US850940A - Manufacture of seamless hosiery. - Google Patents

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PATENTED APR. 23, 1907.

B. E. KILBOURN. MANUFAGTURE 0F SEAMLESS HOSIERY.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.0, 1903.

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EDWARD E. KiLEoURN, E NEW BRUNSWIQK, NEW JERSEY, AssicNoE To THE KiLBoUE'NkNITTiNG MACHINE COMPANY.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it :known that'I, EDWARD E. KILBOURN, a citizen of the United fStates, residing at New Brunswick, in the county of Middlesex and State of New' Jersey, have invented certain new` and useful Improvements `in the Manufacture of Seamless Hosiery; and I do hereby declage the following to be la full,-

scribed provided withdrop-stitch 'ornamening novel results.

tation applied in a'novel-manner and produc- In the drawings .I haveshownafstocking embodying my present invention, and 'my said invention isdisclosed in the following description and.v claims. .Y Figure l is a view of. a stocking embodying my said improvements. Fig. 2 is-I-an en-f larged'vview of a portion of the stocking at the point of casting off of stitches.` IFig. 3 is a view of a half-hose embodying my inven tion.

In the'drawin'gs, A indicates the leg, and B the -foot, of the stocking. The stocking is made with a plain welt or hem wat the top ofgp vof the stocking, or the plain knittingy may be the leg. Immediately below the hem in this instance certain of the needles are caused to cease knitting, making openwork spaces c c c, the. thread in such s aces extending directly across a space as wlde as that occupied by a single stitch of plain knitting or wider. Aitl the point a all of the needles are again operated to make plain knitting, andv at thepoint a.2 the sameneedles are a ain caused to cease knitting and the drop-stitch .open-work is again produced.'v

The open-work, vas shown, extends around on the front. The needles which cease knitting. to form the' open-work at the back of the leg are thrown into operation for plain knitting at the oint a3 above the heel of the stockin an 'the needles which cease knitting to Torm the open-work upon the front of the le of the stocking are caused to resume plain itting at some point, as b, above the Specification of -Letters Patent.

i Applioaticn filed January 30,1903. Serial No. 141,129.

WiNuFAcauns oF SEAMLSS HosaEr-w.

Patented April 23, 1907.

toe. The stocking therefore has the openwork all around the leg and has plain-knittedv portions above the drop-stitch openwork and plainknitting between the open- .work and the toe.

The stocking has also the heel, bottom of the'ioot, and the toe knitted in plain stitches. y

When the needles are thrown out of or `changed in operation so as to -produce the open-werk, they drop or cast off their stitches or loops. In case this is done immediately below the hem or welt the hem or welt will prevent the dropped stitches from above. In case, however, these needles are so changed at a point a distance below the welt or hem-for example, at the point a2 in the vdrawingsthe vloops or stitches so cast oli must be secured in some way. They may be secured by crocheting, by a line of stitching,

or by causing a number of needles closely adjacent to the drop-stitch needles to knit one or'more tuck'stitches beforethe drop-stitch needles cast oli, as shown at c,Fig. 2. This is the preferred manner of securing such loop or stitches at such places, and this dropping and securing of the stitches may take place at anyl point of the stocking desired.

t will be evident that the pattern illustrated may be very considerably varied without departing from the spirit of my invention. ldor example, several bands of lain knitting may be formed around the leg.

.continuous from the top down to a desired point and the remainder of the 'leg of the machine may be operated to form bands of open-work at intervalsA down the leg ofthe stocking.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the tuck-stitches c as made on each' side ofthe dropped stitches and for two courses receding the dropping of such stitches.y This is the mode I prefer; but `the tuck-stitches may be in a larger number of courses or may be in a sin le course only. While I refer to have t e tuck-stitches onI each side of the dropped stitches, it will-.not be necessary in allcases, as a tuck-stitch at one side will with some kinds of thread or yarn befound suiiicient.

In making half-hose I prefer to knit plain knitting for a short distance below'the ribbed top and thereafter begin the drop-stitch work.

raveling or opening out to the plain knitting 9o stocking knit with the open-work, or the i l In Fig. 3 the dotted line d indicates the line of joining the ribbed top tothe to of the; leg of the stocking, and dthe oint o lbeginning thedrop-stitc-h work. 2 indicates the point at Whichthe drop-stitch Work ceases on the back of the stocking. The point at which the' dro -stitch Work is discontinued on the top of t e foot of the stocking would be about the` same as that on the full hose shown. v

If may accomplish the Work desired by having separate cam-grooves, dividing the lneedles' betWeentthe grooves, and then controlling the cams of each class of needles to producev the Work'desired, orA I may accomplish this by using needles having nibs of operating-cams.

the beginning of the open-Work, substantially as described.

2. A machine-knit seamless stocking having drop-stitch open-work aroundthe leg of the stocking with solid plain knitting above the drop-stitch Work andtuck-stitches securing the drop-stitch Work, substantially as describedwl 3. A machine-knit seamless stocking havingdrop-'stitch open-Work around the leg of the stocking, at the back as Well as the front of the leg of the stocking, with solid plain knitting above the drop-stitch Work, and tuck-stitches securin the drop-stitch Work,

the thread forming t e le being continuous with the thread forming t e main portion of the foot' of the stocking, substantially as described. i

4. A machine-knit seamless stocking, hav-l ing drop-stitch open-Work upon the leg of 'the stocking, with solid plain knitting above said open-Work,y the dropped stitches pre- -ceding the open-Work being secured, substantially as described.

5. A machine-knit seamless stocking7 having drop-stitch open-Work around the leg of the stocking at the back as Well as the front of the stocking, With solid plain knitting preceding the drop-stitch Work, the dropped stitches preceding the open-work being secured7 substantial ly as described.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature v in the presence of two witnesses.

E. E. KILBOURN.`

Witnesses:

RoBr. G. MILLER, G. H. WHITAK-ER.

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