US2396166A - Circular knit hosiery and method of making same - Google Patents

Circular knit hosiery and method of making same Download PDF

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US2396166A
US2396166A US601967A US60196745A US2396166A US 2396166 A US2396166 A US 2396166A US 601967 A US601967 A US 601967A US 60196745 A US60196745 A US 60196745A US 2396166 A US2396166 A US 2396166A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04B—KNITTING
    • 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
    • D04B1/26—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 stockings
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06C—FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS
    • D06C5/00—Shaping or stretching of tubular fabrics upon cores or internal frames
    • D06C5/005—Shaping or stretching of tubular fabrics upon cores or internal frames of articles, e.g. stockings
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06C—FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS
    • D06C7/00—Heating or cooling textile fabrics
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  • This invention relates to circular knit hosiery I and manipulation of yarns having the shrinking characteristics mentioned.
  • the stocking comprises a-top I, which may be either a turned welt or a single thickness top; a leg 2 having an ankle 3; and a foot 4 having a heel 5 and toe B. It is characteristic of the invention that the yarn used in the top is manipulated in a manner different from that used on the yarns in the ankle and foot.
  • nylon yarn prepared for knitting has customarily been shrunkto some extent to set the twist, but I propose to shrink the yarn must more so that it will have received most orpractically all of its possible shrinkage before it is knitted. This may involve giving the yarn itself at least asl'ight amount-of yarn-set (to be 2,295,593), and after the stocking is knit, to put distinguished from setting the twist). Assuming that a welt with a finished stretched width/of 11 is desired, it has heretofore been necessary to knit a welt in theflrst instance which can be stretched to a width of 13", but I have found that it is possible to do .away with the extra inch and a half of stretched width during. the knitting process by treating the yarn prior to knitting.
  • the pre-shrunk yarn is used in knitting the welt, but the non-pre-shrunk yarn is used in knitting the ankle and foot. Thereafter the stocking is pre-boarded. In this pre-boarding operation, as heretofore the stocking is placed on a form and exposed to steam and pressure. When first placed on the form, the welt, being approximately the width desired in the finished product, will not be very slack on the form. The ankle and foot, however, will be slack,,since they are made of yarn which was not pre-shrunk.
  • the treatment with steam under pressure shrinks the ankle and foot down tothe form and if there is any residual shrinkage left in the pre-shrunk yarn, the welt will be shrunk a small amount, bringing it to size to allow a predetermined stretch.
  • This operation will set any of the nylon shrunk to the full extent that it would have been when the finished stocking was pre-boarded, but that the yarn has also received the set" which it would have gotten during pre-boarding of the stocking.
  • the yarn is shrunk and set" to this extent it follows that after the stockingvhas been knit, the regular pre-boarding treatdimensions knit of yarn which was not pre yarn which was not theretofore set, in addition to causing the shrinkage just referred to.
  • the yarn is exposed to conditions of heat and moisture such as used in a pre-boarding operation before knitting is commenced. These conditions are sometimes referred to as consisting of exposing the yarn to steam for a few minutes at approximately 120 to 125 C. If desired, the temperature can be carried a little higher, the primary object being to have conditions which are at least as severe as 'will occur in the subsequent pre-boarding of the entire stocking.
  • pre-shrunk yarn yarn which is shrunk more than is necessary to set the twist before it is knit.
  • nylon yarn which is pre-shrunk does not have the tendency to make distorted stitches- For all these when the welt is knit very wide. reasons it is possible to produce nylon stockings with wider and better-looking Welts than heretofore.
  • This invention also permits the production of an improved seamless fine gauge stocking with an ankle and foot narrowed by shrinking, and a welt of perfect appearance, the ankle and foot being normal or less than normal size and the welt being normal or outsize as desired.
  • This invention is of particular value in the manufacture of hosiery having the same or a lesser number of needle wales in the welt than in the ankle and foot.
  • a knitted stocking having as many needle wales in the ankle portion thereof as in the top. said'top being composed of pre-shrunk nylon thread and the ankle portion thereof being composed of nylon thread relatively unshrunk at the time of knitting, the stocking having been preboarded after knitting,
  • steps of setting the twist in two nylon yarns to different degrees of shrinkage knitting the reater shrunk yarn into a top of a stocking on a circular knitting machine, knitting a leg portion of the lesser shrunk yam andthereafter formnnishing the entire stocking, whereby the fabrics of the top and the ankle undergo different amounts of shrinkage during said last operation.
  • 14..A' method of forming circular knit hosiery comprising the steps of shrinking and setting asynthetic yarn, knitting the top of the knitting the leg of the stocking with a synthetic yarn which has been less set and less shrunk, completing the knitting and thereafter submitting the stocking to preboarding, whereby extra stretch is obtained in the there are synthetic yarns permanently shrunk, the yarns located in the welt having been shrunk and set by exposure to a heat and moisture treatment before the stocking was knit and such yarns in the ankle not having been so shrunk and set until after knitting.

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FR921685D FR921685A (fr) 1945-06-28 1946-01-21 Article de bonneterie tricoté sur métier circulaire et son procédé de fabrication, et procédé de préparation du fil utilisé pour celui-ci
CH260276D CH260276A (fr) 1945-06-28 1946-01-29 Procédé de fabrication d'une ébauche de bas en un fil synthétique pouvant subir un retrait permanent, et ébauche de bas obtenue par ce procédé.

