US885793A - Knitted fabric. - Google Patents

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ROBERT W. SCOTT, OF LEEDS POINT, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LOUIS N. D. i MWILLIAMS, OF OGONTZ, PENNSYLVANIA.

KNITTED FABRIC.

Patented April 28, 1908.

Application filed .Tune 5, 1907. lSerial No. 877,421.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. SCOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing in Leeds Point, Atlantic county, New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Knitted Fabrics, of Which the following is a specifica-t tion.

My invention relates to a knitted fabric,

either ribbed or (plain, or partly ribbedand partly plain, an having the number of its Wales reduced by discontinuing some of them, or having discontinued Wales of one face supplanted by corresponding Wales of the other face, the object of my invention being to prevent running-back7 of the terminal stitches of the discontinued Wales. This obj ect I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being h-ad to the accompanying drawing, in which Fi ure 1 is an exa gerated vieW of a lain Web aving the numer of its Wales re uced by discontinuing some of them, the latter Wales having their terminal portions knitted in accordance with my invention to prevent running-back of the-same, and Fi 2 is a similar vieW of .a Web, artly rib ed and partly plain, discontinued rib Wales of said Web bein su planted by corresponding plain stitc Wa es.

1 of the drawing illustrates a plain web, that is to say one having all of its stitches formed by a single set of needles, and drawn to the same `face of the web, the Wales c being the standing Wales, which are continued throughout the Web, and the Wales a1 being the discontinued Wales Which are present only in the Wider or more closely knitted portion of the Web. In order to prevent the 'i running-back of the terminal stitches x of these discontinued Wales, I pull through each of said terminal stitches, a loo y drawn from an adjoining sinker Wale t. en, therefore, any strain is exerted upon a terminal loop tending to draw it through the preceding stitch of its Wale, said loop a; Will be tightened upon the loop y, thus forming a knot Which Will prevent any further slipping of the loop and Will thus prevent the runmn back of the discontinued Wale of which 1t forms a part, the length of the loops y being suicient to prevent them from being drawn through the loops :c by any strain Which is likely to be exerted upon the stitches of the standing Wales a.

Wale loop The Web shown in Fig. 2 is partly ribbed and partly plain, a representing the standing Wales of plain stitches which are contained throughout both portions of the Web, a2 representing the discontinued rib Wales, and d the plain Wales Which supplant said discontinued rib Wales and alternate With the standing Wales a of the web, and it Will be evident that, in like manner, discontinued plain Wales can be supplanted by rib Wales alternating With the standing' Wales. The terminal stitches :c of the discontinued rib Wales shoWn in Fig. 2 are preventedfrom running back by drawing through them loops y from. adjoining sinker Wales b, in the saine manner as in Fig. 1. The sinker Wale loop y can be formed by transferring the sinker Wale yarn to an adjoining needle, and then drawing a loop of said sinker Wale yarn by said needle, and at the same time casting off the stitch already upon the latter, the sinker being cast off on the next operation of t e needle, and the latter being then retired from action. As shoWing mechanism available for the purpose, I may refer to my Letters Patent No. 846,430, dated March 5th, 1907.

Although I have shown in Fig. 2 a one-andone ribbed Web, my invention is applicable to other forms of ribbed Web, and in such cases the discontinuance of some of the Wales, Whether or not the same are supplanted by Wales of the other face, may simply be for the purpose of changing the character of the rib, the Web preserving a ribbed form throughout.

I claim r 1. A knitted Web having discontinued Wales Whose terminal stitches are engaged by loops drawn from adjoining sinker Wales of the web.

2. A knitted Web having discontinued Wales Whose terminal stitches are engaged by loops draWn from adjoining sinker Wales of the Web, said discontinued Wales being supplanted by Wales of another face of the We 3. A knitted Web, partly ribbed and partly plain, having discontinued wales Whose terminal stitches are engaged by loops drawn from adjoining sinker Wales of the Web, said discontinued Wales being supplanted by lWales of another face of th'e Web.

terminal stitches are engaged by loops drawn from adjoining sinker Wales of the web, said discontinued rib Wales being replaced by plain Wales.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specication, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ROBERT W. SCOTT.

/Vitnesses:

HAMILTON D. TURNER, KATE A. BEADLE.

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