US1897131A - Method and mechanism for knitting full-fashioned hosiery - Google Patents
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- D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
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- D04B1/00—Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes
- D04B1/22—Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration
- D04B1/24—Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes specially adapted for knitting goods of particular configuration wearing apparel
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- D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
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- D04B9/00—Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles
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- D04B9/46—Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles specially adapted for producing goods of particular configuration stockings, or portions thereof
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- This invention relates to full fashioned hosiery and to method and mechanism formalcing the same.
- the term full fashioned is employed, because the hosiery, although knitted on a circular series of needles, is actually fashioned by the withdrawal of needles and the elimination of wales during the knitting operation. w
- Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a full fashioned stocking constructed in accordance with my 7 invention
- Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the stocking shown in Fig. 1;
- Fig. 3 is a detail in plan representing a part of the foot and toe; 1
- Fi 3a is aside elevation of the foot of a full ashioned stocking showing a modification thereof;
- Fig. 3b is a detail showing the seam at the to ofthetoep ig. 3c is a detail showing a heel made by narrowing and widening;
- Fig. 4 is a detail upon an enlarged scale of certain of the loops along the two selvage e edges which are referably at the back f t stocking, said gure showin one embodiment of such portion of the fa ric;
- Figs. 5 and 6 are views similar to Fig. 4,
- Fig. 7 is a somewhat diagrammatic rep-, resentation of a part of the interior construction of the cams, etc. at and in the vicinity of the knitting cams, and representing the production of circular work.
- Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fig. 7 but'representing the production of reciprocating work
- Fig. 9 is a diagrammatic plan indicating the grouping of the needles, but without at-' tempt to show the actual number of needles employed; and Fig. 10 is a detail in elevation showing how the elongated loops of the selvages are formed.
- I I I I I I I In accordance with the preferred embodiment of my invention, I emplo a circular hosiery knitting machine (such, or example, as a Banner knittin machine, of suflicientl large diameter, as, or example 3% inches? and mount therein the desired number of needles (as, for example, 300, or 350, or 400, or other suitable number).
- One third of the needles are lon'g'butt needles, and I have indicated the same by the numeral 1 in Fig. 9.
- the remaining two thirds of the needles are short butt needles, and I have indicated them collectively by the several numerals 2, 3, 4 and 5. All of the needles 2', 3, 4 and 5 are prefer ably the same, but the groups of needles 3 and 4 are the needles employed in fashioning,the group 3 constitut' one sixth of the total number of needles, an the cup 4 also constituting one sixth of the tota number of needles.
- My invention is not limited, however, to this, ouping, as it maybe varied as found desira le.
- I rotate the needle cylinder Preferably I rotate the needle cylinder, though my invention is not limited to so doing.
- the stocking ma be" be n at the top or at the toe, but I wil descri the same as though it were knitted beginning at the top.
- Fig. 1 the work is begun at I the top, as indicated at 6, and is continued 'upon all the needles by round and round knitting down to the line 7-7. Be ing at the line 7 7 the stocking is knitte through out the entire remainder thereof by reciprocating knitting.
- I may, however, ma e the heel by anarrowing and wideninIg1 operation, as indicated at a in Fig. 3a.
- the toe portion 20 is knitted by fashioning along both edges in-the same manner as at the back of the calf.
- Such two opposite edges, indicated at 21-21 in Fig.3, are seamed together in the general seaming operation referred to.
- the fashioning of the toe portion is contin-. ued down to the line 22, thus completing the knitting operation.
- -I may, however, so construct the toe that the seam is at 21a.at the top of the toe, as shown in Fig. 36, or the seam may instead be at 21b at the under s1de of the toe, as shown in Fig. 1. y
- I may insteadpick up allthe needles at a time to make one edge and pull down one of the needles at a time to make the other edge;
- I may pick ugegery other needle to make one edge and t pick down every other needle tomake the otheredge; or I may resort to variations of these procedures.
- Said selvagvgedges have two features, each of which constitutes an im ortant feature of the invention.-
- the first 0 these is the structure of fabric resulting from withdrawing a needle from action, severing the thread and binding or locking, as it were, the stitch and' the severed end, so that the severed end will not ravel.
- Thesecond of these features is the formation ofenlarged or elongated loops at the non-fashioned parts of the selvage edges, said enlarged loops offering facilities 1n the seaming operation and not ogliy' strengtheningthe selvages but providing ditional material to be engaged by the seaming thread so that a stronger seam can be made.
- I formenlarged selvaged loops.
- courses 41, 42, and in the next two subs uent courses I form enlarged, non-knitted of this procedure may be employed, as, for example, by forming the enlarged loops in a greater number of successive courses before again withdrawin needles, and withdrawing needles, if desire in a greater number of "successive courses than two, as for example, or at other desired points.
