US467091A

US467091A - Knitted fabric

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Publication number: US467091A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-01-12
Anticipated expiration: 1909-01-12

Description

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M. GBRNSHYM.

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No. 467,091. Patented Jan. 12, 1892.

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MAX GERNSHYM, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

KNITTED FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,091, dated January 12, 1892.

Application led July 22, 1891.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX GERNSHYM, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Knitted Fabric, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to fabrics produced on circular-knitting machines such as shown and described in the Letters Patent of the United States No. 462,546, granted to me under date of November 3, 1891.

The invention consists in a tubular knit fabric having its courses knitted partly with plain loops and partly with circularly-trans ferred loops.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which the figure is a perspective view of the improved fabric.

The improved fabric is produced on circular-knitting machines such as described in the patent above referred to. The fabric is knitted in a continuous circular form and is provided with a back A and a front B, of which the former is knotted in plain ribs with cardigan or other stitch, while the front B is knitted in a figured design, according to a predetermined pattern, by circularly-transferred loops. To obtain this result the needle-plate of the knitting-machine is madein fixed and movable sections in order that when the fabric is being knitted the movable section may be shifted so that the needles in the latter change their position relative to the vertical cylinder-needles and therebychange the contiguration of that part of the fabric knitted by the movable section and the corresponding cylinderneedles. The movable section is shifted so that each of its needles moves the distance between two, three, four, orv more vertical needles to vary the design of the ornamental part of the fabric as desired. It is Serial Nol 400,294- (Specimens.)

understood that each circular course of the fabric is thus knitted with needles part of which vary their positions, so that each course is formed with sets of different stitches, of which one set is plain and the other varied, according to a design or pattern. thus produced is in part plain and the remainin g portion is ornamental.r A like result is obtained by making the needle-cylinder in tixed and movable needle-sections, of which the latter are shifted relative to the corresponding needles on the circular needle-plate. By making both the needle-plate and the needle-cylinder in fixed and movable needlesections, of which the latter are shifted relative to the fixed sections, a like result is obtained-that is, part of the tubular fabric is knitted plain and the rest in an ornamental design.

It is understood that the fabric is produced in a continuous tubular form and is then afterward out up and trimmed to form jackets and other garments, of which part is plain and the rest in design, thus producing fine goods of a rich appearance and at the same cost as the ordinary plain goods.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A tubular knitted fabric having each course knitted partly'with plain loopsand partly with circularly-trausferred loops, substantially as described.

2 A fabric formed with a series of tubular knitted courses, each partly formed by plain loops to form a ribbed back and partly by transferred loops to produce an ornamental front7 substantially as described.

MAX GERNSHYM.

Witnesses:

THEO. G. HosTER, C. SEDGWICK.

The fabric