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UNITED STATES PATENT Ost ich.

ELIJAPI G. CHESTER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF TYVO-THIRDS TO EMIL SUTRO, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AND PAUL E. SUTRO, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ART OF MAKING STOCKlNGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,421, dated April 3, 1888.

Application filed June 22, 1887. Serial No. 242,156. (Specimens) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIJAH G. CHESTER, a citizen of the United States, and a. resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in the Art of Making Stockings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates more particularly to that class of stockings in which the soles are made of different material from the rest of the stocking, the object in such cases being to permit the stockings to be made with soles thicker and stronger than is required or deiirable for the upper part of the foot and the In my patent, No. 365,671, dated June 27,

1887, I have described a mode of making stockings of this character with economy of manufacture and with freedom from seams on the soles and on the sides of the heels.

My present invention is an improvement on the method of manufacture described in said application.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagram illustrating the manner of cutting the tubes for the legs and upper part of the feet of the stockings. Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating the manner of knitting the sole and heel-piece onto the leg. Fig. 3 is a view illustrating the manner of cutting the sole and heel piece preparatory to seaming to the upper part of the foot. Fig. 4 is a View of the finished stocking. Figs. 5 and 6 are viewsillustrating modifications, and Fig. 7 is a diagram of a modification.

The knitted tubes out of which the bodies and upper parts of the feet of the stockings are formed are severed, as illustrated in Fig. 1, with transverse cuts a and to, extending about half-way through the tubes from opposite sides and from different points, these cuts being connected by a central longitudinal cut, Z There are thus formed two stocking-tubes, A and A, with projecting semitubular parts (Z, so as to form the legs and upper parts of the feet of the two stockings. In each stocking the projecting part (2 forms the upper part of the foot, while the leg of thestocking is formed from the other part of the tube. The blank 50 thus cut is transferred to another knittingmachine by running or picking the stitches at the cut a (or, in other words, at the back of the heel) onto the needles of the machine, and a strip, E, of the desired yarn is then knitted onto the cut blank to form the heel and sole of the stocking, as shown in Fig. 2. Notches e are then cut in the sole and heel piece, as indicated in Fig. 3, and the cut edges of each notch are then seamed together,'and the edges of the strip E are seamed to the edges of the semi-tubular strip d. If the strip E is to ex tend around the toe, as indicated in Figs. 4 and 5, notches 6, similar to the notches e, are cut and seamed in the same way, Figs. 3, 4, and 5. In such case the extreme end as of the strip E may also be seamed to the end of the strip d, as indicated in Fig. 4, or they may be looped together by transferring the stocking to a second knittingmachine. In the latter case there will, as indicated in Fig. 5, be no seam over the toe.

Instead of running the stitches at the back of the heel onto the needles of the second machine to knit the strip E of the desired yarn onto the cut blank to form the heel and sole of the stocking, the stitches at the toe of the blank may be run on or picked onto the needles of the second machine and the strip E knitted onto the toe, as shown in Fig. 7. Notches e e, as indicated by dotted lines, are then cut into the strip .E, as before, and the edges of the cuts are seamed together. The edges of the strip are also seamed to the upper part of the foot of the stocking; but at the heel the stitches of the strip E and leg are looped together by a machine, so as to leave no seam, but to produce a stocking such as shown in Fig.- 5.

Where the strip E is knitted onto the heel, as above described, it is not necessary to make go the strip E include the whole of the toe. It may simply include the under side of the toe, as shown in Fig. 6. In all cases, however, the important feature is the forming of the stock ing with the sole-piece of different material from the leg of the stocking and upper part of the foot, and this without any seam either at the back of the heel or on the under side of the foot.

It has heretofore been proposed to make the foot part of a stocking separate from the leg portion by knitting the leg of the stocking down to the point where the foot commences, knitting the feet and heel portions as a fiat web with selvage edges, and then connecting the ends of such foot portions to the leg portion and joining the selvage edges of the said foot portions by seaming. By making the stocking in such a manner, however, the upper part of the foot must be of the same material or yarn as thelower portion, so that if it were desired to use a different yarn for the sole of the foot from that for the leg in such a stocking the upper part of the foot also would have to be of yarn of a color or character differing from the yarn from which the leg of the stocking is knitted. In my stocking, however, by forming the upper part of the foot in the same piece with theleg portion the objection pointed out is removed, and my stocking can be worn with slippers where the other stocking cannot.

I claim as my invention- 1.. The mode herein described of making stockings, said mode consisting in forming the leg and upper part of the foot in one piece, transferring this blank' to another machine,

knitting a strip thereon of different yarn to form the heel and sole, and securing the edges of the strip to the upper part of the foot, substantially as set forth.

2. The mode herein described of making ELIJAH G. CHESTER.

Witnesses:

JOHN T. LEWIs, HARRY SMITH.

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