US898985A - Knit fabric. - Google Patents

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J, MONAMEE. 1 KNIT BARRIO. APPLIA'IION ILBD SEPT. 30, v193.7.v

Patented Sept. 15,1908. Y

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Witwen@ I citizen of the United Ststes.1'csiding :it Amsterdnm, in the county of Montgomery :md

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' ppucgtion med september so, reni. :serial N.'395,i97.

To all whom. it may concclrn:

State ofV New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knit Fahrics; und I do declare the following/to be a, full, clear, and exact description of the. invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it oppertains to make and use open portion will be well-formed find hawe substantially symmetrical edges, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accom ianying (ii-swing, which is un enlarged View oi a port-ion of faihric embodying the invention, openings are shown zigzag or alternating with each other in the different rows or courses, but they could be arranged in any other manner Without departing from the spirit of my invention. y

As the mainv portion of the fabric, can he formed in any desired manner, the ordinary structure being shown, and as the. invention is embodied Within four rows or wales of loops in four different courses of the yarn, I will describe the arrangement and process ot conv structing said loops bv referring to the different rows or wiiles of loops, 1, 2, 3 :ind it, counting from left to right, and to the courses as 5, 6, 7 and S, counting from top to bottom,

.as those loops and courses are. seen from the wrong side of the clot-h- By an examination o'r' the drawings, it will be seen that the yarn or materia-l forming the course 5 is looped int-o or engages With the loops of the preceding course in the ordinary4 manner, but that the alternate loops of seid course 5, as, for instance, i and 4, are drown out so as to be of double the length of the. other loops, 1 and 3, sind are. joined into or connect-ed ith the corresponding loops of course 7. In course-5 the Vern or material is passed through or looped into loops 1 und 3,

of course 5, but posses nnconncctedlyover the elongated loops 2 and from course. 5.

Loop 1 of course 6 is of the ordinary length and engages with the thread or i'naterinl of course 7 in the. ordinariv Insnner, but loo i 3 is substantially three times ihe length oil' the ordiniiry loop and, at its middle, is extended .tli'islnimmcig noci laterally so that said middle-is` engaged by Be it knomi that I, ums .\I N.\2.1nr.,':t f

the thread or inntcriiil'of,course 7, where said.

Loop 1 of course 7 engages with the corre`l sponding loop of course 6, und loops 2 and 4 of course 7 clivage. with the corresponding and elongated loops of course 5 in the ordinary manner; but the intermediate thread or material connecting loops 2 ond 4 of course 7 is drawn down and caused to enga-ge with loop 3 of course 8, nlong with the closed end of the elongated and laterally extended loop 3 of course 6. This arrangement of the intermcdiatc. three-d or materia-l connecting loops 2 und -1 of cousre 7 with the elongation and lateral displacement of the intermediate portion of' loop 3 of course 6 forms an opening, 9, in the. fabric,4 from which the Fabric, derives its nome of mesh or opennrork knitted fabric.. All of the loops of course. S are formed in the ordinary mmner, und in nddidesired manner, und, hence, needs no other description.

i l As an illustration of oneimethod of forming the fabric :is above described, I will describe it in coniiection with a circular spring-needle machine. With such iz. msi-chine, the yarn or The remsinmaterial of course 5 is placed in position on the needles hy theoldinnry stitch wheel, but the 'yarn or materiel of course 6 is placed in position on the needles by means of :i plugged stitch wheel, )logged one and one, as the word t"plugged" is understood in the trade, which is so arranged that the beni-d'3 -ot the needles which from loops 2 :md4 are.

closed 'and the yarn or the material is carried outside. of the beards of the needles upon which nre formed said loo s 2 and 4, but under the. beards of the need es u on which are l formed loops 1 and 3, :is the cy inder rotates. This is followed by si presser that is cut one und one which co-ncts with the )lugged stitch wheel in such manner that tie eiltpresser presses oil' eac-h needle under whose ezird the plugged stitch Wheel has carried the yarn, but frills to prv-ss oli euch needle tho t has no )':ml illu-ccd under its` beard.' ln" le when forming course (i,

. is flanked upon each side a needle that"v 'was not pressed off but which lhad yarn fur'- nished to it outside -of the beard, thusforxning-a' loop on each alternate vneedleonly and thereby roviding sur lus material for forming the e ongated and aterally extended loop 3 of course 6 bythe subsequent action of the machine, After the material of courseY 6 hasv been delivered or placed upon the needles in this manner, what I shall call an interchanging wheel is caused to engage with two of the needles, as 3 and 4, so as' to cause their tops to be crossed before the course is ressed down, which will cause the material orming loop 3 of said course to lie in such position relatively to the needle of loop 4 that when the loops are pressed down by the cloth wheel, or otherwise, so as to permit the placing of the material for the succeeding course, and the needles are released from the interchanging wheel, said loop 3 will be drawn out and will extend around 'the needle of loop 4, and thus take up the surplus yarn or material furnished to the needles of loops 2 and 4.