- FIG. 6 I have indicated another method .of rooedure which is wholly b circular work, and thatcircular work will carried throughout as much of the stocking as desired. I, however, actuall withdrawneedles in the manner already dl ascribed along the two edges, and the float which occurs where a needle or needles is or are withdrawn is thrown into the binder and is there severed, and this operation is! continued as long as desired.”
- a needle about which the en ar d lbop is to be formed is the terminalnee' of the active series, and would be elevated from the active seriesby the picker 56 or 57, so as to ass above the cam 54.
- Such needle will in t e next course either again .have an enlarged'loop formed around it, as just described, or it will be entirely withdrawn from le at one end action and thrown down by suitable cam means or other picker means into the wholly inactive pathway 60.
- the needles which are entirely withdrawn from action gradually accumulate in the fully inactive pathway 60 and when the stocking is finished, they are automatically brought backinto action so that the next stocking is begun uponall the needles.
- the reci rocating element (desirably the needle cy inder) is moved through a complete revolution and an additional part of a revolution, as, for example, one third of a revolution in excess. That would result in twice elevating some of the needles, namel those represented by the excess one third 0 a revolution.
- I cause all the needles repre- 4 ated under pattern control from the main pattern drum or a supplemental pattern drum or chain, but I havenot attempted in this aplication to show the same.
- I state as follows: The machine .is operated by continuous circular knitting (that is, by continuous round and round movement of the needle cylinder down to the line 7. 7 of Fig. 1, which corres onds to the line indif cated by in Fig. 4
- Each reciprocating movement is a long one (that is to say, it is sufliciently' long to carry the knitting needles past all of the knitting cams).
- the return stroke of the reciprocation begins and continues sufliciently far to constitute one revolution anda third of another, and then the next reciprocation begins, and so on.
- my invention and means for produci provide additional material to be engaged by the seaming threads.
- That method of-knitting full fashioned hosiery which comprises knitting tubular work as far as desired and then reciprocating and in so doing severing the thread end at-the commencement of the reciprocation and drawing the severed end through a terminal loop to be pinched or held thereby from raveling.
- That method of knitting full fashioned hosiery which comprises knitting tubular work as far as desired, and then reciprocating and in desired courses wrapping the thread about the stem'of the needle'but without knitting the thread by said needle whereby an enlarged 'selvage loop is formed at both ends of arourse of reciprocation.
- That method ofknitting full fashioned hosiery which comprises knitting tubular work as far as desired, then reciprocating and in so doing severing the'thread end at the commencement of the reciprocation and drawing the severed end through a terminal loop "to be pinched or held thereby from ravelin'g, and in desired' courses wrapping the thread about the stem of the needle but without knitting the thread by said needle whereby an enlarged selvage loop is formed at both ends of a course of reciprocation.
- That method of knitting full fashioned .hosiery which comprises knitting tubular work as far as desired, andthen reciprocating and in desired courses elevating the terminal needle at each end of the reciprocation sufliciently to permit thethrea d to be wrapped around the stem of the needle without being knitted thereon, and then in a subsequent course withdrawing said needlefrom action and severing the thread whereby, the withdrawal of he needle effects the drawing of the severed end through the terminal loop andthe pinching or binding of said end by said loop '5.
- a circular knitting machine means for forming circular work, means for forming reciprocatingwork, mean? for withdraw mg successively the end needle of the series from action upon severance of the thread, v whereby the needle in the act of withdrawing oop so as to be pinched thereby.
- means for forming circular work means for form mg reciprocating work, and means for elevating the end needle at one or both ends of the series and wrapping the thread about such elevated needle-so as to form enlarged terminal non-lmitted loops, and means for subsequently withdrawing from action said elevated needle upon severance of the thread, whereby that needle draws the severed end through a terminal loop.
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| US334825A US1897131A (en) | 1929-01-24 | 1929-01-24 | Method and mechanism for knitting full-fashioned hosiery |
| FR677932D FR677932A (fr) | 1929-01-24 | 1929-07-05 | Bas et tricots analogues complètement façonnés et procédé et mécanisme pour les établir |
| GB23513/29A GB337075A (en) | 1929-01-24 | 1929-07-31 | Full fashioned hosiery and method and mechanism for knitting same |
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Cited By (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US2580506A (en) * | 1948-06-17 | 1952-01-01 | Wildt & Co Ltd | Knitted fabric and method of making the same |
| US3924423A (en) * | 1971-11-13 | 1975-12-09 | Francesco Lonati | Method and machine for manufacturing stockings |
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Cited By (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US2580506A (en) * | 1948-06-17 | 1952-01-01 | Wildt & Co Ltd | Knitted fabric and method of making the same |
| US3924423A (en) * | 1971-11-13 | 1975-12-09 | Francesco Lonati | Method and machine for manufacturing stockings |
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| GB337075A (en) | 1930-10-30 |
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