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US2531839A (en) * 1946-04-12 1950-11-28 Clark Thread Company Inc Stocking and method of sewing same
US2560655A (en) * 1947-09-12 1951-07-17 Reconstruction Finance Corp Method of mending knitted fabrics formed of thermoplastic thread
US2590008A (en) * 1948-04-26 1952-03-18 Scott & Williams Inc Circular-knit multifeed stocking and method of making same
US2628487A (en) * 1949-05-05 1953-02-17 Scott & Williams Inc Stocking and method of making the same
US2709353A (en) * 1951-08-09 1955-05-31 Burlington Industries Inc Circular knit hosiery
US2715762A (en) * 1954-07-21 1955-08-23 Diamond Hosiery Corp Method of forming knitted fabric
US2795123A (en) * 1954-07-21 1957-06-11 Diamond Hosiery Corp Knitted fabric
US2826760A (en) * 1956-11-09 1958-03-18 Ernest G Rice Combination stockings and panty
DE1061023B (de) * 1952-12-19 1959-07-09 Scott & Williams Inc Fein gestrickter oder gewirkter Strumpf
US2896435A (en) * 1956-08-06 1959-07-28 Manor Hosiery Mills Inc Yarn tensioning device for circular knitting machine
US3029622A (en) * 1956-10-17 1962-04-17 Manor Hosiery Mills Inc Machine for making circular knit hosiery
US3059311A (en) * 1958-12-16 1962-10-23 Du Pont Stable non-woven batt of polytetrafluoroethylene fibers
US3098368A (en) * 1961-01-17 1963-07-23 Alamance Ind Inc Knit fabric for a welt or the like
US3098369A (en) * 1961-12-01 1963-07-23 Burlington Industries Inc Compressive stocking
US3132496A (en) * 1956-10-17 1964-05-12 Manor Hosiery Mills Inc Hosiery
US3139741A (en) * 1957-04-02 1964-07-07 Duplan Corp Yarn treating method and apparatus for knitting machines
US3153923A (en) * 1963-04-04 1964-10-27 Burlington Industries Inc Hosiery fabric or the like and method of producing the same
US3231963A (en) * 1960-06-15 1966-02-01 Ford Motor Co Ball joint suspension
DE1992117U (de) 1968-08-22 E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Del. (V.St.A.) Endlosgarn
USD365674S (en) 1993-12-14 1996-01-02 Coles Travona A Christian footwear
US10385486B2 (en) 2017-02-06 2019-08-20 Nike, Inc. Garment for foot with triangular ankle panels

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DE1992117U (de) 1968-08-22 E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Del. (V.St.A.) Endlosgarn
US2531839A (en) * 1946-04-12 1950-11-28 Clark Thread Company Inc Stocking and method of sewing same
US2560655A (en) * 1947-09-12 1951-07-17 Reconstruction Finance Corp Method of mending knitted fabrics formed of thermoplastic thread
US2590008A (en) * 1948-04-26 1952-03-18 Scott & Williams Inc Circular-knit multifeed stocking and method of making same
US2628487A (en) * 1949-05-05 1953-02-17 Scott & Williams Inc Stocking and method of making the same
US2709353A (en) * 1951-08-09 1955-05-31 Burlington Industries Inc Circular knit hosiery
DE1061023B (de) * 1952-12-19 1959-07-09 Scott & Williams Inc Fein gestrickter oder gewirkter Strumpf
US2715762A (en) * 1954-07-21 1955-08-23 Diamond Hosiery Corp Method of forming knitted fabric
US2795123A (en) * 1954-07-21 1957-06-11 Diamond Hosiery Corp Knitted fabric
US2896435A (en) * 1956-08-06 1959-07-28 Manor Hosiery Mills Inc Yarn tensioning device for circular knitting machine
US3029622A (en) * 1956-10-17 1962-04-17 Manor Hosiery Mills Inc Machine for making circular knit hosiery
US3132496A (en) * 1956-10-17 1964-05-12 Manor Hosiery Mills Inc Hosiery
US2826760A (en) * 1956-11-09 1958-03-18 Ernest G Rice Combination stockings and panty
US3139741A (en) * 1957-04-02 1964-07-07 Duplan Corp Yarn treating method and apparatus for knitting machines
US3059311A (en) * 1958-12-16 1962-10-23 Du Pont Stable non-woven batt of polytetrafluoroethylene fibers
US3231963A (en) * 1960-06-15 1966-02-01 Ford Motor Co Ball joint suspension
US3098368A (en) * 1961-01-17 1963-07-23 Alamance Ind Inc Knit fabric for a welt or the like
US3098369A (en) * 1961-12-01 1963-07-23 Burlington Industries Inc Compressive stocking
US3153923A (en) * 1963-04-04 1964-10-27 Burlington Industries Inc Hosiery fabric or the like and method of producing the same
USD365674S (en) 1993-12-14 1996-01-02 Coles Travona A Christian footwear
US10385486B2 (en) 2017-02-06 2019-08-20 Nike, Inc. Garment for foot with triangular ankle panels

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