The material for forming course 7 is fed to the needles by the ordinary unplugged stitch wheel which is followed by the usual wheels `except that the presser wheel, cut one and three, is arranged to co-act with the interchanging whee se that it will not close the beard of the needle holding the closed end of loop 3 of course n6'. Hence, there will be .two loops retained on said lest mentioned needle, while the loops on the other needles will be cast off in the ordinary manner. The material for course S is fed to the machine by an ordinary unplugged stitch wheel, which is followed by the ordinary wheels, whereby all of the old loops are cast oli` and new loo s are placed thereon ready to form the or' inary abrio. By constructing the fabric in this manner,

it will have substantially the same appear'- ance as the ordinary knitted fabric, except that it will have regular and 4well defined -b *openings formed therein, the crossin s of eourse' over the elongated loops 2 am 4'ofv course 5, without engaging therewith, not being noticeable in knitted goods.

Aprevious method heretofore practiced for making sleek-stitch mesh fabric on a spring needle knitting machine was to transfer the loop from one. needle to anadjacent needle by causing one of two loops to be pressed down over and around the two needles and then pressing oil that loop from its original needle,y thus leaving the two loops upon one needle. lBy that method, which requires a very delicate manipulation of the loops, if the mechanism failed to cause the singlcloop to encircle both needles a defect, called a dropstitrh was the result.'

Among the important advantages of my invent-ion over-other methods, is the. fact that Y in the use of my invention no stitches or loops are transferred from one needle to ano-ther; f 'i but the loop of' one ,needle is simplyelmi-fl gated and both` sides of. the loopv carrie-dor wrapped around the adjacent needle, with out eastingotf or detaching the-loopfrom itsoriginal needle, until the formation of a 'subsequent course. -A failure of the mechanism to pro erly manipulate the loops,:i1ijmy'A metho of forming the fabric, doesnot result.

in a drop-stitch? 'or other noticeable: clefect, the only result being the formation of plain cloth where an opening wassintended.V

In the drawing, the wrong side of the fabric isshown, that, is, the outside of the fabric as it would appear when being formed upon an ordinary circular spring-needle machine, as this View more clearly illustrates the predominating feature oi' my invention, that is, A. the elongated and lateral .bend of loop 3 of course 6, or what I shall call the interchanged loop or stitch. As heretofore stated, the above described and illustrated form of the fabric and the method of forming the same"` have only been .given as illustrative,f rn"\` it is evident that other methods may be adopted, and the loops of the differcnt coursesinay be otherwise arranged, except that- `\the1interchanged loop must be used in conn' ctiontherewith.

Having thu lfully described my invention,

what I claim a new, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, 1s'\: v i

1. As a new artic e of manufacture, an open-mesh knitted fabric havnxg one loop of one course elongated andibent laterallir at its intermediate portion and engaged by the loops of the two succeeding courses.

2. As a new article of manufact-ure, an open-mesh knitted fabric having one loop of one course elongated and extended laterally, et its' intermediate portion, said intermediate portion being engaged, and bound in, by the oops 1n an adjacent Wale of the succeedin course, and having its closed end engage y the loop in its original wale, and otlo second succeeding course.

3. As a new article of manufacture, an open-mesh knitted fabric having one loop of one course engaged with a loo i of the prec ceding course said loop being anked in adjacent wales of said course by disengaged float threads, said first mentioned loop being extended and bent laterally at its intermedia-te portion and engaged by the loops off the two succeeding courses.

ll. As a new article of niai'iufncture, an open-mesh knitted fabric having one lcopof one course engaged with a. loop of the pre.- ceding course and the material or 'thread proceeding from cach side of the first mentioned loop passing over but diecrnnn-cted from the adjacent loops of said preceding course, said first mentioned loop being extended and bent laterally at its` intermediate portimnsaid inesl tcrinediatc portion being engaged un that 130 loopsof the second,

side bv the 'loops-of an ad'accnt wale, andits closed end beingengaged y a loop of its own Wale.`

' 5.' AS "e new article of manufacture," an

'open-mesh knitted fabric having two loops of one (nurse extended and engaging with the comsngonding loops if the second course thcrefnnn. the loop between said two loops being o3' normal length and the loop of the succeeding course that engages with said normal lmp boing of triple length and extended laterally substantially at its middle lso as to be engaged by the adjacent loops on prisingr loopsl and 3 of course 1 elongated and engaging with loops 1 and 3 of course 3 in the 11n-responding wales, loop 2 of course 1 being normal and engagin at its closed end with loop 2 of course 2, in t e ordinary wa loop 2 of course 2 being elongated to su stantiully triple length and its intermediate portion ing extended laterally and engaging with loop 3 of course 3, and its closed end with loop 2 of course 4, the material forming loop 2 of course 2 proceeding each side of loo 2 in course 2 and assin over loo s 1--'v and 3 of course 1, but not engaging with said last mentioned loops 1 and 3, and the 1naterial intermediate of loops 1 and 3 of course 3,-

being drawn down and engaged, along with the closed end of loop 2 of course 2, with loop 2 of course 4, no op being formed by the material intermediate of loops 1v and 3 of course 3. s

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES reconnais.",l

Witnesses:

ALBERT G. LUCIER, WILLIAM E. CARNEY.

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