US660374A - Art of knitting stockings. - Google Patents

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No. 660,374. Patented Oct. 23, i900. H. G. HUETTIG &. P. SCHLUSSMANN.

ART 0F KNITTI'NG `S'TGKINGS.`

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Leu-.ers Patent No. 660,374, dated october 23, 1900.

Application tiled May 29, 1900. Serial No. 18,406. No model.)

machines, and in such connection it relates more particularly to an improvement whereby a transference of the stocking from the needles of one machine to the needles of another machine may be readily and quickly effected.

The principal object of our invention is to knit that portion of the stocking knownl as the heel portion with a series of alined open meshes at or near the margins or edges of the heel portion, which are to be afterward con'- nected to the foot portion of the stocking, said open meshes being regularly formed upon the machine during the knitting of the heel fabric without removing the same from the -needles and without crowding or distorting the regularly-woven meshes and forming a means whereby when the heel portion is completed upon the machine it may be taken off of the needles and readily transferred to the needles of another machine upon which the remaining portion of the stocking is to be knit.

Heretofore in the formation or manufacture of stockings wherein the leg and heel and toe or foot portions were made at successive operations it was necessary after the heel was knit to remove the stocking from the machine which had knit the heel portion and spread out certain meshes of the heel near its margins or edges with a sharp-pointed tool in the hands of an operator. This manipulation of the heel portion was tedious, expensive, and

^ unsatisfactory, because unless the operator of the machine knitting the foot portion were to be inserted.

rllhe object of our present invention is to form these alined, open, or loose meshes in the heel portionA of the stocking by the machine upon which the heel portion is knit and to thereby insure regularity in the formation of these' open meshes without distortion of the-other meshes.

The nature and scope of our invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure l is a front View of a partially-completed stocking, the heel portion illustrating our invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevational view of the heel portion of the stocking. Fig.v 3 is a front elevational view of that portion of a straight-knitting machine adapted to knit the heel portion of the stocking and illustrating one way in Which the open meshes may be formed by the machine. Fig. 4 is a top or plan View of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a cross-sectionalview-of a portion of afstraightknittingV machine, illustrating how the open meshes may be formed by elongating one of the sinkers which form the transverse mesh or loop; and Figf is a top or plan view of Fig. 5.

Referring tothe drawings, and particularly to Figs. l and 2, a represents the leg portion of a stocking, preferably tubular and knit upon a circular machine in the usual manner. `At the bottom of this leg portion a is fastened in the usual manner the bag-like heel portion l), having edges or margins b' to which the toe or foot portion (not shown) of the stocking is to be united.. When the toe or foot portion of the stocking is to be knit, the heel portion h is transferred to the machine Whieh forms the foot portion, and to enable the foot portion to be knit to the margins or edges b' of the heel portion b smoothly 4and without the formation of a large seam at those points it is necessary to form in the heel portion, transversely to the regular loops formed by the needles which knit said heel portion, a series of alined open meshes or loops, which will permit the heel portion to be placed upon the needles of the new machine. In our present invention this series of open meshes b2 is formed during the regular knitting of the heel portion b. In Figs. 3 and 4 one Way of forming these meshes h2 is illustrated. It consists simply in removing one of the needles CZ of that portion of the straightknitting machine in which the heel portion is knit, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 4. The removal of this needle causes the thread e to form, in conjunction with the sinkers f and f adjacent to the space cl2, which the removed needle would ordinarily occupy, a crossing or straight loop, and the adjacent courses of loops b3 and b4 are thus connected, or rather separated, by an unlooped and straight crossing-thread b2. As the knitting of the heel portion b progresses there will be formed a series of alined open meshes b2, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings. In Figs. V5 and 6 'another method of forming the meshes b2 is illustrated, and this consists simply of elongating one sinkerf and not removing any of the needles. There will thus be formed at the point Where the sinker a 5 flo operates an extended laterally or horizonopen meshes b2 it is obvious that adjacent courses of loops and adjacent transverse rows of meshes Will not be distorted, as has hitherto been universally the case Where the meshes were first knit close together and afterward picked ont or opened by a tool in the hand of an operator. When thus formed by the machine, there can be no question but that the open meshes b2 are properly alined or formed in one row only of transverse meshes. When, however, these meshes were formed by hand, itwas frequently found that in iine-meshed fabrics the operator failed to follow the same transverse row.

Having thus described the nature and object of our invention, what We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ise- 1. An improvement in the art of knitting stockings and the like by machinery, which consists in forming at or adjacent to the edges or margins of the heel portion of vthe stocking, a transverse row of open meshes adapted when the heel portion is transferred to the machine for completing the stocking toreadily receive the needles of said machine, said open meshes being formed in the heel fabric during the knitting ofthe same and Without removing the fabric from the needles, substantially as and for t-he purposes described.

2. An improvement in the art of knitting the heel portions of stockings upon straightknitting machines, which consists in forming adjacent to the edges or margins of the heel portion a series of alined, transversely-arranged open meshes, said open meshes being formed in the heel fabric during the knitting of the same and Without removing the fabric from the needles, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our signatures, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this 26th day of May, A. D. 1900, in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

HUGO GUSTAV HUETTIG. PAUL SCHLOSSMANN. Witnesses:

MARION STRAUS, FRANK J. BROWN.

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