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R. w. SCOTT.

WBLTED KNITTED WEB AND METHUD 0F MAKLNG THE SAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 27, 1914.

Reissued Aug. 18, 19%

To all whom it may concern manna w. soon, or Bos'roN, 'mnssacn usn'r'rs, ASSIGNOR mo sco'r'r & wimmns,

INGOR'PORATED, OFIHILAD'ELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A; CORPORATION OF'PERNQ- sYLvAmA.

Serial No. 708,937. 1914. Serial N0. 841,894.

W. Scori", a

Be it known that 1, ROBERT citizen of the United States, residing at ture.

in the county of Suffolk and'State of hlassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Welted Knitted Web and Method of Making the Same, of which the follow mg is Boston,

' a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a knit structuresuitable for the end finish of circular knit webs such as stocking legs,

which object I attain in the manner here1nafter set forth, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which Figure l is a view of a stocking provided with my improved welt structure. Fig, 2 is a view on a larger scale of the fabric struc- Fig. 3 welt. Figs. 1 to ing the formation of the fabric of'the welt. This application is a division of my applicationSeI-ial No. 552,002, filed March 28th, 1910 (Letters Patent No. 1,045,620, dated November 26, stocking having an integral turned Welt produced by the operation of one set of needles only. and therefore capable of being made upon a circular stocking knitting machine without the use of dial needles ortransfer implements. As therein disclosed, but not claimed, when a short, bunchy welt is required the loop retaining needles, which may he merely alternate needles or some of the needles of the circi'ilar series,may be retired out of action while they are in a projected position. the other needles remaining in ac tion to produce welting courses,'so that the sinker wales of said subsequently produced 'welting courses'will all be caught and re the remainder of tained by said retired needles and will thereafter be cast off as knitting contained in the leg tube.

In order to produce a stocking according to my invention, it being understood that the usual process of manufacturewill involve the making of complete -stockings-that is,

. complete except for the closure at, the top of is a sectional View showing the, 10 are diagrams 1lliistrat 1912), in whichl disclosed a wnmnn xnmnn WEB AND METHOD or unmet-mi SAME.

Specification of maimed Letters Patent. R- i g 1914.

Original application filed March 28, 1910, Serial No. 552,002. Divided and application filed July 10, 1912,,

Original No. 1,096,566,. dated May 12, 1914. Application for reissue filed fl the toe thereof- -I employ a knitting machine having a com lete circle of needles half of which may e retired from action while heel; and toe pockets are knit by narrowing and widening'operations onthe remaining needles, all as usual in the prior art. In addition, I provide for the elevation of certain of the needles at the beginningnf the knitting of the leg of the stocking in order to produce a welt of :the structure shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Typically this structure is made by retirin without drawing them belowthe verge o the needle cylinder, the odd-numbered alternate needles such as the needles employed to knit the wales l, 3, 5, etc., in Fig. 2. Knitting upon the other. or even-numbered needles is con-- tinued for a number of courses, for instance, from four to nine courses,- the yarns'employed in said courses crossing idly in front of the elevated needles upon the shanks of which the loops y, the last'cou'rse knit on all the needles, which maybe the first or one of the first few courses laid, are all retained.

-After the, intervening accumulation of sufiicient loops by the active needles, which are those of the even numbers 2, 4:, 6, etc.,of Fig. 2, the. needles of wales 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.

are restored to operation whereupon the loops :0, which they drew in the first course following their restoration, will be drawn through the loop y'and. will include the idle" runs, or single wales w of the courses d and 2 made in the even numbered wales 2, 4, 6, etc. 'The structure resulting is therefore formed of clusters of stitches, a single Wale in width, projecting from the face of the fabric. Because of the manner of the formation of theloops m and y, the

Wale containing these stitches is little elongated, and the welt is composed of a succession of bunches in the ,w'elting wales 2, 4, 6, etc., separated by normal fabric in the wales 1, 3, 5, etc., which include as many yarns-as there arc/stitches in the bunches.

It will be noticed that the fabric knit in the wales 2,4, 6, etc. is formed of stitches facing in the same direction as the remainder or bodyof the fabric, and that the effect of the loops as and 3 is to bring the first and last courses thereof together,

bending the p -weltfabric mic-th outward y facing section of fabric, asshown-in Fig. 1.

d le 3 representative of alternate loop retain- :retired out ofaction in a projected position,

8-as having taken the yarn to knit and cast lowing course on all the needles will constitute the first course of the leg-tube proper, 7 shown at wTin'Figs. 2 and- 10.

. welting stitches upon alternate needles, it

4 two or more needles are equally within my invention.

- or end" ishat the top edge of the stocking composed of clusters of stitches drawn in the same direction as the {fabric of the body thereof, separated or end 9 I stitches 1n certain wales only, intervening berof stitches drawn vto the same 'face of bunches or clusters shown. Such a welt, as ,will be plainly apparent to those skilled 1 n the art, is fast against raveling m the directionof the arrow in Fig. 2, and forms a suitable end-finish for the beginning .ofsa

Figs. 4 to 10 show-the needle 2, repre-* sentative of the even-numbered series, re-; spectively at the time of knitting a numbera of successive courses, theodd-numbered nee-i ing needles, being shown in Figs. 5 to 8 so that thesinker-wales of the welting courses will all be ca ht and retainedby said needle. Fig. 9 il ustrates the needle;

ofi the accumulated s'inker-wale loops of the weltingcourses as a unit; that-is, as about to draw theloop a: of Fig. 2. The nextfo'l- While have referred to knitting the will be understood that alternate groups of What I'claim and ters Patent is desire to by Let- 1. A lain fabric having -a welt by w'ales containing normal stitches.

2: A lain fabric stockingv having a welt ish' at the top edge of the stocking com osed of a plurality of courses' of with wales in which there are a less num:

.nesses. v

"the fabric -but includingthe yarn of the first mentioned stitches. 3. A welt structure or end; finish forthe beginning edge of knit fabric comprising successive courses of stitches knit in the same direction in certain. wales only separated by intervening wales comprising a single stitch knit in the same direction includmg all of the @titches'. 4. The art of knitting plain fabric-.stock-- ngs or other tubular articles. having welts at the-edge or 'end first knit, which-consists infirst knitting a course of plain fabric," in I then knitting in successive courses, 'in'certain or alternate wales only, a plurality of 1 whichconsists in withholdingthe lmitting 7o operation upon'the loops in certainwales only, in then continuing the operation 'upon "I intervening wales to produce; gprojectin'g clusters of stitchesand in then kliitting upon the withheld wales to gather together 7-5 the intervening runs of yarn between said clusters of stitches, and in then knitting plain fabric for a further portion oflthe stocking. v a

. In testimony whereof I have signed my name in the'presence of the subscribing wit- ROBERT; W. sco'rr. .Witnesses: I

MARY GRIFFIN, M. .Gnozinn.

yarns of said coursesv of

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