed entirely by a seam along the median line of the sole from the apex of the cone and extending rearwardly along the foot bottom and sutures also from said apex and extending rearwardly on opposite sides of said seam so as to have the stocking toe tip comprised of triangular areas all converging to apoint at said apex.
  • a toe tip portion having a conical conformation, the toe tip being closed entirely by a seam along the median line of the sole from the apex of the cone and extending rearwardly along the foot bottom and sutures also from said apex and extending rearwardly on opposite sides of said seam so as to have the toe tip comprised of a triangular area engaging over the toe tip and two triangular areas joined by said seam engaging under the bottom of the toe tip.
  • a toe tip portion having a flat cone like conformation, the toe tip being closed entirely by a seam along the median line of the sole from the apex of the cone and extending rearwardly along the foot bottom and sutures also from said apex and extending rearwardly on opposite sides of said seam so as to have the toe tip comprised of a triangular area forming the top of the toe tip and two triangular areas joined by said seam to complete the bottom of the toe tip, the wales oi the area united in the seam being parallel to the selvedges joined by said seam.
  • a toe tip portion having a conical conformation, the toe tip 15 until the knitting being closed entirely by a seam along the median line of the sole from the apex of the cone and extending rearwardly along the foot bottom and sutures also from said apex and extending rearwardly on opposite sides of said seam so as to have the toe tip comprised of a triangular area forming the top or the toe tip and two triangular areas joined by said seam to complete the bottom of the toe tip, and the wales of the upper area running longitudinally of the stocking.
  • the tip formingportion of a full fashioned fiat knitted stocking fabric comprising a rear section narrowed to a width conventional for a normal looping operation to close the toe tip and a tip forming section knitted therebeyond by a narrowing of the fabric at an accelerated rate ends in a point.

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US2507530A (en) * 1943-09-09 1950-05-16 Julius Kayser & Co Fashioned fabric, hosiery, and method of production
US2648210A (en) * 1943-04-19 1953-08-11 Skole Viggo Stocking and method of making
US2730883A (en) * 1951-02-28 1956-01-17 Skole Viggo Stocking and method of producing a ravel trap
DE951108C (de) * 1944-06-07 1956-10-25 Hans Christian Andersen Verfahren zur Herstellung der Spitze und/oder Fersenteile von Struempfen auf der flachen Kulierwirkmaschine
DE964433C (de) * 1954-09-04 1957-05-23 Gerhard Schubert Verfahren zum Herstellen von Struempfen auf der flachen Kulierwirkmaschine, wobei die Spitze und/oder die Fersenteile bis auf wenige verbleibende Maschen durch Eindecken mit festen Laengskanten abgeschlossen werden
US2800006A (en) * 1955-01-12 1957-07-23 Richter Max Stocking having a seamless toe and produced on a flat hosiery knitting machine and method for production thereof
US2848885A (en) * 1954-01-14 1958-08-26 Triumph Hosiery Mills Inc Footlets and method of making same

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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US2648210A (en) * 1943-04-19 1953-08-11 Skole Viggo Stocking and method of making
US2507530A (en) * 1943-09-09 1950-05-16 Julius Kayser & Co Fashioned fabric, hosiery, and method of production
DE951108C (de) * 1944-06-07 1956-10-25 Hans Christian Andersen Verfahren zur Herstellung der Spitze und/oder Fersenteile von Struempfen auf der flachen Kulierwirkmaschine
US2730883A (en) * 1951-02-28 1956-01-17 Skole Viggo Stocking and method of producing a ravel trap
US2848885A (en) * 1954-01-14 1958-08-26 Triumph Hosiery Mills Inc Footlets and method of making same
DE964433C (de) * 1954-09-04 1957-05-23 Gerhard Schubert Verfahren zum Herstellen von Struempfen auf der flachen Kulierwirkmaschine, wobei die Spitze und/oder die Fersenteile bis auf wenige verbleibende Maschen durch Eindecken mit festen Laengskanten abgeschlossen werden
US2800006A (en) * 1955-01-12 1957-07-23 Richter Max Stocking having a seamless toe and produced on a flat hosiery knitting machine and method for production thereof

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