US726300A - Hosiery. - Google Patents

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PATENTED APR. 28 1903.

N., F. HURDEL.

HOSIBRY.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV 2, 1900.

N0 MODEL.

/ VE/V TOR WITNESSES UNITED STATES NELLIE FRANCES HURDEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HOSIERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 726,300, dated April 28, 1903.

' Application filed November 2, 1900. Serial No. 35,244. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NELLIE FRANCES HUR- DEL, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hosiery, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to stockings; and it consists in the novel features as will be hereinafter more particularly pointed out.

It is a well-known fact that thefeet and knees of stockings, and especially those of children, wear out much more quickly than the leg portions, and unless they are darned or patched in some manner the entire stocking must be thrown away.

My invention has for its object to provide a satisfactory means of refooting andflpaton ing such worn stockings, and it consists in making the foot and leg. portions separable and in prov ing. Pdliflblepatch for the knee, whereby the foot and patch may be replaced without the lossand expense of makinga new leg.

In the accompanying drawings, in which the same reference -n111nerals indicate the same part in each of the views in which it occurs, Figure 1 is a longitudinal view of a stocking, showingthe foot and patch portion separated from the leg. Fig. 2'is'a similar View showing the-same secured together by means of athread. Fig. 3 is a modified form showing a double selvage with the leg there in, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view of a portion of the leg or patch. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view showing how edges are joined. I

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 indicates the leg portion of the stocking, 2 the foot, which is joined thereto by the seam 3, and t is a patch at the knee, which is secured to the leg by means of the seams 5 and 6.

As most of the wear of the foot comes on the heel and toe, it is only necessary to form a sort of slipper that does not extend to the ankle and then make the leg long enough to meet it and be secured thereto.

If the edges of the leg and foot were of the usual thickness, a seam or welt would be formed where they are doubled or overlapped,

the selvage which would make it uncomfortable to the wearer as well as unsightly in appearance. To obviate this difficulty, I form the edge or edges of the foot by passing the loops or stitches of the last-knitted course through two or more loops or stitches of the preceding course at a time, which will thereby reduce the thickness of the seam one-half and permit the two edges being joined together without such a thick seam. In other words, the thread of the last-knitted course is passed through a plurality of loops of the preceding course at a time in lieu of through single loops, as is usual. This structure results in locking the selvage-loops with the preceding course and prevents the distortion of said loops. The edge of the foot when formed in this manner will appear as shown in Fig. 4, where 7 indicates the ordinary stitches or loops, and 8 indicates the stitches of the last course. The edges of the patch on the knee are formed in the same manner. In Fig. 5 I have shown more particularly how the selvage edges thus formed are joined together by means of a thread which passes alternately through the loops of the two selvage edges.

When it is desired to replace either the foot or the patch, it is only necessary to remove the stitch or thread and the two parts become separated. A new piece of material is then applied to the leg and secured thereto by a new thread, and the stocking is again ready for use.

Although I have shown and described my invention as applied to stockings, it is evident that it may be applied to knit fabrics in which a reinforce is to be applied, and it is also evident that two or more rows of the stitches or loops 8 may be formed on the edge instead of only one, and if so desired the bottom edge of the leg might be similarly formed, but in the opposite manner-that is, with the loops so arranged that they will alternate with the loops on the foot, so that when the two edges were made to abut against each other the overlapping portions would only be of the same thickness as the remaining portions of the stocking or fabric and avoid making a thick seam or welt at the place of union.

When it is desired to make an easy and quick repair of an ordinary stocking, the foot or knee patch or band is formed with two selvages 0f the same material, the outer selvage being a trifle longer than the inner, and between these said selvages is placed a raw edge of a stocking, to which the edge of the said selvages are secured by stitching the same thereto in the ordinary manner.

From the foregoing it will be seen that my invention can be made by any one skilled in knitting stockings or fabrics by hand.

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

l. As a new article of manufacture, a knit fabric, the edge of which has the loops on the last-knitted course passed through aless number of loops than in the preceding course whereby the selvage edge is formed of less bulk than the body of the fabric.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a knitted fabric the loops of the last-knitted course of which pass through two loops of the preceding course.

3. As anew article of manufacture, a stocking provided with a separable foot and a patched portion of the knee, the last-knitted course of the foot and patched portion passing through a plurality of loops of the preceding course at a time in lieu of through single loops, and a thread or stitch by which the said parts are connected.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a knitted fabric having a selvage formed by passing the loops of the last knitted course through a plurality of loops of the preceding course, the loops of the last-knitted course being thereby locked with the said preceding course.

Signed at New York city this 12th day of October, '1 900.

NELLIE FRANCES I-IURDEL.

Witnesses:

RITA BRADT, FRED E. TASKER.

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